9–11 SEP 2022

Tactility Studies:
Where Our Lost Things Live


Presented in conjunction with Gallery Children’s Biennale 2021 at National Gallery Singapore



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A wide shot of the performance space, which is set up in a whimsical fashion - there is a canopy of narrow white fabrics draped around structures like a soft sky and things hanging down that look like clouds or birds, while the floor is covered in a weave-like pattern because of the shadow cast from the skylight. Young children and their parents are scattered around the space, some standing and some sitting, looking at two performers, one of whom is dressed as a creature with an extra large head, large googly eyes, and whose body is made of overlapping colourful fabrics. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A father and daughter in the centre of the image peer curiously into the performance space through a small opening between two mismatched curtains. On each side of this opening is a sofa of sorts, draped with matching blue furry blankets, and covered in assorted pillows including one with a cat’s face, and one yellow “monster” with large googly eyes. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A performer in a quirky getup smiles at people outside of the frame as children watch on. Her hair clipped up by a clothes peg, she holds a hand drum in one hand, and a fork with googly eyes and dangling fabric in the other. Around her neck is a puppet made of a tote bag, buttons, office clips, and socks, and she has a green apron that contrasts with her blue-and-white gingham top.


Photos from Tactility Studies: Where Our Lost Things Live (2022). Credit: Daniel Teo.



SYNOPSIS

Take a deep breath and slip sideways into the space between our world and a Land where our Lost Things live: the socks that went missing from your laundry, the umbrella you just can’t find, the ‘chouchous’ or bantal busuks that got thrown away without your knowledge. There are things that we don’t get to say a proper goodbye to, and here is our chance.






In this work, we invite young families to take care of Lost Things and send them off to the next stage of their lives. How might we hold and cradle these things that may have meant the world to someone else - someone we might never meet? What new clothes and accessories can we offer to these Things? What messages might we want to whisper or give to them as they journey onwards—to the Land where no humans are allowed, where our own precious Lost Things now live?



CO-DIRECTORS

Chong Gua Khee 
Bernice Lee

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT TEAM

The Backstage Affair


DRAMATURG

Corrie Tan


SPACE DESIGN

TiTam co.


CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST

Sim Xin Feng

SOUND DESIGN
LIVE MUSIC

LittleCr3atures


PERFORMERS

Bernice Lee
Bib Mockram


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