Resonates With Residency

ArunDitha is a Eurasian and South Asian diaspora poet and performing artist. ArunDitha works with poetry as constructed and deconstructed images. In both constructed and deconstructed contexts, the poems can take shape as text, sound and movement. Her work has been shared and performed widely in a variety of settings in Singapore and around the world, including TEDx Singapore, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore), the Barcelona International Poetry Festival, Wonderfruit (Thailand), Literarisches Colloquium Berlin and The Watermill Center (New York).

In her residency project entitled Rame-Rame, ArunDitha explores sound and movement montage as a way to address the liberation that lies in being part of the crowd, as well as the plurality of the identities which exist in our country. In the final presentation, Butoh dance and looped spoken word are woven together. It is only in this dissolution of one’s ethnic identity that we all become part of this Southeast Asian body of sound and song that, while fragmented, is also shared by all of us.

Dapheny Chen is an independent dance artist who is also a choreographer, educator and arts administrator. She approaches movement as a way of thinking, using choreography to explore attention, labour, precision and the impulses that move us. Often working with task-based structures and everyday objects, she is drawn to subtle transformations—shifts in energy, timing and state—that reveal the body’s ongoing negotiation with its environment.

She Isn’t Here is a dance-based project developed in response to San Minn’s 1979 painting Age of Full Bloom, which features a woman with her head replaced by a bouquet of roses. The work examines how beauty can operate as a form of control—used to mask, silence, or erase identity—particularly in Southeast Asian contexts where women are often expected to appear composed, graceful, and obedient. Rooted in experimentation and process, the work weaves together live movement, video, and sound to create a layered experience. .

Vick Low is a sound designer, cellist and electronic musician known for crafting immersive aural landscapes that traverse the boundaries of music, theatre and technology. He blends his classical training with experimental techniques to create works that are technically intricate and emotionally resonant. Low’s primary artistic focus lies in sound design for live performances, and he has designed sound and composed original music for many theatrical productions. His work is deeply influenced by the rhythms and resonances of everyday life, using sound to evoke memory, place and psychological space.

“时光” (shí guāng, which means "Time" in Chinese) is an immersive, multidisciplinary performance that reflects on the passage of time—not as a chronology, but as texture, breath, memory and motion. At its core, “时光” explores how time is felt—through the rhythms of routine, the fragments of memory, the erosion of places, and the shifting of light. This work blends live music, electronic sound design, movement, light and shadow, and abstract visuals to create a contemplative sensory journey.