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MELYN CHOW
performance practitioner
Works
Shaking shame (2022)
A contagious landscape of shaking bodies, driven by the words of Audre Lorde “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”. An intimate performance that looks at shame in connection with our pleasure and liberation.
Concept & direction: Melyn Chow
Players: Estela Canal, Laura Boser, Tashi Iwaoka, Elliot Dehaspe, Melyn Chow
Scenographer: Lena van Drie
Repetitor: Sarah Ringoet
Advisor: Floor van Leeuwen
Photo credits: Aleksej Ovsiannikov
Concept & direction: Melyn Chow
Players: Estela Canal, Laura Boser, Tashi Iwaoka, Elliot Dehaspe, Melyn Chow
Scenographer: Lena van Drie
Repetitor: Sarah Ringoet
Advisor: Floor van Leeuwen
Photo credits: Aleksej Ovsiannikov
Pomegranate sin research (2020)
A ritual of washing away our sins, through the breaking and consuming of the pomegranate.
Concept & direction: Melyn Chow
Research & play: Merette van Hijfte, Melyn Chow
Concept & direction: Melyn Chow
Research & play: Merette van Hijfte, Melyn Chow
I happen to be doing this for you (2021)
I happen to be doing this for you is a mime porn film installation that looks at intimacy and pleasure through the erotic. Inspired by the words of Audre Lord, "For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing."
Concept & direction: Melyn Chow, Kim Zeevalk
Cinematography: Kim Zeevalk, Melyn Chow, Djoewe Walta
Mime players: Josefine Aavild Rahn, Evite Ancarola, Matteo Bifulco, Ruth Borg, Laura Boser, Mher Brutyan, Melyn Chow, Jesse Debille, Meghan Dobblesteijn Bisschops, Tim van Dongen, Sjaid Foncé, Charlotte Gillian, Merette van Hijfte, Luuk Weers, Kim Zeevalk
Artistic advisor: Francesca Lazzeri
Technical advisor: Huib Folmers
Decor advisor: Judith van de Pas
Special thanks to: DAS research development fund, Marijn de Langen, Stella van Leeuwen, Tessel Verschoor, Wouter Janmaat
Concept & direction: Melyn Chow, Kim Zeevalk
Cinematography: Kim Zeevalk, Melyn Chow, Djoewe Walta
Mime players: Josefine Aavild Rahn, Evite Ancarola, Matteo Bifulco, Ruth Borg, Laura Boser, Mher Brutyan, Melyn Chow, Jesse Debille, Meghan Dobblesteijn Bisschops, Tim van Dongen, Sjaid Foncé, Charlotte Gillian, Merette van Hijfte, Luuk Weers, Kim Zeevalk
Artistic advisor: Francesca Lazzeri
Technical advisor: Huib Folmers
Decor advisor: Judith van de Pas
Special thanks to: DAS research development fund, Marijn de Langen, Stella van Leeuwen, Tessel Verschoor, Wouter Janmaat
Intimacy currency (2020)
My first online work which took place in Singapore, exploring my desire to feel alive and intimacy through erotism during our time of collective isolation.
Maker & player: Melyn Chow
Advisor: Marijn De Lange
Maker & player: Melyn Chow
Advisor: Marijn De Lange
To hold & to have (2020)
What is love and marriage? I came back to Singapore during the lockdown knowing that my parents’ marriage was not doing well. The making of this video created a space for them to be confronted with their discomfort and desire. It is an attempt to capture the awkward intimacy of marriage, which is more apparent in Asian culture.
Concept & direction: Melyn Chow
Parents and performers: Chow Teik Mong, Tay Siew Ling
Video production house: Chen Jiexiao (Ricebowl pixels)
Dramaturg: Dr Nidya Shanthini Manokara
Special thanks: RAW Moves, Ricky Sim
Concept & direction: Melyn Chow
Parents and performers: Chow Teik Mong, Tay Siew Ling
Video production house: Chen Jiexiao (Ricebowl pixels)
Dramaturg: Dr Nidya Shanthini Manokara
Special thanks: RAW Moves, Ricky Sim
To have & to hold (2019)
The desire and search for security and stability through marriage
Maker & performer: Melyn Chow
Sound Designer: Robbi Meertens
Advisor: Floor van Leeuwen
Maker & performer: Melyn Chow
Sound Designer: Robbi Meertens
Advisor: Floor van Leeuwen
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