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about 26 months ago (03/29/2022)
Singapore Arts Emerging from the "Great Pause" | ArtsEquator Skip to content The last two years have been significant for those working in arts and culture...
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about 29 months ago (12/17/2021)
Year In Review 2021: Singapore Theatre in Statistics | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 17, 2021 Where did 2021 go? As part of our annual event Year In Review 2021 , statistics about 2021 shows were gathered, including those postponed or cancelled...
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about 30 months ago (11/28/2021)
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...
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about 32 months ago (09/29/2021)
Performance Making during a Pandemic: Of Innovation, Form and Embeddedness | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Kornkarn Rungsawang September 29, 2021 By Adriana Nordin Manan (1,000 words, 3-minute read) If arts panel discussions are meant to reflect the times, “Critical Responses to Performance-Making in A Post-Pandemic World” positioned itself well: at this stage of the pandemic, it was less about open-ended contemplation of how the performing arts can retain vitality amidst the prohibitive circumstances, and more about sharing examples of performances that exemplify the act of moving ahead despite the barriers...
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about 34 months ago (07/13/2021)
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...
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about 37 months ago (04/06/2021)
Keturunan Ruminah: WhatsApp play on family inheritance | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints HATCH April 6, 2021 By Azura Farid and Nabilah Said The pandemic led theatre collective HATCH to dream up Keturunan Ruminah (Ruminah’s Family), a play that takes place entirely on WhatsApp...
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about 41 months ago (12/26/2020)
Maduro, online jazz concerts, SIFA: A jazz bar evolves in a pandemic | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints SIFA December 26, 2020 For former jazz pianist Peter Ng, the past year has been one of great change...
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about 41 months ago (12/14/2020)
Podcast 85: Singapore Theatre, Year in Review | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 14, 2020 In our end-of-year roundup, Nabilah Said, Naeem Kapadia and Matt Lyon take stock of the year in Singapore theatre, alongside guests Lee Shu Yu from Centre 42 and Max Yam from Arts Republic...
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about 42 months ago (11/30/2020)
Podcast 83: Waiting For The Host by Pangdemonium | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 30, 2020 Nabilah Said, Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia discuss Waiting For The Host by Pangdemonium...
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about 43 months ago (10/21/2020)
Podcast 82: Who's There & Two Songs and a Story | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Performance October 21, 2020 Nabilah Said, Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia discuss Who’s There by The Transit Ensemble (Singapore/Malaysia/US); and Two Songs and a Story by Checkpoint Theatre...
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about 43 months ago (10/11/2020)
Bird is the word: Peepbird by The Finger Players | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Tuckys Photography October 11, 2020 By Nabilah Said (950 words, 4-minute read) If hope is a thing with feathers, then Peepbird , a 60-minute-long non-verbal show, would be it...
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about 44 months ago (10/01/2020)
From Here On: Going to the theatre in the time of COVID | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay October 1, 2020 By Jocelyn Chng (1,550 words, 5-minute read) Attending From Here On , my first live performance since COVID hit, evoked a very strange mix of emotions in me...
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about 44 months ago (09/11/2020)
Which Type of Online Arts Audience Are You? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints HAFI September 11, 2020 We all miss being able to attend shows physically in theatres, but we’re also quick to adapt...
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about 46 months ago (08/05/2020)
Burning Questions: Can Critics Criticise during a Pandemic? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints August 5, 2020 As the work of artists evolve with the restrictions of COVID-19, do critics also need to reassess how they look at performance? Four critics, Loo Zihan, Teo Xiao Ting, Jocelyn Chng and Germaine Cheng discuss their responses as more and more performances go online, and whether it has led to a recalibration or softening of their critical eye....
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about 46 months ago (08/04/2020)
Burning Questions: Is There Still Hope for Integrity and Intimacy in Online Performance? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints August 4, 2020 Artists today have to grapple with being true to their creative integrities while dealing with the limitations of tech platforms and live delivery methods...
