FUSE#2

SCOPE #3
Notes on ‘There is
Speficifisfety’
by Lee Ren Xin
Briefly, before coming to Singapore for SCOPE#3 at Dance Nucleus:
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Meeting Mun for the first time since our show Where’s The Speficifisfety in
July 2017: Our two bodies in present time encountering the two past
bodies in 2017 (in the videos). Us now encountering us then.
How to collaborate with Mun?
Photo from Lee Ren Xin
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Since so much is about that present time, present space, present energy,
present history, presence, I sometimes have doubts about if I am conflating
all things or motivation into an instant performance/composition (different
from improvisation). And if so, what then are the two of us doing, spending
hours together each day over a month? What (other) ways could we work
in? What are we working on, when we work? And so, what is that work that
will be performed on 28-30 September at KOTAK @Five Arts Centre in KL?
It’s hard for me to orientate towards something if I’m in a place that’s open
to everything. There is no more motivation to make the next step, to
continue. Where’s the speficifisfety of this piece?
What is at stake? This is also the guiding line for me to make decisions
when performing.
I appreciate that Mun and I are coming together with differing
interests/inclination as we infer differently and also employ different
research trajectory, when faced with the same task or proposition.
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In an effort to break our habitual default responses and kinetic tendencies,
we practiced outside of our existing politics. Yet, in an effort to find
alternatives beyond distinct polarities, are we blanding unnecessarily? That
seek for alternative spaces may be a meaningful part in our working
process. But just because it was what we were interested in excavating, is
it necessarily the piece? Two years ago, I once wondered aloud in
rehearsal, could we meet at 50-50? What does it mean to meet at
mid-point, in terms of energy, timing, intention, pathway? Henceforth, there
began this jokingly-serious challenge for what we think is impossible i.e. to
meet equally. What is the work now, anyway?
Because of my habitual practice inclination to find hard-to-lock-down
spaces, I may be overlooking the richness of simple ways things are and
could be, too…to just acknowledge, and also allow space for such
polarities.
Our principles in life are not necessarily what is desired as content of the
piece.
Whose desire, anyway?
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