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Community, compassion & integrity: Consideration to ethics within art(s) therapy community project

4 Sep 2019

Compassion is at the core of art(s) therapy community work, and passion is the stimulus that excites and ignites such projects. Alongside the incredible drive, engagement, and transformative processes and …

Community, compassion & integrity: Consideration to ethics within art(s) therapy community project

Dissolving Margins

10 Jan 2019

Published to accompany the group exhibition Dissolving margins, including Eng Kai Er, Camille Henrot, James T Hong, Tara Kelton and Darius Ou, at the ICA Singapore Essay by Melanie Pocock …

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Presenting Culture and Nationhood: The Singapore Arts Festival

30 Oct 2018

This book chapter looks at the cultural history of the Singapore Arts Festival from 1959 to 2017. It studies the role of the arts festival in nation building and the …

Presenting Culture and Nationhood: The Singapore Arts Festival

Stigma Stains: The Somaesthetics of Institutional Abjection

29 Oct 2018

Diverse art practices have, since time immemorial, sought to establish a visceral link with the viewer’s insides in order to problematise order and disorder, normativity and aberration, totem and taboo, …

Stigma Stains: The Somaesthetics of Institutional Abjection

Beyond Reality: Locating the Sur-Real in Thai Photography

28 Oct 2018

The inclusion of Sur (soē เซอร์) reality as one of nine key themes in the 2012 exhibition Thai Trends: From Localism to Internationalism, curated by Apinan Poshyananda อภินันท์ โปษยานนท์ (b. …

Beyond Reality

Two Houses: Politics and Histories In The Contemporary Art Collections of John Chia and Yeap Lam Yang

26 Sep 2018

Published to accompany the group exhibition Two houses: Politics and histories in the contemporary art collections of John Chia and Yeap Lam Yang, including Aida Makoto, Alfredo Aquilizan and Isabel …

Entries on 3 Thai Films

14 Aug 2018

These entries discuss three recent Thai films centered on the legendary Thai ghost Mae Nak, the spirit of a woman who died in childbirth, but returns to the world of …

Entries on 3 Thai Films

Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

14 Aug 2018

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), as an artist and a woman, has a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognizable work draws extensively on her life and her extraordinarily personal reflections upon it. …

Frida Kahlo

The Lion and the Breath: Combining Kalaripayattu and Fitzmaurice Voicework Techniques Towards a New Cross- Cultural Methodology for Actor Training

14 Aug 2018

This research looks at the effects of Kalaripayattu and Fitzmaurice Voicework techniques as a training methodology for the contemporary actor, redefining the fundamental principles that already exist within the two …

Lion and The Breath

Head Heap Heat

3 Aug 2018

Published to accompany the group exhibition head heap heat, including Madison Bycroft, Haffendi Anuar, Lawrence Lek and Yola Yulfianti at the ICA Singapore Foreword by Bala Starr Essay by Caterina …

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