Workshop: Performance Art by Kai Lam

Workshop: Performance Art by Kai Lam

This one-day performance art workshop advocates performance as a form of creative initiative and art activism that empowers individuals and collectives. Focusing on spontaneous body-related art practices, the workshop will also touch upon radical art practices and actions, secular rituals, and creation of live art images.

The workshop includes an introduction on performance art in two parts:

1. A brief survey of performance art practices and history of performance art in Singapore (1990s to 2000s), with a focus on: The Artists Village’s past identity; individual performance artists’ works; and historical and social issues relating to performance art practices in general. 2. A brief introduction of site specificity in the ephemeral art process, looking in particular at spaces and spatiality, and its aesthetic values and socio-cultural significance. And two exercises:

Exercise 1

Participants will bring one or more objects of aspiration and share the stories behind these objects: what the objects mean to them and why they selected it. Participants are also encouraged to bring visual art materials and music/soundscapes (e.g. paint and paper, readings, different genres of music/soundscapes) that they may like to use in the workshop. A 10-minute exercise will be conducted with each of the participants’ selected objects and materials.

Objective 1

Explore the subject of identity and personal aspirations; bridge individual ideas with the significance of object materiality in performance; contextualise ideas with the body, materials and symbolic gestures; and transform ideas into performance presentation.

Exercise 2

Participants will choose a site or location within the Independent Archive and its surrounding environment that is socially or culturally significant to their own personal living conditions. All participants are required to present a 10-minute site-specific performance, whether a collaboration with each other or a solo performance. A post-mortem discussion will be conducted after.

Objective 2

Observe site specificity; investigate into space as a performative process of shared meaning-making; derive social and personal significance out of object materials, sounds (music) and physical spaces.

A public programme of Journey of a Yellow Man. Selected Materials from the Independent Archive

2018-10-07

This one-day performance art workshop advocates performance as a form of creative initiative and art activism that empowers individuals and collectives.

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