Art in the Commons: Data Visualising Jurong | Synthetic Visions for a Future Past (Jurong Dreaming)
2023-06-01 - 2023-09-10 | Science Centre Singapore, 15 Science Centre Rd, Singapore, 609081, Singapore
Art in the Commons: Data Visualising Jurong | Synthetic Visions for a Future Past (Jurong Dreaming)
From 1 June to 10 September 2023 at Science Centre Singapore
Access to the installation is included with general admission to Science Centre Singapore
The third and last edition of Art in the Commons: Data Visualising Jurong returns with a new art installation by Singaporean artist Kapilan Naidu, which looks to document and reimagine the experiences and memories of the many people who have lived, worked, and played in the Jurong neighbourhood. Synthetic Visions for a Future Past (Jurong Dreaming) is an interactive artwork of an artificial mangrove swamp, constructed from a combination of industrial materials and digital screens.
Drawing from crowd-sourced images and stories, the artist diffuses these memories across a network of islands and taps into artificial intelligence algorithms to create an ever-growing array of visions of the neighbourhood. Audiences are encouraged to browse, sort and contribute to the collection of memories, coming together playfully to contribute to the artwork’s visual imagination of a Jurong that is simultaneously fresh yet familiar to the neighbourhood.
This presentation is part of Art in the Commons: Data Visualising Jurong, SAM’s collaboration with Science Centre Singapore that embarks on community-based participatory art programmes to uncover community interests within the Jurong district. The initiative is supported by the Tote Board. For more details, please visit bit.ly/AITCCycle3.

THE SCHOOL
2023-05-30 - 2023-06-04 | Stamford Arts Centre, 0202, 155 Waterloo Street, Singapore, Singapore, 187962, Singapore
Step into THE SCHOOL, and join fellow participants on a series of communal assemblies, group lessons, solo journeys, unexpected assignments, and strange encounters across multiple sites in Stamford Arts Centre. Just like school as we think we know it, yet nothing like it at all.

Joint Book Launch for Two Tails and Afterlife: The Boy Next Realm
2023-05-28 14:30 - 15:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | National Library Building, 100 Victoria Street, Singapore, Singapore, 188064, Singapore
The Difference Engine team invites you to the joint book launch of our latest Young Adult comics: “Two Tails” and “Afterlife: The Boy Next Realm”!
Join us for a whirlwind adventure, and enter the fascinating worlds of “Two Tails” and “Afterlife: The Boy Next Realm”. These stories feature heartfelt characters and interweave themes of tragedy and acceptance with journeys of self-discovery and redemption.
This book launch will be held as part of the Asian Festival of Children’s Content 2023. This is an in-person event with on-site book sales of “Two Tails” and “Afterlife: The Boy Next Realm” and an opportunity to get your copy signed by the creators.

Gallery Keynote | Kaywin Feldman on Building a National Collection in a Changing Nation
2023-05-28 14:30 - 15:30 | The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, City Hall Wing, Level B1, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 178957, Singapore
Gallery Keynote is a series that invites the world’s visionaries, thinkers and industry and opinion leaders to consider issues fundamentally relating to the future of museums and their role in culture and society.

Kaywin Feldman (Director, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.) leads an institution of intriguing paradox: The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. was founded in 1941 by millionaire Andrew Mellon to educate a monolithic populace and to bestow contemporary ideas of good taste. Mellon’s offering was in fact a grand populist gesture, a true gift that continues to benefit his nation to this day. Yet as societies shift and change, what is the unique but ever-evolving role of a national art museum as it navigates the challenges and opportunities of a dynamic and expanding global audience? What does it mean to be and to become a nation’s art museum during a time of immense global volatility and complexity? Kaywin Feldman shares her insights in a lecture, which is followed by a conversation with Eugene Tan (Director, National Gallery Singapore and Singapore Art Museum).

This programme is supported by The Culture Academy.

Sun 28 May | 2.30pm | The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, City Hall Wing, Level B1, National Gallery Singapore |
Free, registration required: https://bit.ly/GalleryKeynote_2023

ACM Adventures: Sail the Seas
2023-05-28 11:00 - 15:00 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Sunday, 28 May 2023
11am to 3pm
Asian Civilisations Museum
Free

Hello, explorer! Are you ready to set sail? Move along to drama performance and listen to a story about adventures at sea. Get creative in a craft activity inspired by boats found in our galleries!

