Southernmost Project 2018
Date: 2-11 Nov 2018
Venue: Centre 42
Ticket Prices: $28 (show); $50 (pass); $380 (Masterclass)
Participating artists:
Andy Chia (Experimental Ethnic Music, Singapore)
Didik Nini Thowok (Classical Javanese Dance, Yogyakarta)
Elizabeth Chan (Chinese Dance, Singapore)
Kanji Shimizu (Noh Theatre, Tokyo)
Liu Xiaoyi (Contemporary Theatre, Singapore)
Loi Ee Vian (Chinese Orchestra, Singapore)
Rady Nget (Lakhon Khol, Phnom Penh)
Soultari Amin Farid (Malay Dance, Singapore)
Production: Journey to Nowhere
Journey to Nowhere is a work created by Liu Xiaoyi and first premiered in 2018 in Tokyo and then in Singapore.
The 20-minute version in Tokyo delves into the history of lighting and technology within theatre, as well as the evolution of the stage, and through this, extrapolates to discuss the historical and evolving cultural environment in Asia. Later in Singapore, it was transformed into a full-length production bearing the same title, utilizing Singapore’s White Paper on Cultural Policy as its starting point, inciting extensive discourse within Singapore’s artistic community. Using this as a premise, it contemplates the future of cultural exchange and the development of our cultural environment: “There is still a long journey ahead.”
A well-executed, thought-provoking diatribe on the proposed future of local arts.
Post-dramatic and armed with a fiendish wit, Journey is the most aggressive piece of SG political theatre I've seen…
