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European Film Festival 2023
2023-05-16 - 2023-05-31 | The Projector, #05-00 Golden Mile Tower, Singapore, 199589, Singapore
The European Film Festival (EUFF) returns to the big screen at The Projector. Presented by the
European Union (EU) Delegation to Singapore, EUFF runs from 16th to 31 st May bringing the best of
contemporary European cinema to the heart of Singapore’s community of film lovers. This year’s
festival presents over 20 films over a longer period, reflecting on the diversity of perspectives,
histories, languages and cultures from across Europe.
EUFF offers a range of movie genres including drama, historical drama, documentary, musical,
comedy as well as family friendly films from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czechia,
Denmark, Estonia, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Norway, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine. Films
screened are recent, and have had success in their country of origin and often internationally.

An Evening with Claire Keegan
2023-05-14 19:00 - 20:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Join us for an evening with Booker Prize shortlisted writer, Claire Keegan, where Claire will read from her fiction and answer questions about her work and writing life.
This workshop is kindly supported by NTU’s School of Humanities and the National Arts Council.
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ABOUT CLAIRE KEEGAN:
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm on the Wicklow/Wexford border. Her works have won numerous awards and are translated into more than thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award — then the world’s richest prize for a story — was chosen by The Times as one of the top 50 works to be published in the 21st Century. It is now part of the school syllabus in Ireland. Her latest, Small Things Like These, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Ambassadors’ Prize for best Irish novel published in France, and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the year. It is now nominated for the Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest literary prize, which is presented annually for the best novel in the world written or translated into English.
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ABOUT ACWP:
The Asia Creative Writing Programme is a joint initiative funded by the National Arts Council of Singapore and the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University.
Leading international and local writers are appointed as Visiting Writers to teach creative writing workshops and masterclasses, as well as mentor and guide emerging, developing and advanced writers in Singapore.
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For more information on the course: https://bit.ly/acwp-ck3
If you have any queries or have problems registering, email us at: soh-ACWP@ntu.edu.sg
Register here: https://bit.ly/acwp-ck3
Deadline for registration: 28 April 2023, Friday, 5 PM.
Registrations may close earlier if all slots have been taken up.
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WHEN:
14 May 2023, Sunday
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm SGT
WHERE:
Asian Civilisations Museum
1 Empress Place, Singapore 179555
WHO:
– For Foundation, Intermediate & Advanced Writers, Students & Educators – especially fiction writers
– Limited places available
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FEES:
– $10 per attendee to secure your seat

D.U.N.K. (DANCE UNIVERSE NEVER KILLED)
2023-05-14 - 2023-07-16 | Online, Singapore
Our friends from Asia can now catch weekly dance performances on YouTube with English subtitles by D.U.N.K. (DANCE UNIVERSE NEVER KILLED). At the start of 2023, D.U.N.K. (DANCE UNIVERSE NEVER KILLED), a large-scale music and dance project was formed in partnership with renowned Japanese rapper and artist, SKY-HI, together with leading multi-platform entertainment powerhouse and ratings champion broadcaster, Nippon TV. D.U.N.K. featured some of the best and brightest talents in Japan’s music and dance industry from SKY-HI, vocal and dance groups &TEAM, BALLISTIK BOYZ from EXILE TRIBE, BE:FIRST, BULLET TRAIN, DREAMS COME TRUE, GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE, and artists, Aile The Shota, Ayumu Imazu, REIKO, as well as dance and performance collectives, s**t kingz, to name a few.

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/@dunk-dance/videos

Forever | 人长久 Ink Paintings by Tung Yue Nang
2023-05-13 12:00 - 2023-05-28 19:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | artcommune gallery, 76 Bras Basah Rd, #01-01, Singapore 189558, Singapore, Singapore, 189558, Singapore
artcommune gallery is pleased to present the latest solo exhibition of veteran artist Tung Yue Nang. The show, which is on view at artcommune gallery from 13 to 28 May 2023, features 24 new ink works by the artist, including a momentous and large-scale ink landscape of Chinatown scene measuring 95 x 548 cm.

Born in Singapore in 1959, Tung Yue Nang (邓汝能) cultivated a keen interest for the arts since young. He delved into the formal arts world at the age of 15, when he began learning Chinese painting, calligraphy, seal carving and engraving under the tutelage of pioneer artist-educator, Shi Xiang Tuo. Over the past three decades, his art practice has evolved to encompass Western mediums such as acrylic and mixed media painting, collage, sculpture, and photography. However, the medium of Chinese brush and ink remains the cornerstone of his practice and his immersion in the art form is guided by the Chinese Tao philosophy, which centres on harmony, tranquility and simplicity.
Over the past decade, Tung Yue Nang has established a dynamic ink repertoire that is recognisable for its dramatic and ornate figurative style. These works combine Western compositional techniques with a delicate Chinese brush-and-ink execution to express the unique beauty and richness of our local cultural landscapes. Architectural environments and human figures are related through tremendous accuracy and detail in these dramatically monochrome paintings.

