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Artistic Directors Academy (ADA) Masterclass #3: Nature and Ecologies by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez
Beginner's Playwriting Workshop by Chong Tze Chien
Sat, 2 November 2024, 3-6pm
@72-13, Home of T:>Works​
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Unlock your creative potential in our Beginner’s Playwriting Workshop! Designed for anyone curious about storytelling, this workshop is all about exploring fun, pressure-free techniques to jump-start your writing.
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This workshop is part of the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2025 preparatory process.
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5G Hotspot
Wed, 9 October 2024, 7.30pm
@72-13, Home of T:>Works​
Following the intuitions of their essayistic approach to art, Per°Form CoThink Lab Fellow Wong Binghao (Bing) will read composited excerpts from research essays that they have written in the past decade. This material will sediment into its primary object: 5G Bing, an Internet grimoire that compiles wayward and extravagant ideas, writing, aesthetics, and cultural criticism, edited and creative directed by Bing.​​
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Artistic Directors Academy (ADA) Masterclass #3: Nature and Ecologies by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez
Fri, 27 September–Sat, 5 October 2024 (10 sessions)
@72-13, Home of T:>Works
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The Masterclass by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez explores how insights from diverse ecosystems, particularly fungi, can inform and transform artistic collaborations and practices. By examining the behaviours of slime moulds, mushrooms, and mycelium, participants will consider concepts like multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, and decentralised methods.​​
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Artistic Directors Academy (ADA) Public Lecture: Mycelium Teachings: Cultivating Alliances and Collaborations by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez
Sat, 17 August, 8pm – Sun, 18 August 2024, 2am
@72-13, Home of T:>Works
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For this Public Lecture, Artistic Directors Academy (ADA) Masterclass Specialist Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, author of the book “Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts”, will share what she has learned from working on a shiitake farm and how her deep dive into the world of mycology has influenced the workings and language of the various exchange platforms that she has founded and directed.
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SINEW
Sat, 17 August, 8pm – Sun, 18 August 2024, 2am
@72-13, Home of T:>Works
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Per°Form CoThink Lab Fellow Bussy Temple presents SINEW: This rave explores individuality and fractures within queer communities, reflecting on how these dynamics can be both generative and destructive.
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On 10 August, Bussy Temple invites Bussy Temple’s community members and fellow rave organisers to Open Conversations: On Future Hopes for Queer Community & Accountability to co-reflect on rave organising, accountability, and hopes for the queer community.
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Artistic Directors Academy (ADA) Public Lecture: Celebrate, Educate, Abolish by Fadescha
Wed, 14 August 2024, 7.30pm
@72-13, Home of T:>Works
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​In this multimedia presentation, Fadescha takes us through their transdisciplinary practice grounded in Queer Anarchist politics, and the intersectionality of caste-based subjugation. Caste is a system of exclusion and untouchability that ranks people at birth into a hierarchy based on alleged purity and pollution.​
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Artistic Directors Academy (ADA) Masterclass #2: Queer Labour by Fadescha
Fri, 9 August–Sat, 17 August 2024
@72-13, Home of T:>Works
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Working towards a manifesto for a future space and time essential towards empathetic futures, participants will have opportunities to absorb and discuss through artworks and texts, and sessions of embodied practice. The focus will be on voices and lived-experience of the structurally marginalised, as we witness the sites and forms of Queer Labour, the labour of surviving the everyday.
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Artistic Directors Academy (ADA) Public Lecture: Urban (Re)Development by m7red
Wed, 3 July 2024, 7.30pm
@72-13, Home of T:>Works
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Since 2005, m7red has focused on developing a methodology for complex urban scenarios. This Public Lecture will showcase the evolution of their research and working processes from inception till the present, and highlight challenges faced by architecture and urban planning in this new stage of post-globalisation.
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Artistic Directors Academy (ADA) Masterclass #1: Urban (Re)Development by m7red
Fri, 28 June–Sat, 6 July 2024 (10 sessions)
@72-13, Home of T:>Works
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Artistic Directors Academy (ADA), led by T:>Works Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen, is a research laboratory to develop Artistic Directors, harnessing international cultural innovators to helm Masterclass modules, as well as individual mentoring to sharpen and intensify skillsets.
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It kicks off with a Masteclass #1: Urban (Re)Development by m7red. An independent research group of architects and spatial planners, m7red’s practice highlights the intricate interplay between humanity and the environment.
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Postcritical Spirituality: Love, Spirits & Southeast Asian Natures
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 7.30pm–9.30pm
@72-13, Home of T:>Works
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This seminar asks— how do we love nature? To what extent does a love for nature inspire action? Drawing on historical research on religion and ecology in maritime Southeast Asia, assistant professor in Southeast Asian Studies and Malay Studies Faizah Zakaria (NUS) explores love for nature as fascinated enchantment, as acts of care, as protective impulses, as patient forbearance, and as motivation for the renovation of self and others.
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Faizah Zakaria is assistant professor in the Departments of Southeast Asian Studies and Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests center on religion and ecology, environmental justice and indigenous movements in island Southeast Asia.
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Read more about Postcritical Spirituality: Love, Spirits & Southeast Asian Natures here.
