Passages
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<p><strong>NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore</strong> presents the second-cycle exhibition of <strong>SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian Artists in the European Union (SEA AiR)</strong>, a programme developed by NTU CCA Singapore and funded by the European Union. Titled <strong><em>Passages</em></strong>, this exhibition features new works by artists <strong>Priyageetha Dia</strong> (Singapore), <strong>Ngoc Nau</strong> (Vietnam) and <strong>Saroot Supasuthivech</strong> (Thailand), inspired by their three-month-long residencies in Europe. </p>
<p>As part of the SEA AiR programme, Dia had undertaken her residency at <strong>Jan van Eyck Academie</strong> (Netherlands), Nau at <strong>Rupert</strong> (Lithuania) and Supasuthivech at<strong> Künstlerhaus Bethanien</strong><span> </span>(Germany) through the summer. Bringing back their experiences from diverse contexts in the EU to Singapore for this exhibition,<span> </span><em>Passages</em><span> </span>speaks of the artists’ journeys across geographical and cultural boundaries from one continent to another; the cultural exchanges that take place during this time; and the continuous development of ideas as they return to their home countries to create new works for the exhibition.<br /><br /><em><span>Employing new media technologies to aid their storytelling, each artist creates speculative narratives that traverse time and space, shifting between the past and present. While distinct in their artistic research and practices, their works evoke memories and explore meanings in liminal spaces, reverberating in their journey from one passage to the next.</span><br /><br /></em><strong>Priyageetha Dia’s</strong><span> </span>research interest lies in the plantations of Southeast Asia and their colonial histories, including those of migrant labour and structures of production and power. She explores gaps in historical records that are not only text-based, but also non-textual ones such as photographs, artefacts and oral interviews. Her four-channel sound installation<span> </span><strong><em>Sap Sonic</em></strong><span> </span>is a sonification of images from the photo album of the Sumatra Caoutchouc Company, a rubber planting company, from the archives of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Beyond their visual representations, the images bear witness to the power dynamics between the coloniser and its labourers as well as the hierarchy between nature and machine. Reframing this landscape from a visual to a sonic one,<span> </span><em>Sap Sonic<span> </span></em>serves as an aural gateway to the plantations as it delves into the lived yet unspoken lives of those who work on and inhabit the plantations, both human and nonhuman. Accompanying the work,<span> </span><em>Sap Script</em><span> </span>is a text installation in white latex paint, referencing rubber sap, on a black, obsidian-like background. Its typeface echoes the slender and linear structure of rubber trees, distorted to resemble the waveform of sound waves. Through the intangible, unseen nature of sound, Sap Sonic probes aspects of the visual world; expanding the agentive possibilities of the uncounted and the underheard.<br /><br /><span>Upon her arrival in Vilnius, Lithuania, for her residency, </span><strong>Ngoc Nau</strong><span> was drawn to Soviet-era architectural elements in the city, such as the Soviet brutalist architecture of the Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports. She also became intrigued with the iconic image of a Lenin statue being removed, with its legs severed, from the city centre square in 1991. This imagery became a point of departure for her exploration into multifaceted aspects of post-Soviet realities in her own country. Portraying contemporary life amidst the remnants of socialist architecture and monuments using 3D animation and visual effects, Nau’s video installation, </span><strong><em>Virtual Reverie: Echoes of a Forgotten Utopia</em></strong><span>, demonstrates the transformative power of technology in reshaping our perceptions of reality. Central to the work is a constructed representation of the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Palace of Culture and Labour in Hanoi, Vietnam, that serves as a stage for five hip-hop dancers embarking on a symbolic journey. As they interact with elements drawn from historical references in Vietnam and Lithuania, the dancers bridge the gap between historical artifacts and contemporary experiences. Echoing the ebb and flow of ideologies, their passage brings about new meanings when past memories evolve in the face of shifting landscapes.<br /><br /><strong>Saroot Supasuthivech’s</strong> multimedia installation,<strong><em> Spirit-forward in G Major</em></strong>, charts the transformative journey experienced by Thai expatriates in Germany, told through a metaphoric cycle of life, death and rebirth. The work’s narrative unfolds in four parts. “New Beginnings” uses therapeutic dialogues to depict the initial migrant experience. “A Surreal Interlude”, based on interviews conducted with Thai monks and nuns in Berlin, transports viewers into a realm of magic and mortality inspired by Grimm’s fairy tales. The third segment focuses on a Thai music score <em>Sai Samon</em>, the oldest documented. Finally, “A Glimpse Beyond” dives into a poetic meditation on death and the afterlife, told from the viewpoint of the deceased. This poignant culmination is an exploration into a liminal reality between the familiar and the surreal, encapsulating the interplay of tradition, adaptation and preservation within an evolving cultural landscape.</span></p>
