“Italian contemporary artist Filippo Sciascia’s relationship with Asia and Indonesia began back in 1998, however, says the artist, he has only truly “come of age as an Italian-Indonesian artist” in 2013 when he successfully fused iconography from the two worlds into a single creation of art. “I realize now my works have become more sincere,” […]
Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta and Bali from 28 Aug – 3 Sep 2017 JAKARTA Jakarta Dance Meet Up, 30 August 2017, 7 PM, Gedung Kesenian Jakarta Organized by the Jakarta Arts Council’s Dance Committee, the Jakarta Dance Meet Up is back for its second time at Gedung Kesenian Jakarta.
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Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta and Yogyakarta from 21 – 27 Aug 2017 JAKARTA Neoklasismus Rusia, 22 August 2017, 7:30 PM, Gedung Kesenian Jakarta Under the direction of conductor Budi Utomo Prabowo, the Jakarta Philharmonic presents Neoklasismus Rusia. The neoklasismus movement started in the Romantic period, as a way to present
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The performance event R.I.P. Tokyo began life as a commemoration for a cat which died at the grand age of 22, five years ago. The cat belonged to director Shirotama Hitsujiya who helms the Yubiwa Hotel theatre company. For three years, she has marked the occasion by hosting a soup dinner party for friends at
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By Eugene Koh (924 words, 7-minute read) Triple Bill at the M1 Peer Pleasure Youth Theatre Festival 2017 presents three acts in a single show, each of them presenting different issues that are all extremely timely. Each act in its own way contends with an issue that people try to avoid. Each of these acts is a
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Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta, Bandung, and Bali from 7 – 13 Aug 2017 JAKARTA ART STAGE Jakarta, 11 – 13 August 2017, Sheraton Grand Jakarta Gandaria City Hotel, Jakarta ART STAGE Jakarta returns for its second year this coming weekend. Like its sister fair ART STAGE Singapore, the Jakarta fair
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The Asia Europe Foundation’s Culture360 and ArtsEquator present a series of 5 co-commissioned articles that look at arts groups, artists and performances in Southeast Asia that are comprised of or address artists with disabilities. In this article, Mark Louie Lugue meets Filipino artist Nolet Soliven and his wife Tosh, to talk about Nolet’s practice, and the challenges
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Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Bali from 31 July – 6 Aug 2017 JAKARTA My Life, My Choice, Now – 9 August 2017, Leica Store Indonesia, Plaza Senayan, Jakarta My Life, My Choice is a photography exhibition on the life of Mak Rini, a drag queen living in
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MAC at The Movies @ Hero’s, 26 July, 8pm “We’re going to the movies in July. It’s FREE and you decide what we watch.” July is the birth month of Robin Williams and we can’t think of a better person to honour in our first movie event. Doors 7pm. Showtime 8pm.
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“Fresh off the (vacation) boat and ready to sail into George Town Festival 2017 (GTF 2017), Rebecca Duckett has been working around the clock with her artsy and nature-inspired pieces. She is one of several women artists from Korea, Taiwan, the USA and Malaysia who are participating in the International Women’s Arts Festival, which this
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By Akanksha Raja (1030 words, 8-minute read) The inaugural Rainforest Fringe Festival (RFF), a prelude to the renowned annual Rainforest World Music Festival, ran from 7 to 16 July 2017 in Kuching, capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The RFF is the brainchild of Joe Sidek, who’s also the artistic director of the Georgetown
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“The stories of Javanese cultural hero, Prince Panji Inu Kertapati, dating from the 13th century, mark the development of a truly Javanese literature that was no longer overshadowed by the great Indian epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Set among the eastern Javanese kingdoms, the stories tell of Panji’s search for his beloved Princess Candra Kirana, before the two
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SPH Gift of Music Series: SSO Lunchtime Concert, 21 July, @ Victoria Concert Hall Jason Lai, conductor Sponsored by the Singapore Press Holding’s Gift of Music series, liven up your lunch hour with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Associate Conductor Jason Lai. Refresh yourself with the captivating Eastern European dance tunes of Dvořák and Brahms,
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“Sophal Neak was born in Takeo, a province in southern Cambodia, in 1989. Since 2011, her works—in particular her photographs—have been showcased across Asia, Europe and Australia. Her unique and uncompromising take on history and people, as well as her distinctive and powerful vision, has played an important role in contributing to the cultural re-awakening
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Talk | Photography and Cold War in Southeast Asia, @ NUS Museum, 11 July, 7 – 8pm Free with registration at http://ptix.co/2rWIVts This is a preliminary presentation, a kind of show-and-tell, based on writer, curator and artist Zhuang Wubin’s recent book, Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey (NUS Press, 2016). Zhuang’s primary intention is to share
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Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Pekanbaru, Jakarta, Bandung and Bali from 10 – 16 July 2017 PEKANBARU Pekan Seni Media, Now – 14 July 2017, Bandar Seni Raja Ali Haji, Pekanbaru The Ministry of Education and Culture, together with Forum Lenteng presents Pekan Seni Media, a Media Art Festival in Pekanbaru, Riau.
