Decimal Points First Station
27 - 28 September 2013
The Substation
Artists
Brian Gothong Tan
David Lee
Philip Tan
Rizman Putra
Nizam Supardi / Neon Tights
Decimal Points: First Station is an immersive art event that rallies together the first four creators of Cake’s Decimal Points series to create a whole new artistic experience. It covers the grounds of The Substation and celebrates unadulterated, unconventional and unexpected possibility in performance.
A singular Art Performance
over two years
four experiments
countless trials and errors
Sypnosis
"If Cake Theatrical Productions were a number, it would be pi. It is a number both irrational and transcendental, and the randomness of its digits never end. This is especially true of Decimal Points: First Station, an experiential and experimental quintet of installation and performance works scattered across the various floors and rooms of The Substation.
... First Station is a celebration of trials and errors, of the paths less taken on the stage. And it has produced a bumper crop of daring experiments and collaborations that otherwise may never come into being. You may not always get the piece of pie you expect, but somehow, Cake's bold flavours always tickle the palate." The Straits Times Life!
Presented by Cake Theatrical Productions in partnership with The Substation and curated by Natalie Hennedige, Decimal Points is a series of art experiments that fuel artistic creation through process and exploration. Over the course of two years (2011 — 2012), four artistic experiments are made, each helmed by an individual artist — Brian Gothong Tan, David Lee, Philip Tan and Rizman Putra. Each artist is encouraged to create from a personal place, finding entry points via the varying disciplines of film, dance, visual art, sound and performance art. In the third year, all four artists bring forth a new work inspired and enriched by a two-year span of research, exploration and creation.
Programme
4.44 v2
Brian Gothong Tan
Theatre
Karen Tan & Jo Kukuthas in the house
A timer tells them when to start
and when to stop
being entertaining
being philosophical
being absurd
being everything in-between
after forty minutes the time is up
Thank you Cinema
Thank you Facebook
Thank you YouTube
Thank you Guidebooks
for all the information
that we can take
and make
In Search of Sunshine in the Folds of a Clutter
Rizman Putra
Theatre
Rizman Putra in the house
Zul Mahmod in the house
making sound
charge and rage
making body
charge and rage
gadgets and gizmos in the house
sad abandon
man machine
face
each another
bend break
tragic grace
heart soul
in search of
something
whatchamacallit
Serendipity
Philip Tan
Classrooms 1 & 2
Sean Tobin & Edith Podesta in the house
upstairs house
separated by a wall
and door
half here
half there
warps the act of listening
and perceiving
entirely
but
the couple
indissolubly linked
by a dead child
no longer speak
in ways
normality
understands
you understand
the surreal turn
their lives have taken
and try
to listen
and understand
See You Real Soon
David Lee
Random Room
David Lee in the house
In a room actually
small room
for a duration
long duration actually
hoping to meet you
one-on-one
to have a chat in thirty minutes
and make an art work in thirty minutes
about you
for you
you pass him something that belongs to you
a conversation ensues
In thirty minutes
a gift exchange
art in exchange
for a personal exchange
Deep Impact
Neon Tights
Level 1 washroom
You are in the house
Substation outhouse
so to speak
don’t be alarmed
it's just an experience
installation experience
cubicles
and urinals
dressed fierce
with shooting lights and sounds
fierce
to put the wow wee
in a private
experience
once done
strut out
fierce
and say
poo
to
whatever
pisses
you
Photographer
Tuckys Photography