Category: 2023

Performance video in redwood box, chinese ink on ricepaper, personal memorabilia (9: 51 minutes)

Chinese ink on rice paper scriptures, personal paraphernalia and performance remnants

hearth, Art Outreach December 2023

Diaspora as a phenomenon eludes a complete comprehension and its complexity only reveals itself through personal embodied feelings of displacement and fragmentation. Struggling to convey the entirety of it, the artist sought to create an alienated language derived from contemporary vernacular of English, Mandarin, computational codes and emojis. In an absurd yet honest jest, the performance redeems reassurance for a sense of belonging and reconciliation of conflicted identity and history.

First conceived April 2023. Exhibited as part of laughter is a breath away from a sigh, hearth (Art Outreach). November 2023. 

Performance
15 minutes

Asemic script writing in response to readings from Tse Hao Guang’s The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association.

(Re)Visiting Sing Lit
The Arts House. Singapore Writer’s Festival.

Performance, 20 minutes

Struggling to convey the entirety of personal embodied feelings of displacement and fragmentation as a diasporic individual, the artist sought to create an alienated language derived from contemporary vernacular of English, Mandarin, computational codes and emojis. In an absurd yet honest jest, this second iteration of the work is a private ritual in which the artist reads out loud a second letter, written in the script, for her great grandfather. She hopes to reconcile with family histories.

Activated as part of across the way by Salty Xi Jie Ng at starch. October 2023.

Performance in collaboration with Muhammad Mustaghfir, 35 minutes

The activation is a low budget (un)serious meeting of two peculiar bodies who plan, dream of, speculate and anticipate what they might go through ahead in life.

It is in response to Moses Tan’s body of works—a caveat, a score—for Residues & Remixes at the Singapore Art Museum. September 2023.

Images courtesy of Jovin Lee.

Performance, 1 hour

Activation for Corporeal Inten/se/ts, as part of Walk Walk Don’t Run, starch. March, 2023.

Performance, 20 minutes

For a Brief Moment is a trio performance, supplemented by each individual’s ruminations and sentiments, revolving around notions of loss, memory and temporal encounters.

Mustaghfir

plus one
minus one
constant
my things
trees
dearest
(day)dreams
worries
pockets of time
plus one
minus one
any two of us
in the very short bittersweet moments
of joy and sadness
we share(d) 
learn, accept
choose
(un)willingly
to be grateful

Imah

We lose many things, 
anything, 
once valued and cherished,
parts of our identity, 
our freedom, 
our childhood dreams,
along the way, 
we lose passion and drive, 
our environment changes,
we lose someone dear,
a cherished lover, a life partner,
a loved one,
the young person, 
gone too soon before their time,
we lose an old one, 
a life well lived, 
a skin well lived in, 
creased with the many adventurous routes embarked on 

Jialei

lingering spirits
caress    ;
left me 
searching
    yearning
i grasp onto every piece 
                    every fragment    ;
but it is still 
not whole
seeking solace
three for the gods
four for the ghosts
give me the strength
to grind your bones
to drink your ashes
in this lonely journey
i think about you all the time.

Performed at Alliance Française de Singapour. February  2023.