Both Sides, Now 2023-24

A year-long arts-based community development project with elders on death and dying, 2023-24
Lead artist
With ArtsWok Collaborative and Yishun Health
Exhibition in March 2024

Documented on: https://bothsidesnow.sg/wellness-kampung-765-nee-soon/#exhibition-programmes

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Standing in the waves of time, gazing at the horizon between life and death, one turns to another and breaks the silence: “How do you prepare to leave this world?”
This year, we sail with a band of brave elders to explore what it means to live well, and leave well. With an arts and asset-based community development approach, we are excavating the taboos of death, end-of-life conversations and choices.
In the ocean of this shared endeavour, the waves carry us toward places of light and dark, sorrow and joy. Join us in the Yishun community to intimately contemplate and celebrate lives, legacies, and transitions with an exhibition of artworks and programmes, including conversations with and tours by senior collaborators.

Lim Soh Joo as cosmic philosopher discusses existential questions with a visitor to her installation

Magdalene Yap (in pink) with her mother and artwork on caregiving, which included a letter to caregivers and images taken by Salty Xi Jie Ng

Koh Tong Cheng co-facilitates end-of-life conversations with the public with a Both Sides, Now volunteer