This opera in the making combines poetry reading, chorus, theatrical performance, and textiles into one installation. The chorus from the speaker recreates the artist’s performance at the 2020 Singapore Biennale. However, the audience would be hard-pressed to grasp the complete script of the performance from the chorus itself, so the way to ‘get’ all the lyrics is to read them from the monumental textile installation. The experience spurs the inquisition into the signification of the collective voice, whether it is synonym to homogeneity,
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and if it resembles authority. The libretto originates from Jason Wee’s long-form science-fiction poem In Short, Future Now (2021), composed of paragraphs of haikus, that posits the ways one can break free from the vicious cycle of power struggle set against a backdrop of postauthoritarian and post-climate-disaster Asian islands. Quora Fora: A Rehearsal, 2020. Performance, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Yavuz Gallery. 《 Quora Fora：一次排演》，2020 年。表演，尺寸可變。由藝術家及 Yavuz Gallery 提供。
WEE 黃
CURTAIN 簾 幕
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