Sypnosis

At a bittersweet juncture, where imminent relocation from their sustainability and community-building space at 91 Lor Chencharu will occur, Jamming Space 2024: bioCurrents by CAKE unearths common ground with Ground Up Initiative (GUI), a community of land stewards whose hearts are rooted in the regenerative qualities of the earth, cherishing the environment as teacher and bearer of wisdom.

In a kind of cosmic philosophical parallel, CAKE’s Jamming Space remains committed to rooting for and nurturing innovators engaged in unconventional narrative approaches and creative practices at the intersection of performance and technology, seeding and engineering works and excursions that embody the experience of performance and art.

CAKE has always embraced the art of living in the in-between, acknowledging transience and orchestrating the progressive synthesis of interdisciplinary creation in familiar and unfamiliar spaces. This particular opportunity to artistically innovate in a community site that will soon be vacated means so much more when you choose to gather with us, commemorating a transitioning site and ecologically conscious artistic innovation in a singular encounter.

Conceptualised by Victoria Hertel, with collaborating artists Chok Si Xuan, Isa Pengskul and Lu Hui Jun, Jamming Space 2024: bioCurrents occurs as a 36-hour jamming session situated at 91 Lor Chencharu, the vanishing home of Ground Up Initiative as it lines up for inescapable redevelopment.

We invite you to join us for the presentation section of bioCurrents happening on Saturday, December 14 from 11am to 2pm.  

bioCurrents etches a timeless memory in a transient situation; something rising from the earth belly of Ground Up Initiative.

11am – 2pm

91 Lor Chencharu

Singapore 769201

dress code: long pants casual (mosquitoes)

bioCurrents

bioCurrents explores the cultivation of slow spaces and sensory regeneration through techno-gardening. Interweaving responsive systems and eco-temporal sensibilities, the event questions what we can regain by designing technology around cycles of rest and response, rather than adapting biorhythms to the pace of digital systems.

Delving into biofeedback loops, electrical ecosystems, and recorded time, this 36-hour jamming session examines ways to bridge the rift between technologically driven rapidity and the gradual changes inherent to biological networks. Focusing on tech-mediated acts of reconnection, it invites practicing ecological tending by interfacing, inhabiting and sensing the environment. Conceptualized by Victoria Hertel, with collaborating artists Chok Si Xuan, Isa Pengskul, and Lu Hui Jun, the jam will unfold into solar-powered, kinetic, micro spaces to be discovered by visitors within the botanical habitat of the of the event.