Title
Year
Author
What the centre cannot hold: pandemic vicissitudes and contemporary art in Singapore
What the centre cannot hold: pandemic vicissitudes and contemporary art in Singapore
2021
Tan, Adele
Collection | Arts & Culture |
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Author/Creator |
Tan, Adele |
Title |
What the centre cannot hold: pandemic vicissitudes and contemporary art in Singapore |
Source Title | Wasafiri |
Publication Date | 2021 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2021.1918441 |
Subject |
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects-- Singapore Arts -- Singapore |
Page | 59-58 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 36 |
Issue | 3 |
Where there is life: Science fiction in Singapore
Where there is life: Science fiction in Singapore
Collection | Arts & Culture |
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Author/Creator |
Smith, Philip |
Editor |
Where there is life: Science fiction in Singapore |
Organisation |
Smith, Philip |
Title |
Where there is life: Science fiction in Singapore |
Source Title | Journal of Commonwealth Literature |
Publication Date | 2022 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989419881232 |
Subject |
Science fiction, Singaporean (English) Loh, Jahan. Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth -- Criticism and interpretation Liew, Sonny. Kalinky robot : collected stories & other bits -- Criticism and interpretation Liew, Sonny. The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye -- Criticism and interpretation |
Page | 291-303 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 57 |
Issue | 2 |
Abstract |
This article seeks to situate certain works of Singaporean science fiction within their historical circumstances, demonstrating that Singaporean science fiction has historically served as social criticism, challenging both state narratives and foreign readings of the city state along the axis of East and West and “new” and “old”. The argument centres upon four texts: the anonymously-authored series “The Travels of Chang Ching Chong” (1989), Jahan Loh’s Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth (2013), and two texts by Sonny Liew, namely Malinky Robot (2011) and The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2015). These texts, I believe, share certain thematic connections: each is interested in the relationship between new and old and foreign and familiar, and each seeks, in different ways, to counter dominant narratives of the time. Accordingly, this article is divided into two imbricated sections. The first examines science fiction responses to popular and state narratives of the West as a source of technological capital both under British rule and after independence. “The Travels of Chang Ching Chong” and the “Ah Huat’s Giant Robot” sections of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, I demonstrate, trouble this narrative, offering stories in which Asia provides a source of technological advancement. In the second section I explore popular depictions of hypermodernity in Singapore and the enduring myth of the destruction of “traditional” Asian cultures in the wake of the post-independence industrial turn. Both Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth and Malinky Robot, I argue, complicate this narrative, presenting both hypermodernity and “old Singapore” as fantasy. © The Author(s) 2019. |
Who's who among Asian Americans: the mind palace
Who's who among Asian Americans: the mind palace
Collection | Arts & Culture |
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Author/Creator |
Ma, Wenhai Lee, Renee Foong Ling |
Editor |
Lee, Renee Foong Ling |
Title |
Who's who among Asian Americans: the mind palace |
Source Title | Art Hats In Renaissance City Reflections & Aspirations of Four Generations of Art Personalities |
Publication Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814630788_0016 |
Subject |
Ma, Wenhai Theater -- Singapore |
Page | 150-161 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Book Chapter |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Abstract |
Wenhai Ma shares with Renee Lee about his practice in set design for which he has an excellent reputation. His selected works in both Chinese and Western scene designs are presented in this essay, written from Ma's account, along with brief comments on the objective of the designs. |
Writing on the wall: street art in graffiti‐free Singapore
Writing on the wall: street art in graffiti‐free Singapore
Collection | Arts & Culture |
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Author/Creator |
Chang, T. C. |
Title |
Writing on the wall: street art in graffiti‐free Singapore |
Source Title | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research |
Publication Date | 2019 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12653 |
Subject |
Street art -- Singapore Graffiti -- Singapore Art and state -- Singapore |
