Seni Tiga #10: Impermanence
Held during the month of the highest rainfall, nature creeps in to KongsiKL as rain falls within its confined spaces filled with rocks. Its deep route of industry is transfigured, aged with water and sand, where the self and the infinite can be reflected, creating a surreal symbiosis between human, nature and the built environment.
The piece was restaged in less than two months to make full use of the set that consists of 18 tonnes of rocks and 400 gallons of water, which meant that reproductions can be very challenging.
Seni Tiga #10: Impermanence
Running time: 60 mins
Performance date: 28 Nov - 1 Dec 2019 (KongsiKL, Malaysia); restaged on 17-19 Jan 2019 (KongsiKL, Malaysia)
Artists
Creative Director : Justin Lee
Dramaturg : Loke Soh Kim
Lighting Designer : Loke Soh Kim
Set Design : Justin Lee / Ooi U-Jean
Sound Director : Kent Lee
Sound Artist : Kent Lee / Thong Yoong How
Projection : Luna Macula
Performers : Ho Yip Seng, Justin Lee, Kent Lee, Tess Pang, Thong Yoong How
Volunteers
Producer : Loke Soh Kim
Assistant Producer : Low Pey Sien, Mah Jun Yi
Photographer : Chin Guan Wai, Low Pey Sien, Mohd Rayhan, Taka Chang
Videographer : Chin Guan Wai, Ho Chee Jen, Lee Pei Ni, Low Pey Sien, Chris Fowler, Loh Ker Yi, Cardin Phua
Editor: Ho Chee Jen, Cardin Phua
Graphic Design : Justin Lee, Low Pey Sien
Usher / Crew : Abby Foo, Chin Guan Wai, Edwin Liong, Keith Tan Zheng How, Morris, Lee Pei Ni, Shirley Woo, Yeoh Ue Jay, students from FrythmS Academy (5) and Star Vista Education (9)
Presented by Kongsi Petak
With the support of INXO Arts Fund and the Krishen Jit Fund
Venue sponsored by KongsiKL
KongsiKL is a project supported by KakiKongsi and EXSIM Group
Acknowledgements: FrhythmS Academy, SB Tape International Group
Artist Profile
photo: Mohd Rayhan
Justin Lee
creative director / set design / performer
Justin Lee was raised in the Klang Valley and had spent some years studying and working overseas. Now working as an Architect in Kuala Lumpur, he enjoys the richness and the informality of the city whilst being close to nature and its local forest.
Recently, he is becoming more active in the arts and have been involved in creating a few installations for art exhibitions. He is also an analogue projection artist under the name ‘Luna Macula’, using water as a primary medium. Dynamic and psychedelic visuals are created in real time using coloured liquids and mixed analogue techniques.
With his interdisciplinary background, he is interested in the mediation and convergence of different mediums and subjects.
photo: Joie Koo
Loke Soh Kim
dramaturg
Loke Soh Kim started performing in 1982 in Penang with the renowned Tan Wei Ping, and has toured and performed in countries such as China, Canada, Japan, Singapore and the United States. She is a former dancer of the Singapore People’s Association Dance Company and the Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Company. She was also one of the founding members of the Hong Kong South ASLI Dance Workshop.
Over the years, she has travelled as a solo artist to places across the United States and many countries in Asia. Apart from being a professional dancer, she is also an outstanding stage lighting designer and dance choreographer.
photo: Low Pey Sien
Ooi U-Jean
set designer
Ooi U-Jean has always been captivated by the intriguing world of arts. Professionally trained as a chef, U-Jean has always been experimenting & displaying creative ways of expression in his kitchen through his love for food. Driven by his passion to support sustainable living, he founded TinyGreens, an indoor local urban farm that produces Microgreens.
Out of the kitchen, he uses his strong sense of creativity and colour to create projection paintings with Luna Macula. Generated real time, he uses mixed analogue techniques and colored liquids to create dynamic and psychedelic visuals.
photo: Mohd Rayhan
Kent Lee
sound director / design
Kent Lee plays various instruments and is explorative in his musical expressions. He collaborates frequently with musicians and artists from other disciplines. He is best known for his distinct approach that combines the innovative use of multiple effects with virtuosic technique.
Kent has been performing locally and internationally for more than a decade in various scenes and settings, ranging from commercial events, gigs, improv sessions to sound design for dance and theatre.
Apart from music, he has a newfound passion in food and has been making siu yuk for various events in KL.
photo: Low Pey Sien
Thong Yoong How
sound design
Thong Yoong How started his drumming journey with Bernard Goh (Founder of Hands Percussion) at age of 13. In 2003, Thong joined Hands Percussion as an amateur drummer, became a full-time drummer in year 2006, and had been participating actively in concerts and activities within the group ever since.
In 2016, Thong left Hands Percussion and set up his own FrythmS Academy Institute, with the aim of spreading the art of percussion. The group does not limit themselves to certain forms of performances and drumming. The objective is to promote everything that is rhythm-based, from five-sense to sense-unrelated.
Recent years, Thong is involved actively in designing soundtrack. Thong is convinced that percussion is an attitude, is a kind of self-discipline, and also an art of experiencing life with the heart.
photo: Mohd Rayhan
Douglas Ho
performer
Douglas Ho was born in kuala lumpur, Malaysia in 1980. having grown up in multicultural country, Douglas has always been fascinated by vibrant colour, religion, and how the local context is represented through the eyes of asian. naturally, he was drawn to experimental
stuffs. The interest was cultivated during his teenage years as science stream student and further developed when he opted to pursuit his study in art.
After completing his studies, Douglas delved even more into art relevant practices, which involved exploring application of tangible and intangible medias, such as photography, digital
imaging, script writing, art installation, filming and ceramic.
photo: Taka Chang
Tess Pang
performer
Tess Pang (it/it’s) is an interdisciplinary performer, choreographer, and model, whose body of work is constantly evolving. Tess made it’s debut in theatre at Five Arts Centre in Kuala Lumpur in the devised work ‘Tiga 3’, which traveled to Penang in March 2019. Following that, Tess performed in the world premiere of ‘This Is What Happens to Pretty Girls’ with Pangdemonium in Singapore.
Trained as a dancer and martial artist, Tess toured with Malaysian artist Mizz Nina and choreographer Marcus Tucker (US), prior to studying at LASALLE where it performed in works by Marie Gabriel Roti (UK), Akiko Kitamura (Japan), Eva Tey (MY), and Sandhya Suresh (SG). Tess was then briefly an apprentice under T.H.E Second Company in Singapore.
In recent years, Tess has created solo performance art pieces for festivals and gallery exhibitions, as well as featured in various commercial productions including music videos and digital ad campaigns.
