MEPAAN: The Air Bandung Conundrum
about 23 months ago (05/31/2022)
MEPAAN: The Air Bandung Conundrum | ArtsEquator Skip to content Dr Shahril Salleh reflects on the challenges and rewards of intercultural collaboration in the Singapore Festival of the Arts 2022’s opening show, MEPAAN, using a beloved local drink as an analogy. The opening commission for the Singapore International Festival of the Arts (SIFA) , MEPAAN, (meaning always in the Kayan language), features a collaboration between the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) and the Tuyang Initiative , a Borneo cultural agency. MEPAAN ’s premise of an inter-cultural performance experience between two arts groups from different countries and different cultural forms is ambitious for two reasons.