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Tay Tong

Enter Stage Right: Tay Tong

Tay Tong, or TT as he is affectionately known in arts circles locally and internationally, is one of Singapore’s pioneer producers and arts managers. After 30 years as the MD of TheatreWorks, TT left in April 2018. During his time with TheatreWorks, TT produced works that entered the Singapore and SEA canon, built TheatreWorks into

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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: Digital Public Art in Hanoi, A Mobile Library in rural Cambodia

ArtsEquator Radar features articles and posts drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region. Here’s a round-up of content from this week, scoured and sifted from a range of regional news websites, blogs and media platforms, and

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Sensorial Trail

The Sensorial Trail: Experience Art through Smell, Sound and Touch at National Gallery Singapore

Art doesn’t have to be for the eyes only. As part of the Light To Night Festival 2019, National Gallery Singapore presents The Sensorial Trail, a series of artworks that draw on your other senses – those of smell, sound, and touch – in an intimate, sometimes playful exploration of intimacy with our various senses.

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Weekly Picks: Malaysia (28 Jan –3 Feb 2019)

CounterCartographies Reading — Escobar’s Encountering Development, at Malaysia Design Archive, An initiative to understand visual culture in relation to the politics of space, this monthly group tackles Chapter 2 of Arturo Escobar’s ‘Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World’. The chapter is titled ‘The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds

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Weekly S.E.A Radar: From Cambodia’s psych rock festival to “Concept, Context, Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia” in Yangon

ArtsEquator Radar features articles and posts drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region. Here’s our first weekly round-up of content, scoured and sifted from a range of regional news websites, blogs and media platforms, and brought together

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“Jogging” To Survive: Hanane Hajj Ali at M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019

Metaphors abound in this complex work about living, loving and surviving. The broad canvas is a country at war. Jogging falls short of running full out, and this black clad woman has survived through thirty years of war in her city Beirut. Her storytelling is multi-layered and cleverly scripted, revealing a series of characters that

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Music – a propaganda promoting the Khmer Rouge socialist identity (via the Phnom Penh Post)

Shortly after their rise to power in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge sought to change the social identity of the Khmer people. Through forced relocation, expropriation of possessions and separation of family members, the regime sought to eliminate old identities as much as possible. But one curious and often overlooked aspect of their re-education programmes

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After a century of false dawns, the film industry is beginning to rise (via SEA Globe)

The rollercoaster ride of Indonesia’s film industry is currently cresting yet another hill in its bumpy, twisting history. Southeast Asia Globe talks with a feature moviemaker who’s taking a break from the big screen to tell stories for HBO Asia. Indonesian filmmaker Joko Anwar is making moves in a surging industry. He directed the first season of

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Galleries informed that art fair Art Stage Singapore cancelled (via The Straits Times)

SINGAPORE – At least five galleries slated to participate in Art Stage Singapore say the art fair has been cancelled by organisers. This would have been the ninth edition of the contemporary art fair, which was to run from Jan 25 to 27 at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre. Representatives of galleries

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Female artists, art biennial to grace National Gallery this year (via The Jakarta Post)

Indonesia’s arts scene is by no means lacking, yet most of its big names are men, with notable female artists largely unexplored. An upcoming art exhibition at the National Gallery in Central Jakarta, titled Into the Future, aims to change that. Slated to run from Feb. 26 to March 16, Into the Future will showcase

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“Dionysus”: Suzuki Tadashi Brings Vengeance to SIFA 2019

By Kathy Rowland (642 words, three-minute read) Suzuki Tadashi is one of the brand names in the international tour circuit, whose productions have earned critical praise and inspired several generations of audiences. A decade on from his last production in Singapore, Electra at the Singapore Arts Festival 2009, Suzuki Tadashi returns to Singapore in May

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The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial

Solid are the Winds: Aeolian Encounters at The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (Part II)

By Marcus Yee (1340 words, five-minute read) This is the second of a two-part essay on the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial running at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, from 24 November 2018 to 28 April 2019. Read Part I here.   Wind Songs, Molecular Vibrations Four Winds Wind, you are a beast with four heads

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Solid are the Winds: Aeolian Encounters at The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (Part I)

By Marcus Yee (1259 words, five-minute read) This is the first of a two-part essay on the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial running at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, from 24 November 2018 to 28 April 2019. Read Part II here.   Since 1993, the Asia Pacific Triennial (APT) has been a gathering point for contemporary

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Indonesia at the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (via New Mandala)

Gaining a place at the Asia Pacific Triennial (APT) at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) has been a significant milestone in the careers of many Indonesian artists. Although they were already well known in art circles, the first exhibition in 1993 helped launch the international careers of several artists including Heri Dono,

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Masked dance tradition rises from near extinction in Cambodia (via Reuters)

PHNOM PENH/BANGKOK (Reuters) – Cambodia’s centuries-old tradition of masked dance was nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge’s “Killing Fields” regime, but a handful of artists managed to keep it alive and are now working to pass it along to a new generation. Sun Rithy’s father and grandfather were both performers of the Lakhon Khol

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ArtsEquator’s Top 10 Articles of 2018

Before we plunge headlong into 2019, here’s a quick recap of some of our most-read articles on ArtsEquator, in ascending order. 10. Nathalie Johnston: Creating a home for contemporary art in Myanmar by Victoria Milko As part of ArtsEquator’s series covering independent spaces across Southeast Asia, Victoria Milko profiles Nathalie Johnston, founder of contemporary art space Myanm/art in Yangon.

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