new directions in singapore studies
Posted in 6 the arts I on Mar 19th, 2010
C. J. W.-L. Wee
The Artists’ General Assembly (AGA) – a week-long arts festival organised by both The Artists’ Village and the 5th Passage Artists Ltd. – took place from 26 December 1993 to the early hours of 1 January 1994, at the then-5th Passage Gallery at the Parkway Parade Shopping Centre in Marine Parade. [...]
Posted in 6 the arts I on Mar 19th, 2010
Lee Tzu Pheng
wolfnotes, a firstfruits exhibition
We owe a considerable debt to Enoch for his trust and vision, his belief in the art of literature, which is what we are celebrating in this exhibition, wolfnotes. I see in this exhibition a way of affirming that literature’s roots are in the other arts even as its fruits [...]
Posted in 6 the arts I on Mar 19th, 2010
Wong Souk Yee
The theatre company Third Stage was formed in 1983 by a group of drama dabblers who wanted to see life in Singapore played out on the local stage in all its glory and decay. They felt that drama in English in post-colonial Singapore had arrived at its third stage of development.
They traced [...]
Posted in 6 the arts I on Mar 19th, 2010
Tay Kay Chin
Jeff Chouw is a dangerous and crazy man, the sort that you probably will avoid, or at least be advised to stay far away from. If you were to run into him in the ‘happening’ side of Geylang, you will automatically assume that he is a seedy man there for unsavoury reasons. In [...]
Posted in 6 the arts I on Mar 19th, 2010
Jason Wee
Editors: this essay was originally written for the catalogue of Raised, a mini-art carnival that was part of the Singapore Art Show 2007 [see postscript]. See the Raised blog for documentation by the project artists, Amanda Heng, Shenu Hamidun, Siti Salihah bte Mohd Omar, Sriridya Nair, Nurul Huda Farid, Joshua Yang, Justin Loke and [...]
Posted in 6 the arts I on Mar 19th, 2010
Michelle Loh
First-World Leaders
Every year, after the examination results come out, many graduating students in the top five junior colleges in Singapore would receive bundled information on various scholarship schemes. They must decide which scholarship to apply for, which will then determine their career paths for the next ten years. After they bag a scholarship and [...]
Posted in 1 inauguration on Apr 10th, 2007
Daniel PS Goh
Nowadays, being forty-one years of age marks the middle of one’s life. It can be a time for reflection on what we have achieved and what we want to do in the remaining future. It can also be a time for denial, when the past is consumed as mere nostalgia and the present [...]
