T:>Works: Living Soil Series — A Film Double Bill: Sandcastles (2024) and Moving Earth (2024)
2025-05-03 15:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | 72-13, 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road, Singapore, Singapore, 239007, Singapore, 239007, Singapore
T:>Works introduces the Living Soil Series as part of CoThink Lab, kicking off with a double-bill film screening:Sandcastles (2024) by Carin Leong and Moving Earth (2024) by Ian Mun.

What do we consider as home? The constructed complex we live in? The land where we make our livelihood?

‘Sandcastles’ (2024) by Carin Leong draws parallels between a lost 19th-century Michigan town swallowed by sand and modern Singapore, built on reclaimed land, highlighting the ephemeral nature of human creations. ‘Moving Earth’ (2024) by Ian Mun is a nostalgic look at the Ground-Up Initiative in Singapore as they relocate, celebrating their connection to the earth and its importance of soil in our lives.

We invite the audience to participate in a pre-show activity to pen down stories of relocation and land reclamation. There will also be a post-film panel discussion featuring ‘Sandcastles’ producer Martin Loh, ‘Moving Earth’ director Ian Mun, and Bing Yu from Ground-Up Initiative (GUI) — a non-profit society dedicated to fostering sustainable kampung culture through active community participation.

𝐏𝐞𝐫º𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐬 + 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 2025
2025-02-07 - 2025-02-28
𝐏𝐞𝐫º𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐬 + 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (POA), T:>Works’ pioneering platform on thought leadership in the arts and cultural sector, returns 7–28 February 2025! POA 2025 brings together some of the most respected and renowned figures at the intersection of arts and social responsibilities. Drawing on their decades-long practices to tackle critical issues such as minority rights, disability, gender, sexuality, cultural representation, and stakeholder and public engagement, they challenge conventional perceptions of what is possible today.
POA 2025 will introduce three programmes: The Mentor Series, from 7–22 February, features a series of talks by eminent thought leaders from the global artistic and cultural landscape which includes a workshop by Marc Brew, an acclaimed international disabled artist. 12–15 February, engage with Nepalese indigenous artists and their practices at the POA Opening Studio. 24–28 February, participate in a work-in-studio process with contemporary artist and choreographer Xavier Le Roy at the POA Closing Studio.

About The Mentor Series: 7-22 February
Fellows: Anselm Franke, Şermin Langhoff, Anne Bogart, Marc Brew, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Vivian Ziherl, Labay Eyong, Pooja Sood, Xavier Le Roy
About: We kick off The Mentor Series with presentations by Anselm Franke and Şermin Langhoff, followed by a distinguished lineup into the third week of POA 2025. Esteemed artists, curators, and directors will showcase their innovative contributions to the global arts and culture scene.
Not to be missed: On Saturday, 22 February, 11am-1pm, a workshop with Marc Brew invites artists, educators, and facilitators who are keen to develop their practice in leading inclusive dance in a supportive environment for disabled and non-disabled performers.

POA Opening Studio: 12-15 February
Fellows: Bishal Yonjan, Hit Man Gurung, Indu Tharu, Lavkant Chaudhary, Mekh Limbu, Priyankar Bahadur Chand, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, and Subas Tamang
About: Come and join the POA Opening Studio: an assembly of artists from different indigenous communities of Nepal, each with diverse artistic pathways to document, interrogate, and reclaim indigenous narratives and heritage in contemporary Nepali society.

POA Closing Studio: 24-28 February
Fellow: Xavier Le Roy
Duration: 4 hours per day, 5 days in total
Dates: 24-28 February
Time: 6.30pm-10.30pm
About: Join the POA Closing Studio with renowned choreographer Xavier Le Roy. This interactive workshop focuses on movement, sound, and embodiment to explore the dynamic interplay between performer and spectator. Participants will engage deeply with how choreography influences relationships within the performance space.

Beginner’s Playwriting Workshop
2024-11-02 15:00 - 18:00
Unlock your creative potential in our Beginner’s Playwriting Workshop with Chong Tze Chien, part of our upcoming 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2025! Designed for anyone curious about storytelling, this workshop is all about exploring fun, pressure-free techniques to jump-start your writing. Whether you’re new to writing or just looking for fresh ideas, we’ll guide you through playful exercises and creative prompts to help you discover the joy of crafting your own unique stories for the stage. No experience needed—just bring your imagination and a willingness to experiment! Join us and turn your ideas into the start of something amazing.
Chong Tze Chien is an acclaimed Singaporean playwright and director, known for his bold and inventive approach to theatre. A prolific playwright with over 20 years of professional experience under his belt, Chong has received numerous accolades for his work, including multiple Life! Theatre Awards.

