Esplanade Presents

Visual Arts

My Grandfather’s Road – Ten Year Series 2015–2025: Video Screenings

Bjorn Lee Varella, Gary Tang, Tan Cher Kian, Karen Tan and Loong Seng Onn (Singapore)

2 – 17 Aug 2025

View dates and time

(Intermission: None)

Jendela (Visual Arts Space)

Free
My Grandfather’s Road, Bjorn Lee Varella, 2015. Image courtesy of Cake.
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Synopsis

My Grandfather’s Road – Ten Year Series 2015–2025 traces the decade-long evolution of this project through its various forms. Complementing the showcase are a series of video screenings from the archival recordings of the different stagings of My Grandfather’s Road from 2015 to 2019.

 

My Grandfather’s Road (2015)
Cast: Bjorn Lee Varella
Date & Time: 2 Aug, Sat, 3pm & 4pm.
Language: English
Duration: 30mins

 

The Vault: My Grandfather’s Road (2017)
Cast: Gary Tang & Tan Cher Kian
Date & Time: 3 Aug, Sun, 3pm 
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English
Duration: 76mins

 

My Grandfather’s Road (2018)
Date & Time: 9 Aug, Sat, 3pm 
Cast: Karen Tan
Language: English
Duration: 68mins

 

My Grandfather’s Road (2018)
Date & Time: 10 Aug, Sun, 3pm 
Cast: Gary Tang & Tan Cher Kian
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English
Duration: 62mins

 

My Grandfather’s Road (Rabbit Heart, Dragon Soul) (2019)
Date & Time: 16 Aug, Sat, 3pm 
Cast: Karen Tan & Loong Seng Onn
Language: English
Duration: 73mins

 

My Grandfather’s Road (Rabbit Heart, Dragon Soul) (2019)
Date & Time: 17 Aug, Sun, 3pm 
Cast: Gary Tang & Tan Cher Kian
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English
Duration: 60mins

Language: English, Cantonese
Things to Note:
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Artist Information

Neo Kim Seng

Neo Kim Seng (b.1964) is a cross-disciplinary practitioner who has been involved in independent and large-scale projects in Singapore and overseas since 1987. He has also created his own works in visual arts and theatre. He works with history and its multiplicities, exploring how the same story can be reinterpreted in different and alternate ways. 

Date & Time

2 Aug 2025, Sat

3pm

Jendela (Visual Arts Space)

My Grandfather’s Road (2015) 

4pm

Jendela (Visual Arts Space)

My Grandfather’s Road (2015) 

3 Aug 2025, Sun

3pm

Jendela (Visual Arts Space)

The Vault: My Grandfather’s Road (2017)

9 Aug 2025, Sat

3pm

Jendela (Visual Arts Space)

My Grandfather’s Road (2018) 

10 Aug 2025, Sun

3pm

Jendela (Visual Arts Space)

My Grandfather’s Road (2018) 

16 Aug 2025, Sat

3pm

Jendela (Visual Arts Space)

My Grandfather’s Road (Rabbit Heart, Dragon Soul) (2019) 

17 Aug 2025, Sun

3pm

Jendela (Visual Arts Space)

My Grandfather’s Road (Rabbit Heart, Dragon Soul) (2019) 

My Grandfather’s Road – Ten Year Series 2015–2025

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