in-inhabitations sees Singaporean artist Abigail Goh track the development of Telok Ayer Arts Club from renovation site to restaurant using sounds, forms, and objects. She inhabits the space to watch, study, feel, and experience its pulse as a response to the rapid change and non-stop upheaval we witness in urban spaces like the Central Business District.
Using the Arts Club as a medium for sound, Abigail will observe and collect sounds, forms, and objects, and reconfigure their function to create sound instruments. These instruments perform or re-enact the kind of sounds we hardly pay attention to, such as the reverberation within a pipe, or a chair dragging across a floor. She also documents her experiences by drawing her visualisation of these sounds on paper, be it a sound she hears, or a sound her objects will perform.
As Abigail’s experiences of the space accumulates, more of these drawings and sound-performing objects will start inhabiting the Arts Club. Throughout the duration of her show, a special menu comprising a deconstructed dessert of Frozen Lemon Dome, Orange & Coconut Crumble, and Sweet Melody (a fruit-forward gin and tea concoction), will be made available.
Pop by the Arts Club to view Abigail’s art or join her on Tuesdays (4 Sep, 11 Sep, 18 Sep, 25 Sep, 2 Oct, 9 Oct) between 2.30pm to 4.30pm to watch her work unfold.