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YAM AT SAM
YAM AT SAM is a programming collaboration between Singapore Art Museum and artists Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen of the artist-run analogue film lab Film Nerve. The collective will present a series of live performances, hands-on workshops and regional screenings focused on analogue photochemical experimentation and expanded cinema.
The project takes the taro (yam) plant as a central thematic motif, drawing parallels between the physical medium of analogue film and plant growth—both being slow, organic processes shaped by light, time and collective labour. Embracing an incubation model, the series emphasizes open experimentation, shared artistic labour and community-constructed knowledge.
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Performance & Post-Performance Discussion
Performance & Post-Performance Discussion
Date: Sat, 22 Aug
Time: 3pm - 5.30pm
Venue: Level 3, Gallery 3 and The Main Deck
Free, by registration (General admission fees to exhibition apply)
Experience the intersection of labour, time, and architecture in this durational performance by Sigma Contemporary Dance, presented in dialogue with Maria Taniguchi: Afterimage. Inhabiting the gallery as a living workforce, seven dancers respond to the exhibition’s rhythmic pulse through cycles of construction and dispersal. Designed for fluid engagement, the work invites visitors to encounter this unfolding process at any moment and become part of the labour.
Following the performance, join us for an informal sharing by choreographer Hong Guofeng in exploring the physical demands of translating Maria Taniguchi’s meticulous brick paintings into a living, durational workforce.
About the Choreographer
Guofeng Hong is an independent artist and Artistic Director of Sigma Contemporary Dance and SMU Indancity. Since Sigma’s inception, he has shaped its distinct identity within Singapore’s dance landscape through a choreographic approach that extends beyond conventional stages.
His artistic practice centres on improvisation, experimentation, and the accumulation of structure over time, often engaging the body as a site of negotiation, memory, and presence. Working across stage, site-specific, and digital contexts, he explores how movement can emerge through constraint, persistence, and subtle shifts in attention, creating works that are immersive, durational, and attentive to the relationships between performers, space, and audience.
Image courtesy of Sigma Contemporary Dance.
Performance
Performance
Date: Sat, 29 Aug
Time: 3pm - 4pm
Venue: Level 3, Gallery 3
Free, by registration (General admission fees to exhibition apply)
Experience the intersection of labour, time, and architecture in this durational performance by Sigma Contemporary Dance, presented in dialogue with Maria Taniguchi: Afterimage. Inhabiting the gallery as a living workforce, eight dancers respond to the exhibition’s rhythmic pulse through cycles of construction and dispersal. Designed for fluid engagement, the work invites visitors to encounter this unfolding process at any moment and become part of the labour.
About the Choreographer
Guofeng Hong is an independent artist and Artistic Director of Sigma Contemporary Dance and SMU Indancity. Since Sigma’s inception, he has shaped its distinct identity within Singapore’s dance landscape through a choreographic approach that extends beyond conventional stages.
His artistic practice centres on improvisation, experimentation, and the accumulation of structure over time, often engaging the body as a site of negotiation, memory, and presence. Working across stage, site-specific, and digital contexts, he explores how movement can emerge through constraint, persistence, and subtle shifts in attention, creating works that are immersive, durational, and attentive to the relationships between performers, space, and audience.
Image courtesy of Sigma Contemporary Dance.