The exhibition title, ‘Forever’, was translated from the artist’s original Chinese title, ‘⼈长久’. The phrase was taken from a famous Song Chinese poem, Prelude to Water Melody (⽔调歌头- 明⽉⼏时有), which was composed by court-official and literati artist-poet Su Shi (also commonly known as Su Dongbo). The poem was written during the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival of 1076 while Su Shi was feeling melancholic and missing his brother, who was a court official stationed in another faraway state.
Su Shi points out in the poem that, ‘People have sorrows, joys, partings and reunions/ Just as the moon turns dark or bright, and waxes or wanes during different phases/ This is but a reality since ancient times/ Yet one hopes that every man enjoys longevity/ Even with thousand miles apart, that we may all see and be connected by the moon’s beauty.’
Through his art and in his own way, Tung Yue Nang seeks to immortalise the unique cultural elements and everyday beauty of our local heritage streets. Every painting is a nuanced display of humanity, and through it he connects the audience with the vitality and immediacy of life. Because his sincere being and profound connection with the landscape flow ever so naturally into the composition, the old buildings with their weathered charms, and folks passing by the streets or engrossed in their daily routines, come alive organically in his works. One is easily transfixed by the fascinating atmosphere of his Singapore riverside, Chinatown or Joo Chiat shophouse scene, where the coming and going of people and their myriad interactions amplify the hustle and bustle of daily life.

Le Quốc Thanh: Expert From A Heaven: How to Fly
2023-05-13 11:00 - 2023-06-03 19:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Richard Koh Fine Art, Blk 47 Malan Road #01-26 Gillman Barracks Singapore 109444, Singapore, 109444, Singapore
Richard Koh Fine Art Singapore (RKFA) is happy to announce the upcoming solo exhibition of mixed media paintings by the Vietnamese painter, Le Quoc Thanh (b.1975). Titled “Excerpts From A Heaven: How To Fly”, this exhibition is Thanh’s first solo show at the gallery, presented in partnership with Hanoi-based CUC Gallery.
Through his work, Thanh skillfully blends found items with elements of Vietnamese material culture, resulting in paintings that possess a unique style entirely of their own. The use of quotidian icons, including a packet of Craven A cigarettes and black-handled scissors often found in market stalls, further enhances the distinctive cultural significance of Thanh’s work. Throughout the exhibition, Thanh explores the instability of signs and signifiers, often repeatedly painting the numbers “123” and letters “ABC” until their meaning becomes lost. By challenging traditional linguistic and visual regimes, Thanh creates a visual language that is uniquely his own.

Mapping Human Journey (Exhibition)
2023-05-13 10:00 - 2023-06-13 18:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Art4C, Gallery and Creative Learning Space, 1553 1555, 1557 Rama 4 Road, Wang Mai, Pathum Wan, Bangkok, 10330
This solo art exhibition by Pratchaya Charernsook is presented as part of Art For Air X Art4C. The birth and existence of the human race creates many changes to the world, whether it be from people of various ages, during the process of birth, living and passing, they all have an effect throughout the past, present and the future. This exhibition therefore takes the audience through an explorative journey to find the traces through time of the human race by the exploration of plastic waste that are used and disposed from the past, present and future.

STPI X LKCNHM | Traces of Life (Drypoint Etching Workshop)
2023-05-13 10:00 - 12:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
In this special collaboration, STPI and Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum invite you to explore the Museum’s specimens and organic materials, and experiment with the drypoint technique. Observe, scratch on a plate and create your own set of prints!

One ticket to this workshop includes one-time admission for one pax to Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (U.P. SGD 21), valid till 27 May 2023.

This workshop will be conducted at STPI Gallery.
Recommended for ages 7 and above.

Raga 2023: ABHIPSAA – A Seeking
2023-05-12 20:00 - 21:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | Esplanade Theatre Studio, 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Photo credit to Arun Kumar
“A performer of exquisite grace and technique.” – The New Yorker
“[Satpathy] may be five-foot-two, but she dances like a giant.” Marina Harss, Dance Magazine
Mesmerising and immersive, ABHIPSAA – A Seeking charts a personal journey of discovery in physical, emotional, and spiritual realms. In four choreographic works, revered dance doyen Bijayini Satpathy expands the parameters of the formal and representational norms of the odissi tradition through both narrative and non-narrative dances, reimagining classical odissi forms through her own interpretation.

This work was first premiered in Dec 2021 across two sold-out two evenings at Duke Performances. This critical success, a dramatic exploration and reshaping of an ancient tradition, catapulted Satpathy to the forefront of the field. After decades of performance and study, Satpathy calls upon deep kinetic and emotional insights to evolve a revered cultural art form into an entirely modern expression.
This work was made possible with additional funding from the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This presentation at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay marks its Asian debut.

Considered one of the foremost masters of odissi in the world, Bijayini Satpathy has enjoyed a vast career as principal dancer, master teacher, and respected scholar. Renowned the world over for her grace, Satpathy embodies the spirit and profound storytelling of classical Indian dance in a way few others have achieved.
Satpathy has been hailed by the likes of New Yorker, Dance Magazine and international press around the world for her unparalleled artistic expression. Her passion for odissi was instilled at age seven with teachers at Orissa Dance Academy. She is one of the most recognisable names in Indian dance today in large part due to her 25-year career with the famed Nrityagram Dance Ensemble. She studied and perfected odissi with Nrityagram as performer and principal dancer from 1993 to 2018.

