Articles by Nien Yuan Cheng

For better or worse, players and game designers are part of the project of making Southeast Asian history.

Nien Yuan Cheng continues her commentary on how Singapore artists are responding to the Bicentennial.

Part 2 of this 3-part series on the SG Bicentennial explores MY Bridge of Light, a community play sponsored by the official bicentennial fund.

PoP's Cheng Nien Yuan continues her commentary on Singapore's Bicentennial.

Nien Yuan Cheng reflects on the film screening and lecture, "Gender, Crossdressing and Androgyny in Balinese Dance", conducted by ethnomusicologist Edward Herbst under the aegis of the Bali 1928 repatriation project.

A personally-confronting reflection on why, sometimes, art galleries don’t seem to work for the author.

A review of the refurbished Singapore History Gallery at the National Museum of Singapore.

A personal account of the author's visit to this exhibition, foregrounding both her construction of state narratives and the curatorial staging of narratives in the gallery.

An embodied response to Sonny Liew's graphic novel and what it reveals about history-telling.