Dr Corrie Tan

🐱 writer, researcher, practitioner | now: director, Asian Dramaturgs’ Network & arts editor @jom_media_ | before: @ArtsEquator @acadsingapore

[Jom @jom_media_]

A critic’s third watch of Wild Rice’s sprawling play “Hotel” prompts questions about how we might sojourn through a national history from a room with a specific view. How has “Hotel” played host to Singapore’s societal and political changes?

https://t.co/4DbYr5kUFj

[NTU English @NTU_English]

#CfPAlert Calling all 🇸🇬-based postgrads, researchers, and creative writers in English & Creative Writing departments! Submit your paper abstract or creative piece to the inaugural @NTU_English Graduate Research Symposium on the theme “Movement & Motion” by Nov 30. 📚🧑‍💻💬 #sglit

[academia.sg @acadsingapore]

If Singapore’s leaders are seeking a new social compact for a changed world, they would need to embark on radical reforms to redress the balance between self-interest and solidarity, argues sociologist Teo You Yenn. https://t.co/5SDnLKM6MI @NTUSociologySoc

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

📣 Academic job PSA 📣 Fantastic opportunity for theatre & performance ECRs - plus you get to work with the one and only @DianaADamian??

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

So glad this is finally out - I have a chapter on @dramabox’s participatory performance work The Lesson and its approaches to widening the space for sociopolitical discourse in Singapore.

[Performance Research @theprjournal]

NEW from PR BOOKS :
CHANGING PLACES: DRAMA BOX AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE
Edited by Richard Gough and Charlene Rajendran, this 7th title in the 'Inside Performance Practice' series focuses on the Singapore-based company Drama Box.
https://t.co/J4uBDfx097 https://t.co/YSJfjw8o6G

[Ian Chong 莊嘉穎 @ChongJaIan]

@laavy_k explains the challenges ethnic Indians face in claiming legitimate belonging to the 🇸🇬 nation. Abridged chapter in Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore, co-edited by @heymysara & published by @ethosbooks on @acadsingapore https://t.co/47Dg7YSCsS

[Dr Rebecca Collins @CollinsRebeccaL]

A pleasure to share my research with the 'Documenting Performance' working group @TaPRA_ thinking through misuse & scientific experimentation & hear from @CorrieTan on ecologies of parasitic relations! Thanks to @DianaADamian , Eleanor Roberts & Harriet Curtis

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

We've organised a virtual roundtable on racism in Singapore.

To register: https://t.co/fh6SwWJxzh

[academia.sg @acadsingapore]

Next week: Race, a permanent feature of Singapore’s social relations, has stepped out from the shadows, demanding the nation’s attention. A string of social media videos exposing people’s intolerance and hate has sparked widespread revulsion. (1/n)

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

@fdbckfdfwd Is a saved statement in image form = an image

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

@BeastBurmese @yanoak Hi, I found this resource pack / information sheet for Myanmar students hoping to study tech, computer science or ICT - university application processes and scholarships in Singapore, Thailand and Australia https://t.co/idj4h5PCtY

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

For #Myanmar students or tech workers whose education has been severely disrupted by the coup, this resource list/information sheet on ICT programmes in Singapore, Thailand and Australia has been circulating, including transfer and scholarship options: https://t.co/idj4h5PCtY

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

.@ArtsEquator lists out ways in which readers can support creative protest efforts in Myanmar – as part of the Myanmar people's resistance to the ongoing military coup and brutal crackdowns.
Do have a read: https://t.co/4hMVMaj2dM #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

@fdbckfdfwd @claracxw (Actually I’m also currently convening a residency exploring these themes with 10 other critics from KL, Yogya, Manila & SG, hosted very generously by Centre 42 :) It’s been very exciting! We will be putting together some documentation for public sharing later this year.)

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

@fdbckfdfwd @claracxw Thanks for the shoutout Bani! Yesss my PhD project is titled “The Intimate Critic” and I look at proximities, relationships, correspondences and journeys in relation to performance criticism in SEA. (I also have a substack https://t.co/y2teogUOIv)

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

@Lamin_Oo Hearing Mandalay and Mawlamyine as well

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

@harmonicsunbeam Pretty much

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

@harmonicsunbeam LOL no but... I have totally done this ngl

[Dr Corrie Tan @CorrieTan]

I had a cozy chat with the new artistic directors of The Finger Players and wrote a thing about what it’s like to take over a “legacy company” in Singapore theatre. https://t.co/bczVPqp5y7

[bani haykal @fdbckfdfwd]

its worth pointing out that this systemic problem could do with a symptom checker

i’d like to share our journey to articulate / identify a couple of areas which demonstrates how co-parenting require a lot of support

[a thread]

[Splice #splicebeta @splicenewsroom]

We are inviting applications for Splice Fellowships at our upcoming #splicebeta 2020 media festival.

Our goal is to help bring young journalists into this community of media startups at Beta, and help them share their lessons and insights with the wider industry.