Performance Art
Works from 2018-2025
Cannot Make it
2025
Presented at open reception for Flux After Six at Fluxus House Gallery, Singapore.
With many community spaces closing down in light of rising rental costs, even long-standing, popular venues are unable to stay open. In Singapore where space is scarce, niche spaces hold significant and intimate value especially within the arts communities and their subcultures.
The yellow tape used is reminiscent of the cordoned off areas seen in Singapore. Smoking corners, restricted areas and illegal parking are all common examples of seeing yellow lines to indicate limitations of space.
This work is a durational performance, which over time limits the space and dictates where the viewer stands. Using yellow tape to mark out plots of squares on the floor, the audience may be coaxed to stand within the squares or to avoid the squares depending on their reaction to the space.
Intuitive Movement Workshop
2025
This workshop was conducted in Bali, Indonesia under Ketemu Studio Residency. Bali is a perfect lab to explore the history of art and culture. How mass tourism affects performance, how the purpose of performance moves from ritual to entertainment to exploration. The characteristics of performance have kept consistent throughout the years, still keeping the sharp, fierce, vocal and even mischievous qualities of performance, balanced with the elegance of storytelling of history (spirituality or royalty) bringing all stories back to the battle between good and evil, and the acceptance of creation, transformation and destruction.
In addition to this a yoga class was conducted for the members of Rumah Berdaya Bali, where we curated a sensory exercise to engage the participants and ignite cognitive activity for the schizoFriends. (Shown above)
Boleh/Bisa
2025
Following a two-week residency in Studio Plesungan (Solo, Indonesia), this presentation encapsulated the differences in the disciplines of movement in dance and yoga. Whether for wellness or for artistic expression, Singaporean culture has encouraged the habit to push oneself to the extreme, even in a relaxing space such as a yoga class. Comparing how rules of movement are used in traditional Javanese dance as compared to how the rules of movement are applied in fitness in Singapore, this movement piece challenges the limitations and control of the body.
(Left: Original performance presented at Studio Plesungan)
Gerhana Bulan
(The Origin of Love)
2023
Video installation adaptation from the Children of the Moon series. Displayed at Lim Hak Tai Gallery for the NAFA Bachelors in Fine Art Graduation Show.
(Below: Original performance documented on video)
Children of the Moon
2022-2023
As told in Aristophanes’ story of the Origin of Love, humans used to take the form of a four-armed, four-legged creature. Since the humans were separated forcibly into two by the Gods, our species lives on with the urge to find their other half, to feel complete. The act of making love, as Aristophanes tells, is a gesture that signifies how we humans are desperate to shove ourselves back together, to reunite as one creature.
The gesture of shoving two bodies back together in this performance creates a relationship between an identifiable human body and an unidentifiable white-cushioned figure. The attempts to make one out of two, merging the two bodies, is strenuous and futile, but tells a story of a relationship that deals with resistance, tenderness, frustration and comfort.
(From Left to Right: First and second adaptation of the series)
Children of the Moon Workshop
These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends
2021
This performance piece takes the idea of self-harm, instinctive actions and bad habits that we associate with being crude or harmful to the body. The 10 minute performance confronts the viewer to question whether the action, when done deliberately, can be considered an unconscious habit or bad habit. Through the act of skin picking, a common habit associated with OCD, anxiety or dermatillomania, the mark making that occurs on the skin results in highlighting the flaws on the surface instead of removing them.
Which actions were taught to us as bad through culture when they are actually attempts to soothe ourselves? Which actions done under primal instinct can be considered wrong when our primal instinct is to help ourselves?
The Compromise
2020
LaidBack
2019
GreyArea
2019