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The Suffering Fetus & Female Freedom by Dr Amy Paris Langenberg, 3 July, @ AS8 Level 7, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent Eschewing the backward projection of secular liberal feminist categories, Amy Paris Langenberg’s work describes the basic features of the Buddhist discourse of the female body, held more or less in common across sectarian lines,
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Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta and Bali from 3 – 9 July 2017 JAKARTA Body Out, 6 – 8 Juli, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta Supported by Jakarta Arts Council, Body Out is a Performance Art Festival taking place between 6 – 8 July. The festival features an art sharing,
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By Carmen Nge (1110 words, 10-minute read) The dust appears to have settled on the recent controversy surrounding the removal of Malaysian art collective Pangrok Sulap’s artwork Sabah Tanah Air-Ku from the art exhibition, “Escape from the SEA”. Organized by the Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur (JFKL), “Escape from the SEA” was a group exhibition featuring
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“On June 15, Thai soldiers forced their way into two Bangkok galleries that were hosting exhibitions by two young Thai contemporary artists whose works reflect on their homeland’s political landscape. The military took down three collages by photographer Harit Srikhao that were part of the “Whitewash” exhibition at Gallery Ver. Next door in Cartel Artspace,
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Showing from 23 June – 22 July @ Victoria Theatre It’s a swinging bachelor’s dream come true: three beautiful air stewardesses, each taking her turn as his girlfriend… and each happily unaware of the others’ existence. Sounds impossible? Not if you’re Bernard, our modern-day Casanova! With careful, down-to-the-minute scheming, he’s managed to keep his hectic
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Top picks art events in Jakarta, Bandung, and Bali from 19 June – 2 July 2017 JAKARTA This Ain’t California, 20 June 2017, 7 PM, Goethehaus, Jakarta Goethe Institut’s Arthouse Cinema is back this Tuesday with a screening of This Ain’t California by award-winning director Martin Persiel. The film tells a story of a group
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By Alan Oei and Lee Weng Choy (1330 words, 14-minute read) Lee Weng Choy (a former artistic co-director of The Substation) and Alan Oei (the current artistic director of The Substation and also director of OH! Open House) have known each other for about 20 years. They met in the late 1990s when Alan was
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By Alvin Lim (1860 words, 20-minute read) “I send you off like a lover.” – Zai Kuning, at the launch of Dapunta Hyang: The Transmission of Knowledge, 10 May 2017 With his palms over the bow, Zai launched the ship. At the stern, however, the ship was incomplete. All this, I sense, made the vessel
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By Eva Wong Nava (1390 words, 14-minute read) Pumpkins, phalli, polka dots, stainless steel balls. These are the iconographies of YAYOI KUSAMA (b. 1929), the influential Japanese artist, who is equally famous for her commission by Louis Vuitton to imprint her [in]famous dots on their emblematic handbags and clothing line. Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition at the
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YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is The Heart of a Rainbow, 10 – 7pm @ National Gallery Singapore Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most influential artists, and has played a crucial role in key art movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. The first major survey of her work in Southeast Asia, this exhibition focuses on
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Top Picks art events in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, and Solo from 12 – 18 June 2017 JAKARTA Hidup Mengalun Dendang – Pameran Sketsa S. Sudjojono, Now – 13 June 2017, Bentara Budaya Jakarta Indonesia knows S. Sudjojono as the Father of Modern Painting in Indonesia. He was the first man who introduced modernity in visual
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“As I step into the Jogja National Museum – ready to absorb the pieces on display, to analyze cultural and aesthetic values, maybe freshen up my Instagram feed – I’m greeted by a number of giant, psychedelic-looking eyeballs resting suspiciously in still pools. A grotesquely adorable eyeball-tree looms over me on three legs. I must be
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“The city of Kuala Lumpur is set to join the cultural ranks of Shanghai, Busan, Taipei, Singapore and many more with the first-ever Kuala Lumpur Biennale (KLB) International Arts Exhibition. The National Visual Arts Gallery (NVAG) of Malaysia is organizing the event across multiple locations in the Malaysian capital, including the Kuala Lumpur City Centre
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AICA Singapore Biennale 2016 Roundtable 3: Maybe it’s better this way, We’d hurt each other with the things we want to say [1] “Tell me about the biennale you want to see”, was the question posed to the writers engaged in the third AICA roundtable on the Singapore Biennale, convened by Qinyi Lim. The result
