Between Resting: A Performance by Kien Faye

Rather than treating the river as a destination, Faye approaches it as a living route where water, plants, insects, architecture, and human presence coexist in quiet negotiation. Benches, shaded ponds, river sounds, and a scaffold extending towards the water become moments to pause, observe, and respond.

An experimental contemporary trance practitioner and performer based in Kuala Lumpur, Faye's practice is rooted in Javanese and Malaysian trance traditions. Through movement, voice, natural materials, and ritual actions, he explores relationships between body, land, memory, and the environments we inhabit. His performances are less about spectacle than about cultivating heightened awareness and allowing the site to shape the body in real time.

In Between Resting, walking becomes a slow choreography of listening. Each pause becomes an encounter, each encounter a gentle offering. The work invites audiences to reconsider the rhythms of the city and the river, and to discover that even while passing through, we may still find a place to rest.