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Elaine Chiew unearths curious materialities (tofu sheets, latex, milk), and the play of intertextuality with aesthetics, in NAFA's 2017 graduate fine art showcase, "The Grad Expectations 2017", ending tomorrow, at Nafa Campus 1 and Objectifs - Centre for Photography and Film.
Review: The NAFA Graduate Showcase 2017
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Tofu sheets, latex skin, talcum, chocolate powder, milk. The NAFA fine art graduate showcase 2017 features unconventional materialities...
In droll snark and biting honesty, Ke Weiliang gives us a taste of the lesser-known, frequently overlooked world of the front-of-house personnel.
Front of House: Behind the Scenes | Arts Equator
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By Ke Weiliang (1700 words, 15-minute read) One of my earliest front of house (FOH) memories was at a rock concert held at the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre. On any other day, the combination of ‘outdoor’ and ‘rock band’ could easily...
Jelaine Ng Sha-Men, Lucas Ho and 21 others like this
What does the Biennale of the future look like? "WORKERS OF THE ART-WORLD, UNITE! YOU HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO LOVE BUT YOUR SUPPLY CHAINS!" by Kenneth Tay is the first of three speculative fiction works, conveyed by Qinyi Lim, for the AICA Singapore Biennale Roundtable.
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AICA Singapore Biennale 2016: Roundtable 3Maybe it’s better this way, We’d hurt each other with the things we want to say [1]Lim Qinyi, Kenneth Tay, Vanessa Ban and Hsu Fang-Tze “Tell me about the biennale you want to see”, was...
Bang Alam Yeo, Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần and 23 others like this
Koh Nguang HowWow! The dirt (?) on this close-up view of Yuyu Yang's public sculpture at Raffles Place (OUB centre) look great (like snow)!
22 hours ago · 2Speak Cryptic's Kinves in the Water
Clara Cheong's first piece for ArtsEquator takes her to Speak Cryptic's first solo in 10 years.The exhibition, at Chan + Hori Contemporary , ends today with a closing party at 7 pm and a big reveal. Read the article for more: artsequator.com/knives-water-solo-exhibition-speak-cryptic/
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Ke Weiliang"Hi there I’m Clara, an undergraduate from LASALLE College of The Arts." Clara Cheong your bio so cute hahahaha
5 days ago · 1Elaine Chiew walks us through some of the whopping 800 works on exhibit at The LASALLE Show 2017, the graduating showcase of students across the several Diploma, Bachelors and Masters programmes at LASALLE College of the Arts.
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Fieldnotes from the LASALLE Show Exhibition 2017
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A review of LASALLE Singapore's year-end Exhibition 2017
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In our latest podcast, Matt Lyon speaks to Theatre Invasion Singapore, a passionate group of students from NTU'S Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information who’re on a crucial mission: to promote the magic of theatre among young adult audiences.
Listen in as they share their journey from unearthing the various factors that influence young people’s perception of theatre to the many “invasions” they’ve made to change attitudes and make theatre-going a bigger part of more people’s lives in Singapore.
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Podcast 15: Theatre Invasion Singapore | Arts Equator
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Duration: 26 minutes Matt Lyon speaks to Adeeb Fazah and Teresa Zhou, two members of Theatre Invasion Singapore, a passionate team of four final-year undergraduates from NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information who’re on a crucial mission: to...
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Marcus Yee explores how recent exhibitions at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore ("The Making of an Institution") and NUS Museum ("There are too many episodes of people coming here...") move away from approaching the arts space as tabula rasa, towards "confronting the face of the institution itself."
Looking at Institutions Look at Themselves: NTU CCA & NUS Museum | Arts Equator
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By Marcus Yee (1530 words, 20-minute read) “What am I?” asks the museum. “If I am not to be metamuseum, interred within my own history, what do I do?”. —Lisa G. Corrin Amidst the torrential stream of infrastructural expansion...
Silvia Vanini, Grace Hong and 23 others like this
In our latest podcast, former Flying Inkpot reviewers Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia get together to discuss two glamorous, star-studded cabaret-themed musicals that opened within a few days of each other in the past month: Tropicana the Musical and WILD RICE’s La Cage Aux Folles.
Delightful listening to accompany your lunch break:
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Podcast 14: La Cage and Tropicana | Arts Equator
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Duration: 30 minutes Former Flying Inkpot reviewers Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia get together to discuss Tropicana the Musical and Wild Rice’s La Cage – two glamorous, star-studded, cabaret-themed musicals that opened within a few days of each other within the past month. While one’s...
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ArtsEquator shared The Kaizen M.D.'s Move ____, As We Move: Interview with the Team.
The Kaizen M.D.
Fresh blood in the theatre scene: this weekend a passionate young group of emerging theatremakers, The Kaizen M.D., are staging "Move ____, As We Move", an evocative story about the trauma of divorce on a child and its aftershocks rippling into his adulthood. The multidisciplinary performance, held at Centre 42, blends movement, sound, multimedia and acting.
Hear the production team share more about their work in this video, and read on for ticketing information.
We are less than a week to opening night! Before you catch them perform Move ____, As We Move in Centre 42, find out more about what drives them to create the show. We talk to Kaykay Nizam, Pramiila Pam, Suhaili Safari and Norisham on their process thus far and what they hope you will take from the show. Buy your tickets through email at moveaswemove@gmail.com Standard: $30 | Concession: $20 BUNDLE PROMO: Buy 3 tickets for a 20% discount on the 4th ticket! #KaizenMove #theatresg #supportlocalsg #sgtheatre #singaporetheatre #interdisciplinary #sgarts #alistsg #thekaizenmd
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The Kaizen M.D.Thank you ArtsEquator for the feature!
