Primary 1 is an installation by Jemima Yong, in which performance and photography combine to celebrate the layers of who we are and where we have come from. Drawn from Jemima’s personal experience of an education in Singapore, Primary 1 is an investigation into the potency of educational imagery as a tool that shapes the young minds of society. Exploring the balance between idealism and reality, Primary 1 asks questions about what we should tell our children, how we protect them and whether we should protect them at all.

About the artist

Born in Malaysia but based in Singapore and the UK, Jemima Yong is a performance artist whose photography work as been showcased on London Theatre Blog and used by The Times newspaper. She regularly collaborates with various performance artists in London as well, and was the head of Programming for The Accidental Festival in 2010 at London’s Battersea Arts Centre

Brought to you by The Necessary Stage in collaboration with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay as part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2011