Performance Art: Actualizing Science Fiction

The article examines examples of live performance art that explore themes related to the genre of science fiction, and argues that in significant ways they make concrete and actualize the narratives of sci-fi. Works by artists including Stelarc, Eduardo Kac, Hayden Fowler, Fakeshop, Orlan, Norman White and Laura Kikauka are simultaneously political gestures, technical feats, and embodied art processes that both look forward to becoming the future and actualize a version of it in the present, live in front of us.

The article examines the interactions between the various modalities - poetic text, live stage performance, sound design and video projection - in a 2013 theatrical production of T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land (1922). It particularly focuses on the creation of the sound design for the performance and how this relates to the themes and sensibilities of the poem, its inherent sonorities, and what Eliot called "The Music of Poetry" (1942).

During a time when the idea of Europe, and the EU in particular, is tainted with economic crisis and democratic decline, Aleksandar Brkić's analysis of the role of cultural networks in helping Europe serve people is both a wake-up call for European authorities which support cultural networks and a tool for cultural networks themselves to check that they are fulfilling their European and intercultural remit as well as they should.
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GLOSSARY, VOL. 2

Edited by Charles Merewether
Essays by Kent Chan, Lawrence Chin, Dana Lam, Urich Lau, Joleen Loh, Viviana Mejia, Grace Samboh, Silke Schmickl, Adele Tan, Charmaine Toh, Emily Wills, Ian Woo, Yasser Suratman and Yow Siew Kah
Jeremy Sharma in conversation with Ian Woo
Softback, 72 pages, 24 x 17 cm, 88 illus. (colour), ISSN 2251-3272
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SOUND: LATITUDES AND ATTITUDES

Published to accompany the group exhibition SOUND: Latitudes and attitudes, including Song-Ming Ang, George Chua, Gulayu Arkestra, Joyce Koh, Kai Lam, Mohamad Riduan, Darren Ng, The Observatory, Joel Ong, Ong Kian-Peng, Brian O’Reilly, Shaun Sankaran, Dennis Tan, Evan Tan, Zai Tang, Mark Wong and Zul Mahmod, at the ICA Singapore 
Foreword by Bala Starr
Essays by Charles Merewether, Joleen Loh, Ian Woo and Chong Li-Chuan 
Joyce Koh in conversation with Bani Haykal
Zul Mahmod in conversation with Bani Haykal

THE BEACH THAT NEVER WAS

Published to accompany the group exhibition The beach that never was, including Juka Araikawa, Stephanie Jane Burt, Joshua Callaghan, Mike HJ Chang, Hirofumi Isoya, Josh Miller, Krister Olsson, Pimeriko, Ryo Shimizu and Mark Thia, at the ICA Singapore
Introduction by Juka Araikawa, Mike HJ Chang and Krister Olsson
Texts by Mike HJ Chang, Kathleen Ditzig, John Freeman, Doug Harvey, Diana Nawi, Pimeriko, Ryo Shimizu and Darryl Wee
Biographical information
Softback, 20 pages, 30 x 21 cm, 17 illus. (colour), ISBN 978-981-09-1596-4
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COUNTERSHADOWS (TACTICS IN EVASION)

Published to accompany the group exhibition Countershadows (tactics in evasion), including Heman Chong, Tamares Goh, Ho Rui An, Sai Hua Kuan, Jeremy Sharma, Tan Peiling, and Robert Zhao Renhui (The Institute of Critical Zoologists), at the ICA Singapore
Foreword by Bala Starr
Essay by Melanie Pocock
Biographical information
Softback, 40 pages, 24 x 18 cm, 16 illus. (colour), ISBN 978-981-09-2036-4
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Published to accompany the group exhibition Modern love: LASALLE thirtieth anniversary exhibition, including Ahmad Abu Bakar, Lina Adam, Jon Chan, Choy Ka Fai, Chua Chye Teck, Amanda Heng, Jeremy Hiah, Djohan Johari, Godwin Koay, Zai Kuning, Jane Lee, Lee Wen, Vincent Leow, Justin Lim, Zulkifle Mahmood, mohamadriduan, Donna Ong, Ruben Pang, Phan Thao Nguyen, PHUNK, Ana Prvački, Rizman Putra, Shubigi Rao, Zaki Razak, anGie Seah, Jeremy Sharma, Shirley Soh, Speak Cryptic, Melissa Tan and Suzann Victor, at the ICA Singapore
Introduction by Bala Starr and Khairuddin Hori

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