A father, a son, and a daughter.
An insurance agent, two strangers, and a therapist.

How do we connect with one another in this COVID-19 era of disconnect?

Devised by NAFA’s pioneer student cohort of BA (Hons) in Performance Making, 0.01 explores the collective loneliness and estrangement we are experiencing today, and asks how connection might play a part in our healing.

An intimate performance for 20 audience members, 0.01 invites you into a surreal, dreamlike space, to imagine the possibilities of interrelation.

Co-presented with Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. 

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In the cult film classic Chungking Express, director Wong Kar Wai explores the idea of loneliness in cramped urban spaces. Between “us” and “them”, there exists a tiny space—only 0.01cm—that separates us. Yet that tiny space can be a chasm between indifference and empathy.

Using that as a springboard, the team drew on their own relationships and stories to ask—and attempt to answer—these questions:

“What does your loneliness look like?”
“How do we begin to heal?”
and perhaps most importantly,
“What are you grieving from, in order to heal?”.

In this story, there is a father, a son, and a daughter, an insurance agent, two strangers, and a therapist.

How do we connect with one another in such times of COVID-19 that keeps all of us apart?

The first group of NAFA students from the BA (Hons) in Performance Making programme created this work. It looks into how we all feel lonely, and how we feel apart from one another today. If we connect with each other, how does it help us to feel better?

There will be 20 people in the audience. The space will be as if you are in a dream. You can imagine freely how you can relate to anything and anyone.

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Wong Kar-Wai directed the famous film Chungking Express. It looks into how people can feel lonely in small spaces in the city.

People are very close to one another in person, only 0.01cm. But people do not care for one another. They do not try to understand one another. So, people can feel like they are very far apart.

The team used that idea to start creating this story. They use their own relationships and stories to ask and answer these questions:

1. When you feel lonely, how do you feel? What do you do?
2. How can we feel better?
3. To feel better, we need to know what we are feeling sad about. What are you feeling sad about?