In 2021, she was commissioned by Duke University and the Baryshnikov Arts Center for her solo presentation, ABHIPSAA – a seeking, which premiered in New York across two sold out evenings at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and is currently being toured around the world. She was the Artist-in-Residence with the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2021-22 season.
Website: https://www.bijayinisatpathy.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bijayinisatpathy/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063693040832

Red Dot Green Dot 2023
2023-05-12 19:30 - 2023-05-13 21:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | Lasalle College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street Singapore 187940, Singapore, Singapore, 187940, Singapore
Red Dot Green Dot, a unique arts event celebrating the cultures of Singapore and Ireland, will return to LASALLE College of the Arts on Friday,12 May 2023 and Saturday, 13 May 2023.
First held in 2017, Red Dot Green Dot is an annual arts collaboration organised by LASALLE and The Ireland Funds Singapore, with support from the Embassy of Ireland. Guests can expect music, singing, poetry and prose, drama, all performed by talented artists and alumni from LASALLE College of the Arts and members of the Irish community in Singapore . Each evening will see a range of performances by both solo artists and ensembles, promising an entertaining and fun night to remember.
The event is in support of The McNally Legacy, an initiative funded by The Ireland Funds Singapore. It commemorates the artistic and educational contributions of the late Brother Joseph McNally, founder of LASALLE, and aims to continue the legacy of an Ireland-Singapore partnership through a range of opportunities for a new generation of artists.

Upclose with Brahmastra ft. Sridhar Sena, Meenakshy Jyothish, Sai Vignesh and Alakananda Giridhar
2023-05-12 18:30 - 22:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | Arpanam Experiences (L2 above Podi and Poriyal), 486 Serangoon Rd, Singapore 218151, Singapore, Singapore, 218151, Singapore
Arpanam Experiences launches its community platform to celebrate local creators of art & culture, inaugurating with this intimate music experience, ’Up Close with Brahmastra.’ Creative Producer & Music Director Niranjan Pandian, Brahmastra brings together local Singaporean artists and Super Singer 8 Champion, Sridhar Sena from India to kick off the launch of the platform.
Sponsored by Naina Mohamed & Sons, this intimate concert for just 30 people will have Singaporean artists, Sai Vignesh, Meenakshy Jyothish and Alakananda Giridhar alongside Sridhar Sena, performing original music and popular Tamil film songs.
The evening promises a wonderful repertoire of music, intimate exchanges with the performing artists and a range of finger food and cocktails / mocktails from Arpanam’s food & beverage offering, Podi & Poriyal.

Movement and Dance Workshop by Bijayini Satpathy
2023-05-10 18:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, 1 Esplanade Dr, 038981, Singapore
With a career than spans more than 25 years, Bijayini Satpathy is one of the world’s foremost practitioners of odissi, renowned for her grace and profound storytelling skills. In this one-time workshop, students of dance and Indian classical dance practitioners ages 13 and above are invited to come learn from this dance doyen.

The workshop will focus on the following movements from the ancient dance treatise, the Natyashastra:

• Alignment and angabheda (isolated limb movement)
• Bhu charis – Movement of the hip and leg joints along the floor
• Akasha charis – Movement of hip and legs above the ground

Participants are advised to wear appropriate outfit, necessary for comfort and flexibility, in view of workshop content.

LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort School Challenge 2023 Extends to Singapore
2023-05-10 00:00 - 2023-07-07 23:59 (Asia/Shanghai) | Online
LEGOLAND School Challenge is back in its second iteration. This year, the Competition expands its region to include students from ASEAN countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Through the Competition aims to unleash students’ imagination to create the worlds of their dreams with LEGO. The theme for this year’s competition is Cities of the Future.
Theme: Cities of the Future
Categories: 7 to 12, and 13 to 17 years old
Registration Period: Now till 26 May 2023
Submission Period: 19 June to 7 July 2023
TO PARTICIPATE

Students must form groups of 5 to 15 accompanied by at least 1 to 3 teachers and register their teams on the LEGOLAND School Challenge by 26 May 2023, 2359hr (GMT+8).
Submit by uploading pictures of models alongside a photo, video, and written description of the design. Submission starts 19 June to 7 July 2023, 2359hr (GMT+8).

PRIZES
There will be five winning teams – Grand Prize, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, 4th Place, and 5th Place, in each category. Schools and winning teams will be credited, and entries will be displayed at LEGOLAND Malaysia Resort. There are prizes worth SGD30,0000 to be won.

