THE spirit of boundary-bashing continues in this year's Singapore International Festival of the Arts (Sifa), the fourth and last edition to be headed by its visionary director, Ong Keng Sen. The past three editions have seen many works that are nothing short of provocative, and this year's works transcend expectations often by crossing genres and explicitly including the audience in the making of art.

Among the acts in the festival running from June 28 to Sept 9 is one by celebrated comic artist Sonny Liew, who will be drawing characters from his latest work live on stage. As he does so, some of his creations will come to life, talking or interacting with the audience. After his international bestseller The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, Liew's fan base will be eager to see his new work-in-progress animated on stage.

Also highly-anticipated is the live participation of audiences in the creation of two films by well-known South-east Asian filmmakers. The first is local director K Rajagopal whose 2016 film Yellow Bird debuted at the Cannes Film Festival to good reviews. He will be shooting a film based on a wedding scene from Balli Kaur Jaswal's novel Inheritance about Singapore's Punjabi community. The audience will play the wedding guests and be simultaneously filmed.