Singapore Art Week 2019: Art Takes Over Comes To An End
The seventh edition of Singapore Art Week 2019 drew to a close this week. Organised by the National Arts Council (NAC), the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and the Singapore Economic […]
Review: Flowers of the Night by Kamini Ramachandran (ARTWALK Little India 2019)
Tales of rebirth, gender fluidity and karma from Singapore’s top storyteller Held as part of ARTWALK Little India 2019, in a small brick and mortar gallery housed between Rowell Road and Desker […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: Catamite by Loo Zihan (Review)
A moving lesson on the life-cycle of objects. There is a belief in the Japanese Shinto religion that everything, including everyday household objects, possesses a life force of its own. […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: Q&A (the 36 questions) by Rachel Erdos and Dancers (Review)
Falling in love with dance. In a 1997 SUNY Stony Brook study, psychologist Arthur Aron and his colleagues explored whether intimacy between two complete strangers could be accelerated by having them […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: precise purpose of being broken by Koh Wan Ching (Review)
but precisely what is the purpose of this piece? Adapted from a collage of texts by Haresh Sharma, precise purpose of being broken presents 9 excerpts from the award-winning playwright’s most obscure […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: ANGKAT – A Definitive, Alternative, Reclaimed Narrative of a Native by Nabilah Said and Noor Effendy Ibrahim (Review)
A Definitive, Alternative, Reclaimed Narrative of a Native? In a decidedly different version from the one staged by Teater Ekamatra in 2016, Nabilah Said’s ANGKAT gets a new lease of life with […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: Above the Mealy-Mouthed Sea by Unholy Mess (Review)
Memory can be a fishy thing. Let’s get this straight right off the bat – Above the Mealy-mouthed Sea is an odd kettle of fish. The premise is simple enough – emerging […]
Museum Musings: Introducing ARTitude Galeria – The First Colombian Contemporary Art Gallery in Singapore
Dedicated solely to introducing Colombian artists to Asian audiences, the launch of ARTitude Galeria marks an exciting new addition to our local arts scene, bringing with them not only the introduction […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: An Interview with Loo Zihan, Creator of Catamite (Preview)
For most readers, the word ‘catamite’ is likely to be an unfamiliar one. To unpack its meaning, one would have to go all the way back to ancient Greece, where […]
Preview: Five Programming Hubs To Enjoy While Admiring i Light 2019 – The Bicentennial Edition
The end of the month will see the return of i Light Singapore – Bicentennial Edition, bringing with it a curated mix of over 20 programmes alongside 33 light art installations. As an […]
Museum Musings: Breezing Willow at the Parkview Museum (Preview)
Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and for their latest exhibition, the Parkview Museum is teaming up with the National Art Museum of China and China Cultural Centre […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: The Adventures of Abhijeet by Patch & Punnet (Review)
Colourful adventure that lacks purpose. Xenophobia is one of the bigger issues that has plagued Singapore in recent years, with continually increasing rates of anti-foreigner sentiment rearing its ugly head. […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: yesterday it rained salt by Bhumi Collective (Review)
Sailing an emotional ship to wreck. Directed by Soultari Amin Farid, choreographed by Norhaizad Adam and with a script by Nabilah Said, yesterday it rained salt is perhaps the most salient culmination […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: A Fortunate Man by New Perspectives (Review)
Doctors get sad too. For a performance dealing with doctors and depression, it’s remarkable how clinical New Perspectives’ A Fortunate Man is; beyond the actual waiting room-like setup complete with plastic chairs, […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: An Interview with Jemima Foxtrot of Unholy Mess (Preview)
Arranging for our interview at the iconic Foyle’s bookstore on Tottenham Court Road in London couldn’t be more appropriate. Jemima Foxtrot, one half of Unholy Mess is, after all, a […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: Ayer Hitam by Sharon Frese, Ng Yi-Sheng and Irfan Kasban (Review)
Black never goes out of style. When one thinks of the cultural makeup of Singapore, rarely does Africa come to mind, let alone daily conversation. Yet, as Sharon Frese, Ng […]
