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.

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DJ Zai (Singapore)

One of the most unconventional selectors of his generation, Zai is an emerging  passionate groove digger whose hard-to-label sets traverse genres, decades and continents. Using vinyls only, his music adopts anything goes approach from classic funk, soul and disco jams to just released underground hip hop and house bootlegs, infectious grooves from the veins of reggae, dub and dancehall, Latin or Japanese city pop flavour.

Expect a diversity of danceable sounds delivered with turntablist flair; a deep dive into Zai’s eclectic (and literal) record crates.