OVERVIEW CURRENTLY IN RESIDENCE RESIDENCY CALENDAR PAST RESIDENT ARTISTS
Overview
The Resonates With Residency is a residency programme that invites local performing artists to respond to works and themes from the Gallery’s long-term and special exhibitions.
Returning with a refreshed format, this cycle of the Resonates With Residency features a cohort of three artists, each commissioned to create a series of multi-disciplinary performances in response to the Gallery's permanent exhibition, Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century. Over several months, the artists will draw inspiration from the exhibition's artworks and themes to ideate, innovate, and iterate towards two work-in-progress showcases, leading up to their final performances at Light To Night Singapore 2025.
With interdisciplinary collaboration at its core, the Resonates With Residency aims to establish deep and meaningful connections between artists, audiences and art from Singapore and the region.
Currently In Residence
AMIN ALIFIN
Amin Alifin is a multi-disciplinary performing artist with 17 years of professional experience in the performing arts. A versatile dancer and choreographer, his extensive credits encompass theatre, music and the visual arts. He also teaches, competes and choreographs both locally and on international stages. Amin's performance and competition credits include being the first and only Singaporean to clinch the champion title at the Gatsby Dance Asia Finals in Tokyo.
In his residency, Amin will delve into the timeless allure of batik fabric across various eras, forging collaborative paths with artists from diverse backgrounds. His current approach involves marrying his experiences in the different performing arts while simultaneously challenging clashing ideologies from different schools of thought to create some form of peaceful chaos.
CHERYL HO
Cheryl Ho is an award-winning actor, writer and facilitator. She works on projects with a focus on care, creativity and inclusion. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, she has worked with Australia's leading theatre companies like the Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse and ActNow. In Singapore, she has worked with Artwave, The Necessary Stage, Artshouse Limited, Esplanade and more. Cheryl’s latest One Woman show, I Am Seaweed, premiered at the 2023 Melbourne Fringe Festival. It was nominated in the Best in Theatre category and listed as one of the Fringe Judge’s picks.
In her residency, titled A Slow Future Through: A Gentle and Caring Approach to Art Making, Cheryl will explore what it means to prioritise intentionality, compassion and deep “seeing” in life, through the lens of the three works she has chosen. She will consider what we choose to reveal or see in others and ourselves, as well as the potential unseen forces that work against our state of being.
REDWAN HAMZAH
Redwan Hamzah is a composer, singer-songwriter, musician and educator. Interfacing with different disciplines, he has composed music for dance (Sigma Contemporary Dance), theatre (Translucent Bodies) and film (Viddsee). He has also performed in an improvisatory context for various shows, most recently Unsound Bodies and Weaving Worlds (Esplanade). He writes and performs guitar with the likes of Sezairi, Tim De Cotta, Taufik Batisah, Imran Ajmain and aeriqah. He aims to bridge his explorations of his Javanese roots with a search for balance between harmony, melody and technology.
In his residency, Redwan's work resonates with the concept of vibrations that are ever-present across time, place and social contexts. Employing sound, design and movement elements, the works explore ways of capturing, manipulating and responding to vibrations and fluid structures of time informed by improvisation and considered composition.
Residency Calendar
Event/Ticketing information will be made available closer to the date of each programme.
Work-In-Progress #1
AUG
Journey through the ages as the humble fabric of batik weaves its way through time, reflecting the evolution of culture and identity. With a nod to sarcasm and tongue-in-cheek humour, witness the playful exploration of Patrick Ng’s Self Portrait with Friends and the tranquil scenes of Membasoh Kain di Tepi Sungai.
AUG
The Death of Chikun follows a girl’s meandering thoughts after the death of a neighbourhood chicken. It explores the theme of perception, how to be “human” and what life could be like if we chose to slow down and live deeply.
SEP
a tree through time is a work of music and movement that responds to the gazes, abstractions of culture and intermingling of myth and reality in Sudjojono's Perusing A Poster. Redwan Hamzah brings these elements into a different time and space in history by creating feedback-generating instruments from Jelutong wood and using these in conversation with elements of the performance space and the artist.
Work-In-Progress #2
OCT
System Error: Please Check is a slapstick and introspective look at the “unseen” forces working against our state of “being” and what we intentionally choose to let into our frame of consciousness. Performed in English and Singapore Sign Language with Open Captions.
OCT
Temporal Threads: Spill the Tea is an immersive journey inspired by the paintings of Batik Variant Truntum II by Mochtar Apin and Flirting With the Jamu Lady by Sudjana Kerton. As the audience is drawn into a kaleidoscope of sonic and visual sensations, vibrant hues and intricate patterns merge and spill to form a mosaic of interconnected experiences. Themes of allure and inner strength intertwine, weaving a narrative of timeless resonance and transformative beauty.
NOV
kami, kamu comprises three islands, each with a distinct musical landscape and a “traditional” musician that records input and configures the sound of their island. The piece allows audiences to observe the development of each “island” or to listen to and manipulate the collective composition of the archipelago, seeking a form of aesthetic balance in a dynamic dialogue with the unfolding of the piece.
Final Performance
Performance details to be announced in conjunction with Light To Night Singapore 2025.