Page | 1046-1063 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 43 |
Issue | 6 |
Description |
The legalization of graffiti in many cities has impacted urban landscapes and the way artists and the public view grati, street art and the city as well. This article considers the genesis, process and consequences of legal walls programmes firstly by introducing and dierentiating the key terms ‘graffiti’, ‘street art’ and ‘legal walls’, then by examining an empirical case, that of Singapore. Renowned as a grati-averse and litter-free city, Singapore’s recent about-turn in legalizing illicit art forms illustrates changing government perspectives on creativity and legality in the country. Why the government has eected this change, how artists and members of the public have responded to it and the resultant art forms are critically explored. The conclusion reflects on four key lessons from Singapore for cities in general. |
Writing Singapore: choreographed and emergent practices
Writing Singapore: choreographed and emergent practices
Collection | Arts & Culture |
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Author/Creator |
Lee, Tong King |
Title |
Writing Singapore: choreographed and emergent practices |
Source Title | Social Semiotics |
Publication Date | 2021 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2020.1810552 |
Subject |
Singaporean literature (English) -- Singapore |
Page | 36-60 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 31 |
Issue | 1 |
Abstract |
Since Michel de Certeau, it has become feasible, fashionable even, to think of cities enunciatively; that is, to postulate an analogous relationship between the spatial and the discursive. In investigating the idea of urban texts, de Certeau constructs a pedestrian subject who, by way of traversing streets, embodies a practice that is vernacular and agentive, in resistance to the hegemony of systemic and normativised discourses. Conceived as a speech act, the physical act of walking takes on a rhetorical stance. Now what if we spin de Certeau's scheme around to posit a spatial economy of textual phenomena? The present article pursues this line by examining writing practices through de Certeau's distinction between Place/Strategy and Space/Tactic. Using Walking as an analytic frame for Writing and drawing on examples from Singapore, I propose two modalities of writing: Choreographed and Emergent. I will further look at how dynamic writing practices can usefully complicate this picture to obtain a nuanced understanding of top-down and bottom-up approaches to writing as a mode of cultural consumption and production. |
Zubir Said
Zubir Said
Collection | Arts & Culture |
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Author/Creator |
Sim, Cheryl |
Title |
Zubir Said |
Source Title | Beyond Bicentennial: Perspectives on Malays |
Publication Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Singapore: World Scientific Publishing |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789811212512_0033 |
Call Number | DS610.25.M34 Bey 2020 |
Subject |
Zubir Said Composers -- Singapore |
Page | 601-611 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Book Chapter |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Abstract |
Zubir Said (b. 22 July 1907, Bukittinggi, Minangkabau, Sumatra, Indonesia–d. 16 November 1987, Singapore), also affectionately known as Pak Zubir (pak means “father” in Malay) or Mr Mari Kita (the first two words of the Singapore national anthem), was the composer of the Singapore national anthem, “Majulah Singapura”. Upon his arrival in Singapore in 1928, Zubir joined a bangsawan (traditional Malay opera) troupe as a violinist, and was subsequently recruited by a recording company as a recording supervisor in 1936. He became a music composer for film production company Shaw Brothers in 1949, and worked with Cathay Keris thereafter for 14 years until his retirement in 1964. Despite his lack of formal music education, the prolific songwriter wrote at least 1,500 songs comprising film songs, popular songs and national songs. He was conferred a series of awards during his lifetime and posthumously, in recognition of his work as the composer of the national anthem, as well as his contributions to the music scene and Malay culture in Singapore. |
Zubir Said: his songs
Zubir Said: his songs
Collection | Arts & Culture |
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Author/Creator |
Singapore Cultural Foundation |
Title |
Zubir Said: his songs |
Publication Date | 1990 |
Publisher | Singapore : Published for Singapore Cultural Foundation by Times Books International |
Call Number | ML410 Zub.Z |
Subject |
Zubir Said , 1907-1987 Composers -- Singapore -- Biography |
Page | 120 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Book |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
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