Rolling On Artist Residency
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A collaboration between Rolypoly Family and The Kueh Tutus (Singapore)
Join us in commissioning artworks for children! First 2 artists to be commissioned are ila and Natalie Tse!
In this time of social distancing and loss of paid art work, we teamed up to commission artists to make art for children in Singapore. The artworks explore the question - how do we care for ourselves, each other and our environment - while responding to the realities and practicalities of sheltering-in-place and staying home. The artists also take into consideration the diversity of living conditions children may be growing up in, so as to present works accessible for as many children as possible.
This global crisis forces us to consider deeply our interdependency with each other, with other species, and with nature. What does "rolling on" mean right now? That we roll on and on for ourselves and continue the status quo, or we adapt, change, and take responsible actions to roll on together?
The artworks will be made available to our community partners in neighbourhoods such as Toa Payoh, Jalan Kukoh and Lengkok Bahru, and digitally for the general public.
All artists commissioned are selected by Bernice Lee and Faye Lim of Rolypoly Family and Melissa Quek of The Kueh Tutus. We prioritise artists with caregiving responsibilities. If we raise more funds, we will be able to commission more works by more artists.
Where the money goes:
Each commission requires $1,100, of which...
$1,000 goes to the artist, in 2 phases of $500 each
$100 goes to the admin and project management stipend
(We also set aside funds to cover the Stripe transaction fee. Giveasia does not keep any portion of the raised funds. Any remaining funds will be donated to Singapore Children's Society.)
We will start the ball rolling by putting in the first $500 for this residency. Please join us in making these works a reality!
Updates will be given every other week on the progress of the artists and the artworks, through our social media channels.
The fundraising and payment to artists are handled by Derring-Do Dance, the parent company of Rolypoly Family.
This global crisis forces us to consider deeply our interdependency with each other, with other species, and with nature. What does "rolling on" mean right now? That we roll on and on for ourselves and continue the status quo, or we adapt, change, and take responsible actions to roll on together?
The artworks will be made available to our community partners in neighbourhoods such as Toa Payoh, Jalan Kukoh and Lengkok Bahru, and digitally for the general public.
All artists commissioned are selected by Bernice Lee and Faye Lim of Rolypoly Family and Melissa Quek of The Kueh Tutus. We prioritise artists with caregiving responsibilities. If we raise more funds, we will be able to commission more works by more artists.
Where the money goes:
Each commission requires $1,100, of which...
$1,000 goes to the artist, in 2 phases of $500 each
$100 goes to the admin and project management stipend
(We also set aside funds to cover the Stripe transaction fee. Giveasia does not keep any portion of the raised funds. Any remaining funds will be donated to Singapore Children's Society.)
We will start the ball rolling by putting in the first $500 for this residency. Please join us in making these works a reality!
Updates will be given every other week on the progress of the artists and the artworks, through our social media channels.
The fundraising and payment to artists are handled by Derring-Do Dance, the parent company of Rolypoly Family.
Artworks explore the question - how do we care for ourselves, each other and our environment?
Commissioned artist: ila
The intimate works of visual and performance artist ila (b.1985, Singapore) incorporate objects, moving images and live performance. Through weaving imagined narratives into existing realities, she seeks to create alternative nodes of experience and entry points into the peripheries of the unspoken, the tacit and the silenced. Her work has been shown at The Substation; NTU Centre for Contemporary Art; National Design Centre, all Singapore (2019); Coda Culture, and ArtScience Museum, both Singapore (2018).
Commissioned artwork: Vanishing Worlds
"One peculiar day, I woke up to find that the bed I was sleeping on disappeared. When I looked out of the window of my room, I saw that everything was smaller than I am. The streets were my fingers and the buildings were my toes. I could not find the door anymore as it had melted to the floor. I looked around my room and found a note. It said 'There's been a catastrophe but do not worry. The world that we know seems to be vanishing but let's use it to build the world that we want.'"
