Focas : forum on contemporary art & society.
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Focas : forum on contemporary art & society.
- Publisher
- Singapore : The Necessary Stage, c2000-
- ISSN
- 0219-5054
- Dewey Class
- 700.95957
- Contents
- Volume 1, 2001 (January): Introduction. Introducing FOCAS / Lucy Davis -- Who's Afraid of Representation?: Fear of Representation or the Lack Thereof. Forum Transcription / The Necessary Stage, July 16, 2000 -- Are you there Singapore? / Robin Loon -- Representation & Relativism / Lee Weng Choy -- Imagined Boundaries: Community Arts & Public Interactions. Forum Transcription / The Necessary Stage. August 13 2000 -- The National Arts Council & Arts Education / Adeline Kwok -- Art Interpreting Heritage (Of effacements, pilgrimages, exhumations & effigies) / Susie Lingham -- Natural Born Vandals (Or the Desire For Real Interactions With Real People) / Lucy Davis -- Transmedia Cockroach: The Arts and the Singapore Press. Forum Transcription / The Necessary Stage. September 10, 2000 -- Between Sensationalism and Information: Talaq and the Media / KK Liew -- Talaq Documents: Primary documents from the Talaq controversy -- A Censorship Manifesto / Alfian Bin Sa'at -- Biographies of the Contributors -- The Necessary Stage.
Volume 2, 2001 (July): Introduction / Lucy Davis -- Precious Little Difference: Gender. Sexuality. Art. Redeeming Qualities: State, Sexuality and Asian Boys / Venka Purushotaman -- "You Need to Start Somewhere": From Everyday Resistances to Global Democracies / Nirmala Purushotam is interviewed by Lucy Davis -- <> 'The Mark of Vampire' / Susie Lingham -- Protest, Provocation, Process: Cultural Activism in Southeast Asia. Forum Transcript / The Necessary Stage, January 21, 2001 -- Art Activism and Cross-cultural Projects in Thailand and Myanmar: The Need to Open up Structures for Engagement / jay koh -- Performance and Survival / Correspondence between Ray Langenbach and Yar Harbnegnal -- Interrogating Engagement / Alvin Tan is interviewed by Lucy Davis -- Colonialism or Collaboration?: Intercultural Arts Practice and International Arts Organisations. Forum Transcript / The Necessary Stage March 15, 2001 -- Rates of Exchange: The Flying Circus Project in the Context of Globalisation / Paul Rae -- Does World Music Exist in Singapore? / Tan Shzr Ee -- The New Asian Museum Beyond the Box: Problematising the New Asian Museum / Rustom Bharucha -- Commentaries/Feedback. The Fine Art of Gardening: A Decade of Nurturing the Arts / Susan Loh, Director (Corporate Communications and Marketing), NAC -- Biographies of the Contributors -- The Necessary Stage.
Volume 3, 2002 (January): Introduction / Lucy Davis -- Work/Play. Forum Transcript: Strategies for the Practice & Management of Cultural Production in Singapore Inc., Panellists - Paul Rae, Mariam Mohammed Ali, Nirmala PuruShotam / The Necessary Stage, July 15, 2001 -- Don't Pray Pray, The Serious Business of Fun in Singapore Inc. / Paul Rae -- On play (playing off 9.11) / Marian Pastor Roces -- Spectres of Play / Lucy Davis & Ray Langenbach -- Kitsch & The Singapore Modern. Forum Transcript, Panellists - Venka Purushothaman, Tay Kheng Soon, Peter Schoppert, C.J. Wan-ling Wee, Lee Weng Choy / The Necessary Stage, October 21, 2001 -- Kitsch and Singapore Public Art / Peter Schoppert -- Bland Modernity, Kitsch and Reflections on Aesthetic Production in Singapore / C.J. Wan-Ling Wee -- Bodies & Text. Forum Transcript: Launch of Singapore-Germany Playwright's Exchange-cum-Dialogue Sesssion, Panellists - Nora Samosir, Charlene Rajendran, Henning Fangauf, Russell Heng, Chong Tze Chien / Goethe-Insitut Inter Nationes Singapore, July 5, 2001 -- Forum Trnascript: The Death and Rebirth of the Playwright, Panellists Quah Sy Ren, Kok Heng Leun and Kristo Sagor / The Necessary Stage, July 6, 2001 -- I Went to the Playwright's Funeral, I Looked in the Coffin, and It Was Me, So I Said "Whatever" and Went to a Bar where I Met this Totally Hot Chick and Came Back to Life: Notes for a Manifesto on Theatre and the Writer's Place In It / Huzir Sulaiman -- Some Notes on Drag: a dialogue with Ivan Heng / Lee Weng Choy -- M. Emily / Brandon Wee -- The Maids in Manila: a thick description / Marian Pastor Roces -- Reviews/Commentary. In Venetian Waters: Singapore at the 49th Venice Biennale / Kevin Chua -- The Personal and the Political?: Representation and Relationships in One Hundred Years in Waiting / Ng How Wee -- Can the Co-opted Speak? A Brief History of One Theatre Company's Negotiation with the Singaporean State / Tan Chong Kee -- Biographies of the Contributors -- The Necessary Stage.
