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		<title>Editorial: So What?</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/09/editorial-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Labelling, Discipline and Discrimination in Contemporary Singapore Kwee Hui Kian and Teng Siao See s/pores editors In s/pores No. 4, Tan Pin Pin curated a provocatively titled theme issue on “What if…?” To ask this question of “if (not)…then what?”, one implicitly accepts the “what is” – without a priori questioning whatever that “what” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Alvin Tan</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/09/interview-with-alvin-tan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transcribed and compiled by Kwee Hui Kian Preamble: On February 5, 1994, the Straits Times (ST) published a report by Felix Soh that Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma – artistic director and resident playwright of The Necessary Stage (TNS) – were trained at workshops conducted by the Brecht Forum in New York. After this fiasco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with John Gee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transcribed and compiled by Kwee Hui Kian An activist of migrant workers’ rights, John Gee was at the time of interview President of Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), a non-profit organisation that is concerned with the welfare of migrant workers. Among its initiatives, TWC2 has launched a “Day Off Campaign” for foreign domestic workers as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Corinna Lim</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/09/corinna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transcribed and compiled by Teng Siao See The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was established in 1985 as a non-profit organization that campaigns for gender equality through research and advocacy as well as through provision of social services for women. In March 2009, AWARE was briefly taken over by an evangelical conservative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Routes not Roots</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Holden Review of Robert Yeo, Routes: A Singaporean Memoir, 1940-75, Singapore: Ethos Book, 2011, 384 pages. Robert Yeo’s Routes: A Singaporean Memoir 1940-1975 doesn’t at first seem like a memoir at all. The book consists of photographs, prose vignettes, fully transcribed letters, documents such as school reports, and long quotations from sources as diverse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/editorial-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[9 the arts II]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slightly more than a year ago, when The Arts I was published, guest editor Tan Tarn How noted that he solicited critical reflections on the connections between the arts and culture on the one hand, and society and politics on the other hand in Singapore at the present and in the past. It had taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sketches from Prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teo Soh Lung Teo Soh Lung is author of Beyond the Blue Gate: Recollections of a Political Prisoner (2010). She was arrested on 21 May 1987 on the allegation of being part of a &#8216;Marxist Conspiracy&#8217; and detained without trial under the Internal Security Act.]]></description>
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		<title>The Seventies: Transition from Cultural Desert to Global City</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/the-seventies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Yeo This is a personal essay to remember and chart my experience as a writer in the context of Singapore’s development, during the decade 1970-79, from cultural desert to global city. I will try to make connexions and generalizations which will, I hope, not seem too sweeping. “Only connect,” wrote E.M. Forster, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming Literature for Singapore</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/reclaiming-literature-for-singapore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alvin Pang Some months ago I was given the opportunity to curate an anthology of contemporary writing from Singapore. The result was a selection from thirty-nine living Singaporean writers spanning multiple genres working in the four major literary languages (Chinese, English, Malay, Tamil) in use today.[1] The anthology was published in the US, in English; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eulogy</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/eulogy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tribute by Chng Seok Tin Translated by Karen Goh and Teng Siao See First published in 方修印象记 (Impressions of Fang Xiu), 2005 I was acquainted with Mr Fang Xiu. He was an unassuming but knowledgeable and amiable elder. Those who were not familiar with him could have easily dismissed him as an idling senior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theatre and its Publics, and Everything Else</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/theatre-and-its-publics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Chua The late Singapore theatre practitioner William Teo served tea to audience members in every evening performance. Kuo Pao Kun used to stand at the front of house of his theatre productions greeting and giving out programme booklets to audience members. These acts of hospitality are not just – in modern Singapore&#8217;s context – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>of love, and sweets</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/of-love-and-sweets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Low The legitimacy, rationality, psychology, technical expertise, training, education and history of the artist-person; in effect, everything that marks him out as an individual professional with a right to his own stakes and claims in society is, with one fell swoop, cast off on to the rubbish heap of irrelevance. Is it really any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meaning/Making A Circuit Of Cheo Chai-Hiang’s The Story of Money</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/meaning-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://s-pores.com/?p=1148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Isabel Ching First published in Cheo Chai-Hiang, The Story of Money, 2010, catalogue The Story of Money shows in Hong Kong with adjustments to the exhibition hall as specified by the artist. A frontal wall has been built such that one can only enter via its central opening. Flanking the entryway on each side is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Adapt: Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng’s Gone Case</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/learning-to-adapt/</link>
		<comments>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/learning-to-adapt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gwee Li Sui There is a case to be made for a literary impression that adaptation is the most difficult sub-genre in the field of comics. Any attempt to give Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng’s Gone Case: A Graphic Novel its proper critical evaluation does well to keep this point in mind. The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Singapura Uber Alles</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/review-xho/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Tham X&#8217;Ho, Singapura Uber Alles, Warner Music, 2010. This might just be the album I have been waiting for X’Ho (previously known as Chris Ho) to make. From the very title, Singapura Uber Alles, a double entendre of a line from the German national anthem associated with its Nazi past [1] as well as [...]]]></description>
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