ABOUT
– Carl Sagan
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Hi! I'm Cheryl. I'm a multi-disciplinary artist and theatre practitioner based in Singapore. I do research on and create experiential and experimental works across various mediums such as performance, film, and visual arts, especially inspired by philosophy, worldbuilding, ludology, astrophysics, and the natural world. I also practice circus arts and acrobatics. Drawing on ludology, my practice revolves around worldbuilding, and my work positions itself as a proposition for and enquiry into methodologies of art-making that enable one to collaboratively create and envision worlds, through the mediums of film, sound, and narrative poetry. I’ve just completed my BA(Hons) Fine Art in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore. My current work positions itself as a proposition of methodologies of art-making and practice, using the mediums of film, sound, voice, and narrative poetry.
Past projects have explored death, trauma, and the afterlife, Southeast Asian folklore and the supernatural, and Buddhist philosophy on mortality and death, temporality, and impermanence.
Recent works and projects include producing Emergency Stairs' 'Offending the Audience' and 'Dream School' (2022), in collaboration with NAFA, managing the Singapore Art Book Library (SGABL22), 'ANAMNESIS' (2021), written, performed, and produced by myself and directed by Isaiah Lee, 'for lack of a better world through the cosmic menagerie', an installation exhibited at Gillman Barracks’ Art Outreach, and 'Rehearsals for Impermanence', a theatre project done as an artist-in-residence for Centre 42’s ‘The Vault: Lite’. I've also illustrated the poetry collection 'Oddballs, Screwballs and Other Eccentrics' (2020), published by Marshall Cavendish. Other theatre credits include 'Anything Can Happen, Something Must Happen' (2019) with W!LDRICE’s ‘Young&W!LD’, directed by Edith Podesta, 'The Moon Is Less Bright' (2018) by The Second Breakfast Company, and 'Without Reason' (2017) directed by Adib Kosnan, commissioned by the M1 Peer Pleasure Youth Theatre Festival. As an arts writer, I've also had the honour to have written critically for various arts and culture sites, such as Arts Equator, Bandwagon Asia, Popspoken.sg, and Plural Art Mag.
Slide into my DMs if you too are very passionate about circus arts, astronomy, music, film, art, philosophy, photography, and sociology — and other nerdy things like literature, dinosaurs, spiders, and animals. Or if you just want to talk about interstellar objects or death and the universe. Or if you’re learning Hawaiian too and want a language buddy. Or if you want to know my stance on veganism as an ethical philosophy.
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