Performance: Feeling backwards, across tongues

In the organizer's words:

The exhibition by Charmaine Poh is complemented by the performance series "feeling backwards, across tongues". It kicks off with a performance by Nguyễn + Transitory, which is based on an intensive research and collection process of music that migrants listened to when they arrived in Singapore. It also takes up a central narrative from Charmaine Poh's video work "The Moon is Wet" (2025) and acts as an acoustic echo of an abandoned past. Listening becomes a method of collective memory, sound a fleeting place of transmission.

Nguyễn + Transitory develop emotional, sound-based performances and sculptural works that address collectivity, intimacy and alternative forms of relationship. Their practice combines traditional rituals with queer technologies and matriarchal imaginaries from Asia and its diasporas. They will be accompanied by Audrey Chen, whose work deals with displacement and bodily memory across generations.

The performance begins in the exhibition and continues in the PalaisPopulaire. It marks the start of the multi-part series, the next intervention of which will take place on October 23, 2025.

Price information:

Free of charge. Limited number of places. Please register.