Synopsis:

In Reading Room, four women working in Singapore's cultural landscape–dance artists Bernice Lee and Nirmala Seshadri and producers Fezhah Maznan and Mok Cui Yin–are invited to host private reading circles for family, friends and members of the public. Drawing on and from text(s) selected by the guest presenters, each session will aim to hold space and create entry points for how discourses and spaces of the domestic may be expanded–and its potential for transformative feminist praxis rooted in care and support.

Bernice Lee
Date: 10 Jun, Thu
Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Mok Cui Yin
Date: 24 Jun, Thu
Time: 8:30pm - 10:00pm

Nirmala Seshadri
Date: 26 Jun, Sat
Time: 8:00pm - 9:30pm

Reading Room is a programme under O, an interdisciplinary project initiated by artist Jereh Leung. The project aims to explore the performance of femininity within the spatial context of domesticity, and how it is mediated and influenced by East Asian media culture. O is inspired by the artist's childhood experiences and his baby-boomer mother, and invites the audience to ruminate on how our conception of domesticity and womanhood have shape-shifted across time and generations.