Sekali Lagi! (2020)

Sekali Lagi! takes Chua Mia Tee’s iconic painting National Language Class (1959) as a starting point, drawing on its image of a group of students of various ethnicities learning Malay, the newly-designated national language after Singapore attained self-governance. The performance articulates the pain and long-lasting effects of imperialism through historical texts, original spoken word pieces and songs. The performances’ collaborators are intentionally women and individuals from ethnic minority communities who do not conform to colonial ideas of gender.

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Sekali Lagi! (2020) performance collaborators:

Sophia Dominguez, Tysha Khan, Nabilah Abby and Sandhya Pillai