Reviews and Response Pieces
Film Response, June 2022
"Papers attest to and make visible the individual’s journey to a distant authority like the state. Family photographs trace migrations of flesh and blood, attesting to the journey of generations and people beyond those pictured."
Editorial, 23 Mar 2022
'Tamil theatre in Singapore has since moved out of temple grounds, but the same confluence of capital, labour, and support that saw the earliest temple built similarly underscores the development of a Tamil Theatre in Singapore into a Singaporean Theatre in Tamil.'
Written for C42 BluePrint
Re Somma and Tamil Theatre in Singapore
Theatre Conversational Review, 24 Dec 2021
'I’m going to suggest a third proposition to ‘What is Tamil Theatre’, but it’s not something I see as much, and that is that Tamil theatre tells the story of the Tamil people.'   'I think often we forget that our individual histories are unfolding with the nation’s.'
Written for ArtsEquator
Immersive Performance Review, 28 June 2021
"His voice is ‘performed’ here. But without a body, the testimony is tenuous. I am the stand-in body, asked to lay in a white poncho in this made-up garden miles from Syria, to lend my body to ‘be’ Abdul’s, to let my body bear witness to his."
Written for ArtsEquator, on Gardens Speak, en route, As Far As Isolation Goes at SIFA 2021
Film Response, 1 Jun 2021
"To watch these films, is to give time. To watch cinemas of resistance is to ‘give’ from this precious currency in an age of short-span consumption."
Written for Asian Film Archive, on Reframe: A Time of Resistance
Audio walks Response, 22 Mar 2021
"I miss the crowd, I miss our mass, I miss how Thaipusam was our way of taking up space, of walking on roads, without care for shoes or the sun, I miss making our sounds..."
Written for ArtsEquator, on Vel Vel & other audio walks
Theatre Review, 5 Feb 2021
"While fish may not break the walls of their tanks, it is precisely those walls that allow us to watch their performance. As the piece shows, it is precisely when they come up against those walls that the fish are most exciting to watch."
Written for ArtsEquator, on Offstage 3.0