A production of breathtaking ambition and riveting quality, “Secondary: The Musical” lifts the curtain on the toll our education system takes on teachers and students alike.
Arts
Jom’s arts editor wanders through Yee I-Lann’s stunning survey show at the Singapore Art Museum. The Sabahan artist may insist she’s a poor weaver of mats, but she’s certainly a powerful weaver of worlds.
At the Singapore Fringe Festival, two plays grapple with forced displacement just as Jom’s reviewer ponders privilege, power asymmetries, and the deeply personal decision-making processes that shape the choice to stay, or to leave.
Daniel Hui’s fêted feature, refused classification in Singapore, is both admonition and plea. Through a series of legal cases—some known, others forgotten—it asks us to look, to listen, and thus, to care.
The art book’s interplay between text, image and form makes for a unique sensorial experience, quite unlike any other medium.
Paid
By temporarily shielding us from modernity's cacophony, this multi-disciplinary work allows for a meditation on our relationship with time, and the natural environment.