GAURAV KRIPALANI

Festival director of the Singapore International Festival of Arts

“Hybrid. Digitisation. Phygital. These are words we are going to hear over and over, like it or not. The arts have to innovate in order to survive. Different forms of delivery are going to be here to stay. One upside to that is that audiences reached can now be global, not just local. On a macro level, we have to make a case for the economic importance of the arts. Can you imagine having survived lockdown without books, music or Netflix and the like? All those shows were created by artists. Going forward, I believe artists around the world are galvanised to make the case that investing in the arts is as important as investing in education, manufacturing or defence.”