Installation with performance activation

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Contact Tracing Entity: Bernice Lee

Design: Currency Design

Text author: Federico Ruberto + AI (self trained model)

Visuals Effects / Interaction: formAxioms (Federico Ruberto, Jacob Chen Shihang, Song YoungBin, Heong Kheng Boon)

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Can Everybody See My Screen, Singapore Art Museum

9 Sep - 11 Dec 2022

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Trace2 explores the lingering presence of contact tracing protocols, and layers of geofencing and bio-surveillance by speculating new forms of artificial life that might emerge, especially in tune with the gradual decommissioning of TraceTogether. In collaboration with dance-artist Bernice Lee and researcher-writer Federico Ruberto alongside a trained machine learning language model, the speculative Trace2 protocol incorporates motion sensor-based contact hubs distributed across the exhibition, allowing the public to navigate post-pandemic traumas and interact to find an attunement to spaces both physical and digital.

*images courtesy of Singapore Art Museum

Installation

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Geofences, part of larger body of work Performing the Smart Nation, is an exploration of decommissioned bikes in Singapore which co-opts data by locating its entanglements with narrative, emotion, and alternative maps. In doing so, it engages with (im)mobility, labour, logistics. It asks: what happens when a system of shared resources fail? How can technological systems be repurposed to revive a social commons and collective body? What are the alternative paths through the system that hijack policed spaces and private ownership for the possibility of movement?

In Geofences, these questions are considered as a communal response that spans four works: Ofoes; Pirate(d) Fleet; a compressed Obike scrap metal cube; and a workshop to collectively gather and recompose found bikes within the Supernormal space. Through these comical, playful, stark, and laborious gestures, the life-world of the decommissioned bikes is revealed as a series of disposals, reclamations, as well as material and narrative interventions. Alternative ways of being are thus presented: material and speculative, playful and solemn, liberated and constrained, idealistic and practical.

And it is, as Yue Han describes, a map. By plotting these nodes along a shared plane, a sprawling diagram that charts space, action, emotion forms, one which reconfigures what data can be and how data can make us feel, make us come together. This map doesn’t tell us where to go so much as chart what exists in the crevices created by failure (which is why so many adjectives apply ⁠— this work is undeniably plural).

When systems fail, then, we answer not by creating, but by collecting, repurposing, bringing together existing lines of movement to meet in a common space, locating and establishing node through which new signs can manifest and new signals can be sent.

Text by Ang Kia Yee

4hr Durational Performance

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In collaboration with RAW Moves Dancers

RAW Moves R&D Programme 18/19

SOTA Gallery

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Dancers: Matthew Goh, Valerie Lim, Stephanie Rae Yoong

Dramaturg: Dominic Nah

Design: Currency

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Photo credit: RAW Moves

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Video Documentation

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Offering us three windows to examine our relationship between movement and new technologies, Alice, Bob & Eve is a culmination of the intensive research and discussion process between Conceptualiser Teow Yue Han and RAW Moves Dancers. In facilitating the company dancers’ embodied knowledge to execute 3 unique, workshopped research events over a 4-hour durational span, this ‘living laboratory’ gathers the public to probe underlying mechanisms and assumptions of the data-driven world with their participative input.

The first research event invites the audience to optimise and program the three dancers for a human encounter. In the second event, a set of movement phrases goes through a feedback loop between the audience and the dancers who personify machine learning logic. The final research event the dancers perform touchscreen inspired gestures, shouting to a metronome’s tempo in an apparatus of smart devices and statistics. But what happens if control of that pace is given over to the audience?

With an array of new technologies such as Tik Tok, gait recognition technology and “deep fake” for dance, predict and affect the way we move, choreographing our daily gestures and interaction. Alice, Bob & Eve hopes to reflect, through these participative research events, on how we can reclaim our daily movements in a new social kinaesthetic. With the dancers blurring the lines between human and machine, can embodied forms of knowledge such as memory and deliberation be overwritten by scientific and technical knowledge?

Performing the Smart Nation (2017)

Mixed Media installation and Google Hangout Performance

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in collaboration with Chia Poh Hian and Norhaizad Adam

Every Move You Make, curated by Hyrol Sami’on and Sufian Samisyar

Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, ICA

19 - 23 October 2016, 9 Avenue Hoche, Paris

Special booth curated by Pierre Coinde, The Centre of Attention/News of the World (London)

Smart Structure I, single channel video loop, galvanised tubes with connectors, black acrylic, Samsung 28” LCD screen, Genius speakers, Auraglow PIR sensor lights, Arduino and buzzer, LED fan, handphone holders, ‘The Future Express’ newspaper, found touch screen glove,  found earphones, castor wheels

Smart Structure II (Smart Nation), single channel video loop of Smart Nation promotional videos (YouTube), galvanised tubes with connectors, Samsung 50” LCD screen, Auraglow PIR sensor lights, blue fluorescent tubes, discarded dvd players, tv, scanner and speaker

Smart Structure III (Collaboration Hub), 4 channel video loop, galvanised tubes with connectors, black acrylic, wire mesh grid, mini screens, CCTV camera, Auraglow PIR sensor lights, LED fan,handphone holders, selfie stick, castor wheels

Smart Structure IV (Recline), single channel video loop from Google hangout performance, galvanised tubes with connectors, Samsung 50” LCD screen, Logitech webcam, 7” monitor display, LED fan, handphone holders, Goretex glove, found earphones, castor wheels

