Performance: Feeling backwards, across tongues

The first performance by Nguyễn + Transitory is based on collecting and engaging with music that was listened to by migrant workers arriving in Singapore across history. Tracing one of the narrative threads of Charmaine Poh’s central video work "The Moon is Wet," the performance sounds the sonic residue of a dislocated past - where listening becomes a method for collective reconstitution, and sound a fugitive site of transmission.


Nguyễn + Transitory create visceral performance and sculptural sound-rooted works that embody collectivity, intimacy, and modes of relationality that refuse fixed forms. Their practice draws from traditional folk practices, queering technologies, and matriarchal imaginaries across Asia and its diasporas.


They are joined by Audrey Chen whose work has also long dealt with displacement calling upon the physical body to remember beyond the limitations of its own memory, beyond its lifetime into generations past, simultaneously echoing into the present and forwards.


The performance will begin within the exhibition Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take. It will then continue throughout the PalaisPopulaire building. This marks the launch of the performance series "feeling backwards, across tongues." The next event is scheduled for October 23, 2025.