Art without History? Southeast Asian Artists and Their Communities in the Face of Geography

Abstract

The critic Lee Weng Choy once described Singapore as an “ahistorical society that seems to live only in the present tense, and claims no need for the past, let alone a sophisticated consciousness of history” In Lee's view, Singapore suffers from a case of postmodernity But to deny it history is vaguely reminiscent of a time, during the period of colonialism, when all Southeast Asians were denied a history as well as a present.

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