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Flock at The Nest
blue. by Rudi Osman featuring Sonia Kwek
Presented by Xue
30 Sep 2022
In his solo debut, Rudi Osman, of Singaporean post-hardcore band A Vacant
Affair, takes us through the icy desolation of a deafeningly quiet depression. blue. is a prayer on electric guitar, a droning,
contemplative passage towards redemption, spread across a haunting landscape. blue. draws influence from modern classical, post-rock,
ambient genres, documenting one man’s solitary descent into a dull, existential rut.
Accompanying Rudi’s arctic melody is
movement artist and butoh practitioner Sonia Kwek, who will be interacting with a giant ice-platform right at the centre of The Nest as
part of this borrealic underworld. Presented by Xue, blue.'s tempest seeks to cut through the stupor of the sedentary tropics, an
alluring odyssey of hell freezing over.
Rudi Osman is a semi-improv electric guitarist from the Singapore heavy music scene, where he emerged
in 2003 as a founding member of post-hardcore stalwarts A Vacant Affair, who toured the region and released their debut album
Reasons To Leave in 2008. As a solo instrumental act, Rudi combines elements of ambient, glitch and post-rock with a
deep
interest in meditation to carve tones of dissonance, noise, stillness, rest and contemplation. His last show was with butoh
performer Xue for Drifters (2021), a fiery, doom-laden, post-apocalyptic piece slathered in electric guitar distortion. Rudi
hopes to heal others, and in turn himself, by offering listeners the thrill of an amplified rock concert while paying respect
to subtle nuances of the human condition.
Sonia’s practice is rooted in working from, with and through the material/ity of the body. Her works
unfold through performance, movement, installation, visual poetry and experiential experiments, often with elements of the
participatory and perishable. Interested in corporeal sensualities and the potency of kinesics, Sonia seeks to create
intimate
encounters and visceral experiences to express the ineffable. Sonia also actively collaborates with others in their projects,
as a performer, facilitator, producer, and dramaturge/researcher.
Sonia trained at the Intercultural Theatre Institute
and holds a Bachelor of Creative Industries with Distinction from Queensland University of Technology. Currently, she is a
member and coordinator of experimental arts group Emergency Stairs’ Emergency Academy 2022-2024 and has been an associate
artist with dance company P7:1SMA since 2018.
Xue is a surrogate – a conductor of clandestine realities, activated through live performance, sound
collaborations and video work. A permeable body, Xue cultivates an impressionistic style of worldbuilding, in communion with
movers and music makers, to conjure auto-fictive universes, as a means of enacting new mythologies as a form of critical
resistance. Xue is interested in the posthuman imagination as an approach for remaking futures and interrogating the
senselessness of the present.
EVENT T&Cs
30 Sept 2022 (Friday), 7.30pm
Gates
open 6.30pm
Duration of performance: 60 mins
Ticket price: $35 (excludes a booking fee).
Event tickets sold cannot be
cancelled, exchanged, refunded or upgraded once issued.
You must not take any food, beverage and alcohol into the Event Venue.
No sealed plastic water bottles are allowed into the Event Venue. Only unsealed and EMPTY plastic water bottles (no glass or metallic
ones) are allowed. Please finish your food and beverages before departing or exiting the Event Venue.
Beverages are available at
the event and we prefer cashless payments via Visa/Master debit/credit cards and PayNow.
Photography, videography, and social
media live streaming are strictly prohibited. You may take photos of the Event with your mobile phones but you can only do so on the
basis that the images and recordings you take are only for private and personal use.
This is a free seating performance. Please
approach the ushers for guidance.
There is strictly NO re-entry to the Event/Event Venue.
