Sifa 2024: From beach opera to cave music, explore a post-human world at festival of arts

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Sifa 2024: From beach opera to cave music, explore a post-human world at festival of arts
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The Singapore International Festival of Arts runs from May 17 to June 2.

Refuge by The Observatory will take place on May 31 and June 1 during the Singapore International Festival of Arts

The festival – which runs from May 17 to June 2 – features five commissions, seven international presentations and 10 home-grown theatre groups showcasing works-in-process over two weekends as part of the programme Tomorrow And Tomorrow. “Our eyes were open, but we couldn’t see anything,” recalls the musician, who says in a Zoom interview with The Straits Times that he is at a loss for words to describe his encounter with this sensory deprivation. “Once that happened, I could hear minute details of small sounds.”Cultural Medallion recipient Haresh Sharma and Young Artist Award recipient Chong Tze Chien are collaborating on festival commission The Prose And The Passion.

What voices will humans leave behind in a post-apocalyptic world? Music producer Safuan Johari has assembled an unorthodox quartet of vocalists to speculate on this futuristic world without humans. “Even in painting, in the last few years, there are certain kinds of vocabulary that I use to describe my painting that conventionally painters wouldn’t use, like cropping, zooming in and zooming out,” says Chua, who primarily works with painting and abstraction.

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