TALK "Performing State : A Case Of Singapore Political Reflux" A Lecture By William Ray Langenbach at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 5:30pm on 1st February 2016

Time : 5:30 pm Add to Calendar 01/02/2016 17:30 01/02/2016 19:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Performing State : A Case Of Singapore Political Reflux" A Lecture By William Ray Langenbach Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/01/talk-performing-state-case-of-singapore.html School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
Venue Info : www.jnu.ac.in | SAA Map
Nearest Metro Stations - 'Hauz Khas(Yellow Line)' &  'Delhi Aerocity(Orange Line)'

Event Description : The School Of Arts And Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University Presents "Performing State : A Case Of Singapore Political Reflux" A Lecture By William Ray Langenbach (Professor of Performance Studies, University of the Arts, Helsinki)

The ephemeral and ungraspable moment of performance has ramifications that extend far beyond its immediate time and place. During 1993-94, performance art and Forum Theater provided an arena for an historically important collision of desires for what Singapore civil society should or should not be. A small group of ruling Peoples Action Party (PAP) politicians, working the levers of the state apparatus, confronted a smaller group of progressive intellectuals. The politicians had significant administrative and political power at their disposal, while the artists, performers and writers manifested their creative power by imagining a more egalitarian Singapore that did not yet exist.

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