Raffles Institution 2025 Y6 GP Infopack Arts and Culture

RAFFLES INSTITUTION YEAR 6 GENERAL PAPER – ARTS & CULTURE INFORMATION PACKAGE 2025 EU(s) Pg Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions Past Year Examination Questions 2 4 Section A: Foundational Concepts 1 What is art? 1 and 2 8 2 Why we need arts in times of crisis 1 and 2 12 3 The many meanings of culture 6-9 18 Section B: Investing in the Arts 4 The role of the arts in making a nation a home 3, 5 22 5 For artistic millennials, making a living out of the arts is a craft in itself 2, 4-5 26 6 Singapore cultural statistics – Arts attendance & revenue 5 32 7 COVID-19 has shown Singapore digital arts and humanities are quite the essential service 5 34 8 Art education holds some lessons on the way we teach 5 and 9 37 9 The full measure of an arts education 1 and 5 40 Section C: Regulating the Arts 10 Should we censor art? 3 and 10 43 11 Art vs government in Singapore 3 47 12 Samsui Woman Kerfuffle shows negative attitudes towards the arts 3, 4, 8, 9 53 13 Artists rally around Alfian Sa'at after Ong Ye Kung cites his poem during Yale-NUS debate 3, 4, 10 56 14 Generative AI a minefield for copyright law 3, 4, 10 58 Section D: Different genres of the Arts 15 High and Low Art 1, 4, 8 61 16 Music helps us remember who we are and how we belong during difficult and traumatic times 2, 4, 10 63 17 How NFTs are fuelling the digital art boom 4 and 10 65 Section E: Threats to Culture and Arts 18 Give the Easter Islanders their statue back – it doesn’t belong in the British Museum 8-10 70 19 The dos and don’ts of cultural appropriation 8 and 9 72 20 Why are languages worth preserving? 8 and 9 76 21 How technology is used to preserve endangered languages 8 and 9 79 22 How data threatens shared mass culture 6-9 82 23 The destruction of peoples and identities in war 6-9 87 24 Why do protesters destroy art? 1,3, 9, 10 90

Arts & Culture EUs & EQs Page 2 of 92 Enduring Understanding(s): What will students understand as a result of this unit? Definition & characteristics of the arts EU1: Fundamentally, art is an expression of human creativity, and one of its greatest values lies in the intangible socio-psychological benefits it provides to the individual – both artist and audience. EU2: Our artistic tendencies are expressed through various branches of creative activity – termed “the arts” – including visual (e.g. painting, sculpture, architecture), performing (e.g. theatre, dance, music) and literary arts (e.g. poetry, prose, drama). EU3: There are often parameters placed upon the arts by entities (e.g. the state, religious authorities) due to perceptions that they pose a threat to es tablishment values and ideologies. Conversely, they may be used by these same entities to entrench established values and ideologies. EU4: The creation of art and the perception of “meaning” in art works can be influenced by globalisation, modernisation, and even