Flowers from my Bloodline

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE

Therianthropy, the mythological ability of humans to metamorphose into other animals through shapeshifting, has marked myth and folklore across cultures and times, remaining one of the most common tropes in magical and otherworldly narratives. From concepts of the demonised and desired body, gender-based archetypes, and mythmaking, this lecture-performance invokes family histories and revokes the lineages of colonisation in Southeast Asia. The event unfolds through the layering of personal memory, collective history, and fragments of ancestral and indigenous knowledge on healing and killing. Remembering the rites of the Wolf Spider and the Harimau Jadian (Were-Tiger) and exploring their multiple translations and adaptations, the performance looks at intergenerational and cross-cultural exchange through storytelling, rituals, gestures, and embodied movement.  

This programme takes place on the occasion of Art After Dark Gillman Barracks 5th Anniversary Celebrations at NTU CCA in Singapore and in conjunction with the Gosth and Spectres – Shadows of Histories exhibition on 22 Sep 2017

Credits
Lecture Performance by artist Zarina Muhammad (Singapore) in collaboration with choreographer Stefania Rossetti (Italy/France/Indonesia), featuring Vivian Wang (Singapore), artist Eric Lee (Malaysia), and sound artist Tini Aliman (Singapore)