Multiple dates

Fear & Love

Name: Fear & Love
Start: 2025-09-05T20:30:00+0800
End: 2025-09-05T22:00:00+0800
Location: ShanghART Singapore

By ShanghART Singapore

A light and sound performance exploring the nuance of animal-human relationships through storytelling and live image-making.

Location

ShanghART Singapore

9 Lock Road 02-22 Singapore, 108937 Singapore

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Free venue parking

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About this event

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Fear & Love – by Lai Yu Tong, Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen and Wu Jun Han

Date: 5 & 6 September 2025

Time: 8.30pm – 10pm

Venue: ShanghART Singapore, 9 Lock Rd, #02-22, Singapore 108937

Tickets (Non-Refundable)

Pre-sale tickets: $25

Door tickets: $30

(Pre-sale ends on 4 September 2025)

Advisory: Some strobe and flashing lights

ShanghART Singapore hosts a light and sound performance by artist-musicians Lai Yu Tong, Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen and Wu Jun Han on the occasion of Lai Yu Tong's first solo exhibition at the gallery, The Dogs.

Inspired by encounters with a pack of stray dogs, Fear & Love explores the nuance of animal-human relationships through storytelling and live image-making. Playing an ensemble of DIY, low-tech light-emitting apparatus and an eclectic mix of sound-emitting instruments, the performers put up a makeshift theatre play, akin to telling stories around a fire.

The production is the first collaboration between the four performers who come from various backgrounds as film-makers, video artists and visual artists but share a common interest in free-improvisation and experimental music, playing separately in bands and solo—Are, Pupa and Cosmologists.

Lai Yu Tong is an artist from Singapore who works across drawing, image-making, sculpture and sound. His practice is interested in creating adequate media to articulate the present, believing in the intrinsic need for humans to make images and tell stories. Recent works of his consider how art can evoke empathy in a world so damaged.

Wu Jun Han thinks and plays with sound (and other things). He is a part of Pupa (noisy ambient-ish electronica) and was formerly a crew member on board the Wayang Spaceship (Ming Wong). His output manifests in different forms—improvisation, cassette tapes, words and gestures. He also frequently contributes to live performances and productions as a musician, VJ and sound designer.

Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen are a Singaporean filmmaker and artist duo who work across film, audiovisual performance, music and installations. Their works explore the intersections of histories, materialities and existential anxieties, through speculative fiction and body horror.

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The Dogs by Lai Yu Tong is on show at ShanghART Singapore from 30 August to 2 November 2025.

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ShanghART Singapore

ShanghART Gallery was established in Shanghai in 1996. It has since grown to become one of China’s most influential art institutions and a vital player in the development of contemporary art in China, representing over 60 pioneering and emerging artists, including DING Yi, LI Shan, Arin RUNGJANG, Melati SURYODARMO, Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL, XU ZHEN®, YANG Fudong, ZENG Fanzhi, and ZHAO Renhui Robert.

ShanghART Singapore was established in 2012 as the gallery’s Southeast Asia wing, located in the contemporary art cluster Gillman Barracks. The gallery’s first overseas space serves as a platform to introduce Chinese contemporary art to the region while developing collaborations with Southeast Asian artists and bringing them to the international art scene.

From SGD 25.00