https://togathering.cargo.site To Gathering Fri, 12 Mar 2021 22:16:41 +0000 https://togathering.cargo.site en https://togathering.cargo.site/To-Gathering Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:02:02 +0000 To Gathering https://togathering.cargo.site/To-Gathering To Gathering To Gathering is an ongoing series of experimentations and research-workshops exploring acts of gathering and radical hospitality amidst conflict and disruption. This project explores questions that are integral to our interdisciplinary and collaborative practice. How do individuals come together to build a world? How do we work toward a common vision while embracing plurality? How do we exercise choice and agency, while allowing others to do the same? What role do consent, negotiation, faith, and surrender play in acts of collective decision making? We are interested in notions of co-creation and collaborative play, which are not only constructive but also restorative and even potentially transformative, seeking common ground and empathy through engaging deeply with our differences. Our To Gathering series comprises multiple explorations including&nbsp;The Making of a Meal,&nbsp;Worldbuilding, Laying the Table Bare, and On Your Terms. Brack is part of The Substation Associate Artist Program 2020-2021. Iterations: ︎The Making of a Meal ︎Worldbuilding︎Laying the Table Bare&nbsp;︎On Your Terms Information:︎The Team Behind︎Write Us︎Visit Us https://togathering.cargo.site/Mobile-Menu-Selection Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:16:40 +0000 To Gathering https://togathering.cargo.site/Mobile-Menu-Selection ︎Homepage Iterations ︎The Making of a Meal ︎Worldbuilding︎Laying the Table Bare ︎On Your Terms Information ︎The Team Behind︎Brack.sg︎Write Us Follow Us ︎︎ ︎︎ ︎︎ https://togathering.cargo.site/The-Team-Behind Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:18:23 +0000 To Gathering https://togathering.cargo.site/The-Team-Behind The Team Behind <img width="1478" height="832" width_o="1478" height_o="832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d9035d63a4a3500cdd2598bda70e7e210fd4db7c207a02362e45838c97e0279/Screenshot-2020-06-23-at-6.06.11-PM.png" data-mid="75430608" border="0" data-scale="55" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d9035d63a4a3500cdd2598bda70e7e210fd4db7c207a02362e45838c97e0279/Screenshot-2020-06-23-at-6.06.11-PM.png" /> Alecia Neo develops long-term projects that involve collaborative partnerships with individuals and communities. Her socially engaged practice unfolds primarily through photography, video, and participatory workshops that address modes of radical hospitality, reciprocity, caregiving, and wellbeing to explore issues of identity and the search for self. She is the co-founder of Brack, a platform for socially engaged art. <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c563d1d99c0ed3a4bd80f3da04487151cfcf5fc1ecbe6a192707510d6b600044/PHOTO-2020-04-26-21-07-56-2.jpg" data-mid="75430606" border="0" data-scale="34" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c563d1d99c0ed3a4bd80f3da04487151cfcf5fc1ecbe6a192707510d6b600044/PHOTO-2020-04-26-21-07-56-2.jpg" /> Kei Franklin loves exploring ‘togetherness’ through facilitation, performance, dialogue, and other forms of experimental co-learning. She is concerned with questions of power, identity, and justice, and collaborates with others to design interventions that reveal the systemic, cultural, and psychological roots of our current planetary moment. She grew up in a lively family (her first foundation of togetherness) in the mountains of New Mexico (USA) and has since called eSwatini and Singapore home. Kei is Editor-in-Chief of Brack. <img width="738" height="554" width_o="738" height_o="554" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/266efa0e4ecb8b549335fe431088ae156c78836d5334a942375edc048eda337c/Screenshot-2020-06-23-at-6.09.58-PM.png" data-mid="75430607" border="0" data-scale="45" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/738/i/266efa0e4ecb8b549335fe431088ae156c78836d5334a942375edc048eda337c/Screenshot-2020-06-23-at-6.09.58-PM.png" /> Jevon Chandra is an artist, sound designer, and cultural worker. Drawing inspiration from therapeutic and peer counselling approaches, his art practice estimates the (mis)translations that occur between thought, theory, and praxis, as sometimes seen in acts of caring, meaning-making, and holding faith. Iterations: ︎The Making of a Meal ︎Worldbuilding Information: ︎The Team Behind︎Write Us︎Visit Us https://togathering.cargo.site/To-Gathering-The-Making-of-a-Meal Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:50:10 +0000 To Gathering https://togathering.cargo.site/To-Gathering-The-Making-of-a-Meal To Gathering: The Making