Episode 24 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream.

Would you place yourself in a well-known conflict zone to fill yourself with knowledge and fulfil your passions? It is Israel at the Batsheva Dance Company (BDC) that dancer and choreographer AHILYA KAUL finds herself connected with and constantly summoned back to learn and work directly with contemporary dance maestro Ohad Naharin. She shares with us how Gaga, the movement language of BDC has enriched her life's philosophies and those of many others.

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Episode 22 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream.

Could an artist ever leave the thought of art, for a moment, especially when he is engrossed with lifelong passions, such as fishing? We speak with avid angler and artist SEBASTIAN MARY TAY on what it is like to fish and make art amidst a family whose DNA is deeply etched with a history of fish.

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Episode 21 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream.

DIPALI GUPTA makes videos and drawings with magic sticks and eggs, the kind that makes many people feel good, ecstatic even. A mother, homemaker and a woman who grew up in a culturally conservative environment, the artist activates her art to overcome taboos and uncomfortable conversations on sexuality in society. 

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Episode 20 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream.

DUSADEE HUNTRAKUL published a book based on a true-life childhood story as told by his wife. His wife, young son and the son of a friend contributed drawings for this book. The book is titled Grandma, I Want A Penis.

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Episode 19 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream.

What do you do when since young, lived your life in multiple countries, immersed yourself in native cultures, speak multiple languages and then fall in love with art? Meet ALEXANDRA DOMART, a great friend of artists, curators, galleries and museums. Listen to understand why art matters to her.

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Episode 18 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream.

You move to Paris to live a dream and learn the language, then fate throws you a challenge, through a viewfinder. Paris based photographer MELISA TEO recollects personal encounters and epiphanies that led to the unconventional methodologies in her photographic work. 

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Episode 17 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream.

To expand our horizon, we often have to make incisive yet often uncertain decisions. For critic REENA DEVI, the past year was spent observing and writing on the politics and economics of visual arts outside of home and into the world. What has this brought her and how has this changed her perspectives and approaches in decoding the often elusive art world?

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Episode 16 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream.

His first formal school experience was at a university in Singapore. Listen to HUNTER PANTHER DEERFIELD, the Vermont native on his hands-on experience in assembling KIRTI, chasing after art, artists, curators and that all elusive book publishing deal. 

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Episode 15 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream.

When you curate for an institution, could you simultaneously do so with the headspace of an 'outsider'? Having worked together in various large-scaled and ambitious projects, long-time friends and collaborators DAVID CHEW, RANDY CHAN and KHAI HORI reflect on curatorial depth and impressions in relation to ideas on sites, places, peoples and their own creative development.

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Episode 14 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream.

Independent, self-funded and going at it solo. We speak with PEY CHUAN TAN, founder of the micro exhibition platform I_S_L_A_N_D_S at the 1970s built Excelsior Shopping Centre. How does such an initiative posit itself when sandwiched between a historic, yet modern city centre and amongst high profile, state-supported museums and art centers? 

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