Pagkamalikhain, Konserbatismo, at Sensura: Isang Maikling Tanaw mula sa Pilipinas | ArtsEquator Skip to content Sa isang masaklaw at pangkasaysayang pagsusuri ng sensura sa Pilipinas, mula kay Marcos (Senior) hanggang kay Marcos (Junior), inilalatag ni Katrina Stuart Santiago ang mito ng kalayaang pansining sa Pilipinas...
Artistic Freedom Report Malaysia: Negotiating Sensitivities | ArtsEquator Skip to content The key findings and analysis of artistic freedom in Malaysia from the Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Database Project, 2010 - 2022...
Artistic Freedom Report Vietnam: An ever-changing terrain | ArtsEquator Skip to content The key findings and analysis of artistic freedom in Vietnam from the Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Database Project, 2010-2022...
Artistic Freedom Report Thailand: Expansive and Politically Contentious | ArtsEquator Skip to content The key findings and analysis of artistic freedom in Thailand from the Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Database Project, 2010-2022...
Artistic Freedom Report : Six Countries, 12 Years, 652 Violations | ArtsEquator Skip to content The key findings and analysis of violations of artistic freedom in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and The Philippines from the Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Database Project, 2010-2022...
Of Participatory Censorship in Malaysia | ArtsEquator Skip to content Zikri Rahman examines the evolving nature of censorship in Malaysia through the lens of participatory censorship, with illustrations by Low Pey Sien...
Gen X to Gen Z: Generational Differences in the Shaping of Cambodia’s Cultural Preservation Policies | ArtsEquator Skip to content In Cambodia, most cases of arts censorship are linked to the notion of protecting and preserving culture...
artn’t: Thailand’s Rebel Artists | ArtsEquator Skip to content Nutcha Tantivitayapitak and Sudarat Musikawong travel to Chiang Mai, Thailand to shine a light on the artn’t Collective, who are currently facing numerous legal charges for works that are viewed as critiquing the state...
Silenced Voices, Unacceptable Humor, Distasteful Desires: The Censorship of Gender and Sexuality in the Philippines | ArtsEquator Skip to content Katrina Stuart Santiago demonstrates how recent incidents of artistic censorship in the Philippines have focused on the silencing of female and LGBTQIA+ voices...
Isabella Chiam: Cultivating Risks | ArtsEquator Skip to content SMU students Caitlin Leong and Joy Lo interview Isabella Chiam about her gardening workshop, 'The Last Gardener', gaining insights into the risks and challenges that artists face in the creative sector...
Artistic Freedom in Cambodia: When Legal Safeguards Are Not Enough | ArtsEquator Skip to content In a country with a range of national and international laws to protect artistic rights, Reaksmey Yean questions the reality of freedom of expression for artists in Cambodia...
The Power of a Poem | ArtsEquator Skip to content Zakir Hossain, a celebrated poet and migrant worker in Singapore, wrote a poem, which sparked a response from the state...
Parastoo Theatre: Art, Refuge, Action | ArtsEquator Skip to content The pioneering theatre company, founded and run by Afghan theatre maker and refugee, Saleh Sepas, is creating a practice that enriches the cultural landscape for all Malaysians...
Disability Arts – Notice us for our art, not our disability | ArtsEquator Skip to content Isaac Lim outlines conversations in online disability arts panel discussion, Nothing About Us Without Us: Artists on crafting their voices ...
장애예술 – 생태계를 확장하며, 토대를 지켜내기 | ArtsEquator Skip to content 문영민은 생태계와 접근성, 플랫폼 등에 대해서 이야기한 그라운드 업: 장애 예술을 위한 효과적인 생태계 구축에 대한 글을 썼습니다...
장애예술 – 장애가 아닌 우리의 예술을 보라 | ArtsEquator Skip to content 아이삭 림은 장애 예술에 관한 온라인 포럼, 우리가 없으면 우리에 대한 것도 없다: 목소리를 만들어 내는 예술가들에 대한 글을 썼습니다...
Spectres of May 13, 1969 | ArtsEquator Skip to content Eddie Wong writes of the various spectres around the riots of May 13 1969 that continue to haunt the Malaysian psyche till today...
RED LINES: 60 Global Cartoonists Talk Fear And Favour | ArtsEquator Skip to content "If satire is so toothless, then why are cartoonists so often badly bitten?" Ann Lee reviews RED LINES: Political Cartoons and the Struggle Against Censorship by Cherian George and Sonny Liew...
Rethinking contemporaries: Asian Producers' Platform Speaker Series | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 28, 2021 By Wennie Yang (690 words, 2-minute read) There is a quiet and perhaps stubborn optimism that underlies the work of a producer...
Yale-NUS closure: Artistic legacies and loss in (de)liberation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Raphael Hugh October 6, 2021 By Clara Che Wei Peh and Tee Zhuo (2,500 words, 10-minute read) In August, the National University of Singapore (NUS) announced unilaterally that Yale-NUS College would be shut down by 2025, marking what many see as a premature end to the partnership between Yale University and NUS that started in 2011...
The performing arts industry of Malaysia is drowning | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre July 13, 2021 By Joe Hasham (986 words, 2-minute read) As many parts of Southeast Asia are hit by recurrent waves of Covid 19 infections, arts industries across the region face imminent collapse due to prolonged closures and scant state support...
Podcast 91: Curated Conferences with Chung Shefong, Janet Pillai and Anmol Vellani at Meeting Point 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints June 30, 2021 Nabilah Said and Wennie Yang speak to Chung Shefong, Janet Pillai and Anmol Vellani the three curators who led the Curated Conference programme as part of Meeting Point 2021 ...
Book Review: "The State and The Arts in Singapore: Policies and Institutions" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Images courtesy of Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore April 9, 2019 By Chin Ailin (734 words, four-minute read) Commissioned by the Institute of Policy Studies of Singapore (IPS) to trace the course of cultural policy in Singapore from the 1950s to the present, The State and the Arts in Singapore: Policies and Institutions is a comprehensive tome that should serve as an essential text in time to come for any student’s introduction to Singapore’s arts and cultural policies...
Budget leaves arts and culture out in the cold (via The Star) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 16, 2018 THE fact that arts and culture has the lowest priority in government planning was borne out by Budget 2019...
Mirrored Interrogations | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 8, 2018 By Eunice Lacaste (1000 words, four-minute read) In post-colonial Southeast Asia, the constraint of politically-engaged artworks is not uncommon...
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Vietnam to Ban Gratuitous Smoking in Movies, Stage Productions (via Saigoneer) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 22, 2018 Starting from November, filmmakers will need to carefully deliberate their decision to include smoking in their works or risk the ire of the culture ministry...
Getting schooled on the arts (via The Star) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 14, 2018 From surprise visits to schools, replacing white shoes with black, and referencing the Finnish education system as a possible one to emulate, the new Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik has made waves with his fresh approach...
Vietnamese Cultural Week opens in Cambodia (via Nhân Dân) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 11, 2018 NDO – The Vietnamese Culture Week opened at Chaktomuk theatre, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on September 11...
Cambodian FB users rage over dance ownership (via The Nation) | ArtsEquator Skip to content August 31, 2018 18:20 United Nations’ cultural agency Unesco’s Facebook page has hosted a heated debate between Cambodians and Thais over Bangkok’s proposal for the inclusion of “khon” masked dance on the agency’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list...