of a Meal Past sessions: 19 April 2020 30 May 2020 4 Nov 2020 Past participants: 1 Anthea Seah 2 Winifred Wong 3&nbsp;Jemima Yong 4&nbsp;Chong Gua Khee 5 Feroz Khan 6 Farhan Idris 7 Chelsea Chua 8&nbsp; Zam (Muhd. Muazzam Amanah) 9&nbsp;Sanjana Tadepalli 10&nbsp;Jill Tan 11&nbsp;Nicholas Yeo12&nbsp;Carolyn Oei13&nbsp;Hafiz Yusof14&nbsp;Diane15&nbsp;Xiaowei16&nbsp;Nicole It is a weekend evening during COVID-19 lockdown in Singapore. Guests are invited to share a meal over Zoom. We live-stream our cooking process, screens are windows into strangers’ lives. Guests ‘arrive’ and we put in our best efforts at hosting, negotiating the awkwardness of new intimacies, and inviting honest sharing across the two-dimensional medium. What spaces and resources were negotiated, what choices and sacrifices were made, in order to make this gathering possible? What is excluded from the frame? “I do not invite strangers into my home under normal circumstances, yet there I was, sharing the messy chaos of my kitchen with people I did not know [...] here was someone’s bedroom or living area or pet from which they derived comfort and rest; in turn I shared how my own space provided refuge [...] Under the rules of the circuit breaker, gathering meant interacting via a screen, where interacting via a screen meant others were able to look into my home as I looked into their own spaces, where boundaries of private and public became permeable, where we all needed to perform negotiations with the people we live with to achieve some form of harmony [...] I wonder what other intimacies might have been brokered if we continued to make and share meals together.” - Chelsea Chua"Brack's Making of a Meal was my first time attending a 'dinner party' on Zoom, and I was struck by how quickly and powerfully the format of the event allowed us all to connect. [...] I felt less like I was trying to recapture the feeling of in-person connection and more like I was being invited into something new: a gentler, more intimate way of gathering in a virtual medium, complete with storytelling and spontaneous dancing." – Feroz Khan “This virtual gathering was the first time I had cooked in the kitchen of my family home since returning from the U.S.; it felt surprisingly vulnerable to relearn the surfaces, constraints, and feel of this space in front of the seven other people I was cooking alongside. As we sat down to eat and talk, a mellow openness washed over this group of mostly strangers, and I felt very grateful to know what each person was sharing of themselves for this sliver of time.” - Jill Tan "I was reminded of the ritual of having dinner together with my family and the guilt that comes with not doing that, but being still in the same house as the rest of the family [...] We danced at the same time, but it didn't feel like we were dancing together [...] Where were we all looking? Were we always looking at everyone? Were we sometimes looking at one person? Were we ever looking at the same person?" – Jemima Yong “The act of cooking or heating food up wasn't stressful; it's something we do regularly. Neither was showing people around my flat. I entertain a lot. I love to have people over and all we do is sit around the dining table and talk. For hours. As much as I appreciated the enforced personal time as a result of the lockdown, I missed the physical company and conversation.”– Carolyn Oei“I remember very clearly my reflective thoughts [...] Things like ‘the unexpected space’ which got me to re-think why I had the wall of my children’s room done as such. [Then’ the ‘common shared item/space’ that I shared with my family [...] I mentioned the plate that I’m using. However, it goes beyond that. 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border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49a58f5a29f47b6e02f31dbb9b61acf486eb5b8be594796a212bfe5edc1f795f/2b65846d-b7c6-45fd-a0a1-5c2fbf646074.JPG" /> <img width="3520" height="1980" width_o="3520" height_o="1980" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/158dfc439ac362e49b20406e2a0d86fa4a1611063cbfd9075cac8db9714b423e/IMG_1506.JPG" data-mid="102388314" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/158dfc439ac362e49b20406e2a0d86fa4a1611063cbfd9075cac8db9714b423e/IMG_1506.JPG" /> https://togathering.cargo.site/To-Gathering-Worldbuilding Tue, 23 Jun 2020 06:38:19 +0000 To Gathering https://togathering.cargo.site/To-Gathering-Worldbuilding To Gathering: Worldbuilding We have built worlds with:&nbsp;National Gallery Singapore + Pangrok Sulap + Gudskul Yale-NUS College Bowen Secondary School In a series of experimental research workshops, we invite participants to collectively re-imagine and articulate what their ideal future world would look, smell, taste, sound, and