[Listening Circle] Across a Membrane: Artist Talk by Aine Nakamura

Across a Membrane\n

By Aine Nakamura (US/Japan)\n

Presented by Listening Biennial Singapore and LASALLE McNally School of Fine Arts, in\ncollaboration with Diploma in Theatre Production and Management\n

Address: 1 McNally Street Singapore 187940

Artist Talk (Open to all)\n

2.30 PM - 3:30 PM\n

Venue: F101a Seminar Room\n

Workshop\n

3:35 PM - 5 PM\n

Venue: H102 (L1 dance studio)\n

(Please register for the workshop via Google Form: https://forms.gle/MYSe4T12nER1xeY89

Due to limited capacity, successful participants will be informed via email)

“I started to generate my art form through a few experiences that shifted my view and my\nlistening. One of them was this. I was asked to introduce myself without making sounds. It was\nsnowing outside. I moved my body slowly. I realized I was listening not only to the sound of the\nroom but more so to the sound outside the window, imagining the world outside, and then\nlistening to myself, embracing myself in it. I began to listen to songs in body, and I continue to\ndo so. In addition, performance experiences and a few vocal, physical and psychological injuries\nhelped me search what sensing, listening and art-making can be. I would like to spend time with\nthe participants to think about the possibilities and potentialities of voice and body, and art.\nBeing able to hold and be together in fragility is a strength, I believe. I will talk and give a few\nwork exercises with a hope to learn together about what it means to create a space for beings\nand feelings, and how we might imagine and evolve for relations even at this crisis of the world.”

About the Artist:

Aine Nakamura (US/Japan)

\nWith her unique transnational background growing up\nbetween Japan and the United States, Aine Nakamura\nhas developed her transborder and interdisciplinary art of\nvoice and movement. She tells stories through her\nperformances, exploring nuanced potentialities of voice\nand body, and of listening and sensing. Her recent works\ninclude her solo performance of sung and spoken voice\nand body Under an Unnamed Flower, presented at the\n2022 Venice Biennale, which focused on war, weaving,\nsilk, and mourning, gestures and objects connecting the\nmultiple; solo performance project Circle hasu We plant\nseeds in the spring of mountains (2022), presented at\nTheatertreffen at Berliner Festspiele after its premiere at\nthe Gallatin Galleries, focused on time-transcending\nrecovery in season changes; and a month-long\nsite-specific exhibition and performance project hands on\ntape (2025), presented at The Lab in SF, unfolded over\nresearch, conversations and collaborations, exploring\narchitectural changes and hidden stories, silk threads,\nerased labor, and metamorphosis of bodies and materials\nas she explored through experiences of surgeries and\nchanges of inner shapes in a community. Nakamura is\nrecently interested in the topics of love, fragile kindness,\nand folds or wrinkles, a realm that is ungraspable but open\nto opacity and evolvement. Nakamura has been awarded\nthe Venice Biennale Site-Specific Performance Grant, the\nFulbright Fellowship (Berlin), and The Leo Bronstein\nHomage Award (New York University).\nhttps://evaaine.com/home

This artist talk is organised as part of the Listening Circle, a gathering designed for mutual learning and exchange between participants, the Listening Circle offers talks, participatory experiences and workshops by diverse practitioners who share methods, practices and knowledge on listening, care, and collaboration.

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About The Listening Biennial, Singapore

Since 2021, The Listening Biennial has sought to foster research and discussion on listening, recognising its transformative power as key to enriching personal lives and social initiatives, and which supports ethical and political practices. As part of the Singapore Night Festival, the artists of The Listening Biennial invite you to enter the space of Third Listening, to listen out for a plurality of life-forms as well as pathways of interconnection between seemingly irreconcilable differences.

The curators of the Listening Biennial, Third Edition are Alecia Neo, Soledad García Saavedra, Suvani Suri with Brandon LaBelle.

Launched for the first time in Singapore, the Singapore edition is curated by artist Alecia Neo and co-programmed with publisher Ng Kah Gay of Ethos Books.

Singapore Edition: https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/