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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.PERFORMANCE-SHARINGHow do the stitching together and stewing of disappearing language histories reimagine ancestral memory as a warm bowl of congee? Can a gathering of collective ritual be medicine for the fragmented diasporic imaginary? This communal and participatory performance is a punctuation mark in artists, Suhui Hee and Salty Xi Jie Ng’s research and performance project Ancestral Tongues sited at 136 GOETHE LAB and in the cosmos of individual and collective ancestry. Working with experimental embodied scores birthed from research, a citizen choir will sing, make sounds, move, and hold silence around the loss of dialect, forgetting, ancestral objects, migration, and sea crossings. Within a spatial landscape conveying themes of migration and loss, this channelling of ancestral tongues is a prayer for a renewed relationship with ancestry and dialect, a practice of sonic coalescence simmering in the density of collective evocation. Audience members are invited to navigate geographies of remembrance and loss, while participating in this building of mutuality around disappearing aural lineages. The performance will be followed by a short discussion.THE 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