Sunday, June 01, 2008

May 2008 texts

Australian poetry, Japanese drama, American iMax movies... but all in all, it's been a skinny month.

*POETRY*
“Over There”, ed. John Kinsella and Alvin Pang
+John Jenkins’s “The Inland Sea”
+Dorothy Porter's "Crete"

*FICTION*
+Erica Jong’s “Fear of Flying”
+Jennifer Mills's "Look Down With Me and other stories"

*DRAMA*
Chikao Tanaka’s “The Head of Mary”
+Yukio Mishima's "Five Modern No Plays"
+Yasmina Reza's "Art"

*NON-FICTION*
+John Lie’s “Multiethnic Japan”
+National Museum of Singapore's "Vintage Singapore: Souvenirs from the Recent Past"
+Hong Zicheng's "Vegetable Roots Discourse"

*GRAPHIC TEXTS*
+Johnny Lau and Yu Cheng’s ”Mr Kiasu: Everything Also Act Blur”

*PERFORMANCES*

+Puppet Square’s “Death of a Hero”
+Young & W!LD's "The Hypochondriac"
+TTRP's "Hamletmachine"

*EXHIBITIONS*
+Singapore Science Centre
Fremantle History Museum
+Western Australia Museum, Perth
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Singapore Discovery Centre
Singapore Art Museum's "Seeing. Feeling. Being: Alberto Giacometti" and +"Post-Doi Moi: Vietnamese Art After the 1990s"

*FILM AND VIDEO*
+Keith Melton's "Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs"
+The Wachowski Brothers’ “Speed Racer”
+Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg's "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay"
+Stephen Low's "Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Ng Yi-Sheng said...

There's some background to this dubious boycott here:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp