Before and After the Unknown

Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen

17 January 2025 to 26 January 2025

11am - 7pm

Free admission

Lewin Terrace, Fort Canning Park

Synopsis

Before and After the Unknown is a multimedia exhibition by Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen, set within a speculative fiction universe of Temasek island in the 11th century.

Our existence is an island in time, always before and after the unknown. What selves might we find, in the performance of a fictive past?

Past, present and future collide in a fantasy of materialities and histories. Between expanded cinema, a video game and sculptural fictions, the exhibition presents pieces of a deconstructed myth. It draws from the lost fragments of the land’s early history - their traces in both the bodily and the botanical - and the unknown possibilities of our future trajectories.

Participating artists/curators:

Mark Chua, Artist, Singaporean

Lam Li Shuen, Artist, Singaporean

Wendy Lie - producer

Quek See Yee - exhibition designer

Chen Chin Jieh - game designer

Yazid Jalil - actor

Ruby Jayaseelan - actor

Hasyimah Harith (P7:1SMA) - actor

Norhaizad Adam (P7:1SMA) - actor

Lim Chin Huat - actor

Sanat Mehta - actor
Rizman Putra - actor
Irfan Kasban - costume designer
June Goh (The Artists Inc.) - special effects and makeup artist
Yvonne Yeo (The Artists Inc.) - special effects and makeup artistJean Ferry and Quek See Yee - set and production design
Lincoln Yeo - cinematographer
Clyde Kam - camera assistant
Dan Song - gaffer
Cheng Lijie - production sound mixer
Chia Jenn Hui - production sound mixer

Public programmes:

Artist-Led Tour, 18 January 2025 and 25 January 2025, 3pm, Fort Canning Park

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