From Nothing to Rumblings to Everything

Weiying is a theatre artist whose work explores transformations of spaces through movement. Her experiences include performing, directing and education. She is currently a teaching artist at Chowk Productions, engaging in an ongoing conversation between training in odissi and her own butoh practice.

Rudi Osman is an improv electric guitarist and composer from the Singapore heavy music scene, where he emerged in 2003 as a founding member of post-hardcore stalwarts A Vacant Affair, who toured the region and released their debut album Reasons To Leave with Universal Music in 2008. As a solo instrumental act, Rudi combines elements of ambient, glitch and post-rock with a deep interest in meditation to carve tones of dissonance, noise, stillness, rest and contemplation. His solo concert debut blue. (2022) documents his journey through a deafeningly quiet depression together with movement artist Sonia Kwek. His first foray into the sound art space was in 2021, with butoh practitioner XUE for Drifters (2021) a fiery, post-apocalyptic piece slathered in distortion.

Sonia Kwek is an artist working with and through performance, movement and the body im/material. Her work centres around themes of embodiment, eroticism and myth, often exploring corporeal sensualities, deconstructing archetypes and delving into the latent unseen. Informed by her background in intercultural theatre and butoh practice, she creates through transdisciplinary experimentation, collaboration and improvisation. Sonia performs, dramaturges, directs, choreographs and facilitates in projects spanning mediums and spaces, such as museum activations, short films, performance lectures, site-responsive happenings, intimate participatory experiences, immersive installations, and nightlife gigs. Sonia seeks to centre the expression and evocation of the personal, visceral and poetic.

Faith is honoured to have worked on numerous theatre and dance productions in Singapore as a lighting designer. In September 2017, she co-founded 微 Wei Collective with theatre practitioner Neo Hai Bin. She explores giving breath to spaces, objects and bodies with light.

She trained at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in Lighting Design (2016), under the National Arts Council Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate). She is currently an associate artist with The Necessary Stage.