Facts, Anecdotes and speculations: A Review of 63-65 Notes From A Separation
By William Tham
September 2024 FEATURE
The PresentAN ALTERNATIVE PRESENT haunts Boo Junfeng’s “Happy and Free”, a speculative karaoke video commemorating “a Malaysian Singapore that never came to be”, which “provoked […] a deep sense of unease, loss, longing and finally, melancholy”. Played on screen at the Penang Harmony Centre as part of the 63-65: Notes From a Separation performance workshop, Boo’s uncanny vision of a united Malaysia and Singapore was showcased alongside an artificially recreated speech by Tunku Abdul Rahman, prepared specifically for the audience....
William Tham
has been published in NANG, PR&TA, The Best of World SF: Volume 2, and the Southeast Asian Review of English. He co-edited The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian and Singaporean Writing.
