Flowers From Our Bloodlines
Dublin Core
Title
Flowers From Our Bloodlines
Description
Lecture Performance by artist Zarina Muhammad (Singapore) in collaboration with choreographer Stefania Rossetti (Italy/France/Indonesia), featuring Vivian Wang (Singapore), artist Eric Lee (Malaysia), and sound artist Tini Aliman (Singapore)
Therianthropy, the mythological ability of humans to metamorphose into other animals through shapeshifting, has marked myth and folklore across cultures and times, remaining one of the most common tropes in magical and otherworldly narratives. Drawing from concepts of the demonised and desired body, gender-based archetypes, and mythmaking, this lecture performance invokes family histories and revokes the lineages of colonisation in Southeast Asia. The event unfolds through the layering of personal memory, collective history, and fragments of ancestral and indigenous knowledge on healing and killing. Remembering the rites of the Wolf Spider and the Harimau Jadian (Were-Tiger) and exploring their multiple translations and adaptations, the performance looks at intergenerational and cross-cultural exchange through storytelling, rituals, gestures, and embodied movement.
This programme takes place on the occasion of Art After Dark x Gillman Barracks 5th Anniversary Celebrations.
Therianthropy, the mythological ability of humans to metamorphose into other animals through shapeshifting, has marked myth and folklore across cultures and times, remaining one of the most common tropes in magical and otherworldly narratives. Drawing from concepts of the demonised and desired body, gender-based archetypes, and mythmaking, this lecture performance invokes family histories and revokes the lineages of colonisation in Southeast Asia. The event unfolds through the layering of personal memory, collective history, and fragments of ancestral and indigenous knowledge on healing and killing. Remembering the rites of the Wolf Spider and the Harimau Jadian (Were-Tiger) and exploring their multiple translations and adaptations, the performance looks at intergenerational and cross-cultural exchange through storytelling, rituals, gestures, and embodied movement.
This programme takes place on the occasion of Art After Dark x Gillman Barracks 5th Anniversary Celebrations.
Creator
[CCA Curator?]
Publisher
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Date
22 Sep 2017, Fri 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Rights
Image credit: Flowers from our Bloodlines, Friday, 22 Sep 2017, Lecture Performance by Zarina Muhammad in collaboration with Stefania Rossetti, featuring Vivian Wang, Eric Lee, and Tini Aliman, The Single Screen, NTU CCA Singapore. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Event Item Type Metadata
Duration
1 hour, 30 minutes
Event Type
Performance
Location
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
Files
Collection
Citation
[CCA Curator?], “Flowers From Our Bloodlines,” CCA Digital Archive, accessed May 16, 2024, https://digitalarchivecca.omeka.net/items/show/1.