Routine as Repertoire

A little over a year ago, I begun a new routine of swimming three days a week. I was inspired by you beautiful souls while filming for . I never realized how being in water helped me in so many ways aside from it being the one exercise I can do without wearing my lymphedema compression garments; releases my scar tissues from surgery, strengthened my hyper-mobile body, allowed me moments of quietness and peace. Thank you Swimming.

And thank YOU for being part of the project, especially to for helping me with it. I have not been posting actively but will resume in 2022.
Sending lots of love,
San

Hello friends, I will be talking about Routine as Repertoire together with Danette Joy Walker who shared her routines in the project. Please join if you are free! You can register for the event using this link https://forms.gle/GKZyu9TFaA7BgQi46.

On Thursday, July 22nd at 4pm pst/ 7pm est, July 23rd at 7am Singapore time, artist Weng-San Sit will share her work Routine as Repertoire, a multi-media project that explores routines that women and non-binary individuals incorporate into our lives as our bodies go through transformation and challenges. Through the sharing of routines, perhaps experiences such as illnesses, disabilities, aging, motherhood, and gender transitioning can be viewed beyond the tragic or heroic polarities, and the experiences may exist and be represented in all their complexities.

San will be joined by Danette Joy Walker, an artist and advocate who collaborated in the project, to have a dialogue about their experiences with illness and routines, and what it means to share those experiences. They will then facilitate a workshop reflecting upon routines in our lives or the lives of those around us using language and visual art, and discuss its relationship with labor and healing.

Healing/Arts brings together creative practitioners from literary studies, medical humanities, disability justice, and performance for a series of talks and workshops on the relationship between the arts and health activism.

Visit RoutineAsRepertoire.com to view the exhibition and https://healingartssymposium.wordpress.com/upcoming/ to learn more

Danette Joy Walker is an artist and an advocate. She has the unique perspective of being a Black woman who is experiencing the daily dance with metastatic breast cancer using traditional methods of treatment as well as incorporating complementary wholistic practices. As an advocate, she is passionate about helping women heal as well as empowering them with knowledge, research, and opportunities. Currently, she leads a weekly meditation, a monthly dance workshop, and an online project called Chant Des Oiseaux, which is a sacred space for Women Of Color. It combines the breast cancer experience with simplicity, and a love of life and self.

Walker holds a degree in psychology with high honors and is a published author in the Journal of Social Psychology. She has been trained by some of the most highly esteemed leaders in the field of yoga, meditation, energy healing, photography, and dance.

Weng-San Sit was born in Singapore and is currently based in Los Angeles, United States. She works primarily with photography and video, complementing them with text, archival materials, and other media as the project dictates. She received a BA in Economics at the National University of Singapore, General Certificate from the International Center of Photography and graduated with an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.