Ana Prvački in collaboration with Joyce Bee Tuan Koh and Galina Mihaleva Mouthful (masked duet)
Research Presentation
 

The Mouthful mask is both conceptual and practical. Mouthful projects a new sound which follows the guidelines of our time while it overcomes and embraces the obstacles we face with poetry and humour.

Ana Prvački in collaboration with Joyce Bee Tuan Koh and Galina Mihaleva Mouthful (masked duet)

9 January - 7 March 2021

How to breathe deeply and sing expressively in this moment when the mouth and nose embody danger? How to have pleasure in music when in its essences it is airborne and moist?

Let us return power and agency to the mouth and voice while still protecting ourselves and others. Let us express our emotions freely into the air that we all share. The Mouthful mask is both conceptual and practical. It exposes the breath and gives us an earful and eyeful of air. Mouthful projects a new sound which follows the guidelines of our time while it overcomes and embraces the obstacles we face with poetry and humor.

Mouthful is conceived by Ana Prvački, produced and manifested by Galina Mihaleva and activated by Reginald Jalleh and Zerlina Tan with original music by Joyce Bee Tuan Koh. A transdisciplinary, collaborative work, Mouthful is realized with two performative activations and as an installation and sound work in The Vitrine at NTU CCA Singapore, Block 43 Malan Road.


Ana Prvački in collaboration with Joyce Bee Tuan Koh and Galina Mihaleva Mouthful (masked duet), January 9 — March 7, 2021, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore
Ana Prvački in collaboration with Joyce Bee Tuan Koh and Galina Mihaleva Mouthful (masked duet), January 9 — March 7, 2021, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore
Ana Prvački in collaboration with Joyce Bee Tuan Koh and Galina Mihaleva Mouthful (masked duet), January 9 — March 7, 2021, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore
Ana Prvački in collaboration with Joyce Bee Tuan Koh and Galina Mihaleva Mouthful (masked duet), January 9 — March 7, 2021, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore
Ana Prvački in collaboration with Joyce Bee Tuan Koh and Galina Mihaleva Mouthful (masked duet), January 9 — March 7, 2021, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore

Contributors
Ana Prvacki
Ana Prvacki
Artist-in-Residence
United States

Ana Prvacki’s (b. 1976, Serbia) work has been included in many international exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012); Sydney Biennial (2007); Singapore Biennial (2006); Turin Triennale (2005). She has developed projects for venues and institutions such as Greeting Committee, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States (2011); Mardi, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2010); Music Derived Pain Killer, Castello di Rivoli, Italy (2009); T1 Pantagruel Syndrome, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy (2005); Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, United States (2012); Speculative Futures, Bloomberg HQ, New York, United States (2011); 25 Years Later…, Art in General, New York, United States (2007); Time Becomes Form, Artists Space, New York, United States (2008); Neutralize Negative Feelings, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, United States (2013); Performing Practice, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, United States (2012).

Joyce Koh Bee Tuan
Joyce Bee Tuan Koh
Collaborator
Singapore

Joyce Bee Tuan Koh (Singapore) composes concert music and creates sound installations and multi-media works. Versatile and collaborative, Joyce has a wealth of experience working with musicians, choreographers, theatre-makers, artists, writers, philosophers, filmmakers, and architects. Originating from her interests in architecture and interdisciplinarity, her work explores notions of sonic canvas, space, and theatre of music. As described by the International Piano Quarterly, her sound world “engages the intellect and requires a different approach”. Her works have been presented at international festivals notably, International Computer Music Conferences, International Symposium on Electronic Arts, World Stage Design, Biennale Musiques France, Sir Henry Wood Promenade UK, Melbourne Arts Festival, Sydney InsideOut Festival, Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore Dan:s Festival, and Soundislands Festival.

Galina Mihaleva
Galina Mihaleva
Collaborator
Singapore

Galina Mihaleva (Bulgaria/Singapore) is Associate Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, where she teaches Technology, Art and Fashion. Her research investigates the physical and psychological relationship we have with garments or what she calls “wearable technology.” Mihaleva taught at Arizona State University for more than 15 years in costume design, where she often worked with renowned choreographers worldwide. She is the founder of Galina Couture in Scottsdale, Arizona where her team develops exclusive and unique collections making use of new materials. Mihaleva received the Rumi award in the US and won first place at Tiffany’s Paris Fashion Week, 2016.