Texts October 2007

I seem to have consumed a surprising amount of Southeast Asian writing this month. Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia (well, an Australian play set there anyway), together with a spattering of African-American feminists, Lebanese art theorists, French cartoonists and mad German philosophers. Anyhoo, 27 books in total - not bad at all.

*POETRY*
+Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Poetry as Insurgent Art”
+Annie Freud’s “The Best Man That Ever Was”
+Audre Lorde’s “The Black Unicorn”
Madeleine Lee’s “A Single Headlamp”
Goh Poh Seng’s “As If the Gods Love Us”

*FICTION*
Michelle Ha’s “Vanished”
+Tan Twan Eng’s “The Gift of Rain”
+Johann S. Lee’s “To Know Where I’m Coming From”
+Toni Morrison’s “Love”
+Duong Thu Huong’s “Novel Without a Name”

*DRAMA*
Stella Kon’s “Prize-Winning Plays”
+John Guare’s “Six Degrees of Separation”
+Peter Shaffer’s “Equus”
Tom Stoppard’s “Jumpers”
Graham Shell’s “Bali: Adat”

*NON-FICTION*
+Ray Huang’s “1587: A Year of No Significance”
+Leona Lo’s “From Leonard to Leona”
Richard E. Nisbett’s “The Geography of Thought”
+Arthur Schopenhauer’s “On the Suffering of the World”
+Martin Buber’s “The Way of Man”

*GRAPHIC TEXTS*
Mr Miyagi’s “In My Time”
+Jean-Jacques Sempé’s “Everything is Complicated”

*WEIRD CONCEPTUAL ART TEXTS*
Lee Wen’s “The Republic of Daydreams”
+Tony Chakar’s “The Eyeless Map”
+Bilal Khbeiz’s “Globalization and the Manufacture of Transient Events”
Stephanie Cheng’s “The First Lady on the Moon”
Sha Najak’s “Juliet: That Stupid Bitch #2”

*PERFORMANCES*
+Theatreworks’s “120”
Buds Theatre Company’s “Essential Framing”
+Pichet Klunchun and Jerome Bel’s “About Khon”
+Opera Studio’s “Alcis and Galatea”
+Zai Kuning, Yuen Chee Wai and Leslie Low's “Tom Waits for Nobody”

*FILMS*
+Michael Moore’s “Sicko”
Timur Bekmambetov's “Day Watch”
+Selections of the Cal Arts 2006 Animation Final Year Projects
+Ekachai Uekrongtham’s “Pleasure Factory”
+Jasmine Ng’s “Pink Paddlers”

*EXHIBITIONS*
+Haji Widayat's "Widayat Between Worlds: A Retrospective"
+Singapore Art Museum's “Big Picture Show”
Chu Yuan’s “Relentless”
The Esplanade's “Artventure”
J. Henry Fair’s “Industrial Scars”
+Chinese Heritage Centre’s “Nantah Pictorial Exhibition” and “Chinese More or Less: An Exhibition on Overseas Chinese Identity”
+Jurong Regional Library’s ”Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian”
+Cheng Guang Feng’s “The Traveller”
+Maica Delfino, +Farhan Razak, Sha Najak. Jason Lee and Mohammed Faizal’s “We Don’t Need No Education”