Jalan Raya invites audiences to walk and talk with place histories, embodied memory and the personal/collective wisdoms we have learnt from spaces we have itinerantly inhabited, passed through and been attentive to.
In gently observing the interdependencies and entanglements across the constellations of inheritance, kinship making, the non-linearity of healing, the work is presented as a gathering—as sites of activation, unfolding visual conversation, exercises in empathy, generosity and vulnerability guided by pathways we would like to breathe into, co-create and walk with together.
Through a series of gatherings, performances and artist-led workshops accompanied by a participatory mixed media installation, the work offers invitations into the shelters where the tenderness existing between forgiveness and grudges, grief and love reside, where knowledge that might have been left in footnotes, marginalia, fragments of hand-me-down knowledge, folklore and forgotten archival images have spaces to emerge, breathe and be held.
Venue: Esplanade Annexe Studio
When: 9 - 11 May 2024,
By: Esplanade
