SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS 2015: The Incredible Adventures of Border Crossers
PUBLISHED April 20th, 2015 04:22 pm | UPDATED June 9th, 2020 08:34 pm
Commissioned for the opening of Singapour en France – le festival at Palais de Tokyo in Paris in March 2015, Ong Keng Sen creates The Incredible Adventures of Border Crossers, a new performance forged in collaboration with creative talents specialising in design, photography, video and sound (Chris Lee of Asylum, Reckless Ericka, Francis Ng, Brian Gothong Tan, Kaffe Matthews).
It tells a story of past-present-future through the voices of border crossers. Real-life border crossers who have never acted before (from Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific) are invited to be performers in this piece. Sharing their everyday stories as incredible adventures, they inhabit the installation – singing, dancing, and invoking pioneer travellers who were captured by the Lee Brothers Studio in Singapore, a unique photo salon, in 1910.
Unlike theatre, this is a performance that’s at once installation, karaoke and fashion runway. The Incredible Adventures of Border Crossers is a stunning combination of music, visual culture, live video, fashion, documentary and performance that envisions communications in a not-so-distant future megapolis, amidst a heterotopia of individuals.
The Incredible Adventures of Border Crossers is taking place from Thursday, 17 September to Saturday, 19 September at 6.30pm at Tanjong Pagar Railway Station.
To purchase tickets, please click [here](http://www.sistic.com.sg/events/sifa2015p).
