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If you missed Contradiction III yesterday (you really missed something, n00b), here's a list of what you missed. I took details off the little pamphlet they handed out, but the summaries are entirely my own, and I apologize profusely if I got anybody confused with anyone else, or if I misremembered something.
Subtitle: a queer literary reading curated by Ng Yi-Sheng.
- Iris Judotter: pre-recorded music.
- Teng Qian Xi: Waterlights, Ghazal of Winter, On History.
- Ng Yi-Sheng: Crystal Pear, The Metrosexual, Address.
- Chan Sze-Wei and the SRT Young Company: short play. I came in halfway through this, and it was really amazing. Someone I knew killed themselves earlier this year, and the ending of the play - where people who didn't know the suicided person that well are thinking about them - really resonated with me. Well, that's what it sounded like, and the resonance was definitely there, so eh.
- Yak Aik Wee: Diving. Aik Wee "read" his dialogue over prerecorded music, which had its own dialogue recorded in, sort of a double-tracked live/recorded spoken-over-instrumental-music thing. It was really nice.
- Zhuang Yisa: Expiration, God Speed. Hehe. Nice poems, one of them a re-telling of the story of Ganymede, and I was completely not expecting a Jovian moon to show up, which just shows what you know.
- Indu: I'm now that girl. A lovely poem, looking into herself with honesty and strength.
- Amanda Tee: Original song. Zomg, what a voice! Seriously. Go check out Amanda Tee's website for yourself if you don't believe me.
- Chan Sze-Wei: untitled, foreign tropic. Very pretty, little poems.
- Lee Gwo Yinn: another bus ride. Very dramatic. Reminisces on a mother's abortion.
- Jasmine Seah and Jonathan Lim: sky & window, magnolia, brilliant, mad, coincidental (by JS) and Speedo Dream, Diving is a Gay Pastime, After Him (by JL). Amazing poems, all the better for playing up against each other.
- Amanda Tee: Original song.
- Maia Lee: Orientation. Nice. You know who Maia Lee is, right? I didn't. Very interesting story, though.
- Johann S. Lee: Novel excerpt. Another great story, the only regret being that Jonathan Lim couldn't have finished reading the rest of the story then and there - hey, I'm sure everybody could have hung around for another 10-12 hours, right?
All in all, a really fun experience; the sausages were nice and the chillies awesome. The audience was relaxed and laid back, and laughed in all the right places. Really a great way to spend a Sunday night.
Tonight, with luck: the Simpsons movie!
Labels: contradiction, indignation, singapore, today
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