Writer Amanda Lee Koe offers a cyborg manifesto for Singapore’s social development

Singaporean writer Amanda Lee Koe ringing a bell as the audience sings her a birthday song. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Author Amanda Lee Koe's performance lecture at the National Gallery Singapore had a sold-out audience of 180 people. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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SINGAPORE – Like a transmission out of the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049, Singaporean novelist Amanda Lee Koe offered alternative social visions for Singapore at the National Gallery Singapore (NGS) on Saturday.

Togged out in fuschia artificial locks and an android uniform, Lee Koe delivered her performance lecture at the City Hall Chamber – titled A Cyborg Island Manifesto: A Performance, A Position, A Provocation – to a sold-out audience of 180 people.

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