Jason Wee 黃漢冲

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, 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。

這是一件將詩歌朗誦、合唱音樂、戲劇表演及 紡織品並存在一起的裝置作品，也是一件在 製作中的歌劇。從音箱中傳來的人聲合唱還原了 藝術家2020年在新加坡雙年展上的劇場表演， 公眾很難通過合唱聲聽懂完整的內容，「得到」 所有歌詞的方法是從巨大的織物裝置中讀取。 作品令觀眾思考集體聲音到底意味着同質性或 是權威。作品劇本源自黃漢冲創作的科幻長篇 詩歌《近快，未來》（2021），以俳句段落想像 獨裁主義和氣候災難之後的亞洲群島，我們應該 如何擺脫更具破壞性的權力爭奪和循環？

52 53— 1979 年生於新加坡；現生活並工作於新加坡及紐約。 Born in 1979 in Singapore. Lives and works in Singapore and New York City.