Volume 4, 2002: Introduction / Lucy Davis -- Public Engaged Art. International Symposium of Public Engaged Art, IFIMA (International Forum for Intermedia Art), The Substation, March 1-5, 2002 Introduction to International Symposium on Public Engaged Art / Chu Chu Yuan & Jay Koh -- Traversing Centre and Fringe: Problems of Engagement in Unstable Democratic Spaces / Eileen C. Legaspi-Ramirez -- Encounters in Engagement: Investigating Public Engaged Art in Singapore / Chu Chu Yuan & Jay Koh -- Floor Discussion 1 -- Stories of Power / Lea Kantonen -- Community and Communication in Dialogical Art / Grant Kester -- Art, Writing and Politics / Lee Weng Choy -- Floor Discussion 2 -- Empowerment Through Civil Society, Media and Art Activities / Tan Chong Kee -- Floor Discussion 3 -- Deepening Engagement and Enlarging Spaces: Public Engaged Art Practice in Malaysia / Janer Pillai -- Floor Discussion 4 -- Reposition the Artist in the Decision-Making Processes of Society / Barbara Steveni -- Art & The Other / Eva Ursprung -- Maintaining Critical Spaces in Urban Societies Today: How Artists Operate - A Report from an Activist Artist / Kirsten Dufour -- Real Life. "Actually Life is a Beautiful Thing!": The making of a series of creative documentaries about people living with HIV and Aids in Southern Africa / Signe Byrge Sorensen -- Simryn Gill, Dalam / Ashley Carruthers -- Will the Real Minah Jambu Please Stand Up For Singapore? / Alfian Bin Sa'at -- Beyond the Event. The Talk of So Few / Charlene Rajendran -- Nostalgia in Post-Crisis Thai Cinema / Anchalee Chaiworaporn -- Biennale Time and the Spectres of Exhibition / Lee Weng Choy -- Tay Kheng Soon: Remaking Singapore / Robert Powell -- Contemporary Vietnamese Art: Obstacles of Transition / Natasha Kraevskaia -- Reviews and Commentary. The Racist Apology / Alfian Bin Sa'at -- Biographies of Writers. IFIMA (International Forum for Intermedia Art) -- The Substation -- focas: Forum on Contemporary Art & Society.
