Workshop: !Women’s Questions? a facilitated discussion by ground-up initiative Crit Talk
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<i>!Women’s Questions?</i> (1965) was a list of handwritten questions that artist and educator Jef Geysmade for, and with, the students he taught. For Geys, his artistic life was often integrated with his work—instead of teaching the history of classical art, Geys preferred to engage his students in discussions about the position of women in society. Taking inspiration from <i>!Women’s Questions?</i>, this collaboration with Crit Talk is a facilitated discussion around issues related to women in contemporary Singapore. It hopes to provide a safe and critical space for participants to share their perspectives, personal encounters or observations on feminism and gender identity, and to debate and create new “Women’s Questions” that take on relevance today.<br /><br />A public programme of Jef Geys <em>Quadra Medicinale Singapore</em>.
2019-02-16
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Who Speaks the Smart Nation? A Conversation with Aaron Maniam and Stephanie Chok, moderated by Artist-in-Residence Ho Rui An
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<div class="event_single_dates text__residencies">13 Jan 2017, Fri 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<br />Spearheaded by the Singapore government, the “Smart Nation” initiative aims at creating a data-driven network that will enhance citizens’ lives and foster stronger communities by promoting participatory democracy and civic engagement. How does this project reflect the unstable and heterogeneous demographics of a global city? How will this attempt at participatory democracy account for the transient but sizable population of low-wage workers whose data are often missing or withheld? <br /><br />Aaron Maniam and Stephanie Chok will address these questions from their respective points of view in a conversation organized and moderated by Artist-in-Residence Ho Rui An.
2017-01-13
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Weixin Chong
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During her residency, Weixin Chong will explore perspectives and portrayals of Tropicality in a Singaporean context, from projections of exoticism and escape to the post- colonial self-conscious gaze of the tropical being and how the natural growth of tropical wildlife represents ‘undevelopment’.
3 August – 30 November 2015
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Wei Leng Tay
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The practice of Wei Leng Tay probes the psychic, systemic, and geopolitical consequences of displacement through personal encounters and intimate conversations captured in photography, videos, and sound recordings. Having lived in Hong Kong for the past 15 years before moving back to Singapore in 2016, Tay plans to devote the time of the residency to re-rooting her artistic practice and transposing <i>Sightlines</i>—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.
3 April – 27 September 2019
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Wang Ruobing
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<p style="font-weight:400;"><span>During this residency, Wang Ruobing will expand her ongoing research into sustainability and livability issues brought about by threats to marine ecology, with artistic practice/expression as an avenue to reconfigure our relations to the earth and its inhabitants.</span></p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">With rising water temperatures and expansion in size of the Tropical Warm Pool (the largest area of ocean on Earth), within which Singapore is situated, the marine coastline ecosystem has become a crucial field of research. Rapid demographic growth and concentrated economic activity, such as sea shipments, within the region has intensified the relationship between humans and marine life. <span>Spurred by the region’s rapidly changing environmental, social, and political conditions, the artist intends to deepen her understanding of the effects of marine pollution on the coastline ecosystem through potential collaboration with scientific research centres. Drawing inspiration from Donna J. Haraway’s theories on the Cthulhuscene and ‘sympoiesis’, or “making-with”, she hopes to develop a body of new research and artworks that investigates and speculates ways of living with the damages caused by humankind, as a </span><span>way of making sense of the present and discovering the means of building a more sustainable future.</span></p>
2 September 2022 - 31 January 2023
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Tomás Saraceno: <i>Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions</i>
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NTU CCA Singapore is pleased to present the pioneering and visionary work of artist Tomás Saraceno for the first time in Southeast Asia. Situated at the intersection between art, architecture and science, Saraceno’s artistic practice is an articulation of a utopian vision for new forms of sustainable living and cohabitation. <br /><br /><i>Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions</i> at NTU CCA Singapore is a new production by Tomás Saraceno commissioned by the centre that brings his long-term research on spider webs into the realm of sound. The artist uses spider webs as musical instruments embodying the incredible structural properties of the spider’s silk, but also the spider’s sophisticated mode of communication through vibrations. <br /><br /><i>Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions</i> is a pioneering investigation by Saraceno and his studio in Berlin that involves a range of collaborators from various universities and disciplines. The exhibition space is turned into an interactive sound and visual installation, a process-driven laboratory for experimentation that pushes the boundaries of interspecies communication. <br /><br />As an extension of the exhibition, a dedicated website (www.arachnidorchestra.org) will operate as a research platform and playful hypertext of musical tuning.