During these strange times, all playgrounds and parks are close. Classes are being carried out behind the digital screens and we are not allowed to be outside as much as we want to. For a child, the world seems to be getting smaller and smaller each day. Vanishing worlds is a tool-kit for children from the age of 5 to 10, to build alternative worlds with materials found or made in their homes. In these six months, children and the people in their homes can work together to think through materiality, narratives, waste as resource and other forms of survival skills as modes of learning but more importantly ways to cope during these times.
Commissioned artwork: Vanishing Worlds
"One peculiar day, I woke up to find that the bed I was sleeping on disappeared. When I looked out of the window of my room, I saw that everything was smaller than I am. The streets were my fingers and the buildings were my toes. I could not find the door anymore as it had melted to the floor. I looked around my room and found a note. It said 'There's been a catastrophe but do not worry. The world that we know seems to be vanishing but let's use it to build the world that we want.'"
During these strange times, all playgrounds and parks are close. Classes are being carried out behind the digital screens and we are not allowed to be outside as much as we want to. For a child, the world seems to be getting smaller and smaller each day. Vanishing worlds is a tool-kit for children from the age of 5 to 10, to build alternative worlds with materials found or made in their homes. In these six months, children and the people in their homes can work together to think through materiality, narratives, waste as resource and other forms of survival skills as modes of learning but more importantly ways to cope during these times.
Commissioned artist: Natalie Tse
Natalie Alexandra Tse (b.1987) is a mother, performer, educator, and researcher passionate about the exploration of sounds, sonic objects and environments. Her practice as an experimental improviser has led her towards researching into babies’ sonic play through her doctoral studies and motherhood. She is mother to Baby Dodo, who has been involved in all her young audience’s works since birth, and is expecting a lil’ one in August 2020.
Natalie founded LittleCr3atures in 2017, a young audience initiative of the parent company, SAtheCollective whom she co-founded and is a resident artist of. Her recent works for babies include Nadam (2018), Bitesize Lil' Creatures (2018) produced by LittleCr3atures and Soundmakers by LittleCreatures (2018, 2019) commissioned by the National Gallery Singapore.
Commissioned artwork: First Connections
The voice is one of our first sonic connections with our babies. Research suggests that vocal communication is a natural tool babies use to ensure their survivability. As they grow, sounds become an important element in their intersubjective beings as they develop into social creatures. Between mothers and babies, these are often expressed through playsongs and lullabies.
I would like to use this opportunity to connect with other mothers and their babies (3 years and below, in line with my target interest group) who are residing in Singapore (whether citizen, PR or working here), to research and document traditional tunes that they sing to and with their babies. I hope to be able to gather songs from a range of cultures and languages, to demonstrate the diversity of our local culture in current times.
In the 1st phase (i.e. first month) I hope to conduct digital interviews (through zoom/skype/google meet) with mothers and their babies who may be willing. I hope to speak with and document the process of interacting with 3 pairs of mother-baby.
In the 2nd phase (i.e. second month), I hope to use the songs I have gathered to create rearrangements in my own interpretation, together with Baby Dodo. I hope to utilise natural and recycled sonic objects, materials and nature-inspired sounds in these rearrangements. I hope to make them available online (through YouTube or Vimeo) and provide home-based activities that can be done together with babies for mothers.
Natalie founded LittleCr3atures in 2017, a young audience initiative of the parent company, SAtheCollective whom she co-founded and is a resident artist of. Her recent works for babies include Nadam (2018), Bitesize Lil' Creatures (2018) produced by LittleCr3atures and Soundmakers by LittleCreatures (2018, 2019) commissioned by the National Gallery Singapore.
Commissioned artwork: First Connections
The voice is one of our first sonic connections with our babies. Research suggests that vocal communication is a natural tool babies use to ensure their survivability. As they grow, sounds become an important element in their intersubjective beings as they develop into social creatures. Between mothers and babies, these are often expressed through playsongs and lullabies.
I would like to use this opportunity to connect with other mothers and their babies (3 years and below, in line with my target interest group) who are residing in Singapore (whether citizen, PR or working here), to research and document traditional tunes that they sing to and with their babies. I hope to be able to gather songs from a range of cultures and languages, to demonstrate the diversity of our local culture in current times.
