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Singapore Art Week 2025: Melati Suryodarmo mixes dreams with technology in S’pore performance
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Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo will stage If We Were XYZ, an exploration of the ways dreams intersect with technology, at Singapore Art Week.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF MELATI SURYODARMO
SINGAPORE – Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo has a semi-comic claim to fame. In 2012, a video of her work Exergie – Butter Dance was edited by a YouTuber to sync with English singer-songwriter Adele’s wistful hit Someone Like You.
In a cocktail dress and heels, she dances – or more accurately teeters and totters – over 20 blocks of melting butter.
