VECTOR#5: Psychogeographies

Pat Toh (Singapore, 1981) makes performances that unfold at the intersection of theatre, dance and the live arts. Her works often contemplate the effects, remnants and trauma of ideology and body politics drawing from fitness culture, sports regimes and training protocols. She works with the mechanics, functionality and processes within the corporeal in order to strip the performance of decorative elements reducing it to the plain act of physical labour. Her works have been performed in M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival (Singapore), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Liveworks Festival of Experimental Arts (Australia), Cross Festival (Italy), Seoul International Dance Festival (Korea), HDX Dance Exchange (Hong Kong), Machol Shalem Dance House Jerusalem (Israel), FMK International Dance Festival (Laos) and Want To Dance Festival (Taiwan). Pat Toh is an Associate Artist of Dance Nucleus.

Jenni Large is based in Lutruwita/Tasmania and works as a dancer, choreographer and teacher across so-called Australia. Driven by the personal, political and transformative forces of embodiment, Jenni’s work endeavors to subvert relational narratives and analyse socio-political themes that impact women. She has performed extensively across Australia and internationally with artists including Tasdance, Dancenorth, Legs On The Wall and GUTS Dance. Recent choreographic works have premiered at festivals and venues including Mona Foma, Ohm Festival, Dancehouse, Carriage Works and Brisbane Powerhouse. Recently, Jenni was honored to receive a Chloe Munro Fellowship and participate in Asia Link’s Singapore Arts Now exchange.

ashleyho+domeniknaue is a collection of limbs and hearts. They create transmedial performative encounters, playing across dance, poetry, music, and scenographic experiments.

The duo believes in performance as a social practice—a political, intimate process of transforming and being transformed. More than a consistent focus on specific thematics, their works propose a way of being with the world that confronts harshness through vulnerability and playfulness.

Their collaboration has been nurtured by friendship, as well as support from institutions such as Dansateliers, Dance Nucleus, and Over het IJ. ashleyho+domeniknaue are currently based in Amsterdam.

Transfield Studio comprises Tokyo-based artists, Rick Yamakawa and Yuko Takeda. Through a core question of "How can we be together?”, the duo explores how close we can get to the basic premise of a postmodern city, in which inhabitants live by sharing limited resources and negotiating living together as embodied experiences. Transfield Studio conducts in-depth fieldwork in the cities where they create their works. These often take the form of interactive Touring Performances that highlight the audience's experience of the city through their own bodies. Since 2018, Transfield Studio has conducted research and presented their works in Asian cities such as Phnom Penh, Manila, Vientiane, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Taipei and Singapore.

Pietro Marullo is an Italian artist based in Brussels, where he founded the INSIEME IRREALI Company, supported by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. His interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of visual and performing arts, installation and new technologies, deeply focused on social, historical and anthropological topics. His works have been presented in four continents, in important multidisciplinary platforms and festivals such as: Festival OrienteOccidente, Seoul International Dance Festival, José Limon Dance Festival, Danse Elargie/Théâtre de la Ville, Beijing Dance Festival and National Italian Dance Platform.