Love Love Remote Control by Rudi Skotheim Jensen

Love love remote control is a piece regarding the culinary chaos that comprises hunger, taste, growth, polemics and a total food apocalypse. The piece is a tranquil indie poem in word and movement, contemplating the final slice of bread. 

“Love Love…” was started in 2011, in collaboration with technical designer Any Lim based in Singapore. The project was supported by the Norwegian Arts Council with a pre-project. The Arts Council again funded the complete project in 2012-13. Resedencies are currently supported by Subtopia, Fredrikstad County and Xanti. 

Performed and created by:Rudi Skotheim Jensen and Andy Lim
Artistic collaboration:Indra Lorentsen,Kate Pendry,Jade Francis Haj,Loan Than Ha
Suported by ; Norwegian Arts Council, Fredrikstad County Cultureschool, Subtopia in 
                    Stockholm, Theatreworks in Singapore and Norwegian Foreign affair. (UD)

Notion: Dance Fiction by Choy Ka Fai

Technology meets dance in this lecture performance by artist Choy Ka Fai. Inspired by the evolution of dance history in the last century, Ka Fai conducts a "muscle memory" experiment with dancer Joavien Ng in this boundary-pushing work. In Notion: Dance Fiction, sensors are attached to the body to transmit muscle vibrations into digital notations. These digital "muscle memory" implants attempt to condition the body in recreating a selection of iconic dance choreography.

After the lecture performance, audience members are invited to participate in an experiment for the Bionic Movement Research, if they so desire. Using similar techniques to electrical nerve stimulation, the experiment seeks to choreograph artificial muscle contraction and movement in a body. Don't miss this rare chance to experience for yourself a futuristic vision of "learning" dance gestures through digitised muscle memory.

Occupation 2012 by Claire Wong

Presented in 2012 by National Museum of Singapore
Produced by Checkpoint Theatre

Written by award-winning and acclaimed playwright Huzir Sulaiman, Occupation weaves the true story of Huzir’s grandmother, Mrs Mohamed Siraj, with the experiences of the fictional character Sarah. Mrs Siraj was a young woman in her teens during the war years and spent most of the occupation sequestered in her large family home. Later, in her eighties, Mrs Siraj is interviewed by Sarah, a bureaucrat tasked with collating Singapore’s oral history. In looking at the past, Sarah struggles with questions of her own life in modern day Singapore.

Directed by Claire Wong and starring Jo Kukathas, Checkpoint Theatre’s new 10th anniversary production of Occupation is an intimate journey through the labyrinth of memories of love and loss, and a celebration of that which has passed and that which remains forever. Vivid, humourous and beautiful.

First produced by Checkpoint Theatre in 2002 as a Singapore Arts Festival commission. Presented in 2012 by National Museum of Singapore in collaboration with Checkpoint Theatre.

Si Ti Kay by Noor Effendy Ibrahim

Si Ti Kay are nonsense sounds that express a deep feeling from deeper within.

In and out, up and down, through pathways of purity and corruption, anger and calm, Si Ti Kay tries to makes sense of a mother’s undying love and care for her children dying in the hands of a nonsensical war. It’s about anger. It’s about war. It’s about mother. It’s about finding hope in spite of Si Ti Kay.

Conceptualised and directed by Noor Effendy Ibrahim, this new creation sees Effendy explore themes and artistic impulses inherent in his enduring body of works.

Artist Statement

In the beginning, god created despair, for man to find hope within. I know I have heard someone say this somewhere before sometime back, but I’m not too sure who, when and where. It must have been god herself who had said this through some men. I mean, who else could be that smart to tease men into such futility other than god herself. So there you have it. And here I find myself being teased into my own despair, holding on to too much faith, knowing that hope for me lies deep within. Gingerly, I slide a finger in, resting, probing. Somehow sensing the despair within feels warmer, softer, safer, I slide in another finger, followed by my thumb. But reason suddenly makes me pull both fingers out almost instantaneously, reason that too often leads to greater despair. I am confused. My thumb is still inside. 

Noor Effendy Ibrahim 

Photos courtesy by Cake Theatrical Production

ILLOGIC by Natalie Hennedige

"It is a powerful in-your-face work of creation that deconstructs creation itself, a psychedelic valentine to the theatre... Within the dramatic structure of a play itself, Illogic scrutinises both the conscious and the subconscious levels of theatre-making with an arsenal of Hennedige's trademark - the visceral physicality, loud design elements and carefully constructed abstraction." The Straits Times Life!

