World became a canvas and 'moving stage'
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Let's Walk (2018), by Amanda Heng (centre in blue) and presented at the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, saw her and members of the public tread barefoot and backwards with a mirror and a high heel.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF AMANDA HENG
When Amanda Heng moved into Telok Kurau Studios in the late 1990s, she was asked to sign an agreement not to do performances in her studio.
The National Arts Council, which was subsidising her rent, had withdrawn funding support for performance art in Singapore - the fallout from Brother Cane, in which Josef Ng bared his buttocks and trimmed his pubic hair in a 1994 performance to protest media coverage of an anti-gay operation.