3 weeks ago"There are so many taboos and judgements around our bodies and the politics they carry. Let's take the leap to talk and dance about tough questions. Let’s be unashamed. Walang hiya."
The "¡Walang Hiya! (Unashamed)" series of movement workshops held between Manila and Singapore in February 2017 merged bodywork and socio-politics of the body - using contact improvisation as a "physically immediate trigger for challenging conversations about society and change."
Chan Sze-Wei co-organised the workshops with Daloy Dance Company's Ea Torrado (Philippines) and Daniel Mang (Sweden).
She shares more about the programme for ArtsEquator:
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Dancing Unashamed: ¡Walang Hiya! | Arts Equator
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"But we know for a certain fact that life follows no rule that man can fathom, and that is why if you, the future festival director, do really wish to push boundaries, you have to push the boundaries of what is deemed to be “stage-worthy”. "
A Letter to a Future Festival Director
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Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to congratulate you on your future appointment as the festival director of a major theatre festival in town. My fellow peers and I who have been enthusiastically follow…
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Nirmala Seshadri “When we want to talk about tradition and contemporary … I see it as a kind of a recalibration, a relocation of form in this time and this space. Watching Raka and her group, to my eye, it was very difficult to say here is where tradition stops and here is where contemporary begins.” - on Chowk's "Pallavi in Time".
Podcast 13: Indian classical dance as contemporary practice
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Southeast Asian Dance podcast by hosted by Dr Stephanie Burridge discusses Pallavi in Time by CHOWK, a Singapore dance company
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Photographer Zane Gan tracks Sean Ghazi, who plays George in WILD RICE's La Cage Aux Folles, capturing the camaraderie, rituals and water bottles that keep the show going on. The hit musical, directed by Glen Goei, runs until 13 May 2017.
Photo Essay: Backstage Pass to Wild Rice's La Cage Aux Folles
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Photographer Zane Gan captures the camaraderie back stage at SingaporeanTheatre company Wild Rice's production of La Cage Aux Folles, directed by Glen Goei.
Philip Jablon - The Painters
Watch Philip Jablon's 2-minute mini-documentary on one of Thailand's last active movie billboard painting studios, located in the city of Yala.
Read Philip's essay about the dying art of movie billboard painting on ArtsEquator: artsequator.com/thailands-movie-billboard-painters/
Philip runs The Southeast Asia Movie Theater Project, a fascinating documentation of the stand-alone movie theaters across various Southeast Asian countries, which he has also written on for ArtsEquator: artsequator.com/sea_cinemas/
Alessandra Dias, The Southeast Asia Movie Theater Project and 6 others like this
At Bhumi Collective's 'Every Brilliant Thing' with Andrew Marko, Akanksha Raja finds herself swayed by the charm of production but wonders if the lightness comes at a price.
Review of "Every Brilliant Thing" by Bhumi Collective | Arts Equator
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By Akanksha Raja (870 words, 8-minute read) Every Brilliant Thing is a (primarily) one-person monologue of an unnamed narrator (Andrew Marko) coming to terms with his mother’s depression and suicidal tendencies. His effort to reconcile with his mother’s instability takes...
Denise Dolendo, Makoto Yoneda and 16 others like this
This week on ArtsEquator:
Philip Jablon's visual essay on Thailand's last movie billboard painters explored through photography and a mini-documentary; Yue Jie's reflection on Kirsten Tan's Sundance-slaying feature film POP AYE; and Akanksha Raja is blinded by "Every Brilliant Thing" staged by Bhumi Collective.
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Yue Jie reviews Kirsten Tan's Sundance slaying film, POP AYE, as moved by its depiction of the relationship between man and elephant as he is by the cost of urbanisation in SEA.
Film Review: "POP AYE" by Kirsten Tan
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ArtsEquator reviews Singaporean filmmaker Kirsten Tan's award-winning Thai-language feature film, "POP AYE"
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Spellbound by Chowk's "Pallavi in Time", Chan Sze-Wei shares her thoughts on every intricacy of this evocative dance performance:
"This Pallavi is magnified in intensity, comprising what must be ten solid minutes of classical high-octane footwork and gestural variation, performed with astonishing precision and energy by the performers who have not left the stage or disengaged for a moment of the past hour. I can’t remember when I last felt so involved in a performer’s effort, risk and the exertion."
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Dance Review: Pallavi in Time by CHOWK Productions
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By Chan Sze-Wei (1150 words, 10-minute read) This was one of those rare occasions where I realise that I’m watching an important work of art. A discovery, a risk, a breakthrough, that will influence my aesthetic and many others’ for...
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ChowkThank you Sze Wei.
1 month agoArtsEquator's two pieces on Zihan Loo's With/Out: Sean Tobin who watched The Necessary Stage's 'Completely With/Out Character' and both of Loo Zihan's works reflects on all three 'landmarks' in a personal essay. Ng Yi-Sheng, reviews the 2017 production, wondering where today's activism lies.
Completely With: Remembering Paddy Chew, Reflecting on Loo Zihan
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Sean Tobin, who watched 1999's 'Completely With/Out Character' and both of Loo Zihan's works based on it, 'With/Out', reflects on all three works.
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Felipe Cervera takes a theatrical time machine back to '60s Singapore through Tropicana the Musical:
"A show that wants to recollect the memories of a long lost Singapore, Tropicana is an enmeshment of memories that are collated, but don’t quite merge. Just like Singapore. ... In the end, the memory I retained is that of a Singapore I wished I lived in."
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Theatre Review: Tropicana The Musical 2017
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Felipe Cervera reviews Tropicana The Musical 2017, written by Haresh Sharma, with music by Julian Wong, lyrics by Joel Tan and choreography by Jeffrey Tan
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