Studio | SIFA X: there is no future in nostalgia
2023-05-09 08:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street, 42 Waterloo Street, Singapore, 187951, Singapore
Responding to the rich layers of ambivalence and irony in Arthur Yap’s poem “there is no future in nostalgia,” the four residents of Centre 42’s Playwright’s Professional Development Residency present dramatized readings of new short plays that reflect on the tensions between technocratic and civic visions of life in Singapore.
These four new short plays are presented as double-bill performances over two weekends:
Studio A (Ahmad Musta’ain and Danial Matin), 20 May, 3pm and 21 May, 8pm
The Best of Us by Ahmad Musta’ain
They say you make lifelong friends in NS. For Khai and Taj, their army bestie was the camp canteen lady, Juweeta. Now, in a space beyond living and dying, these two boys must find their way back to save Kak Ju in her time of crisis. Together the three friends embark on a journey of nostalgia saturated with Beyoncé, cackles, and the tragedies of illness, and perhaps the only person who can save Juweeta is herself. By turns raucous and melancholy, Ahmad Musta’ain Bin Khamis’s new play is about unlikely army friendships, queer families, and the healing power of memory.
Asymptote by Danial Matin
A scientist digs up a skull in Antarctica, an exile reunites with his mother in a morgue, two trans-national lovers negotiate the future of their relationship, a pair of Malaysian parents grow apart from their child across the causeway… These are some of the beguiling, lyrical stories in Danial Matin’s new play about how time acts on the heart. Each tender vignette explores the myriad ways ordinary people wrestle with loss, and the restless, unstable nature of home. In the end, what is left to hold on to? And do we hold on to what is left?
Studio B (A Yagnya and Rachel Chin), 27 May, 3pm and 28 May, 8pm
Help! Our Dead have Dementia, and Other Stories by A Yagnya
Queen Elizabeth has just died, sparking the sudden appearance of Dada, who seems to have risen from the dead, for whom memory- in death – is (was?) (what is time?) a tenuous thing. Devan (who’s about to move out of his childhood home) is suddenly launched into the unreliable mind of his late grandfather. But nothing will stop the old man from narrating from beyond the grave at his grandson, who’s just trying to Marie Kondo his dead Dada’s life. Hilarious and poignant, this bold new play by A Yagnya asks: if the world keeps rebuilding itself, what the hell are the dead going to hold on to?
Where the Hantus At? by Rachel Chin
When their dad passes, sisters Lynette and Leia must decide what to do with his estate: to preserve what is there, or to sell their house and move on. But they’ve forgotten how much each gets on the other’s nerves, and as the resentment builds, an ugly battle of wills ensues. Naturally, the dead get involved. Rachel Chin’s whacky and hard-hitting new play is about hantus, family, love and memory. After all, they’re the same thing… right?

I See You | Artists and Curators in Conversation
2023-05-07 14:00 - 15:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level B1, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, 1 St Andrew’s Road, Singapore, Singapore, 178957, Singapore
The exhibition “See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia” explores the emergence of video installation art in the region during the 1980s and 1990s through the restaging and reproduction of significant works by ten artists.

Join us for a discussion between artists Dr Baharudin Mohd Arus and Jean Marie Syjuco, and exhibition curators Clarissa Chikiamco and Cheng Jia Yun, where they will delve into curatorial narratives and the dynamic process of collaboration between the artists and curators in the exhibition.

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About the Speakers

BAHARUDIN MOHD ARUS is one of Malaysia’s pioneering media artists. Interested in motors from a young age, Baharudin has been making robotic sculptures and kinetic artworks since 1989. He participated in the Balai Seni Visual Negara’s Young Contemporary Art Exhibition in 1969, 1971, 1975 and 1981. Baharudin is a professor at Universiti Malaysia Sabah and has also written several papers on fine art, art education, the indigenous art of Malaysia, the art of Brunei and Islamic art history. He received his BFA and PhD from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia and his MA from the University of Tulsa, USA. He is currently a lecturer in the Art and Design faculty at City University Malaysia.

JEAN MARIE SYJUCO is a visual artist whose practice spans painting, performance, sculpture, installation and video. She is well known for performance art and the collaborative nature of her works. She won the gold medal for Sculpture in the 1980 Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition for her minimal nylon string installation titled Traps: A Spatial Approach to Mass and Insinuation. She is also a recipient of the 1990 Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Thirteen Artists Award. She is the co-founder and chief curator of ART LAB: Atelier Cesare and Jean Marie Syjuco, a developmental art facility in Manila focused on multi-media art experimentation.

CLARISSA CHIKIAMCO is a curator at National Gallery Singapore, researching on Philippine art, artists’ moving image practice and post-war art of Southeast Asia. Exhibitions at the Gallery she has worked on include “A Fact Has No Appearance: Art Beyond the Object”, “Chua Mia Tee: Directing the Real” and “Nam June Paik: The Future is Now”. She is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at King’s College London.

CHENG JIA YUN is a curator at National Gallery Singapore, where she researches post-war art of Southeast Asia. Her projects include “Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s”, “Suddenly Turning Visible: Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia 1969–1989” and “Chng Seok Tin: Drawn Through a Press”.

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About “See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia”
Join us on a journey back in time to find out and explore the history of video installation art. This two-part series offers a fascinating look at the pivotal moments when video installation first emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, staged and recreated at the latest “See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia” exhibition.

Through experimentation, these ten Southeast Asian Artists combined installation, performance, audience participation together with video, leading to a new form of art as a result of their interdisciplinary approach.

For more details and upcoming programmes, please visit nationalgallery.sg/SeeMeSeeYou.

STPI Gallery | Arty Afternoon: Geometric Animal Prints
2023-05-07 11:00 - 16:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
Join us for an afternoon of stamping fun, based on tangram puzzles! Take inspiration from the various creatures found throughout Rirkrit Tiravanija’s artworks (now showing at our Gallery). Unleash your imagination and create your very own animal prints using geometric shapes – turtles, rhinoceroses or butterflies, anything is possible!

