MARK LEWIS

A handbook to one of Southeast Asia's most intriguing travel destination, this guide covers accommodation in all ranges, & provides tips on everything from elephant riding to boating in Halong Ba

This guide should prove a useful handbook to the many attractions and highlights of Singapore. Full-colour photographs in the opening section of the guide give the reader an immediate sense of the country's diverse attractions, from a stroll through Bukit Timah Rainforest Reserve to a Singapore Sling at Raffles Hotel. The guide carries comprehensive reviews of the best places to stay, eat and drink, in a style that is not afraid to be opinionated, allowing the reader to make informed decisions. As well as providing detailed accounts of all the attractions on the island, there is also coverage of excursions to Sentosa and the southern isles. In addition there are detailed maps of the area, with grid references for every attraction and recommendation.

An examination of Pierre Huyghes post-apocalyptic Untitled (Human Mask), which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants and mimicry.Pierre Huyghes 2014 film Untitled (Human Mask) combines images of a post-apocalyptic world (actual footage of deserted streets close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 2011) with a haunting scene of a monkey working in an empty restaurant wearing a human mask and a wig. Shes a girl! The flat, emotionless almost automaton state of the mask and the artificial glossy hair topped even with a childs bow, suggests that she, the monkey, might be a character from Japanese Noh theatre. But theres no music. Instead Huyghes film evinces the terrifying possibility that our own, human, future might just be one of remnants and mimicry; that the deserted streets of Fukushima and the monkeys recognizable, alienating chimeric performance is all that might survive us. Untitled (Human Mask) presents a pluperfect world with extinction the endgame for a civilization that cared little for the present, dreaming only of a future that inevitably and necessarily could not include it.