September 2007 Texts

It's a little fucked up that I'm still going on this spiel about texts I've consumed when there's a bloody revolution (or even sadder, failed revolution) happening next door and Singapore's mollycoddling the lapdogs of the ancien regime. But still, ritual:

*POETRY*
+Wislawa Szymborska's "Monologue of a Dog"
+“The Song of Roland”
+T.S. Eliot's “Selected Poems”
Aaron Lee's “Five Right Angles”

*FICTION*
+Cyril Wong's "The Boy With a Flower That Grew Out of His Ass"
+Margaret Atwood's "The Tent"
+Truman Capote's “Summer Crossing”
+Philip Jeyaratnam's “Abraham's Promise”

*DRAMA*
+Moliere's "Tartuffe"
+Ntozake Shange's “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf”
+Christopher Durang's “Laughing Wild”
+Dumbtype's “S/N”

*NON-FICTION*
Gunalan Nadarajan, Russell Storer and Eugene Tan's "Contemporary Art in Singapore"
+Malcolm Gladwell's “Blink”
+Tan Shzr Ee and Desmond Foo's “Lost Roads”

*PERFORMANCES*
+V.I.S.T.A Lab's “Impetus”
+W!ld Rice's “The Campaign to Confer the Public Service Star on JBJ”
+The Theatre Practice's “
+Spell #7's “Tree Duet”
+performance art by Kim Kang and Kim Youn Hoan, Lynn Lu, Lee Wen and Jason Lim at “The Future of Imagination”

*EXHIBITIONS*
+STPI's “Ahmad Zakii Anwar”
National Museum's “The Prince of Gowns: A Selection of Benny Ong's Works from 1988-1989”
+National Museum's "Empire of Nature: The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Paintings"
+Infrared Photography Collective's “Infrared City”
STPI's “The Singapore Print Society's 16th Annual Show”
+Raghu Rai, Prabir Prakasthaya and Prabuddha Das Gupta's “L.E.N.S”
+Vitric Thng and Mauricio Alejo's “Small Talk”

*FILMS*
+Anthony Chen's “Ah Ma”
+Loo Zihan's “Embryo”
Kan Lume's “5 Steps To Becoming An Actor”
+Boo Junfeng's “Katong Fugue”
+Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's "Jesus Camp"
+Adrienne Shelly's "Waitress"
+Jacen Tan's “Zo Gang”
Lynn Lu's “Inadequate Reality Adaptation”
+Gek Li San's “Heave”