Tangram and Asian Comedy Showcase: REMIX

What to Expect

Tangram are flipping the script with an evening of comedy and new music by East and Southeast Asian creatives. The spirit of it? Punching back at Orientalism in Western classical music and bringing audiences into their own imaginative soundworlds and hilarious stories.

Hosted by comedian Sam See, Tangram’s newest project intertwines an eclectic range of commissioned music for Western and East Asian instruments with live comedic performances. Featuring new music by Beibei Wang, Dasom Baek and Alex Tay — alongside reimagined arrangements of works by Giacomo Puccini, Claude Debussy and more — Tangram thoughtfully reframe perspectives on Chinese cultures. Accompanied with comedic performances by Ken Cheng, Blank Peng, Jinhao Li and Jen Zhang, they cross lines between cultural appropriation, dialogue and celebration, all in their own words.

Come join Tangram to explore questions of identity and ownership through creative experimentation, parody and of course, laughter. In their refusal to be essentialised, they’re ready to have some fun.

Tangram

Tangram is an artist collective specialising in multidisciplinary and cross-cultural productions. Their work builds on a foundation of contemporary classical music, drawing out its capacity for storytelling by interweaving design, movement, text, film, visual installation and performance art. Nominated for the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award 2023 for being ‘truly innovative’, Tangram projects have ranged from collaborations with Chinese sword dance and Chinese opera masters, programmes of music made for stones, ice blocks and plastic bags, and performances with live action painting and audience participation.