Headline Acts | SIFA X: there is no future in nostalgia
2023-05-27 20:00 - 22:00 | Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street, 42 Waterloo Street, Singapore, 187951, Singapore
Headline Acts is a fun and informal reading series open to writers of all experience levels wishing to showcase plays or scenes. The only rule is, each work is a short (10-15 minutes) dramatic pieces that respond to recent headlines.
For this special SIFA edition of Headline Acts, part of Centre 42’s group show SIFA-X: there is no future in nostalgia, we are turning our attention to that special dynamic between new and old, past and future. And so we’re asking all participants to respond to a headline of their choice from 30 years ago – in the year 1993.
6 writers were shortlisted through an Open Call that took place on 1 March 2023. The works they will be presenting are:

“Sotong” by Kay Lynn Er
“All Kinds of Time” by Wisely Chow
“An Examination” by Ivan Choong
“The Chilli Powder Sisters” by Melizarani T. Selva
“Kids, Gifts, COEs & Roast Duck” by Irsyad Dawood
“Is It Because I’m…” by Isaac Lim

The events will be headlined by two invited writers whose careers kicked off in the 90s. Their new works are:

“The Three Ages” by Jean Tay
“Motherland” by Very Shy Gurl by fendy

These eight new short pieces are presented across 2 sessions. Acts 1 will take place on Saturday 27 May 8pm, and Acts 2 will take place on Sunday 28 May 3pm.

CUCKOO
2023-05-27 20:00 - 21:00 | Drama Centre Black Box, Singapore, Select a Country:
What can a bunch of talkative rice cookers tell us about the past twenty years of Korean history?
One day when his electric rice cooker informed him that his meal was ready, Jaha Koo experienced a deep sense of isolation. ‘Golibmuwon’ (고립무원) is an untranslatable Korean word expressing the feeling of helpless isolation that characterises the lives of many young people in Korea today. At turns sombre and amusing, CUCKOO is Jaha Koo’s bittersweet reflection on the personal and social impact of economic crises that South Korea has weathered in recent decades.
Cuckoo is part of Jaha Koo’s Hamartia Trilogy. SIFA 2023 presents two works from this trilogy: Lolling and Rolling, and Cuckoo. Jaha Koo intertwines personal stories with historical, political and sociological facts, exploring the clash of Eastern and Western culture: from the cutting of tongue belts to succeed in the West, to the heavy personal toll of Western interference in global macroeconomics.

ME, YOU, THEN, NOW
2023-05-27 20:00 - 21:00 | Victoria Theatre, 9 Empress Pl, 179556, Singapore, 179556, Singapore
ME, YOU, THEN, NOW is a self-portrait in movement, video, and words: a performative archive. We are invited to join artist Muna Tseng on a retrospective journey, from her days of being a young artist weaving her web of identity within the urban mythology of downtown New York City (NYC), through to the present with her meta-meditations on making new art today. As the fourth instalment in her Family Portraits series, comprising poignant cross-cultural inventive performance portraits of her brother, her mother and her paternal grandfather, this latest portrait is Muna telling her own story, as a distinguished mature woman artist in the 70th year of her life.