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The Public Studio: Exploring Autogenous Culture through Participatory Art Practices workshop with Dr Felicia Low (Singapore), artist and Director, Community Cultural Development
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<div class="event_single_dates text__research">6 Jun 2018, Wed 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<br />This workshop by Dr Felicia Low presents the concept of autogenous cultural practices, which are defined by life practices that neither rely on nor protest the influence of the state on the site of the body and everyday life. Low also proposes for autogenous cultural practices which establish their own forms of life and measures of value that are in no way dictated by predetermined institutional forms of social life and engagement. To illustrate this proposal, Low will draw upon references from her publication Autogenous Culture As Political Form (2016) as well as an auto-ethnographical account of three participatory art projects — first, a project with the incarcerated in a governmental disciplinary centre; second, Project X, a non-governmental organisation that supports sex workers; and lastly, an independent art project with three young women. <br /><br />The second part of the workshop will culminate in a conversation between the artist, the Centre’s Young Professional Trainees (YPT) who are the curators of this project, as well as the public. The conversation will trace the connections between Low’s practice and other educational projects through a selection of materials from the NTU CCA Singapore’s Public Resource Platform.<br /><br /><p>*This workshop is a public programme of the current research project <span><em>Public Resource Platform: We Are</em><em> O</em><em>pen</em><em>!</em></span><em> </em>in The Lab.</p>
2018-06-06
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The Making of an Institution — Communication and Mediation, Part I — VISUAL IDENTITY: Workshop by graphic designer and web developer Christoph Knoth (Germany)
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<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">10 Mar 2017, Fri 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">The Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<br />Cultural institutions adapt with different speeds to the digital age and to their growing virtual audiences, transforming their print-based identities into multichannel versions. <br /><br />Christoph Knoth will examine various approaches to digital design for art institutions. The participants in the workshop are encouraged to consider different strategies at play and reflect on several questions: How flexible does a design for an art institution need to be? How can an institution achieve a unique identity in a world of visual templates? And where are we heading next? <br /><br />This workshop is free, but has limited attendance capacity. <br /><br />This workshop is part of the public programme of <i>The Making of an Institution.</i>
2017-03-10
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The history of the "contemporary" in Singapore Art Today, a talk by Visiting Research Fellow Charles Merewether
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<span>Mon 23 Mar 2015 7.30PM - 9.00PM</span><br /><br />"When does contemporary art in Singapore begin? What are the defining characteristics that distinguish contemporary art from that of Modern Art? What correspondence is there between the formation of contemporary art and other aspects of Singapore's development as a culture and nation?" This talk will discuss such questions and others in the process of outlining the historical formation of contemporary art today.
2015-03-23
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The Harvesting: An Urban Farming Initiative, part of CITIES FOR PEOPLE NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2016/17
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<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">13 Jan 2017, Fri - 22 Jan 2017, Sun</div>
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<br />The Harvesting serves as an overarching platform for knowledge exchange on food, facilitating a debate concentrated on the Singapore domestic sphere. Over two Sundays during <i>CITIES FOR PEOPLE</i>, the project will catalyse discussions examining the larger socio-political conditions surrounding personal control of the food system, as well as looking at how locally grown food and small-scale and urban agriculture can be an agent for self-expression and assertion. <br /><br />Part of the project initiates a small urban farm outside of NTU CCA Singapore’s Research Centre and Office in Gillman Barracks, where it serves as the hosting ground for a series of workshops and events. The workshops, conducted by local urban farming groups, will impart practical knowledge and skills useful for anyone interested in setting up an alternative, personal food source within a compact urban space, and outside of mainstream provisions. Parallel to the workshops are screenings of international films related to urban agriculture. These films present a more varied and metropolitan perspective on the relationship between food and personal politics, and the struggle towards complete food sovereignty that is currently ongoing in many parts of the world. <br /><br />At its culmination, <i>The Harvesting</i> will host an outdoor farmers’ market featuring organic produce from independent urban agriculture practitioners and farmers in Singapore. This market will serve as a celebration of independent food sources, grown in respectful and sustainable manner, highlighting the autonomy of its makers as a powerful tool for the reiteration and marking of small sovereign units within the larger networked, multipolar urban context. <br /><br /><strong><i>The Harvesting</i> programme schedule</strong> <br /><br />Registration for all workshops is required.<br /><br />Sunday, 15 January 2017 <br />Outside Block 6 Lock Road <br /><br />2.30 – 3.30pm Workshop: <i>Farming: Basics of Organic Growing</i> by Edible Garden City Learn how to grow your own food organically as well as other knowledge about planting such as soil fertility, watering, and pest management. Participants will also be propagating plant cutting that they can bring home and nurture a pot of their own creation. <br /><br />4.30 – 6.00pm Workshop: <i>Composting Made Easy</i> by Michelle Lai, TANAH Learn the basics to making good, rich compost for your garden, using resources from around the neighborhood. <br /><br />7.00 – 8.30pm Screening: <i>Growing Cities: A film about urban farming in America</i>, Dan Susman, United States, 2013, 97 min A documentary film that examines the role of urban farming in America and asks how much power it has to revitalize our cities and change the way we eat. <br /><br />Sunday, 22 January 2017 <br /><br />9.30 – 10.30am Workshop:<i>Urban Foraging</i> by Michelle Lai, TANAH Various locations at Gillman Barracks. Meeting point at Block 6 Lock Road. Go on a trail around Gillman Barracks, identifying local plants, as well as explore their culinary and other functional uses. <br /><br />11.00am – 5.00pm Sunday Market at Gillman Barracks Along Malan Road A Sunday market of all sorts of barang-barang (wares). Expect street eats, creative arts, fresh produce, and nothing but good vibes! <br /><br />2.00 – 5.00pm Workshop: <i>Pixel Walk by Foodscape Collective</i> and Victoria Marshall Various locations at Gillman Barracks. Meeting point at Block 6 Lock Road. The pixel is the basic unit of data that makes up a satellite image. Our physical pixel allows us to be in much closer proximity than what satellites can provide and gives us a different imaginary of what mapping could be. It offers a more intimate encounter with the pixel as a tool, giving physical form to the invisible data. It makes satellite imagery more approachable and allows it to be sensed emotionally. In this workshop, participants will make a pixel by hand and take it for a “walk”. In Pixel Walk, participants will be taken around Gillman Barracks. Each will be given a white string to make their personal pixel which they will then take for a walk and document in pictures. A particular area of interest will be mapped for participants’ interaction along the way. Photographs participants take will be pinned to a map of Gillman Barracks revealing a positionality as seen from the lens of a different kind of pixel.
13 - 22 January 2017
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