How can we orient ourselves to these things differently?
This intimate interactive performance takes the form of an artist lecture and dialogue where Zihan will share his experiences of staging his installation Queer Objects: An Archive for the Future (2016), an assemblage of objects for a hypothetical queer archive in Singapore. Through participatory activities, the audience will join Zihan in an examination of the fictional and factual, virtual and actual potential of objects, and meditate on the contingency of identity and being.
Artist – Loo Zihan
Loo Zihan is an artist working at the intersection of critical theory, performance, and the moving-image. His work emphasises the malleability of memory through various representational strategies that include performance re-enactments, essay films and data visualisation. His research includes the erotiohistoriographical potential of archives and queer bonds. His performances have been presented at the Singapore International Festival of Arts and the Brisbane Festival. He was awarded the Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council of Singapore in 2015.
Catamite was developed in residence at Centre 42’s Basement Workshop from October 2018 to January 2019.
10 January 2019, 7pm:
Trial rehearsal at Centre 42
15 January 2019, 7pm:
Trial rehearsal at Centre 42
