George Chua Khim Ser

Date of Birth: 27/2/1973
NRIC no: S7307829F
Contact no: (Home) 65-6-282 5540
(Mobile)65- 9-2716547
Address: Blk 602, #13-243 Hougang Ave 4 S(530602) Singapore
E-mail: mythirdear@hotmail.com

Current and upcoming projects

Composition and live laptop music peformance with Theatreworks production Balance 20 Aug – 7 Sep
Organising Strategies, monthly experimental music event at The Substation.
Opening for German band Kreidler live at The Esplanade on the 12th Oct Solo laptop performance
Invisible Cities – Electro-acoustic music composition and presentation selected for SPARK programme by The Esplanade

Selected Performances

2003

8/1 –18/1 Beautiful Losers
by Spell Seven featuring Gerald Chew
65 Kerbau Road (Spell Seven building)
Composed and performed live experimental music to accompany the play

21/2 –22/2 Zero Hour
The Substation, Guinness Theatre
Direction/dance performance/music by George Chua
Video/drawings/harmonica by Aaron Kao

28/3 – 13/4 pulse VERSION installation
Theatreworks Black Box
As sound artist for the installation
in collaboration with Low Kee Hong (Concept) and Yuen Chee Wai (video)

5/4 Music Box
Presented by The Esplanade Theatre Studio, the Esplanade
DJ set

12/7 Locusts and Wild Honey
Telok Ayer Performing Arts Centre
Live solo laptop music performance

19/7 Strategies vol.1
The Blue Room, The Substation
Monthly expertmental music event conceived and organized by George Chua
First installment featuring solo laptop sets from Yuen Chee Wai, George Chua and Evan Tan

2002

3/5 – 5/5 A Time for Drunken Horses
Part of The Substation DanceSpace 2002
Guinness Theatre, The Substation
Full Length dance piece
Choreographed by George Chua
Performed by george Chua and Rizman Putra
With music composed by George Chua

12/7 & Orang Orang
13/7 The Sculpture Square
A vocal/dance performance
Directed by Zai Kuning
Performed by George Chua, Misumi Suzaki, Angie Ng & Zai Kuning

18/10& Bone Machine
25/10 Dance Studio, The Substation
Solo Dance Improvisation

2001

17/2 Untitled
Pan Sonic live, Insomnia, Singapore
(Opening act of solo dance performance for Finland experimental electronic group Pan Sonic)

9/3-11/3 There’s No Need to Go Outside
Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
(Choreography & performance with Indera Tasripin for group dance. Performed by Indera Tasripin, Zizi Ahzar & Dennis Cheok)

18/3 Localpalloza 98.7FM
Youth Park, Singapore
(Hulusi performance with electronic act Carp 3000)

23/3 Bye Bye Albert
An Artist Village event
Coffee Shop opposite the Substation
(Dry Bones Bean Sprout solo dance performance)

23/3-28/3 Passing
A mandarin play directed by Chia Hong Khye with the Singapore Broadway Playhouse
Guinness Theatre, The Substation, Singapore
(Original music composition and performance)

16/6 Untitled
Dance performance with Bonemap(Australian multi-disciplinary art group) and Misumi Suzaki at location Loke Yew Street’s site installation Delocating Margin by Francis Ng

2/6-3/6
29/6-30/6 1 Degree North
The Substation Alley way, Singapore
Dance & Installation with Bonemap and Misumi Suzaki

12/7 The Wild Edge
Australia High Commission, Singapore
Dance & Installation with Bonemap and Misumi Suzaki

22/8 – 18/9 Fed On Arts Festival
Cairns, Queensland Australia
Art Residency Programme with Bonemap working on the Conflux project
Also performed Driftwood at Baggage project curated by Sharon Pacey – a site specific project at Cairns Domestic Airport

27/9 Character Study
The Substation, Guinness Theatre, Singapore
Solo dance show of Michelle Storz
Invited as collaborator on a piece called Touch

30/11 A Time for Drunken Horses (work-in-progress)
The German School, Singapore
Solo dance performance
Reflections-Singaporean Artists at the German School curated by Rainer Gebuzyk

27/12 – 31/12 Pulau Ubin Island Art Project
Organised by The Artists Village
Invited to stay in the island and create work and dialogue

2000

11/5 – 14/5 String In the Ocean,
Zai Kuning solo show, Guinness Theatre, The Subsation, Singapore
(Invited as a guest performer for all shows for music improvisation)

10/6 – 11/6 Waterloo Arts Alive,
Sculpture Square inconjunction with Singapore Arts Festival
(Abandoned, solo dance improvisation)
(Brother’s Hair, Sister’s Fair, reading by Sia Joo Hiang in collaboration with sound performance)
(Passion Fruit, dance improvisation with Indera Tasripin and Misumi Suzaki)

22/7 A.I.M. (Artist Investigating Monument),
The Artist Village, Raffles Landing Site, Singapore
(Untitled outdoor performance with Kai incorporating action based and installation based elements with body movement and music)

10/10-11/10 Legend of the Giants
A play directed by Nick Ng with Singapore Broadway Playhouse
(Original music composition and live performance with ethnic instrument and percussion)
DBS Auditorium, Singapore

27/10 Dead fingers Talking
Worms Festival 2, Plastic Kinetic Worms, Singapore (Solo dance performance)

28/10 Dirge
Worms Festival 2, Plastic Kinetic Worms, Singapore
(Music improvisation using Chinese pipe instrument Hulusi)

1999

23/6 Labo20 vol.3,
Dance Studio, The Substation, Singapore
(AbsurdE, dance collaboration with the late Leonard Lee)

5/8 – 7/8 Noalibi,
Auditorium, Singapore Art Musuem, Singapore
(Physical theatre performance with Metabolic Theatre Laboratory under the direction of Zai Kuning)

4/9 – 5/9 Noalibi,
Sept Fest, Guinness Theatre, The Substation, Singapore

10/9 – 12/9 Noalibi,
Mcaulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

14/9 – 15/9 Noalibi,
Tiny Alice Theatre, Tokyo, Japan

20/9 – 22/9 Noalibi,
Kyungsung University, Pusan, Korea

31/12 Scars Into Stars
Post-Ulu- The Artist Village millenium gig, Guinness Theatre, The Substation, Singapore
(Solo dance performance)

Other works

Freedom Cannot Be Organised – My Third Ear( CD album)
(A self produced experimental electronic music under the pseudonym My Third Ear)

Stories About Love film directed by Abdul Nizam produced by Eric Khoo(original soundtrack album)
(Music composed and performed with Zai Kuning)

If Worms Could Speak ( CD album compilation in conjunction with Worms Festival 2)
(Contributed a composition entitled Dirge)

Current 20/10/01
Conceptualise and curated Current: A night of home breed electronic music. Part of Worms Festival 3

While You Sleep group photo exhibition by Lomographic Society 22/3/02 – 1/3/02
Arteliar Frank and Lee gallery

6th onedotzero festival
Institute of Contemporary Art in London
The works by George Chua for While You Sleep exhibition selected by onedotzero.com UK to be shown from 17/5/02 – 26/5/02