NOT A BUJANG *APOK PERFORMANCE - JUST DESSERTS (2020)
Not a Bujang *apok Performance, in collaboration with C2AC for Pure Ever’s Nununununnu show
Bujang *apok began as a collaborative performance and spoken word piece in response to Diva Agar’s The Soul Lounge (2018), an interrogation, or rather, simple acknowledgement of the existence of both queer and racialised Singaporean bodies. Since its inception, Atiq Lukman, Zeha H and Norah Lea have performed three iterations of Bujang *apok, navigating through conversations on race, old and newfound spiritualities, the ever changing experiences of Malayness , gender and the when they feel like it, the occasion mention of love. They have taken an oath that they will not perform another Bujang *apok performance till 2029. Hence, this was not a Bujang *apok performance.
Not A Bujang *apok Performance was done in collaboration with C2AC (Rifqi Amirul Rosli). In this performance, the Bujang *apok trio time-travels and intervenes futuristic landscapes to sounds of the apocalypse. Amidst poetic interventions of future-isms by Atiq and Zeha, artist Norah Lea consumes ice, as gesture of icing out her inner wounds while listening to prayers meant for exorcism.
Link to pdf copy of Not A Bujang *apok Performance here
Not a Bujang *apok Performance, in collaboration with C2AC for Pure Ever’s Nununununnu show
Bujang *apok began as a collaborative performance and spoken word piece in response to Diva Agar’s The Soul Lounge (2018), an interrogation, or rather, simple acknowledgement of the existence of both queer and racialised Singaporean bodies. Since its inception, Atiq Lukman, Zeha H and Norah Lea have performed three iterations of Bujang *apok, navigating through conversations on race, old and newfound spiritualities, the ever changing experiences of Malayness , gender and the when they feel like it, the occasion mention of love. They have taken an oath that they will not perform another Bujang *apok performance till 2029. Hence, this was not a Bujang *apok performance.
Not A Bujang *apok Performance was done in collaboration with C2AC (Rifqi Amirul Rosli). In this performance, the Bujang *apok trio time-travels and intervenes futuristic landscapes to sounds of the apocalypse. Amidst poetic interventions of future-isms by Atiq and Zeha, artist Norah Lea consumes ice, as gesture of icing out her inner wounds while listening to prayers meant for exorcism.
Link to pdf copy of Not A Bujang *apok Performance here
Track List:
Berukera - $holawatul 4 Mother, 'citiballads', Great Eastern Laif, SGP 2020.
Berukera - Pantoum Luvluv, 'citiballads', Great Eastern Laif, SGP 2020.
Cejero - Senyawa bronshoj 4
Cosmologists - Us Vs. Us
Doja Cat - Say So
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Macapat - Asmaradana Putri
Mulatu Astatke - Yèkèrmo Sèw
Wiroprojo - Macapat - Asmaradana (Putri)
Wiroprojo - Cakepan Asmaradana Laras Slendro Miring Pathet 9
NOISE Timor - Tentasaun
NOISE Timor - Experimental Sound Art III Soundcheck
Yennu Ariendra & J Mo'ong Santoso Pribadi - Raja Kirik - Alas Tyang Pinggir (The Outcast Forest)
Yennu Ariendra - Letter to the sky
Yennu Ariendra & J Mo'ong Santoso Pribadi - Raja Kirik - Buto Abang
Yennu Ariendra & J Mo'ong Santoso Pribadi - Raja Kirik - O Sing (The Nay Sayer)
Tiara Jacquelina - Asmaradana
Berukera - $holawatul 4 Mother, 'citiballads', Great Eastern Laif, SGP 2020.
Berukera - Pantoum Luvluv, 'citiballads', Great Eastern Laif, SGP 2020.
Cejero - Senyawa bronshoj 4
Cosmologists - Us Vs. Us
Doja Cat - Say So
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Macapat - Asmaradana Putri
Mulatu Astatke - Yèkèrmo Sèw
Wiroprojo - Macapat - Asmaradana (Putri)
Wiroprojo - Cakepan Asmaradana Laras Slendro Miring Pathet 9
NOISE Timor - Tentasaun
NOISE Timor - Experimental Sound Art III Soundcheck
Yennu Ariendra & J Mo'ong Santoso Pribadi - Raja Kirik - Alas Tyang Pinggir (The Outcast Forest)
Yennu Ariendra - Letter to the sky
Yennu Ariendra & J Mo'ong Santoso Pribadi - Raja Kirik - Buto Abang
Yennu Ariendra & J Mo'ong Santoso Pribadi - Raja Kirik - O Sing (The Nay Sayer)
Tiara Jacquelina - Asmaradana