Capacities and Impacts of Community Arts and Culture Initiatives in Singapore

Trivic, Zdravko; Tan, Beng Kiang; Mascarenhas, Nina; Duong, Quyen

doi:10.1080/10632921.2020.1720877

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“…While the observations may have missed out some activities, as activity patterns may vary from day to day, this investigation offered empirical snapshot insights into the daily rhythms of local Singaporeans in two neighbourhoods. A similar method has been used in previous local studies, with similar activity patterns reported [ 102 , 103 ].…”

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A Study of Older Adults’ Perception of High-Density Housing Neighbourhoods in Singapore: Multi-Sensory Perspective

Trivic

2021

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Associated sensory and cognitive declines progress with ageing and profoundly impact the daily living and quality of life of older adults. In the context of an increased ageing population globally, this paper outlines an exploratory study of socio-sensory properties of two high-density housing neighbourhoods in Singapore and the ways senior local residents perceive their familiar built environments. This study employed exploratory on-site exercises with 44 student researchers (including sensory photo-journeys, documentation of sensory properties and daily activity patterns), and 301 socio-perceptual surveys with local residents, the majority of whom were older adults. The findings reveal important aspects related to sensory assessment and appreciation (e.g., crowdedness, noise, smell, cleanliness), walking experience (e.g., safety, wayfinding) and overall satisfaction with the neighbourhood (e.g., available public amenities, opportunities for inter-generational bonding), some of which correlated with age and reported health condition. Multi-sensory assessment shows the capacity to inform more integrated, empathetic, ability-building and context-specific ageing-friendly neighbourhood design.

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A Study of Older Adults’ Perception of High-Density Housing Neighbourhoods in Singapore: Multi-Sensory Perspective

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2021

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“…The contribution of volunteers in supporting the arts and culture sector is well-documented (Bendle & Patterson, 2008; Saleh & Wood, 1998; Stebbins, 2013; Trivic et al, 2020). In this note, in contrast to many previous studies, we focus on potential rather than active volunteers and consider the potential pool of volunteers that exists.…”

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“…In community art programs, volunteering provides a source of labor supply often vital to projects being realized, as well as means to harness volunteers’ pro-social motivations and prosumption, where individuals act as both consumers and producers (Trivic et al, 2020). We believe that viewing volunteers as a source of labor and a consumer of art enables a better appreciation of their contribution—particularly in the context of community arts programs.…”

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Willingness to Volunteer: An Exploration of the Potential Volunteer Pool for Community Arts Programs

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Volunteers are critical for many local arts and culture programs. In contrast to most research, we focus on potential rather than actual volunteers. Using data collected from an online survey of 948 participants, we explore the extent to which individuals are willing to contribute both their time and money to support community arts initiatives. Results from a binary two-stage instrumental variable (IV) probit indicate that a significant predictor of willingness to volunteer is the willingness to pay and the intangible value placed on arts activities and engagement. These findings have implications for recruitment initiatives by public and community arts organizations reliant on volunteer support.

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“…As an ethnographic researcher who engaged with Between Earth and Sky to produce the critical essay that accompanied its touring exhibitions (beginning in 2018) and who has continued to collaborate with Neo in various capacities on another of her works Care Index (2020-), I also discuss Neo's projects in this article in order to situate these socially engaged artworks as forms of public pedagogy (Charman & Dixon, 2021;Sandlin et al, 2010;Pillai, 2014). Engaging with Neo's work, I seek to explore how socially engaged art practice, also referred to as social practice (Sanders-Bustle, 2019; Sholette et al, 2018), community-based arts (Pillai, 2014 or community arts (Lee & Sim, 2017;Trivic et al, 2020) can at once be a socially and relationally centred mode of artistic production, and an arts-based approach to public education and advocacy. Here, I examine how Neo's practice is oriented around working with communities over time in service of collaboratively finding an expressive medium that furnishes public understandings of their experiences.…”

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Embodied Futurities

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2023

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This article began as a critical essay of the same title, Embodied Futurities, commissioned to accompanythe exhibition of the performance project and video installation Between Earth and Sky (2018-) bySingaporean artist and cultural worker Alecia Neo. Working with a community of caregivers of personswith mental illness and degenerative disease in Singapore, Neo’s work and this article connect thephysicality of care work and carer-choreographed movements as forms of embodied praxis. This articlefocuses on the co-created work by Neo, the Caregivers Alliance (CAL) caregivers, and the movementartists, as guided by Neo's commitment to socially-oriented art, a school of practice that seeks toproblematise traditional models of authorship or creatorship through dialogic or collaborativeprocesses. Neo’s socially engaged artworks are situated in this article as forms of public pedagogy.Embodied Futurities engages participatory ethnographic methods to develop a critical artswriting model which advocates for enhancing polyvocality in both art-making and critical discoursearound work. Exploring art-making; movement as autopoiesis (Deleuze and Guattari, 1994); living withmental illness and degenerative disease; the act and arc of caregiving; and the everyday choreographyof survival (Cox, 2015), this article’s focal points are drawn from the perspectives voiced by caregivers.Embodied Futurities explores how Between Earth and Sky posits and reorients the body as a site forexpression rather than maintenance, re-envisions the potential of community support networks, andconsiders the possibilities of self-care for carers for whom mutuality may seem remote.

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Capacities and Impacts of Community Arts and Culture Initiatives in Singapore

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

A Study of Older Adults’ Perception of High-Density Housing Neighbourhoods in Singapore: Multi-Sensory Perspective

A Study of Older Adults’ Perception of High-Density Housing Neighbourhoods in Singapore: Multi-Sensory Perspective

Willingness to Volunteer: An Exploration of the Potential Volunteer Pool for Community Arts Programs

Embodied Futurities

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