focas, Forum On Contemporary Art & Society is a biennial book series that engages issues of contemporary art, politics and social change - primarily but not exclusively - in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

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English

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2002

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In print

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2

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magazine/journal/newspaper

Chapter headings

Introduction - Lucy DAVIS


Section One: Public Engaged Art

International Symposium of Public Engaged Art, IFIMA (International Forum for Intermedia Art), The Substation, March 1-5, 2002
Introduction to International Symposium of Public Engaged Art - CHU Chuyuan, Jay KOH, 高瞻

Traversing Centre and Fringe: Problems of Engagement in Unstable Democratic Spaces - Eileen LEGASPI-RAMIREZ

Encounters in Engagement: Investigating Public Engaged Art in Singapore - CHU Chuyuan, Jay KOH, 高瞻

Floor Discussion 1

Stories of Power - Lea KANTONEN

Community and Communication in Dialogical Art - Grant H. KESTER

Art, Writing and Politics - LEE Wengchoy, 李永財

Floor Discussion 2

Empowerment through Civil Society, Media and Art Activities - Chongkee TAN

Floor Discussion 3

Deepening Engagement and Enlarging Spaces: Public Engaged Art Practice in Malaysia - Janet PILLAI

Floor Discussion 4

Reposition the Artist in the Decision-Making Processes of Society - Barbara STEVENI

Art & The Other - Eva URSPRUNG

Maintaining Critical Spaces in Urban Societies Today: How Artists Operate – A Report from an Activist Artist - Kirsten DUFOUR


Section Two: Real Life

“Actually Life is a Beautiful Thing!” - Signe Byrge SORENSEN

Simryn Gill, Dalam - Ashley CARRUTHERS

Will the Real Minah Jambu Please Stand up for Singapore? - Alfian Bin SA'AT


Section Three: Beyond the Event

The Talk of So Few

Nostalgia in Post-Crisis Thai Cinema - Anchalee CHAIWORAPORN

Biennale Time and the Spectres of Exhibition - LEE Wengchoy, 李永財

Tay kheng Soon Remaking Singapore - Robert POWELL

Contemporary Vietnamese Art: Obstacles of Transition - Natasha KRAEVSKAIA


Section Four: Reviews & Commentary

The Racist’s Apology - Alfian Bin SA'AT

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focas: Forum On Contemporary Art & Society (Vol. 4)