Recent growth in Singapore in private art spaces and exhibitions show its art market, while still small, is adding a layer that will be crucial to attaining its goal of being a major regional art hub....
Make Hantus Great Again: Breaking Bread With the Undead | ArtsEquator Skip to content "Make Hantus Great Again", Teatre Ekamatra's latest production, combines kooky supernatural characters with social commentary this Halloween...
Storytelling and Mental Wellness | ArtsEquator Skip to content In conjunction with the 'Mental Health Awareness & Wellbeing Festival 2022', ArtsEquator learns how storytelling can be a catalyst for mental clarity and self awareness...
Open Calls and Opportunities: August 2022 (Singapore/SEA) | ArtsEquator Skip to content ArtsEquator’s Lobang is a list of available open calls, job postings and other opportunities open to people from Singapore and Southeast Asia...
The Working Processes of Artists: Wesley Leon Aroozoo | ArtsEquator Skip to content Wesley Leon Aroozoo is a filmmaker, author and educator who released his latest novel 'The Punkhawala and the Prostitute' in 2021...
Contemporary Moves In Modern Singaporean Tamil Theatre | ArtsEquator Skip to content Hemang Yadav was involved in a recent development program, Tunjuk Arah/ Iyakkunar, for Malay and Indian theatre directors in Singapore...
Open Calls and Opportunities: July 2022 (Singapore/SEA) | ArtsEquator Skip to content ArtsEquator Lobang is a list of available open calls, job postings and other opportunities open to people from Singapore and Southeast Asia...
Remotes X Quantum: Daring Collaboration Defies Cohesion | ArtsEquator Skip to content Remotes x Quantum, a Singapore-Philippines collaboration, is a daring, experimental work that never quite attains cohesion, which Jennifer Anne Champion finds is on-brand for SIFA 2022's experimental nature...
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...
Podcast 103: The Glass Menagerie | ArtsEquator Skip to content In this latest ArtsEquator Theatre Podcast, Matthew Lyon, Nabilah Said and Naeem Kapadia discuss the recent production The Glass Menagerie , written by Tennessee Williams and presented by Pangdemonium...
5 Advertisements That Are So Southeast Asian | ArtsEquator Skip to content Some advertisements are works of art...
WINDOW by ATTEMPTS: A click away | ArtsEquator Skip to content "You walk into a black room...
The Maker’s Project: What does it take to sustain the puppeteer? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of The Finger Players February 13, 2022 By Janice Yap (1,200 words, 6-minute read) What would it look like if makers had the space and time to reflect, research and incubate outside of working on a production? What benefits would it reap for this generation of puppeteers, and for the ones to come?...
0.01 at M1 Fringe 2022: The Space Between | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints January 18, 2022 By Rebecca G (630 words, 3-minute read) An estranged father, a disillusioned employee, a human case study, those behind the scenes – all yearning for more in a collective plea for help...
Reframing The Mental Health Discourse ‘With Time’ | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of Zinkie Aw and Drama Box October 20, 2021 By Isaac Tan (1,262 words, 4-minute read) CW: Mentions of issues about mental health and suicide...
The working processes of artists: Bani Haykal | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints August 10, 2021 Artist, composer and musician Bani Haykal shares about his video work Trouble With Harmony , created in collaboration with art critic and writer Lee Weng Choy, as well as his other experimentations with text and music...
ArtsEquator’s Hot List: March 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints March 3, 2021 Every first Wednesday of the month, ArtsEquator releases our editor’s picks of shows/events/programmes that our readers can look out for in that month...
(Episode 3) What's in a Scene - Cerita Cinta by akulah BIMBO SAKTI | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 30, 2020 In this last episode of What’s in a Scene, Noor Effendy Ibrahim and Dalifah Shahril break down a scene from Cerita Cinta (2018)...
Burning Questions: Tech in Performance: The Great Leveller or The Great Unequaliser? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints July 28, 2020 Using technology in performance isn’t new, but COVID-19 has forced more artists to explore the digital medium, dealing with lag, latency and liveness while rethinking audience engagement and accessibility...
Ong Keng Sen: Pushing the conversation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Patricia Bateira May 6, 2020 Theatre stalwart Ong Keng Sen returns to helm Singapore theatre company TheatreWorks, after being away for a decade to complete his PhD in Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts in New York...
Open Calls and Opportunities: Feb 2020 (Singapore/SEA) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar February 19, 2020 ArtsEquator Lobang is a list of available open calls, job postings and other opportunities open to people from Singapore and Southeast Asia...
Rage or Loss: Women in Photography 2019 | Remedy For Rage | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 7, 2019 By Elaine Chiew (1,050 words, 6-minute read) Now in its fifth edition, Objectifs returns with its annual showcase in the Women in Film and Photography series...
How would you fare in the afterlife? Haw Par Villa: ArtsEquator Edition | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Adeeb Fazah October 29, 2019 Scenario: You are visiting the Ten Courts of Hell in Haw Par Villa...
KNOTS: An open letter to 艺族 STRANGER | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints The Pond Photography September 19, 2019 By Ke Weiliang (1,131 words, 6-minute read) Dear 艺族 STRANGER, After spending my Saturday afternoon with you at the Esplanade Theatre Studio, I struggled long and hard to make sense of the titular ‘knots’ that your inaugural play endeavoured to grapple with...
The working processes of artists: Nam Hwa Opera | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles August 23, 2019 In this video, LASALLE students Cherie Tan Yan Zhen and Lee Jia Jing speak to opera performer Chen Yu Zhi from Nam Hwa Opera, a Singapore-based Teochew opera troupe founded in 1963...
“Invisible Habitudes”: The Personal Goes Political Goes Global | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng June 4, 2019 By Nabilah Said (621 words, three-minute read) On a Monday afternoon in Goodman Arts Centre, I am watching a group of dancers working...
OPEN CALL: Performance Criticism Mentorship with Corrie Tan | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints July 25, 2018 Performance Criticism Mentorship by Corrie Tan, Resident Critic, ArtsEquator.com How does it work? You’ll attend six performances between September 2018 – March 2019 ...
"Chinatown Crossings": A Trail of Echoes | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Image courtesy of Drama Box July 12, 2018 By Akanksha Raja (890 words, 5 minute read) Along the bustling roads of Chinatown and the throngs of long-time residents, local visitors and tourists, there’s an invisible, theatrical time machine that comes to life a few evenings a week, running until mid-August...
ArtsEquator’s “Keep the Kids Happy” list for July - August 2018 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints July 3, 2018 There are definitely lists of shows, workshops, exhibitions and much more for the adults, well, what about the kids? Parental units, fear not! Arts Equator has come up with a list arts events to keep your beloved children occupied from July to August that are exciting, fun-filled and especially for the young ones!...
50 authors in running for Singapore Literature Prize (via The Straits Times) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar June 20, 2018 SINGAPORE – First-time nominations dominated the shortlist of the Singapore Literature Prize, which will involve the public for the first time in the biennial award’s history...