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about 3 months ago (02/12/2024)
The Book of Genesis , which is thought to have been written around the 5th century B...
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about 18 months ago (10/31/2022)
The Growing Up Anthologies & the Diversity of Being “Brown” | ArtsEquator Skip to content In the latest installment of AWARE’s Growing Up anthology, Diana Rahim finds that in an environment where our experience of race and womanhood may be constricted, personal stories can be powerful acts of re-making and re-narrativising...
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about 18 months ago (10/27/2022)
Wat Wanlayangkoon: A Life Given to Art and Justice | ArtsEquator Skip to content Sudarat Musikawong delves into the life of the late Wat Wanlayangkoon, an award winning novelist who left a lasting impact on the world of arts and activism in Thailand...
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about 19 months ago (10/20/2022)
ArtsEquator’s Top 10 Picks for Singapore Writers Festival 2022 | ArtsEquator Skip to content The Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) returns with a milestone celebration as it reaches its 25th edition this year...
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about 19 months ago (10/03/2022)
Wong Phui Nam (1935-2022), Prophet of Malayan Poetry | ArtsEquator Skip to content Daryl Lim pays moving tribute to literary marvel Wong Phui Nam and his legacy in the world of poetry on both sides of the Causeway...
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about 21 months ago (08/04/2022)
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...
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about 22 months ago (07/27/2022)
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...
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about 26 months ago (03/24/2022)
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...
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about 26 months ago (03/03/2022)
Witnessing is political: Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints March 3, 2022 By Chu May Paing (1,532 words, 6-minute read) Witness (noun) 1 : attestation of a fact or event : testimony 2 : one that gives evidence specifically : one who testifies in a cause or before a judicial tribunal 3 : one asked to be present at a transaction so as to be able to testify to its having taken place 4 : one who has personal knowledge of something 5 : something serving as evidence or proof – Merriam-Webster Dictionary When I think about the word “witness” in English, I feel a sense of passivity: one being interpellated into seeing or being in the presence of an event unfolding in proximity of their own body (or mind)...
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about 26 months ago (03/01/2022)
Witnessing is political: Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring | ArtsEquator Skip to content A new collection of poems and essays bears witness to the bravery of ordinary citizens since the brutal military coupe of Feb 2021 in Myanmar...
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about 29 months ago (12/27/2021)
How the Singapore literary ecosystem tackles mental health | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 27, 2021 By Sarah Tang (1,450 words, 5-minute read) cw: Contains mentions of suicide There appears to be more local books and writing about mental health in the Singapore lit scene in recent years...
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about 30 months ago (10/31/2021)
Podcast 97: Writer Wayne Rée talks about gore and slasher fiction | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints October 31, 2021 In the second of a two-part episode on the Singapore Writers Festival 2021, Nabilah Said chats with horror writer Wayne Rée about his love of gore and slasher fiction, the supernatural in Southeast Asia, and his opinions on Nickelback...
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about 33 months ago (08/27/2021)
Where are the Malays? : Locating the Singaporean Malay in Singa-Pura-Pura | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints August 27, 2021 By Lily Jamaludin (1,368 words, 4-minute read) Singa-Pura-Pura boasts an eclectic collection of short speculative fiction from a minority ethnic group in Singapore, exploring worlds where robots are therapists, prayers are read from preloaded cards, and humans are migrating to Mars...
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about 40 months ago (01/28/2021)
Tender reading: A review of Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 28, 2021 By Grace Foo (650 words, 3-minute read) Not many people can endure the traumatic experience of losing a child to suicide, let alone be of sound mind to write about it in a painfully self-aware manner...
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about 48 months ago (05/14/2020)
Reading in isolation: Tiffany Tsao’s The Majesties | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Americas May 14, 2020 By Kathy Rowland (760 words, 4-minute read) This review may contain spoilers...
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about 49 months ago (04/09/2020)
Reading in isolation: ‘Others’ is Not a Race and Interpreter of Winds | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles April 9, 2020 By Kathy Rowland (913 words, 4-minute read) Last November, when there was nary a thought for social distancing, and Corona conjured up visions of lime wedges and grimy bars, I reread Rex Shelley’s 1991 debut novel, The Shrimp People ...
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about 50 months ago (04/01/2020)
Creature comforts: "Creatures of Near Kingdoms" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Zedeck Siew / Tumblr April 1, 2020 By Kathy Rowland (650 words, 4-minute read) Zedeck Siew’s Creatures of Near Kingdoms is fashioned as a bestiary, detailing the appearance, characteristics, and habitats of 50 animals and 25 plants...
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about 55 months ago (11/01/2019)
The architecture of patriarchy: The Professor by Faisal Tehrani | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 1, 2019 By Lily Jamaludin (1,650 words , 7-minute read) Trigger warning: Descriptions of sexual assault...
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about 55 months ago (10/13/2019)
5 Singapore poems not to quote out of context | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Elliot Wong October 13, 2019 By Nabilah Said (2,500 words, 7-minute read) In 1968, Lee Kuan Yew uttered the words “Poetry is a luxury we cannot afford” to a roomful of University of Singapore students...
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about 62 months ago (04/09/2019)
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...
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about 62 months ago (04/03/2019)
"orbit" by Ethos Books: the gravity and pull of insignificant destinies | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles April 3, 2019 By Nah Dominic (1550 words, six-minute read) “I reached for those insignificant destinies again; the smallest collision of time and incident that throws life out of orbit” – “Stillborn”, Khin Chan Myae Maung A new series by Ethos Books titled “orbit” has launched – a literary space station intended for works of writing that can hold their own despite not meeting the conventions of a full-length publication...
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about 65 months ago (12/27/2018)
Gloomy outlook for Vietnamese cinema, literature scene: workshop (via Tuoi Tre News) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo: Tuoi Tre December 27, 2018 Attendees at a national workshop held in Hanoi on Wednesday to discuss the multitude of issues plaguing the Vietnamese film and literature industries were not shy about voicing disdain for the current state of literary and cinematic art in Vietnam...
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about 65 months ago (12/17/2018)
Saigoneer Bookshelf: A Touch of Magical Realism in 'The Cemetery of Chua Village' | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles December 18, 2018 Vietnam transitioned to a market economy like an old train lurching to life: momentous shakes and shudders, steam bursting out busted gaskets, disheveled cargo tumbling from luggage racks, sparks shooting off wheels screeching across warped rails and a whistle ripping into the placid sky...
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about 69 months ago (09/13/2018)
Book Review: "Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945–1990" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 13, 2018 By Reaksmey Yean (950 words, five-minute read) A result of a research collaboration organised by the University of Sydney’s Power Institute in partnership with the Institut Teknologi Bandung and National Gallery Singapore, Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945-1990 is a recently published volume of ten collected essays...
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about 71 months ago (07/11/2018)
The Problem with Literature in New Malaysia | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles July 11, 2018 By Faisal Tehrani (1, 350 words, 7-minute read) Click here to read this article in Bahasa Melayu...
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about 71 months ago (07/11/2018)
Masalah Sastera Di Malaysia Baharu | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles July 11, 2018 Oleh Faisal Tehrani (1, 175 patah kata, 9-minit bacaan) Click here to read this article in English...