Mrs Chan and Mr Chow
 27 February to 12 March 2023

Mrs Chan and Mr Chow © Mrs Chan and Mr Chow

ABOUT

MRS CHAN AND MR CHOW is the culmination of a six-year study on a dialogue and scene from the film In the Mood for Love. The title of the work derives from the film’s protagonists, whose spouses were unfaithful to them, and the scene in question is one where Mrs Chan is rehearsing a confrontation of the affair. Like the scene itself, the work is a repeated deconstruction and working through of a moment held in perpetual tension, potential, and abstraction; examining the performativity of gender and its distortions, and where the artist uses his body as a medium for rumination, and perhaps resolution.

"Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next."
—Dr. Robert Ford, character from the Westworld series

In collaboration with filmmaker Looi Wan Ping and sonic artist Chong Li-Chuan, artist Jereh Leung presents a profound and personal iteration of a project six years in the making and unpacking.

This presentation was conceived as part of Dance Nucleus’ ARTEFACT Residency 2023 and the CRISOL Project (Italy). Earlier studies of the work have been presented at Dance Nucleus and Objectifs, as well as supported by Goethe-Institut Singapore (as part of AUSSICHT).

 

PUBLIC EVENTS

Performance-presentation: Monday, 26 June, 7.30pm
Walk-ins are welcome
 

THE ARTISTS

Jereh Leung explores performance within the spatial context of domesticity, and as mediated by East Asian media cultures.

Looi Wan Ping is a filmmaker, editor and cinematographer. He is a founding member of film collective 13 Little Pictures.

Chong Li-Chuan is a Singaporean composer who is passionate about philosophy, culture and the arts. Li-Chuan's career in music and sound started in the late '90s, working as a composer and sound designer in collaboration with practitioners in theatre, dance, spoken word, architecture, filmmaking, design and visual art.

 

The Space

136 GOETHE LAB is a new project space at the Goethe-Institut Singapore. Housed in the former library and reading room, the space is intended as a response to the need for physical spaces for the arts, and an ongoing conversation with the public and arts community in Singapore.