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about 46 months ago (07/30/2020)
Vietnam's visual arts and COVID-19 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Nguyen Duc Phuong July 30, 2020 By Quyen Hoang (2,100 words, 8-minute read) On a rainy evening towards the end of May 2020, it seemed like Saigon’s most dapper guys and modish gals all flocked to Galerie Quynh...
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about 46 months ago (07/28/2020)
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...
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about 46 months ago (07/23/2020)
Podcast 80: Murder at Mandai Camp And Fat Kids | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of How Drama and Sight Lines Entertainment July 23, 2020 As ArtsEquator’s theatre podcast returns since the start of the pandemic, Nabilah Said, Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia appropriately discuss two recent Singapore productions created for digital platform Zoom – Murder at Mandai Camp by Sight Lines Entertainment and Fat Kids Are Harder to Kidnap on Zoom by How Drama ...
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about 46 months ago (07/13/2020)
Purⓔ《纯ⓔ》: How do we talk about Art Form X? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of M1 CONTACT July 13, 2020 By Jocelyn Chng (1,800 words, 4-minute read) When I accepted the opportunity to write this piece on Purⓔ 《 纯 ⓔ》 , I did it feeling a bit like a shipwreck survivor re-approaching water for the first time...
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about 47 months ago (07/06/2020)
SOURCE X Audible Lands: Spotlight on Singapore's migrant musicians | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 6, 2020 SOURCE X Audible Lands is a film and music programme done in collaboration by The Observatory and filmmaker Eric Lee...
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about 47 months ago (06/29/2020)
Emotional asymptotes in Checkpoint Theatre’s The Heart Comes to Mind | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints June 29, 2020 By Ke Weiliang (2,500 words, 8-minute read) Sunday, 7 June 2020 circa 1230 hrs I press the ‘play’ button on The Heart Comes to Mind for the first time...
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about 48 months ago (06/05/2020)
Coronalogues, pandemic spectatorship (and the critic) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints June 5, 2020 By Nabilah Said and Corrie Tan (5,950 words, 20-minute read) Spoiler Alert: This text contains spoilers for The Coronologues: Silver Linings by The Singapore Repertory Theatre and Long Distance Affair by Juggerknot Theatre Company and PopUP Theatrics...
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about 49 months ago (05/06/2020)
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...
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about 49 months ago (05/04/2020)
Theatre goes online: Call me a purist, I don’t care | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles May 4, 2020 By Fasyali Fadzly (2,100 words, 7-minute read) No one would have guessed that the COVID-19 situation would become this bad...
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about 49 months ago (04/14/2020)
Open Calls and Opportunities: April 2020 (Singapore/SEA) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar April 15, 2020 ArtsEquator Lobang is a list of available open calls, job postings and other opportunities open to people from Singapore and Southeast Asia...
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about 50 months ago (04/07/2020)
COVID-19 and the arts: There is a light | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints April 7, 2020 By Nabilah Said (1,720 words, 7-minute read) To sum it up in a nutshell, what we need is a place with soul...
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about 50 months ago (03/27/2020)
COVID-19 and the arts in Southeast Asia | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Photo by Hailey Oldfield on Unsplash March 27, 2020 by Nabilah Said As the world contends with the new normal of temperature checks, home quarantines and travel restrictions in the age of COVID-19, artists find themselves reckoning with a lack of paid jobs coupled with an existential question of the meaning of art in these times...
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about 50 months ago (03/27/2020)
World Theatre Day: Tribute to Singapore shows affected by COVID-19 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Photo by Paul Green on Unsplash March 27, 2020 By ArtsEquator From 26 March 2020, 2359 hrs, all theatres in Singapore will go dark in response to COVID-19 measures...
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about 50 months ago (03/19/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Art in the time of COVID-19 and more | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Via Philippine Daily Inquirer March 19, 2020 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...