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Performing Singapore

Performing Singapore ART & PERFORMANCE NOTES Pavel Braila, The Golden Snow of Sochi, 2014. Photo: Courtesy Zagidullin Rustam. © Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, Russia. Performing Singapore Jennie Klein The Future of Imagination (FOI) Festival 9, Singapore, September 4–7, 2014. S ingapore is a city/state in flux, an island nation in Southeast Asia that has transformed itself from a former British trading post for the East India Company upon its independence in 1963 into one of the world’s major commercial hubs. A city/nation of skyscrapers and shopping malls that is perpetually under construction, Singapore has sought to transform itself into a tourist destination by supporting contemporary art and artists. This support comes with a price, however, as the National Arts Council encourages organizers, curators, and artists to produce exhibitions and events that have a broad appeal to the general public. My focus here is the role of the community of artists and audience members vis-à -vis the annual performance festival Future of the Imagination (FOI). Under the artistic direction of Lee Wen, Kai Lam, and Jason Lim, FOI, which premiered in 2003, has remained an alternative event for a small international community of artists and audience members committed to avant-garde performance http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

Performing Singapore

Klein, Jennie
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art , Volume 38 (1) – Jan 1, 2016
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Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 2016 Performing Arts Journal, Inc.
Subject
Art & Performance Notes
ISSN
1520-281X
eISSN
1537-9477
DOI
10.1162/PAJJ_a_00295
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ART & PERFORMANCE NOTES Pavel Braila, The Golden Snow of Sochi, 2014. Photo: Courtesy Zagidullin Rustam. © Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, Russia. Performing Singapore Jennie Klein The Future of Imagination (FOI) Festival 9, Singapore, September 4–7, 2014. S ingapore is a city/state in flux, an island nation in Southeast Asia that has transformed itself from a former British trading post for the East India Company upon its independence in 1963 into one of the world’s major commercial hubs. A city/nation of skyscrapers and shopping malls that is perpetually under construction, Singapore has sought to transform itself into a tourist destination by supporting contemporary art and artists. This support comes with a price, however, as the National Arts Council encourages organizers, curators, and artists to produce exhibitions and events that have a broad appeal to the general public. My focus here is the role of the community of artists and audience members vis-à -vis the annual performance festival Future of the Imagination (FOI). Under the artistic direction of Lee Wen, Kai Lam, and Jason Lim, FOI, which premiered in 2003, has remained an alternative event for a small international community of artists and audience members committed to avant-garde performance

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