3D/Interactive Award Winner 2021

Zoom, Click, Waltz - Sarah Choo Jing (Singapore)

Artwork description

Zoom, click, waltz is a multimedia installation comprising 13 LED screens depicting individuals in various states of “performance”, while isolated within separate window frames. What began as an attempt to communicate with neighbours during Circuit Break, developed into an imagined possibility of individuals connecting through dance.

Over a period of 2 months, residents received mailed instruction requests to perform at an interval spanning 30 minutes. These recordings were at times effective, others, futile. Various subjects’ responses range from active to passive; with individuals participating in modes of conscious performance, and others nonchalant, in contemplation.

Juxtaposed and interspersed alongside staged, found and borrowed media, separate footages are stitched together to form an uncanny, seamless reality situated in the inter-spaces between interpretation and negotiation, truth and fiction, performativity and chance.

Partners and collaborators

Artistic Director Sarah Choo Jing Curator Ong Kian Peng Videographer & Editor Mathias Choo Rui Zhi Music Composer Teo Wei Yong Special Thanks James Sinclair Low Wei Xin Pang Teek On Tao Juinn Kai Raymond Teong Claudia Koh Yiwen Part of Singapore Art Week Supported by National Arts Council Singapore Beamerworks Our Sg Fund Presented by Supernormal Space