We have an important (and exciting) update! We will be changing our company name from Saksi Bisou to KISS WITNESS.

We’ve been thinking about this change for a while. Our ethos has stayed the same—to use theatre to open up spaces of belonging for people who don’t have it in real life, to decolonise the imagination and empower people. 

We feel that Saksi Bisou conveyed that—a play on words that means ‘silent witness’ in Bahasa, but with ‘bisou’ as in ‘kiss’ in French. It captured the clash of cultures and sensibilities in our work.

At the same time, Saksi Bisou sounds like a person’s name, and we get a lot of emails that start with ‘Hi Saskia’. We realised Saksi Bisou wasnt quite the neon-lit wheelchair accessible storefront we wanted it to be. It’s a bit more like the side entrance down the nameless street behind the dumpster that you can never find on Google Maps.

So, in order to continue making boundary-pushing work that is welcoming and playful and ✨vibez✨, we will now be operating under the name KISS WITNESS.

We’ve got a shiny new domain name – www.kisswitness.art – but the corner of the internet formerly known as http://www.elisabethgunawan.art will still redirect to the website until the end of the year.

We also have new contact details — send spam and love letterz to elisabeth@kisswitness.art or producer@kisswitness.art

xoxo
Elisabeth Gunawan & KISS WITNESS