Tactility Studies: Where Our Lost Things Live
(2022)

9-11 Sep 2022. The Glassroom, The National Gallery of Singapore.

Production Info

Presented as part of the 2022 Children’s Biennale at the National Gallery of Singapore

Production Credits

Co-Directors — Chong Gua Khee and Bernice Lee
Production Management team — The Backstage Affair
Dramaturg — Corrie Tan
Space Design — TiTam co.
Creative Technologist — Sim Xin Feng
Sound Design/Composition and Live Music  — LittleCr3atures
Performers — Bernice Lee and Bib Mockram

Photo Credits: Daniel Teo

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?

Recommended for families with children between 3 to 6 years old, but younger and/or older siblings are very welcome! We ask participants to bring with you things that you’ve found or picked up, and things that you are willing to lose, whatever this means to you (:

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Tactility Studies: Hold to Reset is an iteration of Tactility Studies (2018-ongoing), a long-term performance project jointly manifested by theatre and dance artists Chong Gua Khee and Bernice Lee.