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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 26 months ago (03/23/2022)
8 picks from the dreamy, mind-bending SIFA 2022 | ArtsEquator Skip to content Singapore International Festival of Arts 2022 is just around the corner, with a slate of offerings that are as multidisciplinary, dreamy and mind-bending as they are spectacular and thought provoking...
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about 26 months ago (03/15/2022)
COVID-19 and the arts in Southeast Asia - 2 years on | ArtsEquator Skip to content In March 2020, we spoke to 10 arts and culture workers from across Southeast Asia, in a bid to capture the sentiments on the ground as it shifted during the early days of the pandemic...
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about 28 months ago (01/12/2022)
Open Calls and Opportunities: Jan 2022 (Singapore/SEA) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints January 12, 2022 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 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 (11/22/2021)
ANCER Lab 03 Manila: How arts managers are surviving COVID-19 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Mah Jun Yi and Low Pey Sien November 22, 2021 By Wennie Yang (1,200 words, 4-minute read) Pandemic restrictions have put arts and cultural workers and institutions in a bind: choosing between sustaining their missions at times of a global pandemic or ceasing operations altogether...
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about 32 months ago (09/16/2021)
OPEN CALL: Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Documentation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 16, 2021 ArtsEquator invites applications for the position of Researcher for a regional arts censorship documentation and publication project it is piloting...
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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 35 months ago (06/22/2021)
Podcast 90: Critics Live: The Year of No Return by The Necessary Stage at SIFA 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Tuckys Photography June 23, 2021 Singapore critics Clarissa Oon, Lee Shu Yu, Nabilah Said and Naeem Kapadia discuss The Year of No Return by The Necessary Stage, presented at Singapore International Festival of the Arts (SIFA)...
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about 35 months ago (06/22/2021)
Master Conversations: Set Design with Tuxqs Rutaquio and Katrina Stuart Santiago | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints June 23, 2021 Manila-based set designer Tuxqs Rutaquio shares about his practice and process in set design alongside theatre critic Katrina Stuart Santiago...
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about 35 months ago (06/05/2021)
Who's Afraid of the VOD? : Highlights of SIFA On Demand | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints June 5, 2021 Let’s face it...
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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 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 48 months ago (05/21/2020)
From dream to dystopia: The cultural critic in the age of pandemic | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Ryuji Miyamoto May 21, 2020 By Katrina Stuart Santiago (1,000 words, 6-minute read) February 2020 seems like years ago, and it feels like escapism to even go back to that time...
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about 50 months ago (03/18/2020)
Podcast 79: Asia TOPA (Part 2) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles March 18, 2020 The following review is made possible through a Critical Residency programme supported by In this latest podcast episode, Nabilah Said and Carolyn Oei discuss various productions that were recently presented at Melbourne’s Asia TOPA: Are You Ready To Take The Law Into Your Own Hands | Hades Fading | À Ố Làng Phố | Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep They also share their highlights of the festival...
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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 52 months ago (01/16/2020)
20 Arts and Cultural Festivals to Visit in Southeast Asia in 2020 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Sunitha Janamohanan January 16, 2020 It’s the year 2020 and the world is rife with new Instagram filters, hashtag 2020vision (yes, we get it) and the perennial “new year, new me” declarations...
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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 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...