Sim Chi Yin’s monologue performance One Day We’ll Understand, which premiered at the Esplanade Singapore, Waterfront Theatre, explores memory and inheritance through her compelling family history Presented by Asia TOPA, Australia’s major triennial of Asia-Pacific performance, the performance will take place at the Footscray Community Arts between February 27 and March 1, 2025. Set against the Malayan Emergency, the performance is part-documentary and part-speculative, examining how we contend with the past and the future. Through the lens of Sim’s life and camera, we time travel into her family archive, recovering traces left in the wake of the anti-colonial war in British Malaya and beyond. 
 

In addition, the exhibition Chronotopia will accompany Sim Chi Yin’s performance One Day We’ll Understand between February 4 — March 22, 2025. The works in Chronotopia raise questions of trans-generational inheritance by positing connections across geographies, using speculative methods of “critical fabulation” to interrupt the archive. The exhibition is created in collaboration with curatorial consultant Sam I-shan and exhibition designer Benjamin Bannan. 

Photo by Joseph Nair, Culturelink Sg; from Sim Chi Yin’s monologue performance One Day We’ll Understand at Esplanade Singapore, Waterfront Theatre

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