No country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia]]> Regionalism]]> Geopolitics]]> Migration]]> Diaspora]]> Cultural Heritage]]> No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia is part of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative which was launched in April 2012, a multi-year collaboration that charts contemporary art practice in three geographic regions—South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa—and encompasses curatorial residencies, international touring exhibitions, audience-driven education programming, and acquisitions for the Guggenheim’s permanent collection.

Curated by June Yap, No Country at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore brought the artworks back to the Southeast Asia region from which many of the artists hail and called for an even closer examination of regional cultural representations and relations. This return suggests the possibility of a renewed understanding through a process of mutual rediscovery that transcends physical and political borders. The exhibition in Singapore also marked the debut of two works from the Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund not previously shown as part of No Country: Loss by Sheela Gowda and Morning Glory by Sopheap Pich.]]>
June Yap]]> Sheela Gowda]]> Sopheap Pich]]> Amar Kanwar]]> Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo]]> Bani Abidi]]> Navin Rawanchaikul]]> Norberto Roldan]]> Poklong Anading]]> Reza Afisina]]> Shilpa Gupta]]> Tang Da Wu]]> Tayeba Begum Lipi]]> The Otolith Group]]> Tran Luong]]> Tuan Andrew Nguyen]]> Vincent Leong]]> Sculpture]]> Painting]]> Mixed Media]]> Installation]]> Photography]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Exhibit 101: Li Ran and Gary Ross Pastrana]]> Artistic Research]]> Regionalism]]> Geopolitics]]> Li Ran and Gary Ross Pastrana will develop projects for The Lab, NTU CCA Singapore’s space for experimentation, which are speculations on how an image is created and deconstructed.

Gary Ross Pastrana’s An ASEAN Exhibition 1 creates an artistic gesture around the idea of Southeast Asia as a reference with no visual referent. The artist engaged DSM Solutions, a young Singaporean creative collective, to stage a “Contemporary Southeast Asia Art Exhibition-Themed Event” and prototype props that could stand in for Southeast Asian artworks. In this manner, the artist has effectively outsourced the sometimes-problematic task of representing Southeast Asia, an implied obligation of artists invited to regionally themed group exhibitions within the region.

Li Ran presents a new project Waiting for the Fog to Drift Away, a collaboration with Singapore Management University (SMU), Assistant Professor Rowan Wang, a specialist in overall planning science. Li Ran will conduct interviews to gain planning advice from Wang in an attempt to define the most successful trajectory for the life of an artist as a business enterprise, estimating production levels and peaks and troughs in key life moments.]]>
Li Ran]]> Gary Ross Pastrana]]> Print]]> Installation]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Ecosystems]]> Globalisation]]> Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho]]> Installation]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]> Ways of Seeing]]> Instructions on Viewing the Landscape is an long-term exercise in seeing the bigger picture, literally and figuratively, which subtly challenges notions of national identity and colonialism. Articulated through a complex set of rules, this conceptual work is an investigative device aimed to unpack the history of late 19th century Filipino art – a period of significant political changes propelled by the revolutions against the Spanish rule. In re-examining and reviewing the landscapes of celebrated painters Juan Luna (1857 – 1899) and Félix Resurrección Hidalgo (1855 – 1913), the artist locates their vanishing points and brings to the fore unexpected tensions between the viewer and the artwork. Over the course of his residency, Calubayan will extend the scope of the project in order to pinpoint the metaphorical vanishing points in Singapore’s landscape, locating their historical, economic, and religious coordinates.]]> Buen Calubayan]]> Writing/Text]]> Southeast Asia]]> Artistic Research]]> Gary Ross Pastrana]]> Object]]> Painting]]> Southeast Asia]]> Artistic Research]]> John Torres]]> Film]]> Southeast Asia]]> Oceans & Seas]]> Charles Lim Yi Yong: SEA STATE and with the artist, understanding his practice and process. Cruz will also connect with local artists and institutions and explore the Singapore art scene in connection to the larger region of Southeast Asia and The Philippines.]]> Joselina Cruz]]> Curating]]> Southeast Asia]]> Oceans & Seas]]> Martha Atienza]]> Installation]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Performance]]> Yason Banal]]> Installation]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]>