Volume 5, 2004: Introduction / Lucy Davis -- Second Front. The Natural History of The Brand / Kevin Chua -- Crucifixion and Metamorphosis / Goenawan Mohamad -- On Muslims and Others / Rustom Bharucha -- Three Posters: Reflections on a video-performance / Rabih Mroue -- In Skepticism We Believe: Confessions of a Usual Suspect / Lucy Davis -- Fundamentalism of the New Order / Lars Bang Larsen -- "10/12": When Singapore Became the Bali of the Twenty-First Century? / Paul Rae -- Patriarchal Politics and The Singaporean Tudung Fetish / Matilda Gabrielpillai -- WAYANG! / Eddin Khoo -- focas on Censorship. State of Censorship: Singapore post-CRC 3 / Lucy Davis -- A Review of Anwar Sadali's 169 / Alfian Bin Sa'at -- Article 23: Some Context / Frank Ching -- Nothing Comes Without Struggle: A Critical Reflection on July Rallies in Hong Kong / Bottle Shiu Ka Chun -- Albert Odell 1924-2003 / Ben Slater -- A Tribute to Kuo Pao Kun. Pao Jun: In Memoriam / Janadas Devan -- A Tribute to Kuo Pao Kun. Remarks of December 18,2002 / Chew Kheng Chuan -- Reports. Gratitude Palms / Dana Lam -- A Report on The Asian Art Archive / Pamela Kember -- "Against The War" in Singapore / Sim Pern Yiau, Jonathan Lim, Ben Slater, Kaylene Tan, Lucy Davis & Lee Weng Choy -- Biographies of Writers -- About The Substation -- About focas.
Volume 6 Regional animalities: cultures, natures, humans & animals in South East Asia: Introduction / Lucy Davis -- Section one: Regional animalities. 'The lowest form of person': dogs, excess and symbolic exchange in contemporary Thailand / David Teh -- On surviving anthropocentric modernity: first thoughts on transcending endangered environments for monkey-dancers and macaque monkeys in mainland South East Asia / Pornrat Damrhung -- Bear life / Weather Permitting (Kathryn Yusoff & Jennifer Gabrys) -- The 'most correct creature': colonial man, colonial beast and colonial culture / Sarah Whitney Womack -- The birds, the birds: biopolitics and biosecurity in the contested spaces of avian flu / Chris Wilbert -- The tiger and the theodolite: George Coleman's dream of extinction / Kevin Chua -- Every cat in history is I / Ho Tzu Nyen -- Ho Tzu Nyen & Kevin Chua in conversation -- Notes for a Singapore bestiary: gender, sexuality & inter-species encounters in the city state / Lucy Davis -- Theorising Aksi Mat Yoyo: on the children's tv show Aksi Mat Yoyo and 'That Thing with Malays and Cats' / Alfian Bin Sa'at -- Artist pages: Chang Yoong Chia -- Ecology reimagined: anthropomorphic and zoomorphic compulsions in the work of Chang Yoong Chia / Gabrielle Low -- Faunaphiliac animatalities / Yar Habegnal -- Section two: Reports on art & activism in Singapore 2004-6: artists, animals, transients & the death penalty. A personal reflection on SOIL: migrant voices and Drama Box's forum theatre initiative with migrant workers in public spaces in Singapore / Sha Najak & Prashant Somosundram -- Artists, activists and the death penalty in Singapore / Seelan Palay -- M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2006: high visibility for migrant workers / John Gee -- Artists & other animals / Lucy Davis -- Wildlife Asia: the first regional documentary film festival, March 13-16 2007 / Chris Dickinson & Lucy Davis -- The network within: Singapore's artscommunity e-group / Alvin Tan, Mathieu O'Neil & Lucy Davis -- Section three: focas on censorship. The Philippines: culturing censorship, waging political repression / Lisa C. Ito -- On instability: the state of censorship on the arts in Thailand / Thanavi Chotpradit -- Culture and the state: the Vietnam context / Andy Lux -- 2006 Singapore censorship report / Ng Yisheng -- Playing catch-up: recent censorship of culture and the arts in Malaysia / Kathy Rowland -- Shifting sand: censorship and the Indonesian art world / Wulan Dirgantoro. - Language
- English
- Subject
- Arts
Arts and society - BRN
- 4635
Notes
- Gift of Paul Khoo.
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No. 1, Jan 2001
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No. 2, Jul 2001
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No. 2, Jul 2001
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No. 3, Jan 2002
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No. 4, Real Life/Beyond the Event
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No. 5, Second Front
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No. 1, Jan 2001
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No. 2, Jul 2001
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No. 6 Regional animalities
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No. 3, Jan 2002 (Gift of Paul Khoo)
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No. 5, Second Front (Gift of Paul Khoo)
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