PuSh Blog

SKIN

November 12, 2025

Image description: A performer sits on a blue bench, their face and most of their body covered by a blue sleeping bag. Their hands and one foot, the only parts of them that are visible, are tense, extended wide and folding in towards their shrouded body. Behind them, out of focus, a second dancer sits behind a sleeping bag in a similar position. Around them both, the ground is scattered with large grey sheets.

Presenting Supporter: The Parachute Fund Touch // Transformation // Relation Every body tells its story through the skin.  Constantly shifting through contact, the skin transforms—between bodies, and in its exchange with the earth, whose surface […]

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THIRST TRAP

November 18, 2024

THIRST TRAP is a sound piece that audiences experience from the comfort of their bathtubs, examining the potential consequences the future might hold if the world’s resources continue to be plundered. Originally conceived during lockdown, […]

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L’addition

November 12, 2024

Two men at a restaurant. One is a waiter. The other, a customer. Perfectly normal. Or so it seems. The customer orders a drink. The waiter pours. What follows is an unpredictable descent into chaos, […]

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BLEU NÉON

November 08, 2024

Bathed in luminescence that evokes the glowing urban nightscape of a distant and imagined Saigon, Châu Kim-Sanh beckons the senses through fluorescent haze to her ancestral land. At home in this intimate space, she explores […]

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The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes

November 14, 2023

A man sits on a couch leaning away from what appears to be a taxidermy tiger. Behind him is a wall of mounted animal taxidermy heads.

When AI takes over from human intelligence, how will people be treated? Weaving a narrative through human rights, sexual politics, and the projected dominance of artificial intelligence, The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes is […]

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Returns

November 14, 2023

A person standing in an uneven stance with one leg far behind the other. The person is wearing a shirt that is pulled over their head and torso, and red socks with holes in them.

Note: This installation is open to the public from Jan 7–Feb 3. Visitors are free to come and go during the installation’s opening hours.  An imaginative convergence of dance, labour and garment fabrication, Returns is […]

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Dear Laila

November 14, 2023

A woman smiling and curiously sniffing a jar full of herbs. She appears to be looking at an ornate box containing letters, a stack of cards, a small diorama of a building, a tabletop cactus, and a tiny jar.

“Dear Laila, you are five now and have started to ask me where I grew up, and why we can’t go there. This is me trying to give you an answer.” The seeds of this […]

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asses.masses

November 14, 2023

A wideshot of a person facing a projection on a stage. The projection is a glowing blue square pattern. There are light blue shards floating out from the square. The person is standing in the front row, with their arms slightly lifted on their sides.

The unemployed donkeys have one demand: the humans must surrender their machines and give all donkeys their jobs back. But revolution is never easy! asses.masses is a custom-made video game about labour, technophobia and sharing […]

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