Musical Movements
2023-05-27 19:30 - 21:00 | Esplanade Recital Studio, 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Musical Movements is a family-friendly multi-disciplinary concert performance presenting modern and contemporary classical works with a twist! Join us on our journey to explore the adventurous, unique soundworlds from composers of our time, and be fully immersed with interactive dance, animation and theatrics.
Featuring works by young local composers Darren Sng and Tan Yu Ting, renowned contemporary composers Aleksey Igudesman and Toru Takemitsu, as well as 20th century composers Bartok and Shostakovich, the musicians will be challenged with near-impossible feats of physical coordination and choreography, performed alongside original choreography and animation specially curated for this programme.
Audiences can enjoy this performance through standard seating on chairs or experience a more intimate performance with floor seating closer to the performance area. Interactive activities and booklets for children will be provided during intermission and after the concert.
Musicians: Farah Wu, Tan Tiag Yi, Yeo Xing Tong
Dancer: Leow Huey Li
Animators: Koh Shimin, Li Xuanwei
Organisers: Farah Wu, Tan Tiag Yi
Curator & Emcee: Wu Chin Ying
Programme
Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo, How Far Can You Go for violin and piano (2014)
Tan Yu Ting, Chapteh for solo violin (2021)
Toru Takemitsu, Rocking Mirror Daybreak for two violins (1983)
(20-minute Intermission)
Darren Sng, 1=3 for singing and piano-playing violinist (2020)
Bela Bartok, Dance No. 2 and No. 4 from Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm Sz. 107 for solo piano (1939)
Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. Lev Atomyan, Five Pieces for two violins and piano (1970)
This performance is kindly supported by the National Youth Council Young ChangeMakers Grant.
Any material, information or views expressed are those of the organisers and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other supporting organisation.
Charity Partnership
For this performance, we are partnering with Glyph Community, a registered charity aiming to advance opportunities for underprivileged children and youth in Singapore to access world-class holistic development through conducting weekly non-academic activities and programmes. We are looking for generous members of the public to sponsor tickets for the beneficiaries of Glyph and their chaperones to attend this performance at no cost.
If you would like to sponsor a beneficiary’s ticket, priced at $25, please purchase a ticket in the category titled ‘Donation Ticket for Glyph Community Beneficiary’ and transfer the received from Peatix back to us at the email address farahwu2011@outlook.com with the subject title Donation Ticket for Glyph Community Beneficiary. Details on how to do a transfer of ticket can be found here. Upon successful transfer of your ticket, you will receive an email confirmation of receipt within 2 days. Please feel free to email us if you have any more questions regarding this sponsorship, and we thank you in advance for your kindness. We target to provide about 20 beneficiary tickets to Glyph for this performance.
Ticketing
Limited concession tickets priced at $25 each are available for full-time students, full-time national servicemen (NSF) and senior citizens (60 years and above).
Please purchase tickets for children aged 12 and below under the corresponding category so that ample activity booklets will be provided for them. Please also bring colour pencils and scotchtape if possible!
All other patrons should purchase general admission tickets for $30.
Admission Rules
No children below the age of 3 will be admitted. Concession ticket holders should bring proof of their status, such as driver’s licence or student pass, as random checks may be conducted at the venue. Refunds will not be granted to ticket-holders who do not meet these admission requirements.
Latecomers will only be admitted at suitable breaks. Patrons may choose to sit anywhere during the concert, except on seats which are reserved for VIPs and Glyph’s beneficiaries. We reserve the right to ask parents to bring children out of the hall should they be disruptive during the performance. There is no admission without a ticket.
No videography and flash photography will be allowed during the performance.
Special Needs
The Esplanade Recital Studio provides a relaxed corner for audience members with diverse needs who may require a quiet space during the performance. If you foresee a need for it, please approach the Front-of-House crew to show you its location.

Contact
More information and previews of the concert will be shared on our Instagram page @musical.movements

LOLLING AND ROLLING
2023-05-27 18:00 - 19:00
Exploring English as the predominant language of political power, LOLLING AND ROLLING is a powerful one-man show that traces the shadow of linguistic imperialism within Korean society, and questions its impact on the “inaudible voice” of the subaltern. Lolling and Rolling takes as a starting point the phenomenon of tongue-tie surgery, an operation performed in South Korea to pronounce the English-accented “r”. Through a blend of multimedia elements and performance, Jaha Koo unveils a practice which tries to silence minorities and deny their cultural agency. Lolling and Rolling is part of Jaha Koo’s Hamartia Trilogy. SIFA 2023 presents two works from this trilogy: Lolling and Rolling, and Cuckoo.

A Roving Pop-up Children’s Bookstore
2023-05-27 12:00 - 2023-06-04 17:00
A Roving Pop-up Children’s Bookstore
From 27 May to 4 June 2023, 12pm-5pm, Various locations such as Duxton Plain Park, Everton Park and Wessex Estate
Free
The Everyday Museum, SAM’s public art initiative, has recently launched two new public art trails, Port/raits of Tanjong Pagar: Encounters with Art in the Neighbourhood and Singapore Deviation: Wander with Art through the Rail Corridor. Featuring a series of free public art installations that invite new ways of experiencing everyday spaces, families can embark on a self-guided journey through the Tanjong Pagar neighbourhood and the Rail Corridor to discover the art and learn new stories and perspectives about seemingly familiar places.
For this school holiday season, The Everyday Museum has partnered with local independent bookstore Natventure to bring a roving children’s pop-up bookstore to selected public artworks. Creating spaces for children to explore art through nature and books freely, families can look forward to enjoying a curated selection of books in line with the themes of the artworks, as well as special programmes such as storytelling and play sessions.
For the full schedule of programmes, please visit bit.ly/TEM-NatVenture.

