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21 April 2024
A video travelogue detailing a long, but very bountiful journey up to Songkhla by rail, Grab car, minivan, motorcycle taxi, etcβ¦
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Estate Frequencies
Estate Frequencies is our brand new project! Written and narrated by Marc and produced by Carolyn, this is an audio walking tour that offers a through line to experience neighbourhoods in a city, connecting history, culture, art and people together through interviews, stories and poems. Visuals by Nicole Soh and original music and soundscaping by Eugene Soh of Saturn Sound Studios.
The first neighbourhood thatβs being featured is Tiong Bahru, Singaporeβs oldest housing estate. Over three episodes, we encourage listeners to walk the street in real-time, adding a spatial dimension to the narration and soundscape. The latter, composed by Saturn Sound Studios, takes in the diegetic sounds of the neighbourhood and intersperses it with specially composed soundtracks for the poems.
Listen to the episodes here
UPCOMING EVENTS
13 to 30 April 2024
T:>Worksβ PerΒ°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations: A Counterstrike Through Art
This second edition of PerΒ°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations (POA) by T:> Works presents workshops and performances by 15 fellows from the Global SouthβAfrica, the Arab world, Asia and South America β with intersectional practices across the disciplines of activism, film, fashion, design, curation, research, education, visual culture, spoken word and performance.
In keeping with this editionβs theme of βDecolonialityβ, the artists offer art as a counterstrike to landgrabs, trespassing (on property and the person) and general acts of taking what isnβt yours.
The overriding takeaway from the Opening Keynotes on 17 April was clarity of purpose. The world is a mess β arguably, it has always been β and there are people doggedly trying to make it better; helping to clean up, picking up the pieces and curbing the harming mindset by nipping it in the bud.
The first Opening Keynote was Diamantina Arcoirisβ exhibition, βRedesigning Ourselvesβ, which showcases elements of Arcoirisβ workshop located in the red light district of BogotΓ‘. While the items on show speak quite audibly of the communal and healing processes that happen in her workshop, it was Arcoirisβ speech (in Spanish with translation) that enunciated the need for work like hers: Providing alternative ways of being to children addicted to drugs. Facilitating conflict resolution without knives. Offering space for healing and grieving. COVID hasnβt been a big issue, but HIV is. A 14-year-old girl with HIV and who had been abused since the age of 11 died at 18.
The second keynote was a performance lecture by Hira Nabi. βHow to love a treeβ is a long-term project engaging in environments of former colonial hill stations in and around the towns and villages of Pakistan. Nabi provoked questions like, βWhat does disappearance look like?β, βWhat traces does it leave behind?β, βWhat is the texture of rot, debris and ruins?β
On 25 April, the Closing Keynote will be given by award-winning Uzbek filmmaker and artist Saodat Ismailova. Over a duration of five days (26 to 30 April), Saodat will unpack her most recent film archives in the PerΒ°Form Open Academy Studio and articulate her trajectories of ecology, tradition, living with the non-human, colonialism and the female universe.
The 18-day POA programme looks like this:
13 April 2024: POA RAVE - 4LLEN by Endless Return (Singapore)
17 April 2024: POA Opening Keynotes: Redesign Ourselves by Diamantina Arcoiris (BogataΜ), How to Love a Tree by Hira Nabi (Lahore/Amsterdam)
18β20 April 2024: POA Workshops
20β21 April 2024: POA Marathon
25βApril 2024: POA Closing Keynote by Saodat Ismailova (Tashkent/Paris)
26β30 April 2024: POA Studio with Saodat Ismailova
Registration for all events is required. Use this link.
The venue for the entire programme is T:>Works, 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road, Singapore 239007.
For more information:
Website
E-booklet
POA Fellows
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