Running with Strippers 2021: This Close occupies the cavernous Pasir Panjang Power Station to evoke a gathering in a time where we have grown accustomed to different ways of being together.
Six stages occupy the station. The Music Stage is set up in collaboration with UPLOADING where multi-hyphenate beatmaker Intriguant pairs music acts with video artists in a heady rush of trippy audio-visual gigs. Upon four performance stages, Planet, becomes 4 performance pieces set within audio-visual installations where the most moving sonnets and speeches from Shakespeare emanate from four singular actresses. Finally SOMNI, a boxed installation that lulls the visitor into an arresting waking dreamscape.
CAKE’s Running with Strippers platform, as an attitude, has always looked to unusual, odd, vacant spaces, like beneath viaducts, industrial drive throughs and hollowed-out classrooms to inspire adventurous artmaking and the gathering of people. In 2021, we explore creation at the power station in an excursion combining music, video art, installation and performance while grappling with the voluminous emotions raging within, in the journey of wilderness through this sprawling world.
At the Station. Powered by a wilder strain of creative energy.
Music Stage
Show #1 Artists:
Cayenne x JJ Low
deførmed x clarrot_
sl_owtalk x Yeyoon Avis Ann
Show #2 Artists:
BGourd x Tristan Lim,
Kribo Records x Natasha Hassan,
Jema x orderstudio
Planet by Kota Yamaji x Cult
Digital Artist: Kota Yamaji
Sound Designer: Philip Tan
Performers: Jean Ng, Noorlnah Mohamed, Nora Samosir, Karen Tan
Makeup Artist: Amber Lim
Somni by Intriguant
Sound Artist: Intriguant (SG)
Visual Artist / Filmmaker: Sam Shields (AUS)
Visual Artist: Irsyad Ishak (SG)
Scriptwriter / Director: Andy Pang (SG)
Creative Direction: CAKE
Spatial Design: neontights
Technical Installation: ARTFACTORY
Lighting Design: Andy Lim (stage "LIVE")
Production Manager: Natasha May
Executive Producer: Sharon Tang
Producer: Alexandre Thio
Multimedia Operator: Christopher Ong
Production Coordinator: Elias Oh
Crew: Isabelle Leong
(Source: Cake Theatrical Productions Website)