63-65: Notes from a Separation Performance Workshop

63-65: Notes from a Separation is a performance workshop exploring parliamentary, archival and speculative documents on the separation between Singapore and Malaysia. 

Engage in participatory activities and dialogue involving parliamentary speeches from Hansard and national archives, props and other relevant materials from 1963 to 1965. 

This is more than a workshop, it is a speculative and interrogative experience. In the absence of written records, participants are invited to speculate on what might have happened through generative technology. Drawing from inflection points in the histories of both countries, the experience will encourage contemplation of our shared past, present and future. 

It has been nearly 60 years since the separation, yet this period continues to arrest imaginations. Talks on declassifying the Albatross files, which document discussions leading up to the separation, remind us how closely intertwined Singapore and Malaysia still are today.

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Ticket Price

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Additional & Accessibility Info

• Age Limit: Recommended for those aged 15 and above. This performance workshop is open to the public.
• Language: The workshop will be conducted in English and Malay.

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Artist Bio

Bahri & Co

Bahri & Co is a producing company working in the realm of the contemporary, the traditional and everything-in-between of performance. Based in Singapore, they are a port of call for artists, producers and all types of arts workers to encounter, exchange with and engage each other.

Fasyali Fadzly (Malaysia)

Fasyali is a distinguished director, playwright, and educator, with a global presence in Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Canada and the Czech Republic. He has directed pieces by renowned playwrights Faisal Tehrani and Yasmina Reza. As a lecturer at The National Academy of Arts, Culture, and Heritage of Malaysia (ASWARA), he continues to inspire and shape the future of theatre.

Nabilah Said (Singapore)

Nabilah is a playwright, editor and artist who works with text as material. Her play ANGKAT (2019) won Best Original Script at the 2020 Life Theatre Awards. At London’s VAULT Festival, her play Inside Voices (2019) won the Outstanding New Work award and it was later published by Nick Hern Books. She is currently under commission of Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

Shaifulbahri Mohamad (Singapore)

Shaifulbahri is the Artistic Director of Bahri & Co, and is an Organising Member of Producers SG, a community network for independent producers, arts managers and self-producing artists in Singapore. He has produced and presented work in Singapore, Malaysia and the United Kingdom and is currently developing new projects with Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and South Korea.