I HAVE LIVED EVERYWHERE BUT HERE

concept, performance, choreography scenography, video, sound ashleyho+domeniknaue | costume design KvHBob/BobbiBoi | digital art Tristan Lim | guest performers (videography): Chew Shaw En, Jozef Chua, Chia Poh Hian, Kenneth, Constance Loe | supported by Dansateliers Rotterdam, Dance Nucleus, Goethe Institut Singapore

installation

I HAVE LIVED EVERYWHERE BUT HERE: installation builds an artificial landscape from dismantled theatre apparatus and performance debris. This transdisciplinary collaboration amasses physical and virtual residue, which are transformed through scenography, live performance, digital art, film, and sound to construct a junk data universe.

The installation invites visitors to find belonging in strangeness, and proposes a deeper empathy for difference. How can we care for things that are unlike our selves, that we don’t immediately understand? How can you be close to a body you don’t yet know? How can we recognise we are already intertwined?

In a world that demands constant newness, we insist on looking deeply into its residue. A chimeric space of digital and analogue organs, I HAVE LIVED EVERYWHERE BUT HERE folds, unfolds, and enfolds a porous and fluid space for you to wander through. This installation is a regenerative counterpart to a nomadic performance-intervention (by the same name), which follows a piece of “retired” dance floor out of the theatre and across cities. Within the installation, we move along slippery lines between highly personal and global terrains to create a fluid, fragmented space that constantly transforms.

photos + video montage by Adli Dinie

at Dance Nucleus in Singapore, we made a draft of this performance that lasted 2 hours. in the next years, we are looking for opportunities to develop this work further, as we continue to perform the nomadic intervention