In the 1st phase (i.e. first month) I hope to conduct digital interviews (through zoom/skype/google meet) with mothers and their babies who may be willing. I hope to speak with and document the process of interacting with 3 pairs of mother-baby.
In the 2nd phase (i.e. second month), I hope to use the songs I have gathered to create rearrangements in my own interpretation, together with Baby Dodo. I hope to utilise natural and recycled sonic objects, materials and nature-inspired sounds in these rearrangements. I hope to make them available online (through YouTube or Vimeo) and provide home-based activities that can be done together with babies for mothers.
“At the end of the day, [with] all of these events, nature is sending us a message,” Anderson said... “We are intimately interconnected with nature, whether we like it or not. If we don’t take care of nature, we can’t take care of ourselves. And as we hurtle towards a population of 10 billion people on this planet, we need to go into this future armed with nature as our strongest ally.” Inger Anderson, UN's Environmental Chief
Rolling On Artist Residency is a collaboration between Rolypoly Family and The Kueh Tutus. We are dance companies that make works for children, and sometimes with children. This residency follows from our first collaboration - Rolling On @ Bukit Panjang - which was a response to the nature, flora and fauna we encountered in the Bukit Panjang neighbourhood, and in conjunction with Earth Hour.
Rolling On @ Bukit Panjang was commissioned by the National Arts Council's Arts in Your Neighbourhood programme. The performances were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic and we were remunerated in full by NAC. Rolling On Artist Residency is our way of coping with the crisis - by adapting how we carry on this work, by supporting our artistic community in making art and by offering responsive and relevant artworks to our young in Singapore. The artists/staff from Rolling On @ Bukit Panjang who contributed the first $500 to this campaign are: Bernice Lee, Cheryl Ong, Faye Lim, Melissa Quek, Nicholas Lin, Sage Tan and Stacie Leong.
Rolling On @ Bukit Panjang was commissioned by the National Arts Council's Arts in Your Neighbourhood programme. The performances were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic and we were remunerated in full by NAC. Rolling On Artist Residency is our way of coping with the crisis - by adapting how we carry on this work, by supporting our artistic community in making art and by offering responsive and relevant artworks to our young in Singapore. The artists/staff from Rolling On @ Bukit Panjang who contributed the first $500 to this campaign are: Bernice Lee, Cheryl Ong, Faye Lim, Melissa Quek, Nicholas Lin, Sage Tan and Stacie Leong.
About Rolypoly Family
Rolypoly Family dance projects and programmes support the artistic, creative and social-emotional learning of young children and their families. We are a team of dance artists brought together by our intuitive and sensitive movement practices and our dedication to the creative genius of children.
In bringing dance performances, workshops, exhibitions and other experiences to diverse children and families, we partner groups and organisations across Singapore, such as community groups, social service organisations, arts groups and venues, and government agencies.
Our name is a statement of our beliefs - that families come in all shapes and sizes, that kinship can grow through creative and physical play (yes, rolling) and that rhyming is as fun in language as in dance. Rolypoly Family is a division of Derring-Do Dance.
www.facebook.com/rolypolyfamily
Instagram: @rolypolyfamilysg
www.rolypolyfamily.com (undergoing revamp)
About Derring-Do Dance
Derring-Do Dance is an arts company that runs dance and body-based programmes for diverse children and families, led by dance and teaching artists Faye Lim and Bernice Lee. Our Rolypoly Family dance projects and programmes are all about the creative confidence and social-emotional growth of children and families as they express themselves through dance and movement. Our Body Smarts Through Movement Arts programme brings topics such as body awareness, body positivity, body boundaries, consent and body safety skills to children, through age-appropriate movement exercises and games. Together, Faye and Bernice apply their experience in pedagogy, socially-engaged arts, sexuality education, literacy development and impact assessment to support the work of Derring-Do Dance.