Andrew Gn: Fashioning Singapore and the World
2023-05-27 10:00 - 2023-09-17 19:00 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Andrew Gn: Fashioning Singapore and the World
27 May to 17 September 2023
Daily, 10am – 7pm | Fridays, 10am – 9pm
Asian Civilisations Museum

This exhibition presents the fashion journey of Andrew Gn, one of Singapore’s most prolific designers, and celebrates his major gift to the nation. Known for creations that are refined and maximalist, with a cross-cultural aesthetic exemplary of innovation in tradition, Andrew Gn’s precisely tailored works have been embraced by royals, celebrities, and other influential women around the world. Through five sections and over 100 representative works, the exhibition explores Gn’s roots in Asia and expressions of Asian and Western art and history in his work, and celebrates his distinctive aesthetics, craftsmanship, and global impact.

Paper Monkey Theatre's Puppetry Masterclass
2023-05-27 10:00 - 2023-08-05 14:00 | Paper Monkey Theatre, 90 Goodman Road, Goodman Arts Centre, Blk B, #01-05, Singapore, Singapore, S439053, Singapore
Paper Monkey Theatre has been conducting puppetry Masterclass annually for practitioners, in hopes to inspire and also create an entry point for more to take on the art form.
This year, the focus will be on Object Puppetry.
Interested applicants may send in your CV and letter of interest to us at admin@papermonkey.com.sg

Here Comes the Breakfast Kakis: Imagine Our Songs! 《早餐家族来咯：儿歌说故事！》
2023-05-27 10:00 - 2023-06-04 17:00 | Practice Space, 54 Waterloo Street, 187953, Singapore
Meet The Breakfast Kakis – they love to sing and tell stories! But who is the BEST storyteller of them all? Let’s find out…
Deliciously dynamic, Here Comes the Breakfast Kakis: Imagine Our Songs! is a theatre show like no other.
Fall in loaf with our egg-cellent crew of storytellers as they bring your favourite Mandarin nursery rhymes to life with their unique blend of catchy songs, zany tales and engaging live performances.
Then, take a little piece of the Nursery Rhymes world home with you, with an arts and craft session, led by the Breakfast Kakis themselves!
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Date & Time:
27.05 (Sat) 10am / 1pm / 4pm
28.05 (Sun) 10am / 2pm
Featured Stories 🎭 Old Little Kitty and Little Old Mouse , The Rabbit in the Desert
03.06 (Sat) 10am / 2pm
04.06 (Sun) 10am / 2pm
Featured Stories 🎭 Pull the Radish, 1234567
Language: Performed in Mandarin
Duration: 45 mins
Ticket Discount: Enjoy 10% off with a min. order of 3 tickets

Down the River, Along the Streets of ACM
2023-05-27 10:00 - 2023-05-28 19:00 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Down the River, Along the Streets of ACM
Saturday – Sunday, 27 – 28 May 2023
10am – 7pm
Asian Civilisations Museum
Free admission to the museum and most activities
Journey through time along the iconic Singapore River for this year’s Singapore HeritageFest. Hop on a bumboat or embark on walking tours to witness the transformation of the river and its surroundings. Catch interactive storytelling sessions and performances to experience the sights and sounds of the river during its heyday.

ART-ZOO Happy ZOObilee
2023-05-27 08:00 - 2023-08-23 17:00 | Singapore Zoo, 80 Mandai Lake Rd, Singapore, 729826, Singapore
Go on a fun-filled trail featuring Instagrammable inflatables and 2D sculptures, and interactive trail stations to learn more about Singapore Zoo’s star animals. Share your memories with us on social media by posting your photos with #HappyZOObilee #SingaporeZoo #artzooworld and stand to win prizes!
Explore the trail stations along the way to discover fun facts such as the different ways elephants can use their trunks, and our Giant Tortoise’s favourite snacks.
Make your way to the Pavilion by the Lake and join Ah Meng and friends on the Happy ZOObilee Party Inflatable Art Playground for the celebration finale. Other activities such as sustainable workshops and animal encounters are also available!
Date: 27 May – 27 Aug 2023
Time: 10am – 6pm, daily
Venue: Around Singapore Zoo
Ticketing: Sale of $50 ZOObilee Bundle for 1 adult and 1 child from 18 May – 25 Jun 2023. Terms and conditions apply.
Seasonal pricing of $50 for adults (excluding seniors) and $36 for children for visits during 27 May – 27 Aug 2023, inclusive of the ART-ZOO Happy ZOObilee experience.