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In collaboration with:

London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS): Rhys Dennis, Ania Jurek, Zunnur Sazali

RAW Moves (Singapore):  Artistic Director: Ricky Sim; Facilitator: Chiew Peishan; Dancers: Melyn Chow, Kong Wei Jie, Neo Hong Chin

Sound Design: Debbie Ding

All oil sketches in the structures by Ayan-Yue Gupta

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While many smart cities are emerging around the world, Singapore’s Smart Nation seeks to establish itself as the world’s first to incorporate a holistic, all around vision. Technology builders and entrepreneurs are encouraged to leverage Singapore’s smart infrastructure and use the nation as a ‘living laboratory’ to test new ideas with global potential. Can a nation be governed by algorithms? How do bodies move within this apparatus of interfaces and sensors? What can or cannot be quantified? ‘Performing the Smart Nation’ seeks to engage this corporate vision by finding new performance strategies within choreography — a system that thrives on bringing physical expression and it’s potentialities to the fore. It reimagines the social kinaesthetic by transforming the exhibition space into a playful site of transmission and collaboration.

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Slade MA/MFA/PhD Show 2016

Thesis Installation & Google Hangout Performance

36:21 min

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Dancers: Rhys Dennis, Zunnur Sazali

Sound Design: Debbie Ding

(Oil paintings & sketches by Ayan-Yue Gupta)

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photo documentation by Rebekah Lee

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While many smart cities are emerging around the world, Singapore’s Smart Nation seeks to establish itself as the world’s first to incorporate a holistic, all around vision. Technology builders and entrepreneurs are encouraged to leverage Singapore’s smart infrastructure and use the nation as a ‘living laboratory’ to test new ideas with global potential. Can a nation be governed by algorithms? How do bodies move within this apparatus of interfaces and sensors? What can or cannot be quantified? ‘Performing the Smart Nation’ seeks to engage this corporate vision by finding new performance strategies within choreography — a system that thrives on bringing physical expression and it’s potentialities to the fore. It reimagines the social kinaesthetic by transforming the exhibition space into a playful site of transmission and collaboration.

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Slade MA/MFA/PhD Show 2016

VIDEO CONFERENCE: CO-OPTIVE, live performance between Slade School of Fine Art (London) and ArtScience Museum (Singapore), Google hangout YouTube livestream, performance sculpture with galvanised tubes, LCD screens, black acrylic, LED fan, handphone holders, touch screen glove, discarded earphones, 'Future of Us' newspaper, in collaboration with

Singapore: Urich Lau, Marcel Gaspar

London: Ania Jurek (live), Rhys Dennis and Zunnur Sazali (video)

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photo documentation (Singapore) by Olivia Kwok

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Betwixt Festival ArtScience Late - Interstice: Imageries & Bodies

8:18 minutes, live performance with iPhones, handphone holder, projection, Bloomsbury Studio Theatre

In collaboration with (Day 1) Rhys Dennis & Venetia Lim; (Day 2) Nah Jieying & Venetia Lim

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photo documentation by Georgia Lucas - Going

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Platform 1, an evening of performances by students from the Slade School of Fine Art

live performance with iPhones, Airbeam Pro iPhone app, LED screens, piezo sensor, speakers; in collaboration with Rhys Dennis, Nah Jieying & Zunnur Sazali, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, 29 October

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video documentation by Miles Umney

mixed media installation with assorted handphone holders, selfie stick, mini players with 4 channel video on loop, Slade Interim Show 2015, Slade School of Fine Art; in collaboration with

London Contemporary Dance School: Rhys Dennis, Ania Jurek, Zunnur Sazali

RAW Moves (Singapore) Artistic Director: Ricky Sim, Facilitator: Chiew Peishan, Dancers: Melyn Chow, Kong Wei Jie, Neo Hong Chin

durational performance with iPhones, Skype, AirBeam Pro iPhone app, LCD screens on rigs, handphone holder, mini screen, projection, Barbican Centre, London; in collaboration with

London Contemporary Dance School: Rhys Dennis, Ania Zurek, Zunnur Sazali

RAW Moves (Singapore) Artistic Director: Ricky Sim, Facilitator: Chiew Peishan, Dancers: Melyn Chow, Kong Wei Jie, Neo Hong Chin

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images documented by Roger T. Smith

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Fish Island Labs: Interfaces, curated by Something Human for Mnemonic City

Inter/face (Phase 1) video installation and performance at Exparte, The Brick Lane Gallery, London

Inter/face (Phase 2), Fish Island Labs: Interfaces, curated by Something Human for Mnemonic City, Barbican Centre, London

In collaboration with: 

RAW Moves (Singapore)
Artistic Director : Ricky Sim
Facilitator : Chiew Peishan
Dancers : Neo Hong Chin, Matthew Goh, Melyn Chow, Lai Weivien, Kong Wei Jie, Germaine Cheng

London Contemporary Dance School
Dancers: Rhys Dennis, Anna Maria Jurek, Zunnur Sazali

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Inter/face is a series of performances exploring the opportunities and limitations that technology imposes on the body. With the notion of “liveness” and the physical experience of performance challenged by live broadcast, Inter/face seeks to create different spaces and temporalities that channels the body between physical and virtual space. This involves the choreography of screens, dancers, video streaming technologies, audience.