Someone said the universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding.

Two actors move across a desert-like terrain.

Encounters between them gradually bring forth a dramatic landscape capturing at once, a dream like state and the reality of their humanity.

A theatre performance in two acts, Illogic asks questions it can’t answer and sets a path it won’t follow.

Two actors. One moving terrain. Giving way to Illogic.

Photos courtesy by Cake Theatrical Production

GOH LAY KUAN & KUO PAO KUN by Ong Keng Sen

TheatreWorks presents

GOH LAY KUAN & KUO PAO KUN

Conceived and directed by Ong Keng Sen

She is a dancer, a teacher, a fighter.
He is a writer, a theatre doyen, a visionary.
This is about their struggle, their love and, all that is vital in their lives.

Starring
Karen Tan as Goh Lay Kuan
Lim Kay Tong as Kuo Pao Kun

Lighting design by Andy Lim (stage “LIVE”)

Excavated from over 40 hours of oral history interviews from the National Archives juxtaposed with seminal texts and plays of Kuo, Goh Lay Kuan & Kuo Pao Kun presents an intimate portrait of this pioneering arts couple of Singapore.

Internationally acclaimed theatre director Ong Keng Sen, known for his distinct aesthetic in making documentary performance through collaboration with his performers and extensive research, helms the full creation of this distilled work. This follows the ‘sold-out’
work-in-progress in April 2010 as part of the TheatreWorks’ 25th anniversary season.

If Singapore is a city of amnesia and forgetting, Goh Lay Kuan & Kuo Pao Kun asks an urgent question: how do we document the work and lives of Singapore artists whose practice evades easy archival and preservation?

One Day In This Place by Cake Theatrical Production

People.

Sticking it out in a hyper-real place.

Doing things and saying things and thinking things out loud.

They keep this up all day.

One Day in this Place is set against a backdrop of an imagined place at once familiar, at once kooky. It features the emerging art practitioners of In A Decade.

In A Decade is a training playground initiated by Cake, to provide a creative exploratory space for the next generation of art practitioners in Singapore. The participants come with a variety of interests –acting, production work, design, directing, producing, writing or a combination of that list. For a time, they get involved with Cake in as many ways as possible, gaining a deep sense of our artistic philosophy and working dynamic, delving into past works and imagining fresh possibilities. In a Decade is a personal and collective artistic journey.

New Voices. Fresh Takes. Latest Make. In A Decade. In One Day. In This Place.

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5.1 Decimal Points by Rizman Putra

5.1 refers to the six channel surround sound multichannel audio system – the most commonly used layout in both commercial cinemas and home theatres. It is also about the search for self within a population that is reaching 5.1 million.

5.1 is a wordless movement-based performance, incorporating radio frequency motion sensors, neo-futuristic costumes and unconventional live vocal experimentation, colliding techno toys with raw physical emotion into the same frequency. It is a search for that balance between the soul and the cold, the dense and the sparse, the new and the old, the foreign and the native, the logical and the illogical.

When the bodies start to regurgitate, they will begin to reveal the truth. There are no prisoners here, only kindred souls in search of a meaning. We are all machines and we are forever broken.

Conceived & Directed by Rizman Putra
Sound Artist: Zulkifle Mahmod
Lighting Designer: Andy Lim
Production Designer: Nizam Supardi / Neon Tights
Performers: Fared Jainal, Sharda Harrison, Syaiful Ariffin, Patricia Toh, Yazid Jalil
About Decimal Points

Presented by Cake Theatrical Productions in partnership with The Substation, Decimal Points is a series of art experiments that fuel artistic creation through process and exploration. Over the course of two years, four artistic experiments are made, each helmed by a different artist – Brian Gothong Tan, David Lee, Philip Tan and Rizman Putra. Each artist is encouraged to create from a personal place, finding entry points via the varying disciplines of film, fashion, visual art, sound and performance art. In the third year, all four artists bring forth a new work inspired and enriched by a two-year span of research, exploration and creation.

courtesy by Cake Theatrical Production

courtesy by Cake Theatrical Production

courtesy by Cake Theatrical Production