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about 20 months ago (08/18/2022)
Makassar Biennale: The Concept of Community Literacy and The Eternal Artistic Question | ArtsEquator Skip to content Wilda Yanti Salam shares an insider’s view of the Makassar Biennale’s ongoing attempt to undo the conventions of biennale-making in eastern Indonesia’s first biennale...
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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...
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about 34 months ago (07/02/2021)
Podcast 92: Critics Live: OIWA by The Finger Players at SIFA 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Arts House Limited July 3, 2021 Critics Alice Saville (UK), Amitha Amranand (TH), Matthew Lyon (SG) and Taisuke Shimanuki (JP) discuss OIWA: The Ghost of Yotsuya by The Finger Players, presented at Singapore International Festival of the Arts (SIFA)...
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about 35 months ago (06/12/2021)
Podcast 88: Critics Live: The Journey by Scott Silven at SIFA 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints David Wilkinson/Empirical Photography June 12, 2021 Critics Ben Valentine (US), Kathy Rowland (SG), Michael HB Raditya (ID), Sharmilla Ganesan (MY) chat about The Journey by UK-based illusionist and mentalist, Scott Silven...
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about 37 months ago (04/16/2021)
Artistic intervention: An orange truck lands in.....
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about 37 months ago (03/24/2021)
The Substation’s SeptFest 2021: The last chapter | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints AIRISU / The Substation March 24, 2021 By Nabilah Said Against the backdrop of a battle of words , an impossibility is happening...
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about 39 months ago (02/05/2021)
Offstage 3.0: Of stage and on walls | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Emergency Stairs February 5, 2021 By Vithya Subramaniam (915 words, 4-minute read) It begins with a provocation, asking if we can ‘change the way we make theatre in the future’...
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about 43 months ago (10/16/2020)
Year-end SIFA Spotlight: 5 things you should catch | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Image: Maria Baranova October 16, 2020 The unabashedly virtual edition of SIFA just launched its slate of year-end programmes, marked by dreamy and lush audioscapes, compelling narratives, and encounters with the audience in places both personal and private...
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about 51 months ago (01/30/2020)
Tangled and tackled: Black Ties at Sydney Festival 2020 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Garth Oriander January 31, 2020 By Maria Herminia Graterol Garrido (550 words, 4-minute read) The challenges of fusing and representing more than one culture while planning and executing a memorable wedding are well-known to us in real life and in fiction...
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about 55 months ago (10/02/2019)
Contortions and Gentle Songs: SEA at Venice Biennale | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Olivia Kwok October 2, 2019 By Teo Xiao Ting (1,414 words, 6-minute read) A vivacious viscous zoo swirling with prestige and art, the Venice Biennale spins me exhausted after 45 days...
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about 57 months ago (08/05/2019)
Celebrating the monstrous other: "Anak Pontianak" and "Nobody" at LumiNation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Courtesy of The Filmic Eye August 5, 2019 By ila (1,100 words, 6-minute read) The year is 2049: two hundred years since the Pontianak first appeared in writing, marked insignificantly in Hikayat Abdullah as residues of superstitious and foolish beliefs of the Chinese and Malays that have persisted with time...
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about 58 months ago (08/01/2019)
"In Time To Come" at LumiNation 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles August 1, 2019 We asked our readers what they would put in a time capsule...
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about 61 months ago (04/29/2019)
The Body Remembers: Kitt Johnson on "Stigma" at M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles "Stigma", photo by James Quah (left), Kitt Johnson, photo by Per Morten Abrahamsen (right) April 29, 2019 By Germaine Cheng (605 words, three-minute read) 2019 marks the 10th edition of the M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival , a humble endeavour by Kuik Swee Boon, artistic director of T...
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about 62 months ago (04/01/2019)
SIFA 2019: Top Ten Picks | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Image: SIFA 2019 April 1, 2019 By Akanksha Raja The 42nd Singapore International Festival of Arts returns this year from 16 May to 2 June 2019...
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about 62 months ago (03/06/2019)
Of Math and Art: "A Game of Numbers" with NUS Arts Festival 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles March 6, 2019 By Elaine Chiew (1195 words, five-minute read) ‘A GAME OF NUMBERS’: Elaine Chiew interviews Mary Loh and Professor Victor Tan on the mathematically-themed NUS Arts Festival 2019 believed to be first-ever in Singapore...
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about 63 months ago (02/12/2019)
“Inside Voices”: There’s Something About Malay Women | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Danté Kim February 12, 2019 By Shanon Shah (983 words, four-minute read) I love plays with Malay women characters...
