Talkback Session 2

Why does Ka5 keep introducing me as "a writer who wants to perform"?



Fun fact: the black dress Joavien wears has 1,392 points of stitching (all by hand). These were entered as data based on their X and Y-co-ordinates, which were thus translated into musical information on treble and bass respectively.

Poem by Machine01

That is, Paviter Singh, intern and multimedia technician for this show.

Caught in the circumference of a storm,
PI is no longer constant,
But it is.

Torrance (our set designer) noted that part of his rubric for this production was to allow the tech crew to be the stars for once. They're set in the centre of the space, with the audience sitting/wandering around them and the mad performers only inhabiting the periphery.

Lovely poem and very, very apt.

End of first performance!

And we got a standing ovation (of course got no chairs, so got not so many places to sit).

Now doing the talkback.


Some nuggets of criticism from director Jeffrey Tan:

"I loved the experience, but everything was in the words and the words were telling me something else. And yet I'm reduced to seeing full sentences. And that was very jarring. And if there's one thing you should change is not to have full sentences. Every day we're being given full sentences, being told what to think. We need to avoid that."

"This is very clean. This is very clear. This is almost like meditative. I would like there to be more interference."

R.I.P. Teh Cheang Wan

It's his 22nd death anniversary. To the day. Spare a minute of silence for the Honourable Oriental Gentleman, followed by 50 minutes of noise.

Because it's our first performance tonight. Wish us luck! Just had debriefing and some last-min updates regarding Fared's light tubes and Pat's Stephen Chow-esque laugh. Performance in a little more than an hour. Fared is calming us with sensuous massage.

Camaraderie

I do like the way we're emerging as a friendly/familial collective as well as an artistic alliance.



Don't we look sweet? Let's see some more from other days:

Torrance and Joavien in the green room.
Ka Fai giving us the new order of scenes.
Zul at the controls.


And Eng Tat at the controls.

Opening tomorrow! Debriefing now! Call-time at three! Yarrrrgh!

More WTFotography

Come see what it's all about!

Meet Da Interns!

Here's Pav and Bin, the interns from Ka Fai's video art class. Both super-skilled at electronics (watch them soldering wires and twiddling little knobs - so butch), and able to manipulate central controls while Ka Fai stands back and tries to be vaguely directorial.


The other day during debriefing I called them Green Bin and Curry Pav. :P Yeah, I'm immature like that.