Multisensory journey transporting audiences to Perak's Lenggong Valley, in all its natural and mystical beauty. Modern Singapore rarely leaves much space or opportunity for truly connecting with nature. As much as we tout ourselves as a garden city, green spaces are often integrated into the urban landscape, rather than allowed to simply grow amok, or … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: REFUGE by The Observatory
★★★☆☆ Review: Wilful Machine by Genevieve Chua
Pondering a future of machine self-awareness, as it reflects on humanity. If machines could talk, what might they say of humans - their makers? Genevieve Chua's new work Wilful Machine imagines and brings that to life, using a combination of architecture, multimedia and dance, as it premiered at the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2024. … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: Wilful Machine by Genevieve Chua
★★★★☆ Review: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster by Manual Cinema
Demystifying the sorcery of cinema while capturing the magic of puppetry and animation. In a world where kids are almost constantly glued to the screen - how does one keep them entertained in the theatre? By bringing the screen to the stage of course. That is the modus operandi of American company Manual Cinema, who … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster by Manual Cinema
★★★★☆ Review: Moby Dick by Plexus Polaire (SIFA 2024)
Glimmers of terrible beauty amidst a savage, age-old battle of man versus nature. The beauty of a novel like Moby Dick has always lain in how open to interpretation it is, where everything from the tumult of the sea, to the conversations between crewmates, to the chase for the elusive white whale itself becomes a … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Moby Dick by Plexus Polaire (SIFA 2024)
SIFA 2024: An Interview with Singapore experimental band The Observatory on exploring darkness and the underground in ‘REFUGE’
The Observatory are not your ordinary band. Going beyond making music alone, the local Singaporean band has been closely involved in art beyond entertainment for two decades, always ready to speak truth to power and constantly using their sound to amplify their thoughts and feelings about social issues, even expanding into the realm of visual … Continue reading SIFA 2024: An Interview with Singapore experimental band The Observatory on exploring darkness and the underground in ‘REFUGE’
SIFA 2024: An Interview with Lithuanian artists Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė & Lina Lapelytė on beach opera ‘Sun & Sea’
One of the most exciting and outrageous pavilions at the 2019 Venice Biennale came from a rather surprising source - Lithuania, which till then had only occasionally caught the public eye when it came to the art world. When visitors stepped into the Lithuanian pavilion, they entered an entirely different world, one that was dappled … Continue reading SIFA 2024: An Interview with Lithuanian artists Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė & Lina Lapelytė on beach opera ‘Sun & Sea’
SIFA 2024: An Interview with Alex Serrano, co-creator of AI-driven dance performance ‘Una Isla’
The arts have always grown in tandem with technology, be it developments in set-building and engineering that allow for new stunts and stage movements, or in terms of audio and the ability to bring sound and voice to new heights. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) touted as the next big thing, it was only a matter … Continue reading SIFA 2024: An Interview with Alex Serrano, co-creator of AI-driven dance performance ‘Una Isla’
SIFA 2024: An Interview with puppeteer Viktor Lukawski on playing Captain Ahab and puppetry in Plexus Polaire’s ‘Moby Dick’
Herman Melville's Moby Dick has long been considered an epic of literature - a massive tome of a book that chronicles the odyssey of the Pequod, as they're led by their obsessive Captain Ahab seeking revenge on the sperm whale that bit his leg off - the titular Moby Dick. Often considered one of the … Continue reading SIFA 2024: An Interview with puppeteer Viktor Lukawski on playing Captain Ahab and puppetry in Plexus Polaire’s ‘Moby Dick’
Review: Journey to a Dream by Emergency Stairs and Zuni Icosahedron (Southernmost 2019)
★★★☆☆ (Attended 8/11/19) Intercultural presentation driving home the fact that no dream is achieved without sacrifice, while commenting on the cultural violence of colonialism and orientalism. What does it take to achieve a dream? And for that matter, what happens when that dream necessitates the destruction of someone else's? As the culmination of the 2019 … Continue reading Review: Journey to a Dream by Emergency Stairs and Zuni Icosahedron (Southernmost 2019)
Preview: Southernmost Festival 2019 by Emergency Stairs
Now in its third year, Emergency Stairs' Southernmost Festival is back! Questioning the role of an arts festival, over the last two editions, Southernmost has proven itself as a fascinating experiment into festival curation and artistry, deliberately going against the grain as it focuses on intercultural work as prominent and emerging traditional and contemporary artists from the … Continue reading Preview: Southernmost Festival 2019 by Emergency Stairs
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