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Breaking the Colonial GazeFeaturing Imran Taib, nor, and Nurul Huda Rashid.
Moderated by Prasanthi Ram.
This event will take place at the Arts House, Chamber on 5 November, from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Accessible with the purchase of the SWF 2022 Festival Pass: https://www.singaporewritersfestival.com/programme-details/conversations/breaking-the-colonial-gaze
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About the event
How can we begin to decentre our art, stories, and histories from the colonial gaze? Partake in a collective unlearning of colonial attitudes and reimagine a culture of decolonisation as we explore more liberating ways of being and narrative-making.
There will be live note taking during this event.
This programme is co-presented by Singapore Writers Festival and Ethos Books. Singapore Writers Festival is organised by the Arts House Limited and commissioned by the National Arts Council.
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About the speakers
Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib is an independent researcher, facilitator, writer and interfaith advocate. He is director of Dialogue Centre; and a founding Board member of Centre for Interfaith Understanding (CIFU). His writings have appeared in journals and dailies, such as Channel NewsAsia, Today, The Straits Times, Berita Harian, BeritaMediacorp, The Jakarta Post, The Malaysian Insight and South China Morning Post. He was editor of Malay socio-religious journal, Tafkir (2008), and has published several books, including Budi Kritik (2019, 2020), an essay compilation on Malay society. Imran is a graduate in Philosophy and his research and writing focuses on inter-religious/ethnic relations, multiculturalism and Malay/Islamic thought. He is currently working on a project on autonomous knowledge in Southeast Asia. He is also currently writing 3 books, focusing on faith, history, heritage and memory.
nor is an artist whose practice is rooted in self-portraiture. Their works situate identity and community within speculative timelines through frameworks of gender performance, ethnographic portraits and transnational histories. nor's writings have been published in Singa Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore, Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore as well as Brown Is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore.
Nurul Huda Rashid (she/her) is a researcher-writer pursuing her PhD in Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on images and narratives, visual and sentient bodies, feminisms, and the intersections between them. These have been articulated through visual projects such as Women in War (2016-ongoing), unknown woman/wanita kami (2021), and Hijab/Her (2012-2014), each anchored in articulations of the female figure. Nurul has collaborated on a nusantara digital archive, Pulau Something (2021), facilitated a decolonial pedagogical camp, New Curriculum for Old Questions (2019), co-created and facilitated programmes with Objectifs and The Substation. Her most recent exhibition-activation, Nodes (2022), was presented at Substation’s SeptFest 2022. Nurul hopes to adopt a cat someday.
About the moderator
Prasanthi Ram is a full-time writing lecturer at Nanyang Technological University, where she completed her PhD in creative writing. Her short stories can be found in a variety of publications including Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five (Epigram Books: 2021), and her personal essays can be found in What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian (AWARE: 2022) as well as Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (Ethos Books: 2021). She is also the co-founder and fiction editor of Mahogany Journal. Outside of her professional pursuits, she finds comfort in South Korean pop culture, long walks and hours of lifestyle vlogs on YouTube.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Arts House at The Old Parliament, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore, Singapore
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