22—25 October 2026
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music

The Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music invites proposals for presentations and installations for Interweaving, the 2026 edition of the Performers’ Present International Artistic Research Symposium. This symposium brings together artists, researchers, and educators to explore how ideas and traditions intersect across cultures, communities, and creative practices.

Theme

Rooted in the metaphor of weaving as a universal expression of connection and process, Interweaving examines how artistic identities, methodologies, and collaborations evolve—particularly across Southeast Asian and Western heritages, human and AI creativity, and the fluid boundaries between imagination and reality.

We welcome submissions that engage with this theme through performance, scholarship, creative work, or interdisciplinary inquiry.

• Past and Present — engaging with heritage, continuity, and creative evolution across diverse musical and artistic traditions.
• Dreams and Reality — exploring imagination, perception, and transformation in the creative process, and how ideas take form through sound, movement, and material.
• Weaving Disciplinary Threads — intersecting music, art, technology, science, and philosophy to reveal new forms of artistic inquiry.
• Interweaving Music, Wellbeing and Community — reflecting on music’s capacity to connect, shape identity, and nurture collective understanding.
• Entangling Human Expression with AI — investigating collaboration, authorship, and creativity in the age of AI.