Things to do, watch, listen this week: 4 to 10 Jan
Things to do, watch, listen this week: 4 to 10 Jan PUBLISHED ON 07/01/2021 12:00 am By Vondra Tay
Recharge this week with arts and culture events that promise to rejuvenate the mind and soul. Find solace and hope at a new exhibition at Asian Civilisations Museum, visit a solo art exhibition featuring works made duringthe pandemic by a Singapore-based artist, or watch a sharply written comedy about surviving in a dog-eat-dog world. Read on for our top picks of arts and culture activities to enjoy this week.
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PublishedJan 4, 2021, 4:00 am SGT
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January 01, 2021
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Hosted by the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF), Dear Japanese is a photo-documentary centred on Miyuki Okuyama’s research into the descendants of Indo-European women and Japanese men, who are presently residing in the Netherlands.
Whether born from unions that were consensual or against these women’s wills following the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in 1942, the identities of these children’s parentage were often kept secret for prolonged periods of time.
Regardless, this group of individuals has faced a cascade of persecution and stigmatisation; be it in the early days of post-colonial Indonesia, or following their “repatriation” to the Netherlands – a land to which they had never been.
December 25, 2020
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At National Gallery Singapore, artists probe sensitive subjects under a state-managed image of a harmonious, multi-ethnic society
Yeyoon Avis Ann,
Passage Moist Beings, 2020, 3-channel video and resin. Courtesy the artist and National Gallery Singapore
Five brown women have taken over National Gallery Singapore (NGS). In front of a Raden Saleh painting of animals escaping from a forest fire, they recite excerpts from Frank Swettenham’s
The Real Malay (1899), one of the foundational colonial British texts responsible for the myth of the ‘lazy Malay’. (Typical excerpt: ‘The leading characteristics of the Malay of every class is a disinclination to work’.) The women perform a slow exorcism of this racial malevolence. They pray, sing, ride barefoot on the escalators. They perform in front of paintings of Malay people. The performance ends with the actors speaking about declaiming the land, unfencing the beaches and freeing the seas – an allusion to the state