PROCESSION. POSSESSION.
by Sean Cham
Audio Trail (2025)
by Sean Cham
Audio Trail (2025)
Audio Engineer, Sound Designer
Commissioned by The Everyday Museum, Singapore Art Museum
In partnership with National Archives of Singapore
In conjunction with Singapore Biennale 2025
In partnership with National Archives of Singapore
In conjunction with Singapore Biennale 2025
Written and performed by Sean Cham
Field recordings by Syafiq Halid
Field recordings by Syafiq Halid
An embodied essay. An aural provocation. A sonic procession.
Procession. Possession. is commissioned by The Everyday Museum, a public art initiative by the Singapore Art Museum. The site-specific piece was composed to guide listeners through Singapore’s Civic District from colonial times to the present. Beginning at the Fort Canning Flagstaff and concluding at Queen Elizabeth Walk, the episode conjures the city’s spectres, engaging both the material and symbolic dimensions of its landscape: what endures in the present, and what has borne witness from our past.
This episode is a collage of sonic and textual fragments including oral histories from the National Archives of Singapore, field recordings, songs, and poetic as well as ‘critical fabulations’. Together, the work confronts the legacies of the British Empire, the abrasions of a nascent independent country, and contemporary civic discourses. It calls upon the listener to become an active participant in a space of collective memorialisation. Procession. Possession. is an invitation to attend to the lamentations and jubilations, griefs and disorientations of the city’s spectres and the countless unrecorded ancestors.
Procession. Possession. is commissioned by The Everyday Museum, a public art initiative by the Singapore Art Museum. The site-specific piece was composed to guide listeners through Singapore’s Civic District from colonial times to the present. Beginning at the Fort Canning Flagstaff and concluding at Queen Elizabeth Walk, the episode conjures the city’s spectres, engaging both the material and symbolic dimensions of its landscape: what endures in the present, and what has borne witness from our past.
This episode is a collage of sonic and textual fragments including oral histories from the National Archives of Singapore, field recordings, songs, and poetic as well as ‘critical fabulations’. Together, the work confronts the legacies of the British Empire, the abrasions of a nascent independent country, and contemporary civic discourses. It calls upon the listener to become an active participant in a space of collective memorialisation. Procession. Possession. is an invitation to attend to the lamentations and jubilations, griefs and disorientations of the city’s spectres and the countless unrecorded ancestors.
