This coming November, Macau audiences would be aroused by the ineffable possibilities of live performance with an event curated by Lee Wen. “Currents: From Singapore in Macau” showcases a new generation of performance artists from Singapore.

Despite various inherent questions on social stability and individual freedom, the recent decade has seen both Singaporean citizens and their government working as in a mutual partnership that has led to generative dialectical efforts. Once dubbed a cultural desert, the fast-paced and evolving island-state of Singapore has gained respect and attention, and can now be seen as going through yet another phase of significant changes and another stage of exploration in contemporary art. Seven Singaporean artists have been invited to create live, site-specific performances at the Ox Warehouse; and with these performances, we are privileged to gain a glimpse into what Singaporean artists are experimenting with in contemporary performance art practice.

Breaking away from usual expectations of performance art, the artists employ methodologies of “hybridity” in artistic creation, combined with experimental processes and practices. These Singaporean artists choose to work across the boundaries of traditional art forms and the result of their rethinking is a shift in what conceptual frameworks may now work for art; by presenting their ideas through different artistic media (such as sound, poetry and live music), the artists turn their bodies into the site and material of their art, in combination with the utilization of found objects and multimedia materials. Among the artistic interventions offered, we might discover subjects as such as: the privacy of childhood experiences as adult motivations informing narrations; the use of sound, voice, and body in imagination of forms; the mutual exchanges between people and urban environment; the questions that may result from conflicts between gender and language; and the state of oscillation between time and space.

Artists:
Lee Wen
Jason Lee
Reef
Grace Jean
Marla Bendini
Angie Seah
Loo Zihan

Curator: Lee Wen

Macau International Performance Art Festival 2011
Currents: from Singapore, in Macau
Date：26/11/2011（Saturday），16:00 - 18:00

Ox Warehouse Forum: Singapore Performance Artists Sharing Meeting
26/11/2011（Saturday），18:30 - 20:00
Venue： Ox warehouse, No Cruzamento entro a Avenida do Coronel Mesquita e a Avenida Almirante Lacerda Macau