Performance Open Call 2010 – RE:gina is Dead!

For Performance Open Call 2010, The Substation has selected RE:gina is Dead! by Melissa Quek, Elizabeth de Roza and Gilles Massot to be presented at The Substation Theatre.

A dark Theatre. Rustling sounds set the nerves on edge. In the blackness shapes are barely visible, but it feels like paper is everywhere. Somewhere a chalk outline.

Is that Regina? Why is she dead?

That’s up to you to decide in this interactive performance that defies categorisation. Part Installation part performance, the more you act, the more you’ll see.

Thumbprints, artifacts and bodies – images and symbols that point to one thing. You decipher the clues.

Dates: 16, 17, 18 September 2010
Time: 7pm to 7:45pm (First Session), 8:15pm to 9pm (Second Session), 9:30pm to 10:15pm (Third Session)
Matinee on 18 September 2010: 3pm to 3.45pm (First Session), 4.15pm to 5pm (Second Session)
Price: $10 (concession) $15
Maximum: 15 people per session

To get/reserve the tickets, call the Box Office at 6337 7800 (weekdays only from 12pm to 7pm) or email: mishaal@substation.org

About Performance Open Call 2010

The Open Call programme was first initiated in 2008 as a visual arts platform to support and realise critical and rigorous visual arts proposals. The new Performance Open Call expands upon the current focus of the programme by inviting artists to submit proposals with a strong performance element.

About the Artists

Melissa Quek

After graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Melissa performed with the Ad Deum Contemporary Dance Company in Houston, Texas. Dancing in Kuik Swee Boon’s Silence, she represented Singapore at the 8^th Asian Arts Festival in Beijing and recently performed in the SIDance Festival in Seoul. Melissa has choreographed and produced a number of full length works including No Strings Attached, a 2009 M1 Fringe Festival Commission. Melissa is currently Programme Coordinator for LASALLE College of the Arts, School of Dance, and writes dance reviews for the Business times.

Elizabeth de Roza

Elizabeth de Roza specializes in movement-based performances, drawing from traditional Asian theatrical training/performing methods and contemporary practices. Over the last three years, she has been invited to present her solo works and working methodology at four major International Magdalena Theatre Festivals; Rhode Island USA (2005), Singapore, (2006) Santa Clara, Cuba (2008), Transit – Odin, Denmark (2009). She presented a performance installation exhibition, Un-written in Belgrade, Serbia in Real Presence 2008 and attended and presented a performance cum lecture, The Karang Guni Man imagines Utopia at the 15^th Performance Studies International (2009) in Zagreb, Croatia. Elizabeth is currently working in LASALLE college of the arts as the Programme Co-ordinator & lecturer for the BA (Hons) Theatre Arts programme, and recently completed her Masters of Arts (Fine Arts) in 2008. Most Recently, she presented a paper on ‘Contemporary Theatre’, conducted an intensive 5 days performance workshop and presented a performance at Contemporary Theatre Festival in Myanmar, organized by Theatre of the disturbed & Alliance Frances.

Gilles Massot

Gilles Massot came to live in Singapore in 1981 after studying architecture and eventually graduating in photography. His work has been extensively published, and his approach to the art of travelling has resulted in many fine art exhibitions in France and South East Asia. Gilles’ work covers a wide range of styles, techniques and forms of expression, ranging from visual, to writing, to performing arts, to education, to event organiser. In 2007 he published his second book, “ Retro Specks Future Pixs: the Book”, which summarizes his thirty years of research on the theme of time, space and their relation to photography and painting. His first book “Bintan, Phoenix of the Malay Archipelago” was published in 2003. This venture into the fields of history and ethnology had a profound influence on his artistic work which has since then dealt with these topics as in the case of Valbelle, Myth or Fiction?, the title of his MA completed in 2006, or the piece The Space within the Space within the Space recently presented in the Singapore Art Museum for the exhibition Transport Asian. He currently lectures on photography at LASALLE, faculty of Fine Arts and photography history in ADM, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Brian O’Reilly

Brian O’Reilly works in the fields of painting, drawing, collage, sound & video installations, moving images/live cinema, electronic/noise music, and he is a contrabassist focusing on uncovering inaudible textures and acoustic micro-gestures through the integration of electronic treatments and extended playing techniques. Currently he is a lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts School of Contemporary Music in Singapore.

Koo Chia Meng

Chia Meng has made 2 short films previously, namely ‘Empty Heart’ and ‘Man in a Snow Globe’, which premiered at the Vancouver Singapore Film Festival 2009. He also produced video multimedia for theatre, including Nelson CHIA’s ‘LIV’ as part of the Singapore Arts Festival 2009, ‘Bondage (2009) by Drama Box, ‘The Lower Depths’ (2010) by Theatrestrays and ‘White Soliloquy’ (2010) by Toy Factory. Chia Meng’s graduating short film ‘HOT!’, from his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Filmmaking at NTU, premiered at the 6th Singapore Short Film Festival. He is currently exploring video workshops for youths, dance films and possibly, a new short film.