"SPEAK CRYPTIC'S THE TRIBE"
For the O.P.E.N. Festival's CLUB MALAM as part of Singapore International Festival of the Arts 2016
Old Kallang Airport, Singapore
Speak Cryptic’s response to Potentialities is a bold move of turning his drawings into live performance, a first for this visual artist who achieved recognition for his black-and-white graffiti of masked characters with long crooked fingers. Either solo or in groups, these characters depict Speak Cryptic’s response to living in a ‘multi’ world, where uniqueness is about making the different cultural influences that shape you, your own.
The Tribe is a performance created in celebration of that ethos – dialogue, diversity and personal ownership – created in collaboration with KayKay Nizam, Henrik Cheng, Sonia Kwek, Kimberly Chan, Syaiful Ariffin, Norisham Osman, Khalid Supandi and 100 public artists. Together they breathe life to 100 newly-drawn characters in a series of pop-up interactive ‘happenings’: installations of a mobile listening booth equipped with listening devices, an instant social media wall update, electrifying dances to Senyawa and NADA, an augmented reality treatment of Speak Cryptic’s original artworks by Eugene Soh, and much more.
Speak Cryptic’s The Tribe is an unapologetic acceptance of the awkward and the alternative, the invisible made visible.
For the O.P.E.N. Festival's CLUB MALAM as part of Singapore International Festival of the Arts 2016
Old Kallang Airport, Singapore
Speak Cryptic’s response to Potentialities is a bold move of turning his drawings into live performance, a first for this visual artist who achieved recognition for his black-and-white graffiti of masked characters with long crooked fingers. Either solo or in groups, these characters depict Speak Cryptic’s response to living in a ‘multi’ world, where uniqueness is about making the different cultural influences that shape you, your own.
The Tribe is a performance created in celebration of that ethos – dialogue, diversity and personal ownership – created in collaboration with KayKay Nizam, Henrik Cheng, Sonia Kwek, Kimberly Chan, Syaiful Ariffin, Norisham Osman, Khalid Supandi and 100 public artists. Together they breathe life to 100 newly-drawn characters in a series of pop-up interactive ‘happenings’: installations of a mobile listening booth equipped with listening devices, an instant social media wall update, electrifying dances to Senyawa and NADA, an augmented reality treatment of Speak Cryptic’s original artworks by Eugene Soh, and much more.
Speak Cryptic’s The Tribe is an unapologetic acceptance of the awkward and the alternative, the invisible made visible.