SIFA 2023: LOVE DIVINE
2023-05-26 19:00 - 2023-05-27 19:00 | CÉ LA VI, CÉ LA VI, Singapore, Singapore
Date: 26 May Friday & 27 May Saturday
Time: 7pm
Duration: Durational, free & easy
Venue: CÉ LA VI
Tickets: $58
Minimum admission age of 18 years
CÉ LA VI, Singapore’s iconic club space pinnacling Marina Bay Sands sets the stage for LOVE DIVINE, a SIFA X performance spectacle plunging us into the creative recesses of Singapore’s Queen of Burlesque, SUKKI (formerly known as Sukki Singapora), Creative Director of CHILDREN OF VENUS a burlesque and vaudeville feast choreographed, curated and sprinkled with SUKKI’s divine touch, and the astonishing Daniel Kok and Luke George whose mind-blowing performance-installation STILL LIVES (Marina Bay) miraculously turns rope art into statements of care and social commentary.
Image Courtesy of Arts House Limited, Artwork for CHILDREN OF VENUS by Karolina Skorek

BLKDOG
2023-05-25 20:00 - 21:30 | SOTA Drama Theatre, 1 Zubir Said Dr, Singapore 227968, 227968, Singapore
BLKDOG is street dance as you’ve never seen it before. Hailed by The Guardian as “a powerful evocation of alienation, oppression and memory”, BLKDOG is a delicate and brutal commentary on how today’s youth are coping in a world not built for them. Using hip hop in a contemporary style powered by high-energy moves and captivating athleticism, Botis Seva creates unique and dynamic choreography that explores the connections between self-discovery and self-destruction and the search for coping mechanisms in the ultimate hunt for acceptance.

The Asian Festival of Children's Content
2023-05-25 09:00 - 2023-05-28 19:15 | National Library Building, 100 Victoria Street, Singapore, Singapore, 188064, Singapore
The 14th Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) returns this year as a fully in-person event, celebrating the theme “Play!”

With over 70 programmes featuring more than 100 writers and speakers from Singapore and around the world, AFCC 2023 explores the different dimensions of “Play” through books, stories and performances. Come join our panels, workshops, public programmes and more, as we showcase Vietnam as our Country of Focus.

Call for Papers: Southeast Asian Performance and Ecology
2023-05-25 08:00 - 2023-10-15 17:00
A new volume edited by Kirstin Pauka, Dennis Gupa, and Catherine Diamond will address the particular
contributions made by Southeast Asian live performances of theatre, dance, puppetry, and performance
art to further a healthy engagement with nature.
Southeast Asian ecology and people’s relations to it are distinctly different from those in secular, modern,
scientifically-driven post-Cartesian Europe and America. We wish to see how SE Asian contemporary
performance deals with environmental challenges conceptually, aesthetically, and pedagogically and whether it
offers a unique perspective to the global discussion.
We invite papers in English from 5,000-7,000 words, and specially encourage scholars and artists from
the Southeast Asian region to contribute. Please see the CFP announcement for complete details.
1. Performance as Environmental Advocacy, Community Activism, and Protest
2. Interrelationships between Indigenous views and Modern performance
3. The potential of Ritual in new Ecological Performances
4. How Gender informs relations with Nature and how Nature informs the understanding of
Gender
5. Performance as Effective Pedagogy for eliciting behavioral change toward the natural
environment
6. Intercultural Collaborations between local, international, and cross-border artists
7. Collaborations with foreign and local Environmental NGOs
8. Configurations of Science and Culture in ecological performance
9. Digital performance and the natural world
10. The Impact of Climate Change on Performance

£¥€$ (LIES)
2023-05-23 20:30 - 22:30 | SOTA Studio Theatre, 1 Zubir Said Drive, Singapore, 227968, Singapore
In this game-inspired immersive and participatory performance, award-winning theatre company Ontroerend Goed invites you to become part of the elite 1% who control the global economy. There may be no time for ethics; you’re in to win. Things get complicated: you can up your risk, trade in debt, make mergers and acquisitions. Taste the heady atmosphere of trading markets, feel the heat of money moving, and get ready to question everything you think you know about the world of high finance.

