Rain Check
Artists and Collaborators: Feelers
Location: *SCAPE Level 5, Gallery
Admission Type: Free (registration required)
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Open Studio 14 – 24 January 2025 (closed on Mondays) |
Performances 18 January 2025 25 January 2025 |
Movement Workshop 18 January 2025 |
Artist Sharing 25 January 2025
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The sky has fallen, the Cloud has collapsed, and life goes on. Step into a world where sunlight determines our ability to go online and the monsoon season precipitates a time of digital silence.
In this performance installation, we invite you to enter a speculative future where pirates siphon and distribute content from disguised satellites, and search engines are treasured relics of a time gone by.
Through kinetic sculpture and sensor choreography, Rain Check explores the role of internet infrastructures in our everyday lives by imagining their intermittent absence. This work-in-development is a continuation of perfor.ml, a project investigating the possibility of bringing machine learning into performance—on whose terms, and for what goals?
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Feelers Feelers is a research lab of artists and designers focused on the intersections of art and technology. This research takes the form of interdisciplinary artworks, programmes, and education initiatives.
Our projects are invitations to think critically and empathetically about the world we live in; and to build a community engaged in learning and working together. We also extend these invitations inward through resilient and flexible structures that allow employees to continue their independent practices.
Feelers is a bid for another world to come into being. Glimpses of it can be found in the ways we practice sustaining ourselves; in the ways we choose to listen instead of turn away; and in the ways we question existing paradigms of acceleration and extraction.
While art and technology form key fields of research, they continually lead us back to one another. It is with one another that our real work takes place. |
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Movement Workshop Facilitator
Chew Shaw En is a performance maker, performer and dance artist. Her continually emerging practice stretches across mediums such as the body, material, image and movement. In her work, she has been drawn to uncovering the kinetic foundations of contemporary life, and also embeddedness as a practice.
Her most recent projects include ‘Unsuspecting Guardians Cutting a Path Through Dust’ a series of public murals along a walkway that feature outlines of unique physical dynamics and relationships between adults and children observed within the Boon Lay neighbourhood that often go unnoticed, which was part of Seeing The Obvious an annual 3pumpkins community action project; dblspce residency, where she reflects on materiality in the performance maker’s language and the responsibilities and real world resonances that come with it.
For the past 2 years, Shaw has been a creative facilitator at Tak Takut Kids Club on performance nights called community getai.
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