In 1844-45, the French custom officer Jules Itier travelled around Asia as a member of the Lagrené Mission, the first French diplomatic mission to China. Itier travelled with a daguerreotype camera to number of countries in the region and produced around a hundred plates that have been preserved. This research started in 2011established among other things that the earliest extant photograph of Asia is the daguerreotype of the Tian Hock Keng temple in Chinatown, Singapore, taken by Itier on the 6 July 1844.

*The Penunggu refers to the spirit that guards, supervises or protects a particular place, geographical region, nation, age group, country, culture or occupation. It is believed that they can be protective, benign or malevolent. Though not entirely synonymous with the dvarapala, Kala, naga or makara that guards the gateways of sacred architecture, the penunggu is understood as a guardian of spaces. The root word of ʻpenungguʼ is derived from the Malay word ʻtungguʼ, which means ʻto waitʼ. 

This research aims to generate local substantive theory on the perspectives of Singapore-based credentialed art therapists on the role of experiential learning in art therapy training and practice.

Abstract

We share a complex relationship with found objects. In contemporary art practice, the discarded, unwanted, broken pieces or junk are often transformed by artists into assemblages with personal meanings, and value through a process involving aesthetic judgment, cognitive reappraisal of the discarded, emotional arousal and creative action. Likewise, in therapy, the discovery and transformation that occurs in the psyche has much to do with the clients’ chance encounter with the lost and found materials.

As our global language of fashion becomes ever more blurred, where cultural identities are fragmented and no longer separated by land masses but rather the speed of the Wi-Fi, we start to acknowledge the multiple layers of contradictions. Our cultural and social values continue to clash, being misinterpreted, poorly translated or diluted for commerce. Batik from Southeast Asia offers a wealth of cultural importance that has in recent years become reduced to kitsch novel products, the treasures collected by the many adventurous traveller seeking real experiences in a tourist town.

Virtually No Exit was a one-person theatre experience lasting seven minutes, derived from Jean-Paul Sartre's 1944 existentialist play 'No Exit'. A work-in-progress experiment, it combined live actors and audience participants in a 360º video environment. Wearing a virtual reality headset, you take a solo journey with three scientists from 'The Organisation'. They are prototyping their latest invention - a dramatic user experience unlike anything the world has ever seen before! - but it has a few technical issues.