Rave

T:>Works’ Per°Form CoThink Lab Fellow, Bussy Temple, presents Father’s Womb, a rave with an all queer and gender non-conforming lineup, wishing to celebrate those who do not find themselves settled on a single identity this pride season.

Rave spaces often lack the opportunity for gathering and encounter before the music begins. Prior to the party, Father’s Womb invites the queer ravers to The Sanctuary, an immersive space of togetherness to rest, share, and explore queer kinship and rave intimacies. It will provide mirrors, dressing/powdering area, minimal makeup tools, cushions to rest on, with private toilets available as well.

The ravers are encouraged to bring along any personal items they are ready to let go of or would like to contribute to The Sanctuary — paintings, writings, letters, photographs, objects. These items will make up the many small shrines around the space.

Collectively energising and bonding, The Sanctuary is a space where trust and care for one another feels firm and unshaken, where queer rituals manifest before the rave in ways that feel safer and comfortable, without judgement.

Video documentation of Father’s Womb. Video by 8t6. (Contains flashing lights and may not be suitable for photosensitive epilepsy.)

A collective of creatives organising raves centred around queer, trans, nonbinary and femme individuals, Bussy Temple organically formed through the shared frustration over the lack of non-cis-men queer spaces in Singapore. Their parties serve as a social and political tool to activate the queer imagination and transformative potentials of gender and identity, as well as create safe spaces for the queer community to let go, glitch, and expand our ways of being.

From left to right, top to bottom: Nydia Shiang, Zenon, Minsoo Bae, Bruce Lim, Aki Hassan, Jo Ho