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Under the Volcano: Living With/Against Earth’s Processes
By turning to geological terrains as protagonists—understanding them as earth-building fissures, and in various cultural and spiritual traditions, as guardians—we ask how living in proximity to these terrains is shaped with, by, and at times against…
Deep Listening: Acoustic Sensing in Natural Habitats
What can be learned through deep sensing of seismic vibrations and elemental disturbances to the interruptions and murmurs of toxic noise embedded in the ambient background, that stem from anthropogenic pressures such as rapid urbanisation,…
Situated Sensing: Relational Ecologies and Nature-Based Solutions Climate Transformation: Sustainable Societies Lecture Series
This lecture explores localised and relational approaches to understanding ecological systems, from quantitative assessments and climate modelling to speculative cartographies and situated local knowledge systems. It brings together artist-researcher…
Propositions for Planetary Attunement
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore presents Propositions for Planetary Attunement, a live event featuring Artists-in-Residence Ng Hui Hsien, The Observatory, and Zarina Muhammad. Spanning polyphonic storytelling, moving image, live music, and…
Shifting Grounds: Human-Environment Relations in Volcanic Terrain
How do geological forces, local cosmologies, and policy frameworks converge and collide to shape life around an active volcano? This performative lecture by Ng Hui Hsien, STAR Artist-in-Residence, NTU CCA Singapore, and Yoonhee Jung, Senior Research…
Ecological Witnessing: Geology as Archive, Microatolls as Record
This two-part programme activates the Geology Gallery as an interdisciplinary space where artistic and scientific research converge to illuminate Singapore’s ecological timescales. Science and story-telling, data and divination are engaged as…
STAR Residencies Open
Venture into the research-in-progress conducted by our current Artists-in-Residence Ng Hui Hsien, The Observatory, and Zarina Muhammad within the inaugural cycle of STAR RESIDENCIES (Science, Technology, Art & Research)—a programme that positions…
Solar Orders (performance)
In this performance, Kent Chan collaborates with sound artist Zai Tang to fuse storytelling, moving image, and music in an audiovisual act that spins global imaginaries and future scenarios around the Sun. The work revolves around ‘Solar Orders’,…
Casting Weather - Opening event
What happens when the human desire to predict weather builds into the power to will weather into the world? Tracing the departure from forecasting the weather to casting it into reality, Casting Weather centres the human relation to all things…
Political Friendship Amid Multiple Crises
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt warns that isolating individuals and groups renders them politically impotent, arguing that segregation is a fertile ground for totalitarianism. Authoritarianism sows distrust by pitting vulnerable…