Welcome to the Artsee Archives.
Here is everything we’ve published so far. You’ll find past reviews, reports, and even a bit of arts fluffing.
We’ve covered visual arts, films, theatre, and anything we thought worth ‘fluffing’.
A Triumph of Protest Theatre
Wild Rice’s ‘Accidental Death of an Activist’ adapts an Italian classic, but can it survive its Singapore-nisation?
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by Elaine Tan The word of the day, he said it out loud,Is Artsfluffing, my dear, shout it out to the crowd.How the Arts can inspire, or shame, or collude;For life, for fun, or just to be rude. So I did what he said and went around town,With sometimes a smile and sometimes a frown.Be…
A Curator’s Tale – One Curator, Many Stories: A Journey to Jeju Biennale.
By Moon Rohaizan. As I pondered my next career steps, I received an unexpected offer to co-curate the 4th Jeju Biennale in Jeju, South Korea, set for November 26th to February 16th, 2025. I was, quite literally, “shocketh” in my PJs. Curating has always drawn me in. There’s something magical about weaving multiple narratives from…
The Sisters Soong: Siblings On A Mission
by DARREN TIO For the first two parts of the play, I thought “The Sisters Soong” felt very confused and struggled with its own identity. It tackled the real history of the Soong sisters with a certain irreverence, opening with elaborate dance numbers, a Chinese-influenced jazz orchestra, and a charming fourth-wall-breaking narrator, played wonderfully by…
Hard-to-ignore new talent at KLPAC’s Short + Sweet Fest
by Gabriel Chin Soon Jin On Sunday, October 8th, 2023, audiences were treated to an exhilarating evening of entertainment at the Short + Sweet stand-up comedy & music showcase at KLPAC. The concept was as intriguing as it was ambitious: 23 comedy acts and 12 musical performances took the stage one by one, each given…
Jebat: A rewarding re-telling
by Low Weiyan The tale of Hang Jebat’s dissent against the Melaka Sultanate has often been reduced to a cautionary tale about the consequences of defying the second line of our country’s national pledge: Loyalty to king and country. But what good is loyalty if it merely serves the corrupt or as Jebat would say,…
A Frame at a Time: Highlights from Kelantan’s Pioneering Film Festival
By Low Weiyan Thirty years on since the closure of its cinemas, Kelantan recently featured its first film festival. Hosted at the Hokkien Huay Kuan Kelantan (Hokkien Association of Kelantan) building in the heart of the city, Pesta Filem Kota Bharu 2023 was born out of a collaboration between Amir Muhammad (Kuman Pictures), publisher Zaidi…