Ritual]]> History]]> Mythology]]> Zarina Muhammad]]> Film]]> Object]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]> Institutional Critique]]> Sightlines—a collaborative project initiated with researcher Michelle Wong to explore the relationship of art, aesthetics, society, and politics in Hong Kong in the aftermath of the 2014 Umbrella Movement—in the context of her home country. Furthermore, she will initiate a long-term project which extends her preoccupations with forced movements and migrations by addressing notions of “return” through a series of interviews. The studio space will be used to experiment with materials, techniques, and installations to articulate new ways to present her work.]]> Wei Leng Tay]]> Southeast Asia]]> Ways of Seeing]]> Trevor Yeung]]> Mixed Media]]> Southeast Asia]]> The Anthropocene]]> Tanatchai Bandasak]]> Installation]]> Photography]]> Southeast Asia]]> Geopolitics]]> PICTURING HAPPINESS? with three other artists and two scientists from the School of Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University. Using commercially-available devices that read brain waves, the project explored the parameters that define our sense of well-being, critiquing the market-driven framing of happiness as a motionless, thought-free state of mind. This was the beginning of a cross-disciplinary investigation that the artist is currently pursuing together with several psychiatrists in London. For the second part of the residency, Tan will also examine notions of gender. Working together with pioneer feminist artist Amanda Heng and two other women arts professionals, they will convene a public programme to discuss how gender affects collaborative artistic practices in Singapore and beyond.]]> Tan Kai Syng]]> Southeast Asia]]> Migration]]> Displacement]]> Diaspora]]> ]]> Sung Tieu]]> Installation]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]> Archival Practice]]> Botany]]> Rossella Biscotti]]> Film]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]> Labour]]> Koi Glai Ban (Persons Far from Home), a compilation of short biographies—edited by the late scholar Pattana Kitiarsa—penned by Thai migrant workers. He took particular interest in the stories of oppression and resistance recounted by Ploy, a woman who was employed as a sex worker in a makeshift “jungle brothel” located in the scant forestry of the island city-state. Inspired by Ploy’s diary entry, the artist’s investigation aims to excavate underground stories of transnational labour and frame them within processes of land appropriation for cultural, economic, and leisure pursuits. During the residency, Jiwarangsan will expand his research on migrant workers’ relationship to woodlands with the goal of developing a medium-length documentary film and a new series of works.]]> Prapat Jiwarangsan]]> Installation]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Politics]]> Munem Wasif]]> Photography]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Curatorial Practice]]> Re-framing “Measuring the World” that reconsiders the hype of social engineering and the wide adoption of algorithm through conceptual and post-conceptual practices. Contemplating the equation of art and life as well as “statactivism” (i.e. the mobilization of statistics), Yoshida will draw lines of connections between imagination, affect, and current transformations in technologies of quantification.]]> Miya Yoshida]]> Curating]]> Asia]]>