Library

Space, spaces and spacing 1995 & 2020 : The Substation Conference

Image not available

This item is in the Rotunda Library and Archive. View availability

Image not available

Library Item Details

Main Title: Space, spaces and spacing 1995 & 2020 : The Substation Conference
Publisher: Singapore : The Substation, 2020
Collation: 2 volumes : illustrations
21 cm
ISBN: 9789811476488 (vol. 1)||9789811476495 (vol. 2)
Dewey Class: 700.95957
Contents: Vol 1 (1995): Introduction -- Political space: has it shrunk since the '60s? -- There is no place like home: space and the uncanny -- Don't let the children down: the challenge of theatre-in-education -- Art here: what price space? -- Remarks on art museology in Singapore -- Looking back at brother cane: performance art and state performance -- The city, the body -- Commentary
Vol 2 (2020): Introduction -- Opening address -- The making of spaces (state and policy) -- Is there space for diversity? -- Is our state an honest janus? -- Post-Renaissance hangover -- Discussion -- Air-conditioned nation, revisited -- Discussion -- Articulating art practices (arts spaces as spaces of discourse) -- Socialising the space (art as public discourse) -- Great expectations: what does it mean to make and hold space for the arts in Singapore -- Art-making as resistance and a tool for social change -- Discussion -- Subliminal substation: a special presentation featuring disembodied bodies -- Discussion -- Complexities and contradictions (figure and ground)
Language: English
Subject: Art and state
Space (Art)
Arts
Arts and society
BRN: 10751

Notes

Providing a snapshot of the Singapore art and political scenes during their time, the books address the concerns, pressures and anxieties in both contexts.
Gift of Paul Khoo.