Even though the Biennale has officially closed, let’s keep this blog active.
Apparantly there’s still the closing party that’s coming up but I shall keep that under wraps for now lest you guys get too excited.
I think it has been great blogging for the Biennale. Certainly learnt a lot more from you guys who have been [...]

Well
its all finally come to an end.
No more guarding the artworks or screaming at people who don’t understand “Please DO NOT TOUCH the artwork!”, (yes you girl, the one who was stabbing away merrily at Jane Lee’s work and on the mobile AND with me just 30 centimetres from your face and screaming into your ears, you [...]

Collator’s note: Though there may be a few more poems coming in from my fellow poets, now is as good a time as any to add my own piece to the little SB ‘08-themed library we’ve accumulated.  And this one’s dedicated to everyone’s favourite conceptual artist (raised but not born in Singapore), HEMAN CHONG.
(Image from [...]

… or just the Biennale ‘08.  Still, overhearing the volunteer staff at South Beach today, I realised it really is the end of an epoch for them.  They’ve rather little idea of what they’ll do after their job of looking after all the art is over.

I expect it’s a similar story down at City Hall. [...]

Collator’s note: I recently found out that Dr Leong didn’t just write one poem for the Biennale - she wrote three. Her first was about Leonid Tishkov’s “Private Moon”, these next two are about other artworks (images from Universes in Universe again):

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Impossibility of the Superstring Theory, 2008
Drawing installation by Joshua Yang [South Beach Development]
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Hey. Remember how I blamed the Singapore Flyer personnel for creating a free non-artsy audioguide that had usurped the place of “Sky Duet” by Spell#7 and Evan Tan?

Well, today I found out who was actually responsible for making the non-artsy audioguide:
SPELL #7 AND EVAN TAN.
To be precise, it’s just Kaylene Tan and Evan; they’ve [...]

Collator’s note: Ng How Wee (黄浩威) is a Chinese-language playwright, poet, DJ and schoolteacher.  He’ll kill me if I put up the only photo of his I could find online (from his school days!), so I’ll just put up a shot of the artwork which inspired him, “Morakot (Emerald)” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, image stolen from [...]

If you missed this shit, you can turn up at 11am to 2pm tomorrow at Sculpture Square, where they’ll be screening video clips of everything.
But y’know, it won’t be the same.  I only caught a small fraction of the performances, but I’m still pretty floored:

First off, there was Lynn Lu doing her “Lemonade Stand” performance, [...]

Collator’s note: Heng Siok Tian is a poet and teacher, well known for her landmark collection “Crossing the Chopsticks and Other Poems”.
Space

Blackfield is pretty dainty botany;
shaped steel plates on concrete floor, a coloured
side becomes fresh pastel field harmony,
the other blackened face — parched — lie.
Maggots is unpretty still giants on
red carpet of old-world restaurant, I [...]