The Modern In Southeast Asian Art: A Reader | Publication Launch & Symposium
2023-05-06 13:00 - 16:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | National Gallery Singapore, Supreme Court Wing, Level 4M, Supreme Court Terrace, Singapore, Singapore, 178957, Singapore
This symposium will consider the writing of art in Southeast Asia within and across national boundaries in the region. Speakers will respond to the development of the landmark publication “The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader”, touching on issues of modernism and modernity, regionality, vernacular expression and post-coloniality.

They will discuss the locus and languages of the modern in the region and consider how these writings have been circulated, translated, distilled, interpreted and re-presented. The symposium will also highlight the close collaboration between Southeast Asian institutions, agencies and individuals which has resulted in this research publication.

*Note: Please note that the location of the event has changed to the Supreme Court Terrace.

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The symposium includes two panel discussions:

“Debates and Polemics in Southeast Asian art writing”
One of the key dynamics to emerge from the Reader is the lively back-and-forth of textual polemics on art. Focusing on the idea of polemics, the speakers will pull out key instances from the Reader concerned with opposition and debate within Southeast Asian art writing, as well as its meaning and purpose.

“Language and Translation in Southeast Asian art writing”
What were the languages in which the discourse of Southeast Asian modern art was written? What does this linguistic make-up reveal about the field, and how is it reflected in the kind of terminology and vocabulary that has emerged? Issues of translation within the Reader will also be discussed in this panel.

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About “The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader”

Edited by: T.K. Sabapathy and Patrick Flores
Associate Editors: Phoebe Scott and Julie Ewington
Contributing Editors: Antarika, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Horikawa Lisa, Yin Ker, Manuporn Leungaram, Roger Nelson, Roberto Paulino, Seng Yu Jin, Aminudin T.H. Siregar and Simon Soon

Who spoke of the modern in Southeast Asia? When and where was the modern written? How was it written? How was it received? This collection brings together nearly 300 texts that were originally published between the late 19th to late 20th centuries, selected by a group of scholars as responses to questions such as these. The texts were produced chiefly in various locations in the region, by artists, critics, historians and curators in 11 languages, many of which had never before been translated into the English language. Years in the making, this publication is the first to present such breadth and depth of art writing in the region of Southeast Asia, and will be a valuable resource to students, teachers and scholars of Southeast Asian studies and art history.

Co-published by National Gallery Singapore and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Two volumes, approx. 1300 pages, paperback
ISBN: 978-981-14-0664-5
S$120 (before GST), 25% discount on the event day

Realtime Trace | Art Exhibition
2023-05-06 12:00 - 2023-05-27 20:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | 6060 Arts Space, 27 Pradiphat Soi 21, Saphan-Khwai, Phayathai, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
6060 Arts Space presents: An art exhibition that investigates and conveys the concepts of “Real-time” and “Trace” through the artistic practice of four individuals: Akras Pornkajornkijkul, Rungruang Sittirerk, Supapong Laodheerasiri, and Natthaphon Chaiworawat.

“Real-time” refers to computer systems or processes that can send information to be displayed instantaneously. Real-time systems are essential in many technological fields, including telecommunications, transportation, manufacturing, and financial services.

This art exhibition collaborates with a group of students in the Interactive Live Performance class, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Architecture, Art, and Design, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) through their Live Art activities. Traces from their actions will be transformed into installation art that will be continuously developed until the end of the exhibition.

Exhibition runs 6-27 May 2023

Live performance Schedule

Sat 06.05.2023 l Vernissage (17.30)

Live Performance l (17.30-19.30)

Sat 13.05.2023 l Live Performance (17.30-19.30)

Sat 20.05.2023 l Live Performance (17.30-19.30)

Sat 27.05.2023 l Live Performance (17.30-19.30)

Feeling Feelings Makes Me, Me
2023-05-06 - 2023-05-28 | Temu House, 49, Jalan 16/9e, Seksyen 16,, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, 46350, Malaysia
‘Feeling Feelings Makes Me, Me’ is the latest solo exhibition by Malaysian photography artist Nadirah Zakariya. It is a well-worn open diary; a heart on a fluffy pink gingham sleeve, and an adorned love letter to anyone who can relate. Featuring close to 40 artworks/pieces that ranges from framed photography prints, lightboxes and a video piece, ‘Feeling Feelings Makes Me, Me’ (FFMMM) will mark Nadirah’s biggest show to date.

Nadirah is an internationally published photographer with works in numerous publications such as The New York Times Magazine, VICE, Dazed and Confused, Refinery29, W Korea and Vogue Italia. She is currently featured in Flora Photographica, a book published by Thames & Hudson in 2022. Nadirah’s works have been exhibited in cities including New York, London, Milan, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur.

