Performance Art
Works from 2018-2024
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