Talks, Walkthroughs, Workshops

Exhibition Opening. All the artists will be present at the opening!

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This panel brings together three artists whose works interrogate how technology reconfigures care, intimacy, and embodiment. Moderated by Dr Lydia Wong-Plain, the panel situates artistic practices within broader conversations on the politics of representation in contemporary media art: how technological systems absorb human values, desires, and anxieties, and how voices and bodies become sites of negotiation between authority and care.

Lydia Wong-Plain is a researcher working across museums, exhibition-making, and cultural institutions. She recently completed her PhD at Nanyang Technological University, where her research approaches museums in postcolonial Singapore as sites where policy, curatorial practice, and cultural expression are continually negotiated. Her work unfolds through curatorial and community-based projects that engage vernacular practices and non-canonical histories, often in dialogue with civic institutions. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Her writing appears in Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Singapore (Duke University Press, forthcoming).

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This panel brings together three artists whose works examine belief systems, avatar identities, and informal economies that shape our behaviour within technological and virtual environments. Across sculpture, video, and games, the works examine how ritual, social norms, and forms of obedience become embedded in everyday infrastructures. Moderated by Dr Kyueun Kim, the panel explores how our values are rehearsed or subverted through play.

Kyueun Kim is a theatre and performance scholar whose research engages contemporary art, immersive media and cultural memory. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore and received her PhD in Theatre and Performance from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is currently writing a book on VR and immersive performances from Asia over the past decade, examining how artists reconfigure body, site, and memory through technology.

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Join the exhibition's curator for a guided walk-through on Reworlding a group exhibition that explores how artists are building, inhabiting, and resisting worlds - through different mediums like game, sound, installation and media works. This tour will offer insights into the curatorial framework for the exhibition, and introduces each of the works of the artists.

The tour is suitable for general audiences.

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Join Jo Ho for an introduction to her new work Flesh Drive and an open discussion on medical imagery, ASMR, embodied experiences and virtual environments. This dialogue invites collective reflection on how contemporary technologies mediate the understanding of our bodies. The programme concludes with an informal interactive experience related to the work, designed for one participant at a time, with the live experience simultaneously projected for others to watch.

Content advisory: This programme contains medical imagery, including surgical documentation, as well as amplified bodily and food-related sounds, which may be unsettling for some viewers.

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Join Cheryl Charli for a performative guided tour of Reworlding.

Cheryl Charli is a theatre practitioner and visual artist based in Singapore, whose practice bridges performance, circus arts, and visual art. She is passionate about philosophy, worldbuilding, ludology, carnivalesque, and the natural world. Particularly drawn to poetic and philosophical material, her artistic practice is rooted in curiosity, conceptual inquiry, and a fascination with worldhood and ways of being.

Cheryl holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. She also designs, writes, and runs TTRPGs (tabletop role-playing games) and other collaborative storytelling experiences. When she's not working, she's probably...working... because she's a workaholic, according to Tripadvisor reviews from friends and family. She might also be found under a bridge, crying over emotional video games.

The tour is suitable for general audiences.

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Join Shawn Chua for a performative guided tour of Reworlding.

Shawn Chua is an artist, researcher and dramaturg whose projects have taken the form of performances, publications, presentations, prototypes, play labs, publics, and public service. He is often engaged with embodied archives, uncanny personhoods and the participatory frameworks of play.

The tour is suitable for general audiences.