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About the event
A Day is a multidisciplinary installation combining performance and video installation, inviting you to wander through doors and liminal spaces to piece together meaning through observation and accounts attempting to describe what lies within them.
A Day compels you to find the intriguing amid the mundane, as the space inspires reflection on the nature of time and our everyday relationships. Its durational nature seeks to break through the temporal aspects usually involved in performance and viewing artworks. Time becomes a clue about the artwork, a suggestive reminder. Amid all these regularities that surround us, the installation serves to magnify, and even to transform, certain very tiny and easily overlooked rituals in our lives, to urge the viewer toward reflection on the details of the quotidian. Once we depart from our familiar modes and sense the reminders from beyond these everyday regularities, we return to reality with new questions amid the mundane.
11In the first room of "A Day," we hear the museum guide (a criminal) describing works that remain unseen behind their doors, works which, like the emperor's new clothes, can be described yet at the same time cannot be described. What different viewers see on different days is just a room, but as we consider what lies behind the other doors, and why it can't be seen, we experience the same state as in our everyday lives: our anticipation of—and our inability to anticipate—the future.
About the organizer
SIFA 2023: THE ANATOMY OF PERFORMANCE - SOME PEOPLE
This year's title engages with the idea that the human experience exists on a spectrum. We are the sum of all the narratives that chapter and alter our lives; each trial and transformation, what our ancestors and communities have had to struggle through, our experiences as children and adults, things inherited and circumstances imposed on our lives shape how we move through life and experience the world.
When we encounter performance, we witness perspectives we can relate to, or that differ from our own, maybe even challenge our held beliefs, yet when we agree to remain in the performance space together, our personal worldview expands as we take in another’s.
Each SIFA edition features three tracks of curated offerings: CREATION, Life Profusion and SIFA X.
Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) returns from 19 May to 4 June 2023 with the theme The Anatomy of Performance - Some People. The festival will feature many exciting Singapore and International productions such as Pompeii by Edith Podesta (AU/SG) and K. Rajagopal (SG), Materia by Andrea Salustri (IT), Angel Island by Huang Ruo (US) and Brian Gothong Tan (SG) and many more.
Tickets start from $25. For full festival line-up or to book tickets, visit sifa.sg!