5G Hotspot
2024-10-09 19:30 - 21:00
Join Per°Form CoThink Lab Fellow Wong Binghao (Bing) as they discuss a decade of discursive curatorial practice. They will take as their primary object of analysis 5G Bing — an Internet grimoire of writing, aesthetics, and cultural criticism.

Wong Binghao (they/them) approaches art essayistically, as eclectic constellations of practice, research, and lived experience. They work with artists and thinkers to create essays, publications, digital, public, education, and international programs, performance and live events, and exhibitions.

Artistic Directors Academy (ADA) Public Lecture: Mycelium Teachings: Cultivating Alliances and Collaborations
2024-10-02 19:30 - 21:30
There is a growing interest in fungi and mycelium as a material, the ever-branching connecting threads of the fungal world. The entanglements and how this rhizomatic network functions is not just a fascinating ecological system and material, but carries a profound usefulness as a metaphor for our potential new systems, ways of thinking and behaviours. For this lecture, our ADA Module #3: Nature and Ecologies masterclass specialist Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, author of the book ‘Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts’, will share what she has learned from working on a shiitake farm and how her deep dive into the world of mycology has influenced the workings and language of the various exchange platforms that she has founded and directed, including the Future Materials Bank and the Green Art Lab Alliance.

Artistic Directors Academy Masterclass #2 and Public Lecture: Queer Labour by Fadescha
2024-08-09 - 2024-08-17
Work towards a manifesto for a future rooted in empathy and inclusivity. Artistic Directors Academy (ADA) Masterclass #2: Queer Labour by Fadescha awaits all artists and cultural changemakers, from 9 to 17 August. Join the free Public Lecture on Wednesday, 14 August! Sign up here for either, or both programmes.
Eligible for SkillsFuture credit, the 10-session Masterclass by Fadescha recognises and celebrates Queer Labour, the labour of surviving the everyday. Participants will confront neoliberal values of isolation and self-abandonment, and engage with artworks, diverse texts, and sessions of embodied practice, to focus on the voices and lived-experiences of the structurally marginalised communities.
The public lecture on Wednesday, 14 August, at 7.30 PM will delve into Fadescha’s ‘Qworkaholics Anonymous’—a project reimagining de-addiction programmes to honour the survival efforts of marginalised individuals.
Vidisha-Fadescha (they/them) is an artist, curator and cultural critic. Holding their lived experience of a radical gender, caste, race and disability, Fadescha suggests centering one’s own body and desire towards liberation. Their artistic work includes video, sound installations, text, and performance. They direct collective practices as a norm-critical pedagogy to queer hegemony. Fadescha’s works have garnered attention in leading arts and cultural publications.
Artistic Directors Academy (ADA), led by T:>Works Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen, is a research laboratory to develop Artistic Directors, harnessing international cultural innovators to helm Masterclass modules, as well as individual mentoring to sharpen and intensify skillsets.
For more information, visit tworksasia.org/ada or contact us at ada@tworksasia.org.

Don't fret. Just write. Playwriting Workshop by Chong Tze Chien
2023-06-24 15:00 - 17:30
Chong Tze Chien invites emerging and new writers, and anyone interested in scriptwriting as a medium, to attend this 2.5-hour workshop. Aptly titled Don’t fret. Just write., it encourages playfulness with the craft of writing. Tze Chien shares strategies to fire the imagination and create space for writing flow – a space and time where the subconscious connects with the conscious state. If you think you have a story to tell and need an entry point to begin writing, then this workshop is just the starter for you.
Don’t fret, Just write.
by Chong Tze Chien
Date: Saturday, 24 Jun, 3pm – 5.30pm
Venue: 72-13
Registration fee: $30
For more details and to register, head to bit.ly/playwriting-workshop2023
Participants of this year’s edition of the 24-hour Playwriting Competition will be entitled to 50% off T:>Works’ annual writing workshop. Competition runs from 15-16 July, register through bit.ly/24hpwc-2023

PerForm Discursive Programme: A World of Lines: From Third World Solidarities to Postsocialist Globalism
2022-08-13 10:00 - 17:30
PerForm returns with a one-day discursive programme by PerForm fellow Ho Rui An titled A World of Lines: From Third World Solidarities to Postsocialist Globalism. Through a series of presentations, workshops and focused conversations, invited speakers working across the fields of artistic, curatorial and historical research will facilitate a collective process of thinking through the shifting geopolitical imaginaries within what was known as the Third World in the years leading to the foreclosure of socialism as a mass political project. Through its source-based and open-ended format, the programme will allow participants to reflect on the ongoing intensification of unresolved Cold War-era tensions, resurgent ethnonationalisms and widening socioeconomic inequalities that have come to disrupt the lines of labour, technology and capital in the prevailing global order.
