Watch the video documentary compiled by Pat Toh here.
Exquisite Monster, 2022
by Jo Ho, Thong Pei Qin, and Pat Toh
Interactive performance with various props and digital technology
Duration: 75 minutes
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Exquisite Monster was a reflexive, cross-disciplinary devising process that used themes of conception and femaleness inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The project by this Singaporean collective was a process-driven devising method that began with the artists’ reflection on their own practice as creators which then expanded to include the invited audience’s experiences. Jo, Pat, and Pei Qin were interested in the relationship between creator and creation across multiple and diverse perspectives.
By channeling bodies and digital technology as mediums for storytelling, the artists transformed 136 Goethe Lab into an incubation space to destabilize the notion that a singular body is a unitary model that excludes all others in its vision.
Exquisite Monster took the form of a mixed-format participatory presentation in an open studio encompassing elements of documentary-making, art performance, and interviews to expose the anatomy of making.
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Residency at 136 Goethe Institute
from 22 August to 16 October 2023Co-devisors, directors, performers, technologists:
Jo Ho, Thong Pei Qin, Pat TohVenue/Event manager:
Valerie-Ann TanSupported by:
Goethe Institute SingaporeCredit for images:
Marie Clare Khoo -
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