This programme will be followed by Transmissions from the Wayang Spaceship: A Singapore Art Week special featuring performances by Ming Wong and Syndicate at 7.15pm.

Throughout his artistic practice, Ming Wong has strategically mimicked and reworked so-called “foreign language” films. Learning languages and addressing their contextual politics are key to this performative process. In this talk, Wong will elaborate on the significance of music in his research and artmaking. In relation to a series of works that led to the latest installation, Wayang Spaceship, Wong will discuss how music, in its experimental deployment, can act as a language, marker of difference, and collaborative device for embodied enactments.