Revisor by Kidd Pivot
2023-05-05 20:00 - 2023-05-06 21:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | Esplanade Theatre, 1 Esplanade Drive, Singapore, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Witness a captivating hybrid of contemporary dance and theatre in this spectacular production by award-winning collaborators Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young.
In Revisor, Pite and Young take on an archetypal comic plot inspired by a bizarre theatrical interpretation of Nikolai Gogol’s novel, The Government Inspector. Driven by characters of mixed motives, the narrative satirises the absurdity of power and bureaucracy. With the exceptional dancers from Kidd Pivot embodying the recorded dialogue of some of Canada’s finest actors, the work explores conflict, comedy and corruption in the compelling relationship between language and the body.
Revisor was named best new dance production by the Olivier Awards in 2022 and now arrives in Singapore for its Asian premiere.
This production is presented as part of da:ns focus – Body Language, a weekend of programmes that examines the interplay between dance, the body, text and speech.

See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia
2023-05-05 10:00 - 2023-09-17 19:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | National Gallery Singapore, Ngee Ann Kongsi Concourse Gallery, Concourse Level, City Hall Wing, 1 St Andrew’s Road, Singapore, Singapore, 178957, Singapore
Join us on a journey back in time to find out and explore the history of video installation art. This two-part series offers a fascinating look at the pivotal moments when video installation first emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, staged and recreated at the latest See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia exhibition.
Through experimentation, these ten Southeast Asian Artists combined installation, performance, audience participation together with video, leading to a new form of art as a result of their interdisciplinary approach.
In its first installment, featuring works by Apinan Poshyananda (Thailand), Baharudin Mohd Arus (Malaysia), Chng Nai Wee (Singapore), Johnny Manahan (Philippines) and Jean Marie Syjuco (Philippines).
The second part, opening in October, will showcase works by Heri Dono (Indonesia), Hasnul Saidon (Malaysia), Ray Langenbach (Malaysia), Vincent Leow (Singapore) and Krisna Murti (Indonesia).

Do Rhinos Feel Their Horns?
2023-05-04 19:30 - 2023-05-07 22:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | 42 Waterloo St, 42 Waterloo St, 187951, Singapore
“What if the reason I don’t like capitalism is that I just wanna chill out a bit?”
Rhinoceroses or capybaras? Blackpink or something less cling clangy? Two old friends are making a radio play for the internet. This week’s episode is about the ‘rhinoceritis epidemic’ in the 1980s, where rhinoceroses have inexplicably started taking over the growing metropolis of Singapore.
Do Rhinos Feel Their Horns? (or can they not see them like how we can’t see our noses) is a play rooted in Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros which re-asks what conformism means as we live through what is objectively the best time in human history. It is funny, bleak, sometimes joyous, but always full of play. Expect some interesting sounds.
In Rhinos, Gangguan! brings together a new gang including Adeeb Fazah of the much-beloved Second Breakfast Company, actors Shannen Tan, who has trained with Young & Wild and toured internationally to Bangkok, and Melbourne Fringe award-winning Cheryl Ho, as well as Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards-nominated sound artist Vick Low.
Following its Singapore run in May, Rhinos is set to travel to the Edinburgh Fringe where it will run from 15th to 27th August as part of a major venue’s programme (to be announced soon).
Gangguan! is the theatre collaboration between playwright Edward Eng and actors, artists, and designers. Our commitment is to create new theatre for a volatile, ambiguous world. At times it will be violent, and at others, kindly and unashamedly optimistic. Like learning to love a pitbull.
Gangguan!’s first formal outing was a play about climate policy and distrust of Greta Thunberg called The Change at Cairnhill Arts Centre in 2022. The Change was described by critics as a play with “verve, creativity, and sensitivity to nuance” (Critics Circle Blog) “that hits the occasional raw nerve” (Bakchormeeboy).

Spinning Connections: Creative Takes on Intangible Cultural Heritage
2023-05-02 10:00 - 2023-08-06 19:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | NMS LED Wall, Level1, National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897, Singapore, 178897, Singapore
From food to performing arts, Southeast Asia’s intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is an important link to our past and intrinsic to our rich cultural identity. To pay homage to the time-honoured traditions and living expressions that define and connect us across the region, the National Museum of Singapore and the Maybank Foundation will be presenting a series of four original video artworks on the Museum’s LED Wall that showcase creative contemporary responses to the theme of intangible cultural heritage (ICH).
Titled Spinning Connections: Creative Takes on Intangible Cultural Heritage, the commissioned artworks were selected from entries submitted through an Open Call exercise held between April to May last year, to foster collaboration with the artistic community to engage audiences on important contemporary issues. Each artwork highlights an aspect of ICH, namely food, dance, martial arts and storytelling, while drawing connections to the National Museum’s collection. The artworks bring contemporary resonance to the past and invite visitors to understand the present in different ways.

Singapore HeritageFest 2023
2023-05-01 - 2023-05-28
Get out and about as we celebrate the 20th edition of Singapore HeritageFest (SHF)! Centred on the themes of sports and public transport, this year’s festival invites everyone to uncover the lesser-known stories about our unique history and heritage with a dynamic line-up of over 80 programmes.

Explore the impressive expansion of Singapore’s public transportation system and our victorious sporting history through a selection of fun and exhilarating tours, film screenings, exhibitions, installations, talks, and workshops. From a mystery bus tour to an energising Silambam workshop, as well as a special Closing Weekend Sports Day, there is something in store for everyone. In celebration of its 20th year, SHF 2023 will also present its first-ever symposium that spotlights the evolution of Singapore’s rich heritage landscape, as well as a special edition of its signature Homeground installation at the National Museum of Singapore.

