Performative Response: Ikan Besar Skali

Hasyimah Harith is a Malay-Muslim female artist that performs, choreographs and teaches Malay folk dance. Using her body as the starting point, Hasyimah works with the Malay traditions and eroticism as a way to reclaim agency over her body.

Her working methods involve strategies of boosting libido such as fantasy and intimacy. Her works hope to confront and overcome the conditioned shame and grief that is often attached to female eroticism.

Hasyimah is Company Manager of P7:1SMA (pronounced as Prisma), a dance company formed in 2016 that believes dance is a strategy, and Malay is a concept. She is a trained Visual Arts educator who specialises in teaching how to create and appreciate art. Since 2010, Hasyimah has been contributing as a Malay dance instructor and choreographer at Azpirasi. She is an Artist-facilitator in the Performing Arts Faculty at ART:DIS.

Hu Qiren (b. 1983, Singapore) is a visual artist working across photography, video, installation and performance. His practice synthesises cultural binaries and interrogates authenticity and belief through a vibrant personal vocabulary. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Queens Museum, Aperture Foundation and National Gallery Singapore. He has also participated in major festivals such as the Singapore International Photography Festival and ART SG. Qiren was the grand prize winner of the Harper’s BAZAAR Art Prize in 2016.