A regular spoken word series organised by Stephanie Dogfoot, To Philippines With Linebreaks is the second of a two-part series that brings together 6 poets from Singapore and the Philippines. These poets will come together to premiere newly-created works that are a unique response to one another’s shared histories, shared borders and shared seas.
A mixed media installation by Chu Hao Pei, Withering Rice, Flourishing Sovereignty highlights a collection of rice farming practices and its interwoven relationship between rice and politics in Southeast Asia. A staple consumed in the region, rice has become more than a food product but a symbol embedded within our Southeast Asian cultures.
Those of us who grew up in the '80s and '90s would be familiar with flag erasers. Some of us may even have collected the range of rubber erasers with different flags printed on them. Eraser wrestling matches may be a thing of the past, but the world in the present is still caught up with complex geographical and political conflicts. If these conflicts between nations could be navigated and negotiated through an Eraser Wrestling Match, what kind of world would that be? After all, who is to say which nation is better than another?
Eden is a name synonymous with paradise or a place of perfection. But what are the underlying realities beneath this facade of utopia? In these times of crisis, E:Den 依：窩 exposes the hidden ‘den’, where waste is discharged and disposed of. It invites participants to see beyond the repulsive and repugnant, and instead question how waste also acts as seeds for potentialities and possibilities.
we are not going back, we are coming around is a series of artistic endeavours which explores the role of the arts in a world that is rushing to repair itself and postures a new direction our society could move towards in the wake of this pandemic. This exhibition attempts to document the ongoing development of some of the projects while offering a preview of some of the upcoming projects.
A regular spoken word series organised by Stephanie Dogfoot, To Malaysia With Linebreaks is the first of a two-part series that brings together 6 poets from Singapore and Malaysia. These poets will come together to premiere newly-created works that are a unique response to one another’s shared histories, shared borders and shared seas.
Do you have something to say? In an attempt to build a depository of conversations, Wu Jun Han aspires to open spaces for confessions and open himself to conversations with friends and strangers, as they travel in time to negotiate into the near future and converse about personal aspirations and dreams.