Join us for a ride this May and experience the stories that move us at sgheritagefest.gov.sg!

ACM Adventures: Masak Masak
2023-04-30 11:00 - 15:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Sunday, 30 April 2023
11am to 3pm
Asian Civilisations Museum
Free

Food, glorious food! Experience the culinary traditions of Asia through storytelling and drama performances. Create your own miniature dishes!

Between Ground and Sky
2023-04-29 19:30 - 20:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre Recital Studio, 1 Straits Boulevard, 018906, Singapore
Between Ground and Sky is an interdisciplinary production exploring the poetic world of renowned Malaysian-American poet Shirley Geok-lin Lim through contemporary art song and corporeal theatre. Born to a Peranakan mother and a Chinese father, Lim grew up in British Malaya with Malay and Hokkien as her first languages. She later pursued her graduate studies in the U.S. and is currently a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her poetry is marked by her life of crossings and travel, and traverses scenes, dreams, and histories that are intensely personal yet relatable; local and yet transnational. Inspired by the cultural in-betweenness of her work, the production seeks to inspire deeper reflection on the taut, yet complex and intersectional nature of Lim’s poetics.
The eponymous song cycle of five songs by Tan Tiag Yi will be performed by soprano Wong Yong En and pianist Koh Kai Jie, alongside corporeal theatre work by contemporary theatre practitioners Ang Gey Pin and Ranice Tay, assisted by producer Wu Chin Ying. The poetry performed in this production is predominantly from Lim’s recent poetry collections Ars Poetica for the Day and Do You Live In?, both published by Ethos Books in 2015. Her other poems and writings have also been excerpted where relevant. The two collections will be available for purchase at the live performances, courtesy of Ethos Books.
This performance is kindly supported by the National Arts Council, the Tote Board Arts Fund, and the National Youth Council Young ChangeMakers Grant.
Movement artists: Ang Gey Pin, Ranice Tay
Soprano: Wong Yong En
Piano: Koh Kai Jie
Composer: Tan Tiag Yi
Curators: Tan Tiag Yi, Wu Chin Ying
Producer: Wu Chin Ying

Traversing - Season Opening Concert 《心 • 音乐 • 汇》
2023-04-29 19:30 - 20:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | Singtel Waterfront Theatre at The Esplanade, 8 Raffles Ave., Singapore 039802, Singapore, Singapore, 039802, Singapore
Traversing《心 • 音乐 • 汇》marks the launch of Ding Yi Music Company 2023 concert season.
Led by Resident Conductor Dedric Wong De Li, with the debut appearance of Guest Conductor Joshua Tan, an internationally acclaimed conductor best known for his captivating and electric nuances, our season opening concert presents a suite of repertoire that reflect our inspirations for Chinese chamber music.
With the world premieres of four commissioned works by renowned composer and Cultural Medallion Recipient Phoon Yew Tien, Ding Yi Composer-in-Residence Jon Lin Chua, young Singaporean composer Koh Cheng Jin and China composer Gao Wei Jie, this concert shines the spotlight on Ding Yi Pipa musician Chua Yew Kok, Guzheng musician Yvonne Tay, and guest pianist Churen Li. Known for her innovation and experimental practices in combining diverse genres, Churen Li will perform Phoon Yew Tian’s newly adapted piano concerto ‘Youth’ while the two virtuosic musicians of Ding Yi join hands to perform Jon Lin Chua’s ‘Lament for Pipa and Guzheng’.
This season opening concert promises a star-studded evening of musical exchange and melodic conversations. Come forth to join this unique Chinese chamber experience with us!

Golden Point Award 2023
2023-04-26 - 2023-06-13 | Online
Singapore’s only multi-lingual writing competition is back! Whether you are a writer by profession or hobby, we welcome you to showcase your writing talents.
Golden Point Award offers the short story and poetry categories in Singapore’s four official languages. To celebrate 30 years of discovering talented new writers, the competition introduces a new category – Translation: Short Story (English). Don’t miss the opportunity to submit your work and stand a chance to win the grand prize of $6,000 cash and a mentorship experience!
Online submissions are open from 25 April till 13 June 2023, 6:00 pm (SGT)
For more information, visit www.artshouselimited.sg/gpa

Golden Point Award 2023 is now open for submissions
2023-04-25 10:00 - 2023-06-23 18:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
Organised by Arts House Limited (AHL), the biennial Golden Point Award (GPA), Singapore’s premier creative writing competition, returns for its 16th edition. This year, AHL has partnered Singapore Book Council (SBC) to combine AHL’s extensive experience organising a wide range of literary initiatives with SBC’s substantial portfolio in managing high profile literary awards and competitions. GPA will be accepting online submissions from 25 April – 23 June 2023 (6pm SGT), with a new short story translation category and mentorship programme for winners. Winners can stand a chance to receive prizes of up to $6,000 in cash and trophies on top of receiving the mentorship programme. Participants can submit their entries on http://artshouselimited.sg/gpa.

