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about 7 months ago (10/04/2023)
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...
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about 8 months ago (09/05/2023)
Artistic Freedom Report The Philippines: The Limits of Democracy | ArtsEquator Skip to content The key findings and analysis of artistic freedom in The Philippines from the Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Database Project, 2010 - 2022...
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about 17 months ago (12/14/2022)
A national living treasure, a rock musician and an activist poet | ArtsEquator Skip to content Pristine de Leon remembers the artists and cultural workers from the Philippines we lost in 2022...
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about 17 months ago (11/28/2022)
Criticism and Tears: The Emotional is Political in the Marcos State | ArtsEquator Skip to content When a film taps on emotions to distort historical facts, criticism that uses a rational, adversarial voice, above the work and the audiences who enjoy it may fail to dislodge the emotive power of the work’s narrative...
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about 18 months ago (11/14/2022)
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...
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about 20 months ago (09/20/2022)
“It Has Been Dreamed”: Kiri Dalena on documenta fifteen | ArtsEquator Skip to content Kiri Dalena, one of the artists at the controversy-ridden documenta fifteen speaks with Pristine De Leon about the uneven dynamics between global exchanges and local needs, between lumbung and rigid hierarchies, between what has materialised and what was dreamed...
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about 20 months ago (09/01/2022)
Creativity, Conservatism, and Censorship: A Philippine Snapshot | ArtsEquator Skip to content In a wide-ranging historical analysis of censorship in the Philippines, from Marcos (Senior) to Marcos (Junior), Katrina Stuart Santiago lays bare the myth of artistic freedom in the Philippines...
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about 20 months ago (08/29/2022)
Archiving as Activism in the Wake of a Jeopardized Election | ArtsEquator Skip to content MC Redioca discusses the significance of archiving as a form of activism during the recent elections in Philippines on May 9th...
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about 21 months ago (08/04/2022)
A Gap in the Telling: Review of Virgin Labfest 17 | ArtsEquator Skip to content While acknowledging the value of art in addressing national trauma, Pristine de Leon raises questions about the limits, and ethics of representation on stage...
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about 23 months ago (06/02/2022)
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...
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about 25 months ago (04/19/2022)
5 Advertisements That Are So Southeast Asian | ArtsEquator Skip to content Some advertisements are works of art...
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about 29 months ago (12/07/2021)
WrICE 2021: Writers Ask Writers, Asia Pacific edition | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 7, 2021 We asked 11 writers and translators of poetry, fiction and non-fiction to participate in an exquisite corpse -like Q&A session, with each person answering a question and then asking one...
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about 30 months ago (11/12/2021)
SEE WHAT SEE: BOYS' LOVE (BL) DRAMAS | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 13, 2021 By Lainie Yeoh I grew up in an era where queer films were rare exceptions and it was your holy gay-af duty to watch all the ones you could access...
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about 30 months ago (11/01/2021)
Shock Horror: The Southeast Asian monsters we love | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Illustrations by Divyalakshmi and Natalie Christian Tan November 1, 2021 ArtsEquator chats with five writers about their favourite horror characters and monsters from Southeast Asian lore and mythology...
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about 34 months ago (07/14/2021)
Can the arts solve community issues in the region? The SEA*5 think so...
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about 36 months ago (05/15/2021)
SEE WHAT SEE (May 2021): SOUTHEAST ASIAN DOCUMENTARIES | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints May 15, 2021 By Joel Tan To borrow and distort the title of David Shield’s lyrical manifesto against fiction: I’ve been HUNGRY for reality in the month of May...
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about 37 months ago (04/18/2021)
8 online programmes not to be missed at SDEA Theatre Arts Conference | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Advertorial April 18, 2021 The SDEA Theatre Arts Conference is back in 2021 with a fully-online programme, featuring presentations, workshops and masterclasses responding to the theme of Creative Disruption: Exploring New Ground ...
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about 39 months ago (02/18/2021)
SEE WHAT SEE (Feb 2021): DESIRE | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles February 18, 2021 By Joel Tan Welcome to my new column 1 Does “column” still make sense in the context of a website? for ArtsEquator, where every month I’ll be giving you a little line-up of Singaporean and other Southeast Asian streaming content that I think is interesting and worth talking about in my typically TLDR, long-winded way...
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about 45 months ago (08/17/2020)
Pandemic in the Philippines: A cultural sector on its own | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles August 17, 2020 By Katrina Stuart Santiago (2,200 words, 8-minute read) When I was first asked to write about “cultural leadership” in the Philippines, I turned up a blank...
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about 51 months ago (03/06/2020)
International Women's Day: Inspiring Women | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles March 6, 2020 By ArtsEquator For International Women’s Day, ArtsEquator asked 11 women arts leaders in SEA to tell us about a woman who has inspired, supported or mentored them on their arts journey...
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about 51 months ago (02/29/2020)
Are You Ready To Take The Law Into Your Own Hands: Tongue Scrapes Against Cheek | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Sarah Walker February 29, 2020 The following review is made possible through a Critical Residency programme supported by By Nabilah Said (670 words, 5-minute read) I watched Are You Ready To Take The Law Into Your Own Hands by Sipat Lawin and Friends on 26 February 2020, 34 years almost to the day of the People Power Revolution, which toppled the Marcos government in the Philippines after decades of corruption and totalitarian control and ushered in the age of Corazon Aquino as the new president...
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about 51 months ago (02/26/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Hallyu love and cementing disaster | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar February 26, 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...
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about 51 months ago (02/12/2020)
Behind the scenes with the Women of SIFA | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles SIFA February 13, 2020 By Nabilah Said ArtsEquator speaks to four women that are part of the local commissions of SIFA 2020 – Siti Khalijah Zainal , Jodi Chan , Ellison Tan and Mia Chee ...
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about 55 months ago (10/28/2019)
Fantasy issues: "Princess" by Eisa Jocson | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng October 28, 2019 By Chan Sze-Wei (786 words, 4-minute read) I’ve recently been reading articles about how childhood trauma is determinative of one’s risk of future health issues from asthma to cancer...
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about 56 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 59 months ago (07/04/2019)
Podcast 60: The Media Landscape in the Philippines | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of Asian Arts Media Roundtable July 4, 2019 Duration: 19 min In our latest podcast, art critic Pristine de Leon gives a comprehensive overview of the media landscape in the Philippines, discussing challenges to the practice and the new platforms that are paving the way for creative, incisive and timely forms of arts criticism...
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about 65 months ago (12/27/2018)
What to expect from the Repertory Philippines stage in 2019 (via Rappler) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo by Steph Arnaldo/Rappler December 27, 2018 MANILA, Philippines – Theater junkies of all ages will be happy to know that our local theater scene has some top-notch stage entertainment up its talented sleeve for everyone to enjoy in 2019...
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about 69 months ago (09/17/2018)
Short film fest to send winner to Hollywood (via The Manila Times) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Filmmakers of 'As Time Flows By', Janna Lejano (left) and Annika Yañez (right) September 17, 2018 Ten bold and emotionally stirring stories have been selected as finalists the 2nd Viddsee Juree Philippines, a festival of short films that celebrates and supports filmmaking communities in Asia...
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about 69 months ago (09/17/2018)
Those Long Haired Nights: Filipino film highlights struggle for transgender rights (via SEA Globe) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 17, 2018 With its true-to-life representation of transgender sex workers in Manila, Gerardo Calagui’s 2017 film Those Long Haired Nights is not afraid to court controversy...
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about 69 months ago (09/11/2018)
Playwright and University of the Philippines faculty member Wilfrido Ma...