Rolypoly Family dance projects and programmes support the artistic, creative and social-emotional learning of young children and their families. We are a team of dance artists brought together by our intuitive and sensitive movement practices and our dedication to the creative genius of children.
In bringing dance performances, workshops, exhibitions and other experiences to diverse children and families, we partner groups and organisations across Singapore, such as community groups, social service organisations, arts groups and venues, and government agencies.
Our name is a statement of our beliefs - that families come in all shapes and sizes, that kinship can grow through creative and physical play (yes, rolling) and that rhyming is as fun in language as in dance. Rolypoly Family is a division of Derring-Do Dance.
www.facebook.com/rolypolyfamily
Instagram: @rolypolyfamilysg
www.rolypolyfamily.com (undergoing revamp)
About Derring-Do Dance
Derring-Do Dance is an arts company that runs dance and body-based programmes for diverse children and families, led by dance and teaching artists Faye Lim and Bernice Lee. Our Rolypoly Family dance projects and programmes are all about the creative confidence and social-emotional growth of children and families as they express themselves through dance and movement. Our Body Smarts Through Movement Arts programme brings topics such as body awareness, body positivity, body boundaries, consent and body safety skills to children, through age-appropriate movement exercises and games. Together, Faye and Bernice apply their experience in pedagogy, socially-engaged arts, sexuality education, literacy development and impact assessment to support the work of Derring-Do Dance.
About The Kueh Tutus
The Kueh Tutus are a collaborative team of creatives (dancers, artists, musicians and designers) who followed their noses into exploring Danceworks for Children. Each individual has spent hours extensively creating dances with, teaching and playing with children. Brought together by choreographer Melissa Quek, we combined our super-powers of productive curiosity to enter the Singapore scene in 2017 with our playful engagement of music and movement. We have presented at festivals such as Octoburst! at the Esplanade Theatres, Got To Move by the National Arts Council and Singapore Writers’ Festival, and regularly perform at The Artground where we have been in the Groundbreakers Incubation Programme for 2018 and 2019. We also conducted a tour of 10 regional libraries with “Just Teddy”, a dance for children aged 2-4 years.
We feel that humans perceive the world with our bodies and not just our minds, so our practice involves kinaesthetic work that stimulates the senses. We aim to make tantalising dances that unlock the imagination and tickle curiosity. To meet people where they are at is why we try hard to involve our audiences and
communities in our creative processes. At the end of the day we believe that we should take pleasure in the process and performance of the works, so that we can delight our audience.
IG: @thekuehtutus
FB: www.facebook.com/thekuehtutus
Website: www.thekuehtutus.com
The Kueh Tutus are a collaborative team of creatives (dancers, artists, musicians and designers) who followed their noses into exploring Danceworks for Children. Each individual has spent hours extensively creating dances with, teaching and playing with children. Brought together by choreographer Melissa Quek, we combined our super-powers of productive curiosity to enter the Singapore scene in 2017 with our playful engagement of music and movement. We have presented at festivals such as Octoburst! at the Esplanade Theatres, Got To Move by the National Arts Council and Singapore Writers’ Festival, and regularly perform at The Artground where we have been in the Groundbreakers Incubation Programme for 2018 and 2019. We also conducted a tour of 10 regional libraries with “Just Teddy”, a dance for children aged 2-4 years.
We feel that humans perceive the world with our bodies and not just our minds, so our practice involves kinaesthetic work that stimulates the senses. We aim to make tantalising dances that unlock the imagination and tickle curiosity. To meet people where they are at is why we try hard to involve our audiences and
communities in our creative processes. At the end of the day we believe that we should take pleasure in the process and performance of the works, so that we can delight our audience.
IG: @thekuehtutus
FB: www.facebook.com/thekuehtutus
Website: www.thekuehtutus.com
Rolling On Artist Residency
CAMPAIGN HAS ENDED
+ 30 givers have donated to this campaign
This campaign has ended.
S$3,690 Raised
(Inc S$500 Raised Offline)
Of S$4,600 Goal
from 30 Givers
Donations will go to Commissioned artists
CAMPAIGN HAS ENDED
