Hello (:
I’m a director and performance-maker, as well as a dramaturg and facilitator.
At its core, my work is about creating spaces where people can explore and embody gentler ways of being with themselves and other human/object bodies.
I also have a joint practice with dance artist Bernice Lee. In our long-term performance project Tactility Studies, we seek to draw attention to the reparative and transgressive nature of touch, and the delicacy of how bodies can encounter other bodies, human or non-human.
In addition to Bernice, I am stretched and nourished as a person and practitioner by a constellation of other people, such as researcher-practitioner Corrie Tan as well as playwright and editor Nabilah Said.
I graduated from the University of British Columbia, Canada, with a Psychology (Honours) and Theatre (Major) degree. I’ve worked closely with Drama Box, Centre 42, Objectifs — Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, and was also an Associate Member of Dance Nucleus from 2018 to 2022.
In 2021, I co-founded CITRUS practices, a working group that seeks to expand conversations and imaginations around care practices in artmaking. I am also part of the Something-Something Working Group, which aims to imagine and prototype new paradigms and infrastructures for knowledge production, artistic practice and their contingent entanglements.
→ email: guakhee@gmail.com
→ download: CV - July 2022
FORMAL EDUCATION
2014 — Bachelor of Arts (Major in Theatre, Honours in Psychology), University of British Columbia, Canada
SELECTED DIRECTORIAL / MAKING WORK
2023 — HOT POT TALK: Cooking Up Recipes, co-directed with Adib Kosnan
2022 — Tactility Studies: Where Our Lost Things Live, co-directed with Bernice Lee
2020 — Touch You Later!, co-directed with Bernice Lee
2019 — Songs for Tomorrow, Drama Box and ArtsWok Collaborative
2018 — Island Song, Song and Dance Players
SELECTED FACILITATIVE / DRAMATURGICAL WORK
2022 — +DISCUSS, Singapore International Festival of Arts
2021-2023 — SEEDLINGS, The Esplanade
2020 — Making Performances with Care: Approaches to Care and Intimacy in Performance-Making
2020 — The Lesson: An Online Experiment, Drama Box
2019–2020 — HELLO! Let’s talk…
2019 — PASSPORT: Anthony Chin × Christophe & Sharon, OH! Open House
SELECTED COMMUNITY BUILDING WORK
2021-ongoing — CITRUS practices
2018 — yogurtfruit: minor explorations into process
2018–2019 — Somatics Working Group