Power and The Arts
By Tricia Yeoh
September 2012 STATES OF REFORM
The arts are powerful tools of expression. The impact of a film or a song can be so significant that governments find it hard to stay away. Finding a balance between encouraging the arts but without politicising them is a difficult but necessary duty.As the heated controversies over the recent movie “Tanda Putera” which depicted the May 13, 1969 riots demonstrates (even before being publicly screened), art can have a tremendous impact on the national psyche. The movie was accused...
Tricia Yeoh
has previously worked with the Selangor state government and is now attached to a market research consultancy.
