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 the 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 adventurers, 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 is 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.
Performed in English, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, French, German, Burmese, Lao, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Thai, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Hindi and other languages of the border crossers.
With English surtitles.
(Source: Arts House Limited Programme)