A DAY, 2023
2023-05-23 - 2023-06-04 | The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore, Singapore
Discover the intriguing amid the mundane, in this multidisciplinary installation combining performance and video installation, reflecting on the nature of time, space and our everyday relationships. With new discoveries and encounters to engage with on each day, it invites you to wander through doors and liminal spaces to piece together what lies within, and how they connect with each other. What different viewers see on different days is just a room, but as we consider what lies behind the other doors, and why they can’t be seen, we experience the same state as in our everyday lives: our anticipation of—and our inability to anticipate—the future.

MATERIA
2023-05-21 15:00 - 16:30, 2023-05-20 20:00 - 21:30 | SOTA Studio Theatre, 1 Zubir Said Drive, Singapore, 227968, Singapore
In this remarkable performance of object theatre, Andrea Salustri explores the possibilities of polystyrene, the most common form of plastic. Watch as it comes alive and becomes the protagonist of the events on stage. MATERIA inspires us to consider how we engage with objects, allowing them to perform their own artistry and create their own magic. MATERIA allows the material to tell its own story, and the audience to project their own interpretations on the performance on stage. Within a set score, objects are free to perform and take initiative.

Images on the Run | Through the Lens of Wawi Navarroza & Miti Ruangkritya
2023-05-21 14:00 - 15:30 | National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level 2, Singapore Courtyard, Singapore, Singapore, 178957, Singapore
The early history of photography in Southeast Asia is largely defined by an ethnographic approach that attempted to “fix” the colonised body. In these images, the subject often remained rooted in space and in (developmental) time, while the photographer was highly itinerant. But what happens when the itinerant photographer is also the subject, or when the photographer turns their attention towards a subject matter that is in a highly agitated state of flux? This panel considers the works of artists Wawi Navarroza and Miti Ruangkritya against how photos are created, manipulated and circulated today via social media.

This panel discussion is moderated by Kenneth Tay (Assistant Curator, Singapore Art Museum), and organised in conjunction with the Gallery’s special exhibition “Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asian Art”.

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About the Speakers

MITI RUANGKRITYA is a visual artist whose photography practice incorporates video, text, and publishing in examining the notion of the City. Encompassing topics ranging political upheaval, ecological change, dislocation, and economic inequalities, his oeuvre chronicles personal responses to his everyday observations while communicating the urban urgencies of contemporary living. His utilisation of media beyond traditional digital and film photography elucidates the nature of image generation, presentation, and consumption in a world increasingly defined by the visual experience. He is the recipient of numerous awards and commendations, and his art practice and publications are represented in public and private collections and libraries worldwide. He lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand.

WAWI NAVARROZA is a Filipina contemporary artist with an international art practice known for her works in photography. Her works navigate self and surrounding as seen in her self-portraits, landscapes and installations. She is informed by tropicality within the dynamics of post-colonial dialogue, globalization, and the artist as a transnational agent. As a female artist, Southeast Asian and Filipino, her works transmute lived experience to the symbolic using material and studio techniques; creating images that explore the hybridity of identity, photography and place. Her works are surveyed in books “Photography Today” (Phaidon), “Contemporary Photography in Asia” (Prestel) and is currently nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023. Navarroza is also a speaker on art and visual culture, most recent at UNESCO Dhaka and at the Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, Istanbul. Navarroza was born and raised in Manila, has lived in Spain and is currently based between Manila and Istanbul.

KENNETH TAY is Assistant Curator at Singapore Art Museum. He writes on media histories, global infrastructures and logistics, and is the author of The Sea is All Highway (Temporary Press, 2019). His curatorial project, FLAT.SPACES (2018), examines the infrastructural critique in the work of Singaporean net-art collective tsunamii.net (2001‒2005). Presently, he is working on a curatorial project that looks into postwar Singapore’s relationship to oil and its global networks. He holds a MA in Media Studies from The New School.

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About “Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asian Art”

Photographs surround us every day and everywhere. They shape the way we see the world and the way we see ourselves. Explore the changing roles of photography in Southeast Asia—from its beginnings as a tool of European exploration to the “performance” of studio portraits; from the incomplete realities of war to the rise of fine art; and finally to the memes and selfies that saturate social media today.

