I'm grateful to have participated at the PerForm Open Academy of Arts and Activation in Singapore this April.

Moving beyond the art world and collaborating with Arts Network Asia, T:>Works introduces a fellowship platform from 2021 to 2024 that cuts across silos, disciplines, and fields, to support contextualised research, situated practices, and translocal knowledge production as a shared resource for the future. In particular, Per°Form focuses on the arts practitioner as a thought leader engaged in care and repair, actively bridging histories, the precarious present, and world-creating.

T:>Works has named this fellowship platform, Per℉orm , which is centred around the idea of leaving nobody and nothing behind. Per℉orm harnesses the contexts of multiple ‘locals’, honouring a local which is simultaneous and interdependent on other locals, and emphasising that all localities are dependent on each other, even though they may be physically very distant. The Fellow may be based in another localised context; knowledge and research produced there will be digitally shared with publics in Singapore and internationally.

I am grateful to Dr Keng Sen Ong for his invitation and to Noorlinah Mohammed and the team at T:>Works for their hospitality and for an excellent event.

Check out a highlight reel I posted on IG (including excerpts from a conversation I had with friend and fellow PerForm fellow Keren:

https://www.performfellowship.org/