In the early hours of 1 January 1994, Josef Ng concluded his 25-minute performance
artwork Brother Cane (1994) by snipping his pubic hair. The performance created a public …

Histories, Practices, Interventions: LOOKING BACK AT BROTHER CANE: PERFORMANCE
ART AND STATE PERFORMANCE Page 1 178 LOOKING BACK AT BROTHER CANE …

This research is intended to contribute to critical discussion concerning the development of
independent visual culture initiatives giving voice to human justice concerns within the …

The following pages present a selection of documents and photographs of works by the
Singaporean artist Tang DaWu (b. 1943). They are part of a larger collection of materials that …

49.03 (as it perhaps creates a sense of authenticity in whatever message is being
conveyed), its distribution on social media is incredibly important, as it has the potential to …

Three years after the demise of Occupy Wall Street in New York in late 2011 and early 2012,
it seems that the movement has come to an end, at least in the Western world. At irst glance …

This paper explores the attempts of the political activist group Centre for Political Beauty to
restore beauty to politics. While the Centre for Political Beauty claims that their performances …

This research considers the performance of situated subjectivity where the state and the
individual vie for dominion over the drives that construct the body as what one has (the body …

The history of performance art in Singapore is short. However, like performance art
elsewhere, the practice in Singapore connects with the public so directly that one could see …

Istifaa O. Ahmed is a Ph. D. student in American Studies at Brown University. Their research
is concerned with the politics of the flesh—examining how queer/trans of color subjects …