MUSIC STAGE

Curated by Intriguant and presented by CAKE, this 2021 edition of Running with Strippers sees the next iteration of UPLOADING, the brainchild of intrepid beatmaker Louis Quek, best known as Intriguant. UPLOADING is an audio-visual sensory experience bringing together the works of video artists and musicians coalescing in 30-min sets. CAKE’s philosophy of serious playfulness driven by bold experimentation comes into play with Intriguant, collaboratively igniting explosive performance energy and music in the stunning halls of the Pasir Panjang Power Station.

Show #1 Artists

Cayenne x JJ Low
deførmed x clarrot_
sl_owtalk x Yeyoon Avis Ann

Show #2 Artists

BGourd x Tristan Lim,
Kribo Records x Natasha Hassan,
Jema x orderstudio

PLANET BY KOTA YAMAJI x CULT

Planet is part performance part music/visual installation combining some of the most moving sonnets and speeches from Shakespeare emanating from four singular actresses - Jean Ng, Noorlinah Mohamed, Nora Samosir and Karen Tan. Juxtaposed against the actresses’ stark humanity is the pop and surreal world of Japanese digital artist Kota Yamaji. Yamaji’s play on vivid colours and repeating patterns embodied by objects and characters takes the viewer into a heightened and fascinating universe that he creates. In the midst of the industrial steel and bricks of the interior of a decommissioned power station, against a canvas of mesmerizing and richly saturated digital art, the women are flesh and their humanity sears, connecting them to all the living species of this planet, visible and invisible to the eye.

There are four pieces:
P-1: Tir’d with all these, for restful death I cry
An actress escapes the weight of her humanity as she contemplates her presence in the presence of the natural world.

P-2: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
An actress escapes the weight of her humanity as she embraces a multispecies worldview.

P-3: Be not afeard
An actress escapes the weight of her humanity as she looks into the life of plants.

P-4: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
An actress escapes the weight of her humanity as she allows the land to be her teacher.

Digital Artist

Kota Yamaji

Sound Designer

Philip Tan

Performers

Jean Ng x Noorlinah Mohamed x Nora Samosir x Karen Tan

Makeup Artist

Amber Lim

Archival

Tuckys Photography

SOMNI BY INTRIGUANT

Being awake when living, being alive when dreaming. The path to defining reality lies in a deep dive through streams of the semiconscious, where proximity and distance merge, and the present with timelessness coincide. Desire dissolves as ambience takes the wheel and loops itself into a spiral of indulgence. This awareness of chaos brings forth elation, and the abandonment of senses brings forth logic. As the mental creeps in as metal, so does ambiguity render itself into intimacy.

SOMNI is an experiential route to the depths of slumber, probing how the perceptions within carve consequences onto our realities.

Sound Artist

Intriguant (SG)

Visual Artist / Filmmaker

Sam Shields (AUS)

Visual Artist

Irsyad Ishak (SG)

Scriptwriter / Director

Andy Pang (SG)

Spatial Design

neontights

Technical Installation

ARTFACTORY

Lighting Design:

Andy Lim (stage “LIVE”)

Creative Direction

CAKE