Dr Carmen Nge Siew Mun

Dr Carmen Nge is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Creative Industries, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). She has taught subjects as diverse as critical thinking, film studies, game design and science fiction. The events below are some of which she has moderated in the past.

CFAR member, Carmen Nge, was the moderator for this panel.

FIVE ARTS CENTRE PANEL AT THE GEORGE TOWN LITERARY FESTIVAL 2018

24 NOVEMBER 2018, SATURDAY 

3.15pm – 4.15pm

Event Space @CAT, Gat Lebuh China, George Town, Penang

INTERROGATING THE ARTS THROUGH WRITING: T.K. Sabapathy and Krishen Jit

While creativity remains a buzzword, and art making receives considerable attention, writing about the arts is less glamourous and gains little support. Yet the work is crucial to the development of the arts and demands rigour and skill that are tough to advance. This session presents two books that engage with this work: ‘Writing the
Modern’ -- a huge and diverse selection of essays from Sabapathy's corpus of art writing, compiled by the Singapore Art Museum; and ‘Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre’, an assemblage of writings that respond to Jit’s work vis a vis a conference held in 2015 to mark the 10th anniversary of his passing.

As pioneers in the arena of arts writing in the Southeast Asian region, Singaporean art historian T.K. Sabapathy and Malaysian theatre director and critic Krishen Jit, exemplified an unusual commitment and belief in the value of arts writing, and their work has inspired countless writers, creators and arts practitioners for over 50 years. In this panel T.K. Sabapathy articulates his particular relationship with writing about the visual arts, and Charlene Rajendran, the main editor of the volume on Jit, reflects on how Jit's writing about theatre is informed by his relationships with performance and the people involved. The session is moderated by Carmen Nge, who worked with Sabapathy on a book about Malaysian artist and national art laureate Syed Ahmad Jamal, and also co-edited the book on Jit.

The full video can be found on Youtube :
 

INTERROGATING THE POLITICAL THROUGH THE ARTS

A Panel Discussion presented by Five Arts Centre in collaboration with ILHAM Gallery, supported by Yayasan Sime Darby.

27 JULY 2019, SATURDAY

TIME: 3pm

VENUE: ILHAM Gallery


For better or worse, all arts are influenced by politics, but is there room for the arts in the political arena? What should be the relationship between the arts and politics? Is there common ground between artists and politicians ~ to what end?


 The full video can be found on Youtube :