Art is Life
“I’m interested in not just becoming a good artist but becoming a good person,” declares theatre director Ong Keng Sen during our Zoom interview, just before the end of Singapore’s circuit breaker period. The topic on hand: what will a post-Covid arts scene look like? “As we look more and more at digitalisation, it’s not just the digitalisation of the arts but the digitalisation of life. I’m actually more concerned about that and how it will, hopefully, lead to more equity, more justice and more accessibility for everyone.”
This notion of how art and life intertwine is recurring throughout our conversation. “The arts cannot be perceived in isolation; the arts is in life itself. If anything, the biggest issue that I face with the Singapore
