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Art and similar interventions in public space. Coverage moves outwards from Singapore through Asia to the rest of the world. Like nothing else, the idea of "public art" exposes the contradiction inherent in our ideas of "the public" and of "art".


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Saturday, February 04, 2006
  Cory Doctorow in Tiger Balm Gardens
Cory's only photo set on Flickr is a wonderful series of images of Singapore's Tiger Balm Gardens. My post here is not very timely since Cory posted this shortly after his visit to Singapore in September for the Singapore Writers Festival.

I particularly like this image - It could be a scene from Some Come to Town...

Tiger Balm Gardens, built in the 1930s, is one kind of precursor of the contemporary themepark - a didactic public attraction - in this case meant to inculcate a heady SouthSeas Chinese mix of Confucian moral education and fear of spirits...

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