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‘SafeEntry, a national digital check-in system that collects personal data for contact tracing, has become a metonym for Singapore’s efficient management of the COVID-19 pandemic,’ observes Wong Bing Hao in their review of Heman Chong’s solo exhibition at STPI. Safe Entry (Version 2.0 – 2.7) (2020), a suite of eight, near-identical paintings of QR codes on flesh-coloured backgrounds, opens the show. Upon scanning, viewers are directed to a point-of-view video of Chong walking through Singapore’s Changi Airport during the government’s stay-at-home order. The desolate travel hub is at odds with the city’s utopic self-image, feeding the artist’s ongoing inquiry into systems of power. ....
Fiction: The Autumn of the Ace and three other titles We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Kerryn Goldsworthy Normal text size Louis de Bernieres Credit: This is the last novel in the trilogy concerning the Pitt and McCosh families, neighbours in Edwardian England whose combined and extended family saga has covered more than 80 years since the beginning of the first book in this series, The Dust That Falls From Dreams. Flying ace Daniel Pitt, who has survived two world wars through a combination of luck and skill, is finding the aftermath of the second hollow and disappointing. His personal life and those of most of the people he has ever loved are fraught with complex frustrations and sorrows. But in this third instalment, as Daniel and his peers continue to grapple with mortality, loose ends are tied up and mysteries are explained. Historical fiction and family saga are both well-ploughed fiel ....
Thomas McMullan In my novel, The Last Good Man, an isolated community governs itself by writing on a large wall. Walk up to this structure, looming on the village’s outskirts, and you’ll find notes and missives about piano lessons and lost cats, but you’ll also find accusations plastered in red paint. Geoff Sharpe the butcher has been stealing cuts of meat, a poster might proclaim. Geoff Sharpe has been slacking on the job. And if there are enough accusations about a person, something is done about it; atonement will be sought. This novel has come from a period where questions of public writing – and public shaming – have risen to the fore. These have been years when the architecture of social media has had a powerful effect on debate. Newspapers have carried headlines decrying judges as Enemies of the People; conspiracy theories have spread virulently across pockets of the internet and into the mouths of populist politicians. More recently, community tension ....