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ArtsEquator’s Hot List: March 2021

Every first Wednesday of the month, ArtsEquator releases our editor’s picks of shows/events/programmes that our readers can look out for in that month. This list in published in no particular order.    1. Little Mournings Physical show: 4-7 March, various timings / Delayed livestream: 11-17 March  [SINGAPORE/In-venue & Online] Little Mournings is a puppetry show …

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The disturbing cruelty of Terre Thaemlitz’s “Deproduction”

Content warning: References to sexual content, situations and violence The final line of Terre Thaemlitz’s Deproduction reads: “Admit it’s killing you, and leave.” It is a neat summary of the work—a deeply nihilistic critique of contemporary family values and neo-liberal queer politics. But, as this last piece of text scrolls off the screen, it also …

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Disturbing behaviour: “Deproduction” by Terre Thaemlitz

By Patricia Tobin (670 words, 4-minute read) Content warning: References to sexual content or situations    Deproduction by musician-producer Terre Thaemlitz was released on December 28, 2017 as a multimedia album consisting of audio, video and text. In TPAM 2019, it was staged as an “anti-live AV performance”, as Thaemlitz combined the album’s textual, audio …

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Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile

Another Chinese tradition, which probably has no connection with the previous one is that the Butterworth cannon belonged to ‘Panglima’ (Warrior) Ah Chong a bravo of the Inter-Chinese wars which took place in the Larut tin fields in 1862, and lasted sporadically for ten years. “This warrior turned into a crocodile on his death and this crocodile is now the biggest stuffed crocodile in Raffles …

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Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile

Wheat Grain World Dreams, the centre section from the artist’s book contains a map that includes some of our research questions around, for example, histories of 19th century cash crops and the crimes of the  British India Company; and the extension of China’s Belt and Road journey West.

Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile

After what seemed like a long walk in silence and darkness into the mountain we came to an almost mythological-looking door with the words ‘Fröhall’ – seed room – written upon it. This was the door of the original seed bank chamber, which was an initiative of the Nordic Genebank. Photo: Anna Laurent.

Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile

Zachary Chan and Muhammad Faisal Bin Husni in a ritual ‘wheat gleaning ceremony’ in Singapore. We requested permission from the spirits of the crocodile, the wheat and Panglima Ah Chong to take the grain of wheat to the mountain in Svalbard. A DVD of the performance was buried along with the artworks. Photo: Kee Ya Ting

Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile

The first known image of the crocodile, shot in 1887 at the mouth of the Serangoon River. Photo: Original photographer, owner and copyright unknown. Reproduced in Tan, Kevin, Y.L. Of Whales and Dinosaurs. The Story of Singapore’s Natural History Museum. National University of Singapore Press 2015 pp 42-43

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Binary at M1 CONTACT 2019: Breaking all the rules with “Stigma” and “Dan-su”

By Chloe Chotrani (1,130 words, 6-minute read) The 10th anniversary edition of Binary – International Artist Showcase presented two returning artists to the festival. Last performed here in 2013, Stigma is a dark and enigmatic solo by highly acclaimed Danish artist Kitt Johnson; while Shintaro Oue presents『談ス』(Dan-su), the Singapore premiere of an adventurous and uncertain …

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