Talk/Workshop, Festival, Zabbalang

Sultan Ibrahim

Organised by: Singapore International Festival of Arts
Performed by: Lantian Xie
  • Date:
    7 Jul 2017
  • Time:
    8:00pm
  • Duration:
    1h, no intermission
  • Venue:
    The Arts House, Chamber, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore 179429
    The Arts House, Chamber, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore 179429The Arts House, Chamber, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore 179429
  • Admission:
    Admission with O.P.E.N. Pass
    Limited single entry tickets available at the door

    Ticket Information:
    Please note that one O.P.E.N. Pass is limited to registration for the following:
    Up to 6 O.P.E.N. Films
    Up to 1 O.P.E.N. Kitchens session

    O.P.E.N. Pass: $45 (for all programmes)
    (one entry per O.P.E.N. Pass to O.P.E.N. Kitchens; up to 6 films per O.P.E.N. Pass)

    O.P.E.N. Concession Pass: $25 (no further discount)

    Single Entry Ticket: $10 (no further discount; limited availability for selected shows at the door)

    Due to limited capacities, registration for all programmes at The O.P.E.N. is required.

Synopsis:

In this lecture, Lantian Xie speaks about precarity, temporariness, and mortality in the Arab Gulf.

Pulling variously from fiction, song, essay and film, Xie shapes an itinerary for places in which people have no more need for belonging and no want for assembly into land or country or fully-formed bodies.

Instead, these people go about their daily lives all the same, with elbows and knees scattered across many gulfs, islands and peninsulas. Ears are listening nonetheless. Toes are tapping. Teeth are biting. And tongues are busy shaping words borrowed from other tongues.

Xie is an artist from Dubai who makes images, objects, stories and situations. Previous works include a taxidermy peacock, an ashtray stolen from an artist's studio, a collection of romance novels from a used book store, colour pencil drawings of bygone hotels and home delivery motorcycles parked outside. He holds an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and is editor-at-large at Dubai-based publishing practice The State.

Sultan Ibrahim


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