Power Play

08/12/2020

Thank you The UrbanWire for this lovely writeup! 🧡 Have a read below~

An Organiser of Power Play 2020 shared why the show must go on, despite the challenges faced bringing the exhibits to life to a digital audience.

04/12/2020

We are happy to announce that the full 360-degree experience of our festival has been launched!

Check out the BETA 360° view of the festival's sites and programmes, fresh on www.powerplay.sg! 🧡

Developed in collaboration with our multimedia partners, Xctuality, Emoumie, and Mural Lingo!

01/12/2020

Thank you 島嶼城誌 Insular City Zine for the feature writeup! 🧡

Power Play 是個2020年才成立的實驗性表演藝術節，試圖從較為輕鬆的方式探索當代藝術語境中權力關係。…

08/11/2020

Thehomeground.asia
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Thank you THG for the amazing video coverage of Power Play! Visit www.powerplay.sg to see what we have installed for you! Featuring visual art exhibitions, film screening, performance art, artist talks and more! 🧡

Video credit: Thehomeground.asia
The Arts House at The Old Parliament 20 Depot

07/11/2020

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Presenting Scopeout: A micro-series about meaningful events in Singapore.

Our first episode is on the recently concluded digital festival - Power Play 2020: Invisible Lines. They featured a slew of local and international artists that incorporated themes of power, control, and inequality in their creations.

We offer our two cents of reflection on our experience at their exclusive media preview. The exhibits are still available digitally on powerplay.sg.

The Arts House at The Old Parliament 20 Depot

07/11/2020

Coming up next at 4pm SGT is Clementine Bedos 's Manifesting Shakti Workshop! Sign up now (if you haven't done so) to attend this exclusive online workshop via Zoom at https://manifesting-shakti.peatix.com/ 🧡

Ta**ra transformed South Asia’s major religions, and today elements of it can still be found across Asia’s diverse cultures. However, it remains largely misunderstood in the West, where it is usually equated with s*x. Ta**ra is a sacred philosophy which affirms all aspects of the material world as infused with divine feminine power : ‘shakti’. It validates the body and the sensual as a means of achieving liberation and generating power. It is based on non-dual thinking and as such is particularly relevant when approaching questions of representation regarding gender, s*xuality and identity.

For Power Play: Invisible Lines, I invite all to join a 2h30min workshop hosted on Zoom. In the first part of the workshop, we will focus on harnessing our Qi, circulating energy around the body through visualisation, movement and sound. The second part of this workshop will focus on manifesting this energy through mark-making. We will create a collective drawing of our energetic connection.

In preparation for this workshop, please ensure that you are in a safe space and make yourself extra comfortable. This can be through simple things eg preparing a cup of tea, light some candles, closing blinds/curtains, removing your socks or adding an extra layer…

Wear comfortable clothes in which you feel good about yourself. Make sure no one will disturb you during the session & that you have enough alone time after the session to integrate what came up.

Prepare some paper or a notebook & something to draw with~
The Arts House at The Old Parliament

07/11/2020

Join Kawita in her Body as Tools Workshop today at 2pm SGT! Sign up now (if you haven't done so) to attend this exclusive online workshop via Zoom at https://body-as-tools.peatix.com/ 🧡

Vatanajyankur's performance class (Mimicking Tools) will examine how she turns her body into a sculpture by using meditatative stages to transform her body and mind into emptiness. The audience will be invited to do a simple task as a practice for The Ice Shaver's performance.

1 hour Artist Talk on 'Mimicking Tools to represent Labour Work'

30 minutes Performance class (Kawita will examine how she turns her body into a sculpture, turning into an ice shaver) while the audience follows her methods.

Equipments:
Ice cubes
The Arts House at The Old Parliament

06/11/2020

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗢𝗥'𝗦 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗦
Live .sg IG live
Fri 6 Nov
1PM in LDN - 9PM in SG

𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨
⇢ 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

We all know the story of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴 by Hans Christian Andersen : a vain emperor is hoodwinked by two 'weavers' who claim being able to make a cloth invisible to those who are stupid or incompetent.

One after the other, the emperor and his ministers, fearful to lose the position they held, praised the magnificence of the cloth they could not see. When the emperor parades in his new clothes, the con seems to trick everybody whilst self-doubt and fear of humiliation is spreading like a virus through the crowd. Until a child says : 'But the Emperor has nothing at all on!'

The ability of some in the tale to see the invisible cloth points at the successful enchantment of the people by authorities. The regalia is acting as a veil of ignorance enveloping the people in a powerful charm.

