Amirra Wardah Binte Shamsul-Bahari
About
Amirra Wardah is a multifaceted creative whose interests, experiences and efforts span different arts sectors, driven by a passion for community involvement.
She is a graduate of the BA (Hons) Arts Management programme at LASALLE College of the Arts and is committed to expanding her knowledge and contributing actively to the arts and community.
Amirra has demonstrated her capabilities in events management for both formal and informal events, including the Singapore Literature Prize, as well as stage and lighting management for various local underground gigs and marketing roles for different organisations.
Equipped with skills from her educational background the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and her experience as a graphic designer, Amirra strives for innovative approaches to foster global perspectives and for the success of the arts ecosystem and sectors.
Where We Gather: Archiving the margins of alternative subcultural survival and legitimacy in Singapore
Alternative subcultural archives do not merely preserve what exists but actively determine what is allowed to endure.
This thesis interrogates the factors contributing to the archival visibility of Singapore’s alternative subcultural communities. It also advances ongoing debates in archival studies by foregrounding the relational, spatial and infrastructural dimensions of archival production via the cross-examination of state bodies—the National Archives of Singapore and the National Library Board—and grassroots archive repositories.
This study situates archival absence as a condition produced through systems of value, visibility and governance. In doing so, the study reorients the discussion away from questions of representation to the structural mechanisms that determine what is rendered archivable in Singapore’s arts and cultural landscape.
Thus, this paper proposes a more critically engaged and co-productive model of archival practice that is attentive to the lived realities of alternative subcultural communities in Singapore.
Professional practice
Amirra is actively immersed in the underground subculture scenes in Singapore which has honed her expertise in graphic design, visual artworks and management practices.
Her freelance journey spans across commissioned artworks, marketing, curating, venue and gig management, people management, logistics coordination and community practice. She interacts with people from various backgrounds in her day-to-day, which is then reflected as the theme of most of her choice of curation of events, artworks and academic works.
Amirra holds innate passion for community involvement and cultural heritage preservation as well as championing causes like sustainability, social equity, grassroots empowerment, and the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage and alternative cultural expressions.
Muhammad Rashad
Veronica Lee
Lionel Fong
Koh Jia Ling
Jermaine Chong
Audrey Khoo Jing Wen
