Sarah Choo Jing
Dancing Without Touching, 2023
5-Channel Video Installation
Duration: 7 minutes
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Where the entertainment worlds were known for their crowds and the architecture built to accommodate hundreds or thousands of spectators for any given performance, this project explores a speculative and...
Where the entertainment worlds were known for their crowds and the architecture built to accommodate hundreds or thousands of spectators for any given performance, this project explores a speculative and intimate side to these realms of diversion. The Chinese opera performer, singer, cabaret girl, boxer, and jester are filmed in a series of non-narrative vignettes, shifting the viewer’s mode of surveillance as an audience member, voyeur, patron, or observer. These characters explore the spectrum of gender identities, from the extreme machismo of the male boxer and the coquettish flirtation of the cabaret girl to the alternately empowered and defeated male singer and the androgyny of the opera performer and the jester.
Read Full Curatorial Essay: On the other side of the glass: Sarah Choo Jing’s Dancing Without Touching by Dr. Karin G. Oen
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Dancing Without Touching, 7 January - 12 March 2023, Yeo Workshop, SingaporeLiterature
Oen, Karin. "On the other side of the glass: Sarah Choo Jing’s Dancing Without Touching", Yeo Workshop, 27 December 2022, https://www.yeoworkshop.com/viewing-room/24-on-the-other-side-of-the-glass-sarah-text-by-dr.-karin-g.-oen/"Dancing Without Touching rethinks entertainment from 20th-century Singapore." Plural Art Mag, 22 February 2023, https://pluralartmag.com/2023/02/22/dancing-without-touching/?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-pluralartmag&utm_content=later-33195251&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio
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