(_n)trance: Of Dust Vessels and Dreams
Performance
Visual concept by Sim Hoi Ling in collaboration with Lim Paik YIn
2019
Deriving and referencing mental images from the poem "The Dream That Must Be Interpreted" by poet Rumi, this performance piece explores the conflicted and contradictory feelings towards an intricately personal entity. The piece reflects upon nature and cosmological thoughts, incorporating air and breath as one of the influential elements. By delving into the tension between the self and the other, of how an individual is linked and restricted by its own attachment, it hopes to investigate the aspiration of self, out from others or other emotional and worldly connections.
"We began
as a mineral. We emerged into plant life
and into animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.
That's how a young person turns
toward a teacher. That's how a baby leans toward the breast, without knowing the secret
of its desire, yet turning instinctively."
- Rumi
Photography by Santoso Wardoyo & Antaranews Indonesia.