Writer to Writer Mentoring Session with Claire Keegan
2023-04-24 08:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Zoom, N.A.
Book a one-on-one mentoring session with Claire Keegan to discuss your writing project. Claire Keegan will provide guidance to help your creative practice and support your writing life.
During the 30-minute to 1-hour Writer to Writer session with the Visiting Writer you will:
1. Discuss your writing aspirations with an experienced writer in an encouraging environment
2. Obtain general advice from an experienced writer on your writing project
3. Obtain specific practical advice on aspects of the art and craft of writing, writing technique & your writing challenges
4. Obtain help on shaping your approach to your writing life
5. Understand what it takes to be a professional writer
* Please note the one-on-one consultation is not a manuscript assessment.
This session is kindly supported by NTU’s School of Humanities and the National Arts Council.
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ABOUT CLAIRE KEEGAN:
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm on the Wicklow/Wexford border. Her works have won numerous awards and are translated into more than thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award — then the world’s richest prize for a story — was chosen by The Times as one of the top 50 works to be published in the 21st Century. It is now part of the school syllabus in Ireland. Her latest, Small Things Like These, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Ambassadors’ Prize for best Irish novel published in France, and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the year. It is now nominated for the Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest literary prize, which is presented annually for the best novel in the world written or translated into English.
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ABOUT ACWP:
The Asia Creative Writing Programme is a joint initiative funded by the National Arts Council of Singapore and the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University.
Leading international and local writers are appointed as Visiting Writers to teach creative writing workshops and masterclasses, as well as mentor and guide emerging, developing and advanced writers in Singapore.
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For more information on the course: https://bit.ly/acwp-ck2
If you have any queries or have problems registering, email us at:
soh-ACWP@ntu.edu.sg
Register here: https://bit.ly/acwp-ck2
Deadline for registration: 10 March 2023, Friday, 5:00 pm
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WHEN:
By appointment only:
– Register above and we will email you with available timings in April/May 2023
WHERE:
Online via Zoom
WHO:
– For Intermediate or Advanced Writers, especially in fiction
– Limited places available
– Selective entry – we’ll offer places to writers who show promise
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FEES:
For each 30 min to 1 hour session:
– $25 for adults
– $10 for students, unemployed, low income migrant workers
– Free for undergraduates and postgraduate students from Singapore tertiary institutions
– Please email us if financial assistance is needed

Arnold Dreyblatt | INVENTORIES | Kang Contemporary
2023-04-21 18:00 - 2023-06-16 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kang Contemporary, Lindenstraße 90 / Mendelssohnplatz, Berlin, Berlin, 10969
Arnold Dreyblatt – Inventories
Kang Contemporary
21.04.23 – 16.07.23

KANG Contemporary is pleased to present the exhibition INVENTORIES with US-American multidisciplinary artist Arnold Dreyblatt, which showcases recent and rarely exhibited works. New lenticular artworks reference crisis of Europe in texts by historical and recent visionaries and critics. The artist Arnold Dreyblatt interrogates ways of remembering and the archive as a space. In his installations of information and text he poses the question of how information and stories are told, saved and erased and why certain information persists over others. As the mind attempts to focus, isolate or connect the textual fragments in the exhibition they stand as a union that lifts these components taken from documents, records, and inventories into a metaphorical sphere.

Included in this exhibition is the artwork The Black List based on the original site-specific memorial by the artist on the Königsplatz in München that was inaugurated by the Munich City Council in 2021. The new immersive staging of The Black List makes it possible to experience this profound artwork in Berlin for the first time. A spiraling sequence of words taken from booktitles by the 310 authors who were outlawed by the Nazi regime and whose books were burned across Germany. For each author Dreyblatt selected the last published work up to and including 1933. What unfolds is a passionate discussion of the archive as a space that carries history, that can be mobilized to express new meanings but that can also be manipulated. The upper level of the gallery showcases the digital installation Inventar/ Inventur. In his 2008 artwork Dreyblatt dives into the sea of information that are the records of the 1938 auction of the entire estate of Berhard Altmann’s Vienna villa. To take on the inventory becomes a much larger task in which one has to combat storytelling that prioritises data over people. On a white wall the individual items that were part of the circa 1400 auctioned objects are projected suggesting a literal past space. As the words on the wall are positioned at the relative height of the objects they describe we are reminded that these objects that scroll across the gallery wall carry meanings and memories. The passive descriptions from the auction records are transformed and activated. Instead of centering the narrative on the auction as a moment of injustice and crime, the inventory here becomes a story about a life that was lived, a home that was built. It transforms the narratives and shifts the focus to the people as the subjects instead of the systems that foretold their end.

Text Paula Böke

About the Artist

Arnold Dreyblatt (born 1953 in New York City) is an American media artist and composer. He has lived in Berlin, Germany since 1984. Dreyblatt has been a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, since 2007 and recently appointed Vice Director of the Visual Arts Section. He was professor of media art at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel, Germany from 2009 to 2022. His artistic practice over the past 30 years ranges from multi-day performances, to digital installations to interactive artistic research projects such as “Performing the Black Mountain Archive” (2015) at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwartskunst. At the same time, he has continued to develop his unique avant-garde music composition and performances.
