Screening

Time Between Us

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8 September 2016, Thursday, 3pm

Marina Bay Sands Event Plaza

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Time Between Us

By Fernando Rubio
Featuring Oliver Chong

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7 September (10am) through 11 September (10.30pm) end time

Marina Bay Sands Event Plaza

108 h durational performance

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Celebrated Argentine artist Fernando Rubio is a dramatist and a visual artist whose works have been staged across Europe, South America and the United States. For Singapore International Festival of Arts 2016, Rubio creates uniquely Singapore versions of Everything By My Side and Time Between Us, two gripping performance pieces that will have you enjoying new space and time perspectives.

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​A small house somewhere in the city. Built with wood fragments from other houses that no longer exist. Inside the house, a man resides.

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For 24 hours a day for five days, spectators can visit the man and his house and stay for different situations: a story will be repeated three times a day, and scheduled discussions will take place with experts where spectators can participate in these conversations. Everything happens in the house.

This is Rubio’s Time Between Us, which takes apart a man’s habits and makes a piece out of that. The man decides to leave the place he knows to feel like a stranger and inhabits this solitary time, which is simultaneously shared with others. He makes an aesthetic and unique event out of this moment, looking to experience the absence and the relationship with unknown people, based on the supposition that he can be another person.

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Starring the award-winning actor and director Oliver Chong from The Finger Players, Time Between Us is a meditation on aloneness, saying goodbye to what we know and embracing change, in order to recover potent memories. Come into Chong’s new house and be his guest.

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Performed in English.

Audiences can join Chong, the man, freely whenever the house is open (other than ticketed events).

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Schedule

Thursday, September 8, 2016

09:00 am He wakes up. Goes out. Looks at the river. Returns and eats something.
10:00 am He writes on paper. Describes his situation. Describes a memory.
11:00 am He dives into the water. Live streaming.
12:00 pm He goes out. Walks round and round the house.
01:00 pm Lunch.
02:00 pm He sweeps. Lies on the bed to read with the windows open.
03:00 pm He watch a film 03-Flats by Lei Yuan Bin. **
04:20 pm He writes some signs and words on the wall.
04:40 pm He walks to the river.
05:00 pm Live streaming.
05:30 pm He sings himself a song.
05:45 pm Time between us. Storytelling. *
06:30 pm He prepares the house to receive a guest.
07:00 pm A Conversation with Jason Wee *
08:15 pm Time between us. Storytelling. *
09:45 pm Time between us. Storytelling. *
10:30 pm Dinner.
11:00 pm Live streaming. Observations.
12:00 am He plays music for live streaming. Good night. He looks at the stars.

 

Time Between Us Trailer

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