“ We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology’s virtues. “ 

~ Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

 

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How do we communicate and express ourselves clearly and thoroughly through words that appear on a screen with no thread of emotional connections and expression? How do the local slangs such as Singapore Singlish add an additional layer of agency to the way we converse with one another? How is art a true form of expression when we can view art through a simple click of the button? We therefore no longer experience art in the way we used to or do we still beg to differ?

 

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“Art is communication.”

~ Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on water: Reflections on Faith and Art

 

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Stemming from a real working WhatsApp chat, this work will deliver the common jargons of online chatting and local collaqualism through contemporary dance.  A collaborative merge of conversational and physical language as a form of communication addresses the often-misunderstood situations that arise from our dependency of technology communication.