Performing Normal: The Usual Party
29 March 2025
Singapore Art Museum
Collaborating Artists: Alecia Neo, Claire Teo, Germaine Goh, Jaspreet Kaur Sekhon, Zhuo Zihao, Chong Li-Chuan
What’s the vibe? Is there a dress code? Who else is invited? “The Usual Party” is a participatory performance that highlights how environments and systems can simultaneously include and exclude different individuals. It addresses the ways in which personal needs for safety and belonging can both clash and be met. Through mingling, party games, and an eclectic musical excursion led by two first-time party hosts, participants are invited to reflect on what it means to truly listen to and see one another beyond stereotypes and preconceived notions.
Performed by Germaine Goh and Jaspreet Kaur Sekhon, two neurodivergent artists, and conceptualized by a collective of interdisciplinary artists, this work draws from their lived experiences of disability. It explores the tension between self-reliance and community, confronting societal notions of normalcy and inclusion. As the performance unfolds, the party becomes a potential space for connection, vulnerability, and the courage to embrace authenticity.
Performing Normal: The Usual Party is a culmination showcase of the ART:DIS Emerging Artist Residency Programme in partnership with Temasek Foundation and supported under the Dance Nucleus’ ARTEFACT Creation Residency from January to March 2025.
This programme is an extension of a series of performance workshops presented at the Singapore Art Museum. Performing Normal is part of Care Index, an ongoing artistic research project that seeks to understand care through movement, dialogue and collaborative practices.
Performed by Germaine Goh and Jaspreet Kaur Sekhon, two neurodivergent artists, and conceptualized by a collective of interdisciplinary artists, this work draws from their lived experiences of disability. It explores the tension between self-reliance and community, confronting societal notions of normalcy and inclusion. As the performance unfolds, the party becomes a potential space for connection, vulnerability, and the courage to embrace authenticity.
Performing Normal: The Usual Party is a culmination showcase of the ART:DIS Emerging Artist Residency Programme in partnership with Temasek Foundation and supported under the Dance Nucleus’ ARTEFACT Creation Residency from January to March 2025.
This programme is an extension of a series of performance workshops presented at the Singapore Art Museum. Performing Normal is part of Care Index, an ongoing artistic research project that seeks to understand care through movement, dialogue and collaborative practices.