[Listening Circle] Across a Membrane: Artist Talk by Aine Nakamura

By Aine Nakamura (US/Japan)

Presented by and , in
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Address: 1 McNally Street Singapore 187940

Artist Talk (Open to all)

2.30 PM - 3:30 PM

Venue: F101a Seminar Room

Workshop

3:35 PM - 5 PM

Venue: H102 (L1 dance studio)

(Please register for the workshop via Google Form:

Due to limited capacity, successful participants will be informed via email)

“I started to generate my art form through a few experiences that shifted my view and my
listening. One of them was this. I was asked to introduce myself without making sounds. It was
snowing outside. I moved my body slowly. I realized I was listening not only to the sound of the
room but more so to the sound outside the window, imagining the world outside, and then
listening to myself, embracing myself in it. I began to listen to songs in body, and I continue to
do so. In addition, performance experiences and a few vocal, physical and psychological injuries
helped me search what sensing, listening and art-making can be. I would like to spend time with
the participants to think about the possibilities and potentialities of voice and body, and art.
Being able to hold and be together in fragility is a strength, I believe. I will talk and give a few
work exercises with a hope to learn together about what it means to create a space for beings
and feelings, and how we might imagine and evolve for relations even at this crisis of the world.”

About the Artist:

Aine Nakamura (US/Japan)

With her unique transnational background growing up
between Japan and the United States, Aine Nakamura
has developed her transborder and interdisciplinary art of
voice and movement. She tells stories through her
performances, exploring nuanced potentialities of voice
and body, and of listening and sensing. Her recent works
include her solo performance of sung and spoken voice
and body Under an Unnamed Flower, presented at the
2022 Venice Biennale, which focused on war, weaving,
silk, and mourning, gestures and objects connecting the
multiple; solo performance project Circle hasu We plant
seeds in the spring of mountains (2022), presented at
Theatertreffen at Berliner Festspiele after its premiere at
the Gallatin Galleries, focused on time-transcending
recovery in season changes; and a month-long
site-specific exhibition and performance project hands on
tape (2025), presented at The Lab in SF, unfolded over
research, conversations and collaborations, exploring
architectural changes and hidden stories, silk threads,
erased labor, and metamorphosis of bodies and materials
as she explored through experiences of surgeries and
changes of inner shapes in a community. Nakamura is
recently interested in the topics of love, fragile kindness,
and folds or wrinkles, a realm that is ungraspable but open
to opacity and evolvement. Nakamura has been awarded
the Venice Biennale Site-Specific Performance Grant, the
Fulbright Fellowship (Berlin), and The Leo Bronstein
Homage Award (New York University).
https://evaaine.com/home

This artist talk is organised as part of the , a gathering designed for mutual learning and exchange between participants, the Listening Circle offers talks, participatory experiences and workshops by diverse practitioners who share methods, practices and knowledge on listening, care, and collaboration.

To apply as a participant, sign up here: https://forms.gle/shGrgcZWDUcpMAWm8

Since 2021, The Listening Biennial has sought to foster research and discussion on listening, recognising its transformative power as key to enriching personal lives and social initiatives, and which supports ethical and political practices. As part of the Singapore Night Festival, the artists of The Listening Biennial invite you to enter the space of Third Listening, to listen out for a plurality of life-forms as well as pathways of interconnection between seemingly irreconcilable differences.

The curators of the Listening Biennial, Third Edition are Alecia Neo, Soledad García Saavedra, Suvani Suri with Brandon LaBelle.

Launched for the first time in Singapore, the Singapore edition is curated by artist Alecia Neo and co-programmed with publisher Ng Kah Gay of Ethos Books.

Singapore Edition: https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

LASALLE College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street, Singapore, Singapore