feel like. In so doing, we critically examine and reflect upon processes of negotiation and decision-making (within the self, with ‘the other’, and within a group). “Around us, the soft sounds of waves dashing against a shore rise and ebb like the breaths of a planet. A voice invites us to contemplate a journey to the vast beyond, to build – with our words – a world close to home in spirit but much ahead in time. “What would,” the voice coaxes, “this future world look like?” What would you have this world be? Across the room another voice is quick to describe: “a dome.” From the opposite corner: “a luscious, verdant land.” Somewhere to my right: “a place where animals share the gift of our tongue.” Behind me: “somewhere that love is free, but consent is still needed.” Around us all, the sounds of a collective imagining for things yet to come.“ - Alfonse Chiu“My senses heightened and overloaded my mind with questions. Where was the next cue going to come from? Was it going to be a temperature change, a sound, or a texture? Was a touch accidental or intentional? Should I respond? What if I ran amok?” - Anthea Seah <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc3a335e6f3b68a66ed95e8dc4b2cb5f32c8b239384a5a36030e95afced28d29/20190818NGS150-2048x1365.jpg" data-mid="75413919" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc3a335e6f3b68a66ed95e8dc4b2cb5f32c8b239384a5a36030e95afced28d29/20190818NGS150-2048x1365.jpg" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82ce31e9bbafb01dd31c601a82660abc3bc89d2e329d9fb295f28dec7d86ed1f/20190818NGS153.jpg" data-mid="75414010" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82ce31e9bbafb01dd31c601a82660abc3bc89d2e329d9fb295f28dec7d86ed1f/20190818NGS153.jpg" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f6e99a8004201f14e683ca68940f3baa46b2cc5e6adfbd575cabe005f2f7391/20190818NGS223-1.jpg" data-mid="75414009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f6e99a8004201f14e683ca68940f3baa46b2cc5e6adfbd575cabe005f2f7391/20190818NGS223-1.jpg" /> https://togathering.cargo.site/To-Gathering-Laying-the-Table-Bare Fri, 12 Mar 2021 22:16:41 +0000 To Gathering https://togathering.cargo.site/To-Gathering-Laying-the-Table-Bare To Gathering: Laying the Table Bare Laying the Table Bare will be performed at Singapore International Festival of the Arts 2021.&nbsp;Join us on 21, 22, 28 &amp; 29 May 2021, Fridays and Saturdays, 12pm – 1.30pm. How is the impossibility of gathering in these exceptional times made manifest through the attempt of executing a simple act, the sharing of a meal? What lies within the host’s realm of control – and what lies beyond? Join us for a meal. Piled onto the plate in front of you are layered stories, layered labour, layered opportunities and constraints. Take a bite, what do you taste? Bite into the obscurity, chew on it. Laying the Table Bare is an opportunity for honest storytelling, a chance to lay the table bare.Laying the Table Bare comprises a series of facilitated digital gatherings on zoom and a durational installation-performance hosted at Warung Ijo, 337 Beach Rd, Singapore.&nbsp; <img width="1600" height="860" width_o="1600" height_o="860" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45624cb504695bc725e85386fe8b26a2b43625576c9ff385fd7c2ecc89fd2b69/2b65846d-b7c6-45fd-a0a1-5c2fbf646074.JPG" data-mid="101841148" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45624cb504695bc725e85386fe8b26a2b43625576c9ff385fd7c2ecc89fd2b69/2b65846d-b7c6-45fd-a0a1-5c2fbf646074.JPG" /> https://togathering.cargo.site/To-Gathering-On-Your-Terms Tue, 23 Jun 2020 03:25:18 +0000 To Gathering https://togathering.cargo.site/To-Gathering-On-Your-Terms To Gathering: On Your Terms On Your Terms (a work-in-progress) will comprise the final stage of the To Gathering series. On Your Terms examines and experiments with the act of hosting through a lens of power, agency, and inclusion. It comprises a series of gatherings, which are each curated and hosted by individuals who come from a range of backgrounds, and who inhabit various positionalities. The individuals take turns being hosts and guests, understanding how their own power, agency, and sense of inclusion shifts with their roles. Through On Your Terms, we deconstruct the act of hosting, providing a structure and method in which the host’s own agency and power can expand. We aim to develop a pedagogy of hosting, an evolving methodology to guide collaborations, through the lens of hosting. We will be experimenting with this evolving framework during the various gatherings as part of On Your Terms. The insights and reflections developed from this process will inform the creation of a research publication. On Your Terms is supported by Goethe-Institut Singapore.