DIDO AND AENEAS + AFTERPARTY at 72-13
Part of Tomorrow and Tomorrow at Singapore International Festival of Arts 2024
By T:>Works
Friday, 17 May 2024, 11:59pm
A special MIDNIGHT SHOW + AFTERPARTY at 72-13 after our SOLD OUT 17 May show of DIDO AND AENEAS.
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R18 (Mature Content & Coarse Language)
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Work-in-progress
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Conceived and Directed by: Ong Keng Sen
Set Design: Khairullah Rahim
Costume Design: Becca D’Bus and Khairullah Rahim
Starring: Becca D’Bus
A riotous reimagination of Henry Purcell’s timeless opera of the same name, through the lens of T:>Works Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen and the body-ody-ody of Becca D’Bus, Singapore’s biggest drag queen. This work-in-progress presentation finds new life (and a new death) in the classic tale, offering fresh perspectives into old themes of love, loss, destiny, and empowerment.
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ARI ASIA TRENDS 2024 – Art for/by/of the “Public”: Pluralizing Public Space through Arts and Cultures in Asia
Organised by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and jointly presented with support from T:>Works
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 7pm–8.30pm
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Is “public art” by, for or of the public? Dr Ong Keng Sen considers public art from the standpoint of performance not as spectacle or entertainment but as a process of relationality between people, communities and the powers that shape public space in various contexts. Public art creates spaces through which a community—at the scales of neighborhood, nation or region—might articulate itself, including its plural and contradictory dimensions. Participation, discourse, and consensus, rather than co-presence and mute spectatorship, mark the efficacy of public art redefined in this way.
Discussions will engage in articulating research directions for the study of culture, creativity, and arts in relation to their increased integration into state and market pragmatics in Asia.
Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2024
By T:>Works
Sat–Tue, 13–30 April 2024
@ 72-13, Home of T:>Works
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Global south strategies on Quijano’s proposal for a socialisation of power or distribution of power which privileges local communities’ collective forms of authority, a shared power that rejects hierarchy, control, and subjectivation, as well as a form of active democratisation from bottom up.
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Endless Return Presents '4LLEN'
By T:>Works
Sat, 13 April 2024, 9.30pm–2am
@ 72-13, Home of T:>Works
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Endless Return presents 4LLEN, a durational rave performance comprising of four distinct parts featuring Rosemainy Buang of Antarmuka (SG), Teya Logos (PH), obese.dogma777 (PH) and Mervin Wong (SG), with butoh choreography by XUE (SG). This work is created especially for and with the support of the T:>Works Per°Form Open Academy Fellowship.
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"The people cultures of a national theatre"
By T:>Works
Thursday, 7 March 2024, 7.30pm–9pm
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The Season of Thought Leadership: in the Arts, by the Arts, with the Arts is a year-long endeavour spotlighting thought leadership in the arts.
Kicking off the season was a collaborative public conversation “The people cultures of a national theatre”, featuring panelists Alfian Sa’at, Resident Playwright of Wild Rice, Medli Dorothea Loo, actress and theatre-maker, Kavitha Krishnan, Co-founder of Maya Dance Theatre (MDT) and Diverse Abilities Dance Collective (DADC), and it will be moderated by T:>Works Artistic Director, Dr. Ong Keng Sen. The conversation will include respondents who are active voices in the Singapore arts community — Ho Tzu Nyen, visual artist, theatre-maker and filmmaker, and Arunditha Emmanuel, performance artist and writer.
Read more about "The people cultures of a national theatre" here.
24-Hour Playwriting Competition Dramatised Reading 2024
By T:>Works
Saturday, 3 February 2024, 3pm–5pm
T:>Works celebrated the winners of the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2023 with a gathering of past participants, friends and fellow theatre makers in an afternoon filled with captivating narratives and happy camaraderie.
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There have been staged readings of four select winning scripts from the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2023 — two scripts from each competition category — guided by established theatre practitioners Chong Tze Chien, Tan Shou Chen, and Jean Tay and supported by thespians Serene Chen, Sindhura Kalidas, Yazid Jalil, Ching Shu Yi, Julie Wee, Darren Guo, and Edward Choy.
Find out more here.
24-Hour Playwriting Competition Dramatised Reading
By T:>Works
Saturday, 3 February 2024, 3pm–5pm
T:>Works celebrated the winners of the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2023 with a gathering of past participants, friends and fellow theatre makers in an afternoon filled with captivating narratives and happy camaraderie.
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There have been staged readings of four select winning scripts from the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2023 — two scripts from each competition category — guided by established theatre practitioners Chong Tze Chien, Tan Shou Chen, and Jean Tay and supported by thespians Serene Chen, Sindhura Kalidas, Yazid Jalil, Ching Shu Yi, Julie Wee, Darren Guo, and Edward Choy.
Find out more here.
PerºForm Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2023 in Theater (Vol. 54, No. 1)
By T:>Works
1 February 2024
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The inaugural PerºForm Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2023 is in Theater (Vol. 54, No. 1), a journal by the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University/Yale Repertory Theatre.
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Available for download are performance texts, complete lectures, and excerpts from presentations by our 2023 Global South Fellows, including an introduction by our Artistic Director, Ong Keng Sen.
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