Pathways Through Grief: Creating Personal Recipes for Connection
What does it feel like to stay connected to those we love and have lost?
This workshop invites us to share our grief journeys through writing and creating a personal recipe for connection. Using a diverse range of art materials, we’ll explore our relationships with those we’ve lost and how we might carry these connections forward in our lives. This workshop will also be co-facilitated by three volunteer facilitators who themselves have experiences of losing loved ones to suicide.
This workshop is part of Care Index, an ongoing art project that seeks to understand care through dialogue, movement and collaborative practices.
Sign up: https://www.sos.org.sg/isos-loss-2024-beyond-words/
Organised by: Samaritans of Singapore Limited (SOS)
Artists Bios
Alecia Neo is an artist developing long-term projects involving collaboration with individuals and communities. Her socially engaged practice unfolds primarily through lens-based media, art installations and participatory artworks that address modes of radical hospitality and care. Care Index, her ongoing research which focuses on the indexing and transmission of embodied gestures and movements emerging from lived experiences of care, has been presented at the Singapore Art Museum, The Esplanade: Theatres by the Bay, The Listening Biennial, ArtScience Museum, Assembly for Permacircular Museums (ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe), New Season of Care (Asia-Art-Activism) and Presence of Mind (Gallery Lane Cove, NSW, Australia).
Ci Xuan (she/they) is a performance maker who explores the intersections of social advocacy and experimental arts through dialogic and collaborative processes. She is a graduate of ARTivate (Drama Box) Batch 3 and the co-founder of an art collective Matter.Less.
Her practice involves exploring themes of grief and intimacy through tender playfulness, finding fluidity in chaos while navigating ways to weave intricate care systems with communities that do not have access to healthcare systems. Her recent works include “Pillow and Garbage Fashion Studio” (3 Pumpkins), “Medusa Salon” (RAWGround), "How be Tender with Aluminium” (Transient Tribes).
Chng Yi Kai is a theatre artist who aspires to create socially-conscious theatre works that extends our capacities as humans and communities. A graduate from Yale-NUS College with a major in Anthropology, his foray into theatre began with joining the second cohort of Drama Box's youth wing ARTivate, after graduating from Singapore Polytechnic's Diploma in Applied Drama and Psychology.
His most recent creation is in directing Skies of Blue (Matter.Less), and developing Our Queer Utopia (Tokyo Festival of Arts Farm 2023), and writing and directing When cloud catches colours (Drama Box). Previously, he was also the Resident Artist at Drama Box, where he also wrote and directed With Time (Drama Box, Esplanade), and was Assistant Artistic Director for SCENES 2020 (Drama Box). As an actor, he has also performed in Essentially Macbeth (Cultural Extravaganza 2024), Between Interstices (Islands Time-Based Arts Festival 2023), Potty 爬地 (ZOBO Company, C42 Residency), Exit (Drama Box), Art Studio (Nine Years Theatre, SIFA 2017), and KNOTS (STRANGER).