By revisiting this famous folktale, Clémentine invites you to reconnect with your inner child. She will be guiding you through a ta***ic journey, into the depths of your imagination, to the source of your will power. Ta**ra comes from Sanskrit 𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘮 which literally means 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘮. It is about merging the mind, the body and the spirit, about being 'independent' or a person who is their own 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳. It is a sacred philosophy that teaches self-empowerment through transgression.

To go deeper, Clémentine is inviting you for a 2h30 workshop entitled ‘𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗞𝗧𝗜’. This will be hosted on Zoom on the 7th of November. In this workshop, we will explore how to harness Qi and will use mark-making to manifest our invisible connection.
The Arts House at The Old Parliament

06/11/2020

Happening today! Join Nicole Phua .pjj in her None Other Ness workshop at 7.30pm SGT! Sign up now (if you haven't already done so) to attend this exclusive online workshop via Zoom at https://none-other-ness.peatix.com/ 🧡

As an extension of None Other Ness performance piece (catch it on powerplay.sg link in bio), this workshop introduces the term Otherness and the ways of perception in society. The concept of acknowledging the many differences between people and self, and being able to comprehend it instead of creating this separation of different groups like race and gender. This workshop is an attempt to induce self reflection through three ways - being, seeing and understanding. Originally meant to be an interactive and performative workshop, now condensed into a 1-hour online interface through screens and objects from home. With the use of reflective objects easily found in a home, this simple performative activity of building a looking self through various views of the physical body seeks to help bring participants into perspective of issues of discrimination and the act of differentiation.
The Arts House at The Old Parliament

05/11/2020

Also launching this weekend on our digital festival! www.powerplay.sg 🧡

Power Play 2020: Invisible Lines, in partnership with London-based Truth to Power Café, is pleased to present a special 1-min video programme that invites anyone with an authentic story to tell to respond to the question ‘who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?’
Truth to Power Cafe

04/11/2020

Catch Clementine Bedo's performance again on our IG live (.sg) this Friday at 9pm SGT!

We all know the story of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' by Hans Christian Andersen: a vain emperor is hoodwinked by two 'weavers' who claim being able to make a cloth invisible to those who are stupid or incompetent. The emperor and his ministers, fearful to lose the position they held, praised the magnificence of the cloth they could not see. When the emperor parades in his new clothes, the con seems to trick everybody whilst self-doubt and fear of humiliation is spreading like a virus through the crowd. Until a child says: 'But the Emperor has nothing at all on!'

The ability of some in the tale to see the invisible cloth points at the successful enchantment of the people by authorities. The regalia is acting as a veil of ignorance enveloping the people in a powerful charm. By revisiting this famous folktale, Clémentine invites audiences to reconnect with your inner child through a ta***ic journey, into the depths of their imagination, to the source of their will power. Ta**ra comes from Sanskrit tantram which literally means 'loom'. It is about merging the mind, the body and the spirit, about being 'independent' or a person who is their own 'weaver'. It is a sacred philosophy that teaches self-empowerment through transgression.

The Arts House at The Old Parliament

04/11/2020

Join Clementine Bedos in her Manifesting Shakti Workshop this Saturday, 7 Nov at 4pm SGT! Sign up now (limited spaces) to attend this exclusive online workshop via Zoom at https://manifesting-shakti.peatix.com/ 🧡

Ta**ra transformed South Asia’s major religions, and today elements of it can still be found across Asia’s diverse cultures. However, it remains largely misunderstood in the West, where it is usually equated with s*x. Ta**ra is a sacred philosophy which affirms all aspects of the material world as infused with divine feminine power : ‘shakti’. It validates the body and the sensual as a means of achieving liberation and generating power. It is based on non-dual thinking and as such is particularly relevant when approaching questions of representation regarding gender, s*xuality and identity.

For Power Play: Invisible Lines, I invite all to join a 2h30min workshop hosted on Zoom. In the first part of the workshop, we will focus on harnessing our Qi, circulating energy around the body through visualisation, movement and sound. The second part of this workshop will focus on manifesting this energy through mark-making. We will create a collective drawing of our energetic connection.

In preparation for this workshop, please ensure that you are in a safe space and make yourself extra comfortable. This can be through simple things eg preparing a cup of tea, light some candles, closing blinds/curtains, removing your socks or adding an extra layer…

Wear comfortable clothes in which you feel good about yourself. Make sure no one will disturb you during the session & that you have enough alone time after the session to integrate what came up.

Prepare some paper or a notebook & something to draw with~
The Arts House at The Old Parliament