Eunice Lacaste

Eunice Lacaste was born in the Philippines and she grew up in Singapore, where her whole family was naturalised. After her art degree at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, she continued her postgraduate back at LaSalle Singapore.

Currently, Eunice focuses on participatory art that engages the audience and the communal space. As an emerging practitioner, she intends on decompartmentalising the aesthetic and the ethical, only to repackage them together in a more inclusive approach.

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A Hand for a Hand

Fourth Series + 19 Jul 2019

51 Waterloo Street

A Hand for a Hand is a participatory game that situates two players in a trade-off for laborious acts such as cleaning shoes, applying pore strips, or singing a song. Players are assigned a task by spinning the labour wheel and perform the task for each other. After completing the task, they rate each other to decide the winner. Names of winners, losers, and drawn players are displayed on a scoreboard.

Unlike in a society with a determined currency, the game lets individuals value each other by relative merit. Performed labour should be active and mindful compared to a passive handing over of dollar bills for goods and services. The work looks for alternative systems of exchange with relational outcomes.

Performed by Sonia Kwek.