Press Release
The Singapore Art Museum presents its second Southeast Asian Film Festival. Focused on contemporary Singapore and its immediate neighbours, the Festival extends the reach of the Museum’s Southeast Asian exhibitions and continues its mission to showcase and document the most contemporary visual art and cultural expressions of the region. (more…)
The Wisdom Beyond Borders series of art exhibitions and related programs started in Thailand with its meaningful mission of reviving traditional proverbs through contemporary art. We learnt from proverbs expert and author, Professor Mineke Schipper of The Netherlands, that different cultures curiously wrapped similar folk wisdom.
This year’s M1 Singapore Fringe Festival deals with the relationship between art and faith, a subject that is as sprawling as it is complex. Throw sexuality into the mix, and you get “Tongues”, a thematically ambitious new play by Sean Tobin and Jason Wee. The National Museum Gallery Theatre was a particularly fitting venue for the presentation; the interactive nature of the performance (either between the performers and the audience, or with God) was well-served by the lack of any physical barrier or distance between the stage and audience seating, and its bare-brick walls and exposed set complemented what was an emotionally naked performance. (more…)