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about 65 months ago (12/10/2018)
Eleven New Elements from the Asia-Pacific Region Inscribed on the List of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar December 10, 2018 Meeting in Mauritius until 1 December, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed eleven elements from the Asia-Pacific region on the Lists of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage...
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about 66 months ago (11/21/2018)
Joe Sidek: "I've never felt more strong" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Illustration of Joe Sidek by Jackie Goh of The Fingersmith Letterpress November 21, 2018 By Kathy Rowland (910 words, five-minute read) Joe Sidek will not be cowed...
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about 67 months ago (11/01/2018)
Rianto's "Medium": Of Journeys, Transformations & Corporeality | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng November 1, 2018 By Nirmala Seshadri (990 words, four-minute read) Total darkness...
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about 67 months ago (10/18/2018)
"xhe": Caught Between a Square and an Octopus | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng Photo by Bernie Ng, courtesy of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay October 18, 2018 By Loo Zihan (1460 words, six-minute read) To preface: a statement to disclaim...
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about 68 months ago (10/04/2018)
Padmini Chettur’s "Varnam" and Pichet Klunchun’s "I Am A Demon": An Instructive Contrast | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 4, 2018 By Bilqis Hijjas (975 words, four-minute read) If you have ever felt that classical Indian dance is too melodramatic – if you have ever rolled your eyes at a dancer’s fervid abhinaya, or a poem narrator’s extravagant diction – or if you think all the bright drapery, clashing saris, and coloured lights are unbearably gaudy, then Padmini Chettur’s Varnam is the corrective you have been waiting for...
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about 68 months ago (09/27/2018)
"The Misinterpreted Futures of George Town 2068": Missing Futures | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Tan Thian Chang September 27, 2018 By Akanksha Raja (960 words, four-minute read) Prior to stepping into the mystifying world of The Misinterpreted Futures of George Town 2068 , I was curious and fascinated by that science-fictioney title, coupled with the exciting premise of a performance with no performers: the technical elements of the show (lights, sound design, video projections) perform in lieu of human bodies...
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about 68 months ago (09/20/2018)
AExGTF Chats: Charlie Lim and .gif in George Town | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints September 20, 2018 On the closing weekend of the George Town Festival, ArtsEquator interviewed Singaporean musician Charlie Lim and indie-electronic music duo .gif who were in Penang to perform at China House, along with other Singaporean musical acts including Tabitha Nauser and Yung Raja...
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about 68 months ago (09/19/2018)
"7Voices 2.0" by Yayasan Chow Kit and Dramalab at George Town Festival 2018 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 20, 2018 By Akanksha Raja (830 words, four minute read) Before entering the performance space on the first floor lobby of The Whiteaways Arcade where 7Voices 2.0 takes place, my friend Denise and I are approached by two young “inspectors” demanding documentary proof that we were children...
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about 69 months ago (08/16/2018)
AExGTF Chats: The Griffith Creative Arts Room at George Town Festival | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints https://artsequator.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/GTF-Griffiths-Creative-Arts-Room.mp4 August 16, 2018 The opening weekend of the George Town Festival 2018 also saw the opening of the Griffith Creative Arts Room at Wisma Yeap Chor Ee, Penang: a room dedicated to presenting the works of creative arts from the students and faculty of Griffith University, Queensland, Australia...
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about 69 months ago (08/15/2018)
In George Town, a Proxy War for the Nation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles August 15, 2018 By Kathy Rowland (1165 words, 5-minute read) Coloured ink on paper...
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about 69 months ago (08/14/2018)
“Between Tiny Cities (រវាងទីក្រុងតូច)”: De-cyphering Conversation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Vincent August 14, 2018 By Nah Dominic (1080 words, five-minute read) A white circle 10 metres in diameter greets us on entering the flexible performance space in Loft 29...
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about 70 months ago (07/26/2018)
Bonn Phum: Cambodian Village Festival | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles July 26, 2018 By Sunitha Janamohanan Bonn Phum, the Village Festival , now in its fifth year and attracting hordes of young Cambodians, took place from April 6 – 8 2018, in the grounds of the Kok Ampil pagoda...
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about 71 months ago (07/02/2018)
What the Arts in Malaysia Needs: More Transparency, Less Intermediaries | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles July 2, 2018 By Kathy Rowland (2145 words, 8 minute read) 2 July 2018 – The receding brown moon on millions of Malaysians’ fingernails are a biological marker of the eight weeks since the end of the Najib administration...