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Contemporary Arts as Political Practice in Singapore

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Editors:
  1. Wernmei Yong Ade

    1. Nanyang Technological University School of EEE, NTU, Singapore, Singapore

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  2. Lim Lee Ching

    1. Sim University Singapore, Singapore

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  • Critically examines, with specific examples, art as political practice in Singapore.

  • Addresses the interplay between politics and the arts through a wide range of artistic representations which include performance art, film, heritage projects and literature

  • Considers archiving and heritage as legitimate art forms in themselves.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Wernmei Yong Ade, Lim Lee Ching
    Pages 1-12

  3. Waxing on Wagers

    • Jeremy Fernando
    Pages 13-27

  4. Loo Zihan and the Body Confessional

    • Louis Ho
    Pages 29-44

  5. Kiasipolitics: Sagas, Scandals and Suicides in Johann S. Lee’s Peculiar Chris

    • Jun Zubillaga-Pow
    Pages 45-61

  6. The Mosaic Body: Interpreting Disability in Performance

    • Stephen Fernandez
    Pages 63-80

  7. Embodying Multiplicity on the Singapore Stage: Plays of Difference

    • Charlene Rajendran
    Pages 81-100

  8. Becoming Ellen Toh: The Politics of Visibility in Invitation to Treat: The Eleanor Wong Trilogy

    • Wernmei Yong Ade
    Pages 101-118

  9. “Neighbors”: A Tiong Bahru Series

    • Jessie Morgan-Owens, James Owens
    Pages 119-135

  10. The Substation at 25: On Institutional Memory and Forgetting

    • Debbie Ding
    Pages 137-150

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 151-165
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About this book

This timely collection examines the contemporary arts as political practice, offering critical insight into some of the more controversial talking points that have shaped Singapore’s identity as a nation. Focusing on the role played by contemporary arts in shaping Singapore’s political landscape as the country celebrated 50 years of independence in 2015, the authors consider how politics is often perceived as that which limits the flourishing of the arts. Contending that all art is political, and that all art form is a form of political practice, this collection examines ways in which the practice of art in Singapore redraws the boundaries that conventionally separate arts from politics. It critically examines the tenuous relationship between the arts and politics and offers a timely reevaluation of the relationship between the arts and politics. In doing so, it opens a dialogue between artistic practice and political practice that reinforces the mutuality of both, rather than their exclusivity, and redefines the concept of the political to demonstrate that political involvement is not a simple matter of partisan politics, but has an inherently aesthetic dimension, and aesthetics an inherently political one. 

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Nanyang Technological University School of EEE, NTU, Singapore, Singapore

    Wernmei Yong Ade

  • Sim University Singapore, Singapore

    Lim Lee Ching

About the editors

Wernmei Yong Ade teaches feminist studies, contemporary women’s writing, critical theory, and a course on love as a discourse at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.  She is currently working on a book project on the subject of love as a discourse of alterity, staged as textual practice, in addition to editing a collection of essays entitled Fluid Gender, Fluid Love (2016).

 

Lim Lee Ching teaches literature and inter-disciplinary subjects at SIM University, SIngapore. He is founding editor of the Singapore Review of Books. He is also the author of Tomas Tranströmer: a Commentary (2016).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contemporary Arts as Political Practice in Singapore

  • Editors: Wernmei Yong Ade, Lim Lee Ching

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57344-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57628-6Published: 10 January 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-72051-4Published: 01 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57344-5Published: 10 January 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 165

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Asian Culture

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