Communal Composition II
Cherry Chan ft. DJ Zai and Itek
Communal Composition II is a durational participatory installation unfolding over three hours, where visitors become co-authors of a living artwork shaped by sound, gesture, and collective presence.
An evolving soundtrack, mixed live by DJs, provides the tonal ground for the work—shifting between rhythms and textures that participants attune to through spontaneous gestures of marking, weaving, and pleating. Over time, these collective actions accumulate into an evolving tableau that blurs the boundaries between drawing, sculpture, and ritual.
In this iteration, visitors are encouraged to arrive in muted tones of beige, brown, or black, and to create ephemeral crowns from leaves, underscoring the work’s grounding in care, ecology, and communal embodiment. A live camera transposes these gestures into manipulated moving images across an LED screen, layered with images of living relics (local botany remixed) rendering participation itself as an ever-shifting composition.
Transforming the space into an environment of attunement, Communal Composition II invites sound, form, and shared presence to merge into a continuously unfolding artwork.
Cherry Chan (Singapore)
As an electronic music artist and DJ, Cherry Chan has performed as an opening act for MODERAT, Hudson Mohawke and Jamie XX; played at Brain feeder and Low End Theory (Los Angeles, USA), Worldwide Festival (Sete, France) and A Taste Of Sonar (London, UK).
Music writer Dave Jenkins from Bandcamp once noted that Chan’s mixtape drew a delicate thread through Singapore’s electronic underground, capturing a deep and emotional spacey aesthetic, providing a moving musical snapshot of a city abuzz with exciting experimental and innovative talents. In recent years, Cherry curated and produced site-specific audiovisual projects featuring large scale architectural projection mapping; soundtracks for neighborhoods and street art murals and digital-first performance capsules, highlighting the works of fellow artists on the Syndicate label.
Syndicate was co-founded by Cherry with the intention of deconstructing current norms of dance music in Singapore, and to synergise visual ideas with performances, creating audio-visual installations in a myriad of spaces and contexts, expanding platforms of expression for artists.
