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Documentation and thoughts from facilitators of the Listening Academy, Singapore
Contributions from Listening Academy Singapore 2023: Loss Attunement co-convenors Alecia Neo and Jill J. Tan, and workshop facilitators Jevon Chandra, Li-chuan Chong, Kristina Mah, Yifan Wang, and Beverly Yuen.
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"Care Index: attuning to care infrastructures and movements," Alecia Neo and Jill J. Tan, in The Listening Biennial Reader, vol. 1 – Errant Bodies Press (2023).
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Research, installation, with events an ornate tunnel to the other side (performance), Everyday Devotion (facilitated gathering), zoom discussion with anthropologist/artist Jill J. Tan Singapore Art...
On socially-acquired knowledge in artistic research, recruiting non-human collaborators in artmaking, and grieving in public.
FUSE is a bi-annual publication that documents the projects at Dance Nucleus
Long-term performance ethnographic research project on Faye Lim’s Dance Nucleus associateship
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COLLECTIVE CALIBRATION: ATTUNEMENT TO RISK, FLUX, AND POSSIBILITY IN BITE/ HOLD/ RELEASE
written commission for exhibition collateral of “Bite/ Hold/ Release: The Bogeyman’s Hand” by Adar Ng, Lin Shiau-Yu, and Quinn Lum Fu Loong.
Supported by Brack, Supernormal, National Arts Council, National Youth Council
Essay part of exhibition collateral created as the project writer, a blend of an ethnography of the individual and collective creative and emotional processes by Lin, Lum, and Ng (see: process videos on instagram @bite_hold_release) and arts criticism.
About the work: Bite/ Hold/ Release: The Bogeyman’s Hand is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring the works of Quinn Lum, Adar Ng, and Lin Shiau Yu showing at Supernormal from August 1-19, 2019. The works circulate relation to maternal presence by considering domesticity, domicile, discipline, and documentation. By turns conjuring of the spectre the mother's absence and presence, the artists collectively and individually confront trauma, malignancy, loss, and misalignment in each of their final works displayed on-site, as well as process work for the show curated on digital platforms for the audience’s viewing at their own time on Instagram (@bite_hold_release) and YouTube, in search of resolution and regeneration.
Lum, Ng and Lin’s rescripting of kinship, particularly when highlighted through the subject of fraught mother-child relationships, is striking. By bringing each other into the inner workings of their variously fraught family dynamics, this project required the artists to build upon their foundation of friendship to create room for intercession into the familial sphere, as well as forging understandings of each other in the process of making deeply personal and in-flux work, which supplemented and sometimes supplanted that provided by their biological families. The space created by the artists in which these works were created also formed a grounding from which their sharing of intimate work and processes would be opened up to a wider audience, as attendees of the on-site show, artist talks, mask-making workshops might, and even viewers of their digital archive of process work at home might not only be brought into the truths evoked in these works but respond with their own vulnerability in kind.
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“Embodied Futurities:
Caregiving in Movement,
Movement as Self-care”
written commission for Between Earth and Sky (2018 - ) by Alecia Neo
with support of Lien Foundation and Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film
Abstract: A critical essay accompanying Alecia Neo’s multi-media installation Between Earth and Sky, ‘Embodied Futurities: Caregiving in Movement, Movement as Care’ engages participatory ethnographic methods in service of embedded criticism (Costa 2016). Working with the movements and perspectives of a community of caregivers of persons with mental illness, artist and author both connect the physicality of care work and personally choreographed movement as forms of body practice. Furnishing everyday calibrations and strategies of living out the realities of long-term caregiving, movement and choreography are woven into the project design and analytic as tapping into that which lies in excess of expressivity, surfacing the repetition, frustration, tenderness, tedium, discovery, ambivalence, improvisation, intimacy, and commitment between those who care and those they care for.
Keywords: Embodiment, Care, Socially-engaged Art, Mental Health, Embedded Criticism
About the work: An intimate portrait of a community of caregivers and a performance project, Between Earth and Sky seeks to make visible the contributions and needs of caregivers who care for persons with mental illness. The lack of support and stigma towards mental health also affects caregivers who often bear the emotional and financial weight of caring for their loved ones.After undergoing a series of movement workshops, the caregivers were invited to devise a performance which draw from their caregiving journeys to create narratives and expressive movements which symbolise new ways of being. These short performances were documented with photography and video for the installation. Between Earth and Sky uses a kite as a symbol for both vulnerability and freedom. The kite bears images of performed gestures from the caregivers and their loved ones, forming a collective body. In many ways, this project is about restoring faith in times of profound loss, within ourselves and in society.
In partnership with: Caregivers Alliance
