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There Is Speficifisfety
- The Work As Scribed Text.
by Lee Mun Wai
Throughout the work, the various modes of inhabiting
between Ren Xin and I allowed the audience to have varying
degrees of concentration and viewing. Because of these
varying degrees, everything in the performance space
became visible. Our performance created a keen sense of
attention not only towards Ren Xin and I, but to the entire
space as well. Sometimes, when the encounter between
Ren Xin and I became too tedious or boring to watch, the
audience’s gaze and attention would shift towards other
things or people in the room. Also because, with such a high
level of attention in the space, a small shift in any part of the
space - be it an audience member sweeping one’s hair, or a
sudden flicker of a fluorescent light tune - would cause
people to divert their attention to that shift momentarily. I
quite like this idea: that the encounter between Ren Xin and I
was not the only thing to be looked at in this performance.
Our encounter could also serve as a thing or a gesture to
make other aspects of the space, or other people, visible to
the audience. Yes, at times, Ren Xin and I were undoubtedly
the ones being watched, but there were also a lot of
instances where we were acting as conduits to redirect the
audience’s gaze and attention to the rest of the space.
About
Lee Mun Wai
Lee Mun Wai is an independent dance artist from
Singapore. He has been spending the past 3 years
performing in and creating works that try to speak
about performance and choreography in a much more
expanded sense.
Prior to becoming an independent dance artist, he was
one of the founding members of the Singapore- based
T.H.E Dance Company (2008 – 2015). With the
company, he has performed extensively in festivals
such as Les Hivernales in Avignon, France, as well as
the Oriente Occidente festival in Rovereto, Italy. He has
also performed in China, South Korea, Poland, India,
Indonesia and Malaysia. In 2014, he received the Young
Artist Award from the National Arts Council of
Singapore.
He is currently pursuing his Masters in Choreography
and Performance at the Institut für Angewandte
Theaterwissenschaft in Giessen, Germany. In March
2018, he performed in Claudia Bosse’s Last Ideal
Paradise at Tanzplatform In Deutschland 2018.
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