經 Ancestral Tongues: Dialect Karaoke Party | Peatix tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2024-04-26T21:34:48+08:00 Peatix GIS 經 Ancestral Tongues: Dialect Karaoke Party tag:peatix.com,2024:event-3890656 2024-03-27T19:00:00SGT 2024-03-27T19:00:00SGT ABOUT經 ANCESTRAL TONGUES is a multiverse research project recovering ancestral vocal memory using collaborative methodologies in archiving, transmodal scoring and collective performance. Holding space for the reparation of our fractured relationship with Chinese languages (“dialects”) within the space of 136 GOETHE LAB, the project manifests as experiments culminating in a set of embodied scores for a citizen choir and building mutuality around disappearing aural lineages.DIALECT KARAOKE PARTYThe endurance of any language is related to its existence in accessible entertainment. Come for a night of communal fun singing only songs in Chinese languages other than Mandarin, aka dialects. Level of fluency is inconsequential; stumbling is no matter. Light prior song research encouraged but optional; anything found online can be sung to.Dress code (optional): Ah Ma / Ah Gong chicLight snacks and beverages provided. The event will be lightly documented, but feel free to opt out.  Hosted by artists Hee Suhui and Salty Xi Jie NgTHE ARTISTSSalty Xi Jie Ng is an artist and educator co-creating semi-fictional paradigms for the real and imagined lives of humans within the poetics of the interdimensional intimate vernacular. Often playing with relational possibilities, her transdisciplinary practice proposes a collective re-imagining through humour, care, subversion, discomfort, institutional critique, a celebration of the eccentric, and a commitment to the deeply personal, in hopes of uncovering hidden selves and histories in kinship with the other-than-human. The work she has developed a.cross cultures and contexts manifests as forms like performances, rituals, films, conversations, community-based collaborations, brief one-on-one encounters, co-created meals, and publications. Her practice is currently concerned with ancestry, eroticism, death, and ageing. She has an MFA in art and social practice from Portland State University.Suhui Hee is a multidisciplinary artist, composer and electronic musician working with sound, movement, performance and experimental scoring. Her recent research interests are in auscultations, the relationship between decomposition and composition, inhumanisms and the body as ecosphere. Her music under the moniker Anise is an entropic, cinematic blend of harsh glitchy beats cutting through delicate, shimmering vocals, field recordings, and chamber music blending the grotesque and beautiful.LOCATION136 Goethe Lab (left of the main entrance, access separate door along Bukit Pasoh Road)Goethe-Institut Singapore136 Neil RoadSingapore 088865