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A Weekend with SAM
Join us for the launch of Talking Objects and The Living Room with a weekend of performances and conversations that invite you to experience art in new ways.
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*Programmes may be subject to change without prior notice. Information accurate at time of publishing.
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[Performance] TWO ACTS: Activating "The Living Room"
[Performance] TWO ACTS: Activating “The Living Room”
Date & Time: Sat, 13 Sep | 3PM - 4.30PM
Venue: Level 1 & 3, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Free
What does it mean to inhabit a space, to leave a mark, and to live with the echoes of the past? This programme brings two artists from The Living Room into a live setting to explore these questions. Across the two acts, their performances open up ways of thinking about memory and the relations that form in the shared space of performance.
ACT I: Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself
Ezzam Rahman
Level 1, L-corridor facing the port (between Lift Lobby B and SAM Entrance)
In 2015, Ezzam Rahman presented a series of talcum powder performances that explored the condition of life and living through the act of breath. A decade later, he revisits this work to confront the profound changes that have marked both his body and practice.
ACT II: Minor Gestures (a conduit in the living room)
Brian Fuata
Level 3, Gallery 4
A structured improvisation generated on-site, responding to both the exhibition and its physical containment. Fuata’s practice embraces the unpredictability of liveness, drawing on movement, voice, and the dynamics of audience encounter to animate the room with a presence that emerges only in the moment of performance.
[Performance] The Last High Tea by Jeremy Hiah
[Performance] The Last High Tea by Jeremy Hiah
Date & Time: Sun, 14 Sep | 2PM–3PM
Venue: Level 1, The Engine Room, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Free
*An $8 refundable deposit is required for participants who would like to take part in the performance.
In 2010, Jeremy Hiah staged Man Eat Man, a darkly humorous performance inspired by Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son. Protruding from a dining table with his head served on a plate, Hiah invited audiences to partake in a communal act of eating that mixed the grotesque with the convivial, turning an image of brutality into one of shared conversation and laughter.
With The Last High Tea, Hiah returns to the table – this time trading the macabre for the refinement of an afternoon tea. Here, the rituals of hospitality unfold with elegance but slowly give way to subtler revelations: the unspoken negotiations of power and self-interest that shape how we gather, share and consume.
Guests can expect a setting both familiar and strange – where the ordinary etiquette of tea is gently unsettled, and every gesture becomes part of the performance.
[Talk] Restaging Performance: More Questions than Answers
[Talk] Restaging Performance: More Questions than Answers
Date & Time: Sun, 14 Sep | 3.30PM - 4.30PM
Venue: Level 1, The Engine Room, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Free
How do museums collect and present what was meant to be ephemeral? What happens when a performance is staged again – years later, in a different place, for new audiences?
Join curators Teng Yen Hui (Singapore Art Museum), Gahee Park (formerly at Seoul Museum of Art) and Reuben Keehan (Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art) for a conversation that trades certainty for curiosity, asking as much as it attempts to answer. Moderated by Ong Puay Khim (Director of Collections, Public Art and Programmes at SAM), the discussion reflects on the challenges and possibilities of caring for works that resist permanence.