Traditional Chinese Music in Contemporary Singapore is a collection of essays written by 12 esteemed contributors who are greatly involved in contributing to, building up and maintaining the world of traditional Chinese music in Singapore. Ranging from musicians and conductors to lecturers and educators, these essays present diverse perspectives and incisive insights into this particular sphere of music, and are both a useful entry point for the curious reader, as well as valuable companions to experienced enthusiasts.
Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from the ‘universal science’ of cybernetics provides a new analytical lens and deconstructive methodology to critique
This chapter focuses on the Serdang Folk Museum in the New Village of Serdang, Selangor, as a study of the performance of heritage by a community with a specific history and location. The museum asserts an alternative narrative of history to the official narrative presented by government museums, upholders and propagators of National Heritage. The exhibitions of the Serdang Folk Museum and its particular history are discussed against a backdrop of National Heritage via the institutions of the National Museum and the state museum of Selangor, the Sultan Alam Shah Museum.
Given Kahlo's special bond with San Francisco and the city's impact on her art and her fashion, presenting the exhibition in this venue carries special significance. Many iconic photographs that show Kahlo as a Tehuana (by Cunningham, Adams, Alvarez Bravo, and Weston) are from San Francisco, and her first self-portrait in full Tehuana attire was painted in San Francisco (now in the collection of SFMOMA). Frida Kahlo's encounters with "Gringolandia" (as she called the United States) were formative and complex.
The Embodied Art Therapy Process (TEATP) focuses on the co-creation of embodied artistic expressions to promote self-awareness and autonomy for children. A case study describes how TEATP was implemented to support a child in gaining self-awareness and autonomy. Awareness of her own body, sensations, and feeling allowed her to assert her voice and practice
While acknowledging that the horror film is generally not considered a major part of the ‘Singapore new wave’, this article makes the case that Singapore horror films nevertheless merit closer critical evaluation not only because of their sustained output in a very small industry, but also because of their articulation of a range of issues germane to Singapore nationhood and identity ‐ issues which obtain in other Singapore films as well.
This article considers the implications of the popularisation of Facebook groups that share historical photographs for the writing of Thai national and photographic histories. Rather than dismissing these groups as lacking in historical rigour, I propose that the nostalgic impetus behind their formation indicates an important way through which we may rethink the continued relevance of Thailand's history to its current sociopolitical situation. Drawing from Craig J.
We live in culturally significant times as the world becomes a battleground as to who or what defines the culture of the future.
Leaders define culture but leadership, as we know, has had to be redefined in the last three months as conventional wisdom no longer holds a mirror to the rapid changes in demographics, expectation or consumption patterns of the public and in managing crisis.
BA(Hons) Film student Cho Jun Ming has numerous works to his name but My Only Sunshine is his first attempt at shooting a film without any dialogue at all. The story follows a young mother's attempt to understand her Deaf daughter's silent world, and the touching film has already received many positive comments on social media.
A casual observation of commuters getting lost on Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system encouraged Samuel Lim to research more into the problem.
The BA(Hons) Design Communication alumnus dedicated his thesis project to wayfinding solutions which caught the Land Transport Authority’s attention. He was eventually offered a position within their architecture division, playing a critical role in rewriting the Transit Signage Manual, standardising graphics and designing a new typeface.
