Critical Ecologies | Critical Anomalies consists of a team of 12 critics and writers, as well as documenters and translators from Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Led by coordinator Corrie Tan, the collective is interested in mapping ecologies and vocabularies of critique in the region, and theorizing critique from regions of Southeast Asia in a collaborative way. There will be an emphasis on care ethics and care studies as applied to performance criticism, how critics are situated or embedded within a specific community or context, as well as trans-local exchanges between sites – which would allow us to think about what is specific to local sites or micro-contexts.
Over the course of their residency, the collective will be mapping out personal influences and histories of criticism, introducing and engaging with critical concepts, and identifying shared and diverging practices and principles.
Start Date of Residency: March 2021
WritingsMembers
Corrie Tan
Corrie Tan (residency coordinator) is a Singapore-based researcher, critic and dramaturg. She is contributing editor and resident critic with ArtsEquator, and often teaches and facilitates at the National University of Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts and Centre 42.
Ahmad Jalidu and Nia Agustina (Indonesia)
Nia Agustina and Ahmad Jalidu are the co-founders of Gelaran.id, a non-profit online platform based out of Yogyakarta that functions as a forum for news and discourse on the performing arts. Gelaran.id hopes to fill in the gaps in the development of the performing arts both in Yogyakarta and Indonesia, and hopes to cross-pollinate information and knowledge between artists, institutions that support the arts, and the arts community.
Fasyali Fadzly (Malaysia)
Fasyali Fadzly is a director, playwright, researcher and educator who has worked regularly with platforms such as Critics Republic (Malaysia) and ArtsEquator, and who is currently a lecturer at the performing arts tertiary institution ASWARA (National Academy of Arts, Culture and Heritage) in Kuala Lumpur.
Nabilah Said (Singapore)
Nabilah Said is an award-winning playwright, poet and arts writer from Singapore, and the editor of regional online arts platform ArtsEquator. She is also the co-founder of international theatre collective Lazy Native and founder of playwright collective Main Tulis Group.
Max Yam (Singapore/Malaysia) and Sam Kee (Singapore)
Max Yam and Sam Kee are the co-editors of Arts Republic (Singapore), an online platform that seeks to promote Singaporean artists, particularly independent practitioners. They also co-facilitated Plunge, a year-long series of intimate and themed conversations that dug deep into Singaporean performance.
Michael H. B. Raditya (Indonesia)
Michael H. B. Raditya is a researcher, critic and writer from Yogyakarta who is a frequent contributor to Tribun Newspaper, Teraseni.id, Salihara.com, Gelaran.id and ArtsEquator. He is the author of Merangkai Ingatan Mencipta Peristiwa: Sejumlah Kritik Seni Pertunjukan (Collecting Memories, Creating Moments: Performing Arts Critics) (2018).
Pauline Ysabel Miranda (the Philippines)
Pauline Ysabel Miranda is a Manila-based theatre writer and the managing editor of Nolisoli.ph, a culture and lifestyle portal based in the Philippines.
Pristine de Leon (the Philippines)
Pristine de Leon is a Manila-based arts writer and educator who has written for publications such as The Philippine Star and Gaslight, and was the recipient of the 2016 Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism. She primarily works in the field of visual arts.
Theodora Agni (Indonesia)
Theodora Agni (translator) is an independent arts administrator and residency manager from Yogyakarta. She is the co-founder of Shifting Realities, a platform focusing on the practices and discourse of arts management in Indonesia.
Philippe Pang (Singapore)
Philippe Pang (documenter) is an aspiring arts writer and stage manager, and a recent graduate from the National University of Singapore with a BA (Hons) in English Language and a minor in Theatre Studies.
The Co-Lab Residency is an artist-driven space for collaborative exploration of text-based practice, with an emphasis on peer to peer learning & resource creation. 2021 is the first iteration of the Co-Lab Residency with a total of 4 Resident Collectives. Read more here.
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