More than a Red Dot | Workshop by Vithya Subramaniam

As part of Centre 42’s Co-Lab Residency, Brown Voices’ Vithya Subramaniam presents “More Than A Red Dot: A Survey of SG Indian Things”, a two-part workshop for all those who self-identify as Singaporean Indian.

Synopsis

Our everyday is full of objects—things that enact our actions, give shape to our work, and stand for our presence. Participants in this workshop will survey the material experience and expressions of ‘Indian-ness’ in Singapore, through a series of guided activities. Together, we will identify salient objects and discuss the ways objects give form to the varied ways of being ‘Indian’ in this nation-state.

While serving as a space for considered discussion, please note that the workshop will also inform

1. A staged lecture-performance, and
2. Vithya Subramaniam’s doctoral thesis.

All participants will have to sign a consent form stating their acknowledgement of and participation in point #2.

Register now at https://forms.gle/FWiYB2miPYVtjkYp6 by 19 August 2021, 2359h. Please allow us some time to confirm your participation after registration.

Terms and Conditions

• This workshop is open only to those who self-identify as ‘Singaporean Indian’. Participants need only identify as this for themselves. ‘Official status’ has no bearing.
• The workshop will be conducted over two weeks. Participants must attend the same session in both weeks.
• Participants must be 18 years old or older.
• Participants will be asked to consent to the use of their workshop contributions in
  1. a staged lecture-performance, and
  2. Vithya Subramaniam’s doctoral thesis.
• Participants will be asked to sign an additional consent form for the use of their workshop contributions in Vithya’s doctoral thesis. Unfortunately, participants who do not consent cannot continue with the workshops.
• Participants are capped at 15 pax per Workshop Session. We seek your understanding that allocation will be on a first come first served basis. All subsequent registrants will be placed on a waitlist.
• All participants will be contacted before 20 August 2021.

VITHYA SUBRAMANIAM
Vithya Subramaniam is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology and playwright interested in the more-than-human things in our lives. She has explored this in recent projects such as the Migrant Workers Community Museum (The Substation’s SeptFest 2021) and Thamizhachi: a digital museum of Tamil women under construction (N.O.W. Festival of Women 2021).