Click here to find out more about the exhibition and its upcoming programmes: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/livingpictures

The Vault: Past Perfect | SIFA X: there is no future in nostalgia
2023-05-20 20:00 - 21:30 | Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street, 42 Waterloo Street, Singapore, 187951, Singapore
4 actors gather and they reflect on their journey through Theatre in the 1990s. With 20/20 hindsight, what did it mean to DO theatre in the 1990s? Why did they do what they do and more importantly, how? Without any rose-tinted glass, no misty water-coloured memories, these actors share their thoughts and ruminations. Guiding them is a young actor born in the 1990s, asking questions and also wondering – is the past really so perfect?
Conceptualised by Robin Loon and Casey Lim, and co-created with Nelson Chia, Oniatta Effendi, Serene Chen, Tan Kheng Hua and Lim Shi-An, The Vault: Past Perfect is a performance of pieces that draw on the personal archive, reflecting on the energy and legacy of Singapore theatre-making in the 1990s.

SIFA 2023: THERE IS NO FUTURE IN NOSTALGIA
2023-05-20 15:00 - 2023-05-28 20:00 | Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street, 42 Waterloo Street, Singapore, 187951, Singapore
Date: 20 May Saturday & 21 May Sunday
Date: 27 May Saturday & 28 May Sunday
Time: 3pm & 8pm
Venue: 42 Waterloo Street
Tickets: $25
Centre 42 presents a collection of new performances devised by its resident artists and invited guests. Titled “there is no future in nostalgia,” after Arthur Yap’s iconic poem about the fatigue of urban renewal, we invite artists to consider the tensions between new and old, the technocratic and the civic—and consider how they come to bear on the art of theatre-making.
SIFA X: THERE IS NO FUTURE IN NOSTALGIA comprises: The Vault, with pieces drawn from practitioners’ memories of theatre in the 90s; Studio, a series of staged readings of new short works by our resident playwrights; and Headline Acts, an open-format evening where writers present short dramatic pieces in response to archival headlines.
Image courtesy of Centre 42

ANGEL ISLAND
2023-05-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Singtel Waterfront Theatre at The Esplanade, 8 Raffles Ave., Singapore 039802, Singapore, Singapore, 039802, Singapore
Between 1910 and 1940, as new immigrants flowed through the immigration station on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay, Chinese immigrants faced massive discrimination because of America’s earliest racist immigration legislations. This captivating one-act music-theatre performance tells their stories.
Composed by Huang Ruo, the music of ANGEL ISLAND is inspired by the Chinese poems carved on the wooden walls of the detention centre on Angel Island, and the events and stories emerging from the era in which the legislations were passed. Tackling perennial and global issues of xenophobia, sexism, and systematic racial and gender discrimination, ANGEL ISLAND weaves a story of immigration, discrimination, and confinement – bringing history into the reality of our current lives. Performed by Del Sol Quartet and Taipei Chamber Singers.

ABYSS
2023-05-19 20:00 - 21:30 | SOTA Drama Theatre, 1 Zubir Said Dr, Singapore 227968, 227968, Singapore
With soulful and meditative turns, ABYSS forms an ode to the depths of human emotion. Principles of Korean dance meld with the vocabulary of contemporary movement to form a unique vehicle for expressions of joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure to mingle. A humble sailing boat becomes a metaphor for the soul, floating alone on the open, unpredictable sea of life, with its winds of upheaval, crests of joy and storms of powerful sorrow.
ABYSS invites you to experience the spectrum of human feeling: to laugh, weep and sing along with the dancers, and to move with the waves of the sea, to ultimately make space once again to sail in the boat that is inside of you.

Wind Up Mice
2023-05-19 19:00 - 2023-05-27 21:00 | Java Creative Cafe Toul Tom Poung, 53 Street 468, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
From Khmer playwright and director, Samithi Sok, comes his sophomore play, Wind Up Mice, an original and independent theatre production coming to Java Creative Café, Phnom Penh. Co-directed by Marika Els.
Wind Up Mice follows Reagan and Chang, a couple for whom the end is not the end. Trapped in a never-ending loop, the fated pair find their relationship played out again and again across the entirety of time. Deeply intimate, at times profound, at times horrifying, and above-all unflinchingly honest, Wind Up Mice is an examination of free will, resentment and toxicity, and the undying power of love.

Dates: 19, 20, 26 and 27 May at 7 pm, with an additional matinee at 1 pm on 27 May
Venue: Java Creative Cafe Toul Tom Poung.
Tickets are now available through the link below:
https://forms.gle/THvi8FLsvE2pts6H9
