A Song to Change the World

A collaboration with Berlin-based Singaporean artist Song-Ming Ang that began in 2017 with a series of creative strategies that indulged a mutual love of pop music whilst probing the cultural significance of the dilettante.

Under the banner A Song to Change the World, the project is an ongoing, open-ended performance of an impossible task: composing the one song that could change everything. It begins with a deceptively simple question — what would that song be? and spirals into a generative process that embraces futility, doubt, and earnest ambition.

Through workshops, lectures, residencies, and performances, public participants are invited to join in this quixotic mission, offering their voices, insights, and passions to the ever-evolving project.

Events:

Residency – Mar 2016, Festival of Live Art (FOLA), Arts House, Melbourne

Residency – Feb 2017, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore

Lecture – 14 Mar 2018, Festival of Live Art, Arts House, Melbourne

Workshop Series – March 2018, Brunswick, Melbourne, (FOLA)

Performance (with public participants) – 25 March 2018, FOLA, Arts House, Melbourne

Curated Exhibition & Video Installation – 2 Feb - 7 Apr 2018, Counterpoints to Truth, Art, Design and Media Gallery, NTU, Singapore

Exhibition: Truly Existing Imaginary Genres – Aug - Oct 2019, Video installation, Aichi Triennale, Nagono Station, Nagoya, Japan

Workshop Series - 6–13 Sept 2019, Spazio Rita, Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan

Lecture – 14 Sept 2019, Arts Centre Theatre, Aichi Triennale, Japan

Performance (with public participants) – Sat14 September 2019, Arts Centre Theatre, Aichi Triennale, Japan