In a year of political spectacle, the Singapore Biennale turns its gaze to the decidedly unspectacular. What might we find in the basic building blocks— mall units, shoebox flats, cookie-cutter classrooms—that form our country? Our writer explores the sprawling exhibition to see if she can find out.
Essays
You can get your groceries at the wet market, the supermarket, or through delivery apps—and each offers you different information to guide your choice. But information isn't the same as guidance.
Raka Maitra dances; therefore she is.
A national body overseeing child and youth welfare would make it easier for caregivers and all others who interact with children to navigate the patchwork of support and services available.
Of tissues, trays, and trade-offs—and how they help hawker centres function.
Drawn here by scholarships, and often offered a pathway to citizenship, the lives of migrant Chinese female students in Singapore are a mix of promise and pressure, complicating feelings towards their adopted home.