What is one thing we should learn or unlearn, in order to participate meaningfully in the world we live in?

Workshops by artist in Singapore to share knowledge and meaning in different areas to help us create, remember and laugh!

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Acts and Antidotes For Surviving Eclipses, Peculiar Habitats and Contradictory Certainties

by Zarina Muhammad

This workshop invites participants to consider their own personal acts, gestures, mindful actions and antidotes in times of crises, transition and transformation. What are our individual and collective methods of memory-making, commemorating loss, reconstructing traditions of renewal? How does this parallel the ways we mark and measure time? What stories do we tell of final rites, of peculiar phantoms (of the old world order), of ruined/renewed landscapes of isolation/belonging, of time and future ghosts and the chaos of crossing thresholds we might be unfamiliar with? Through the act of storytelling, ritual and gesture, the workshop aims to explore ways to create our own memory maps, personal peculiar habitats, talismanic effigies, apotropaic marks and calendrical systems to remember and memorialise all that we assume matters.

This workshop will be conducted in 2 parts, over 2 separate days:-

Session #1: 11th September (Friday) 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Session #2: 13th September (Sunday) 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Language: English

Capacity: 20

* This ticket entitles you to attend both sessions of the workshop.

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*Note*

1. Please note that Drama Box will be recording activities and content on the SCENES virtual site for archival purposes. Selected footage will be used for marketing and publicity purposes
2. More information and workshop link will be emailed to you 1 week before the workshop. Please make sure you fill in the correct email address.
3. We want to share with you a cup of tea from our sponsor Pek Sin Choon. If you’d like to enjoy some Chinese tea, please also fill in your home address so we can mail it to you.

About Zarina Muhammad

Zarina Muhammad is a Singapore-based artist, educator and researcher-writer whose practice is deeply entwined with a critical re-examination of oral histories, ethnographic literature and other historiographic accounts about Southeast Asia.

Working at the intersections of performance, mixed media installation, text, ritual, sound and moving image, she is interested in the broader contexts of myth-making, haunted historiographies and role of the artist as “cultural ventriloquist” who lends multiple voices to spectral matters and speculative histories. She has been working on a long-term project on Southeast Asia’s provisional relationship to the occult, ritual magic and the immaterial against the dynamics of global modernity and the social production of rationality.