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<p><em>Passages </em>will be held through Singapore Art Week 2024, with a public programme taking place on 20 January 2024. Details of the public programme can be found<span> </span>here. </p>
<p>SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian Artists in the European Union<em> </em>is made possible thanks to a generous grant of the European Union. </p>
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<p><strong><span>Dates</span><br />Opening reception: </strong><br />28 November 2023, 5–8pm<br />Refreshments will be served</p>
<p><strong>Public programme:</strong><br />20 January 2023, 4-5.30pm</p>
<p><strong>Opening Hours</strong>:<br />1 December 2023 – 14 January 2024: Friday – Sunday, 1–7pm<br />Closed on 24, 25, 31 December 2023 and 1 January 2024<br /><br />Singapore Art Week<br />19 – 28 January 2024: Monday – Sunday, 1–7pm<br />Late nights on 20 and 27 January 2024: Saturday, 1–9pm</p>
<p><strong><span>Location:</span></strong><br />NTU CCA Singapore Residencies Studios<br />Block 38 Malan Road<br />Gillman Barracks<br />Singapore 109441</p>
28 November 2023 - 28 January 2024
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Residencies OPEN x SAW 2024
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<p><strong>Residencies OPEN</strong><span> </span>reveals the rich diversity of contemporary art practices by offering a rare insight into the creative processes that unfold inside the artist’s studios. Discover how the space of the studio constitutes a springboard for artistic experimentation, innovation, and research.</p>
<p>This session of Residencies OPEN offers a unique opportunity for the public to meet our Artists-in-Residence<span> </span><strong>Anthony Chin</strong>,<span> </span><strong>Irfan Kasban</strong>, and<span> </span><strong>Shahmen Suku</strong><span> </span>(all Singapore)! Come visit the NTU CCA Singapore Residencies Studios to encounter their works-in-progress and explore the processes and research interests developed during their residencies.</p>
<p><em>The 10<sup>th</sup> Cycle of the Residencies Programme by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is supported by<span> </span>National Arts Council. This cycle hosts six Singapore Artists-in-Residence: Yanyun Chen, Anthony Chin, Irfan Kasban, Ben Loong, Shahmen Suku, and Zulkhairi Zulkiflee.<br /><br /></em><strong></strong><strong>Anthony Chin<br /></strong><br />Saturdays, 20 January & 27 January, 2:00 – 9:00pm<br />Sundays, 21 January & 28 January, 2:00 – 7:00pm<br />Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03<br /><br />Anthony Chin dedicated the past five months researching Singapore’s colonial past through sites such as Gillman Barracks and its surrounding locations. The artist is interested in the historic relationship between Singapore and Japan, and during his residency he looked into OKA 9420, a biological laboratory established by the Imperial Japanese Army soon after the Fall of Singapore in 1942. Anthony seeks to develop a deeper understanding of the history of bio-chemical warfare while unpacking current ethical concerns surrounding the rapid advancements in science and technology. Presented during Residencies Open is <em>OKA-9420, </em>a new work developed during the artists stay at Gillman Barracks. This work is accompanied by three existing works:<em> Air Doa Selamat </em>(2020), <em>TROPHY </em>(2020), and <em>Rinann Steel Mill – INGOT </em>(2021).<br /><br />The artist will be conducting tours throughout the two weekends. Each tour lasts approximately 35 minutes.<br />Saturdays, 20 & 27 January: 3pm, 5pm, 7pm<br />Sundays, 21 & 28 January: 3pm, 5pm</p>
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<p>Saturdays, 20 January & 27 January, 2:00 – 9:00pm<br />Sundays, 21 January & 28 January, 2:00 – 7:00pm<br />Block 37 Malan Road, #01-01<br /><br />Irfan Kasban has spent his residency expanding his long-term research project <em>Port of Reciprocity</em>, also the namesake for his studio these past five months which has been opened up as a site for visitors from all walks of life. Hosting a series of activities including cooking, screenings, and sharing sessions, this convivial get together is born out of the artists own experience of burn out. For Residencies Open, visitors will encounter objects created by the artist which can all be activated to make sound. Facilitated activations will be conducted by invited collaborators over the two weekends with hopes of creating a song that comforts the collective consciousness.</p>
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<p>Saturdays, 20 January & 27 January, 2:00 – 9:00pm<br />Sundays, 21 January & 28 January, 2:00 – 7:00pm<br />Block 37 Malan Road, #01-02<br /><br />Shahmen Suku explores his own Tamil culture through his family history, cultural ceremony, and food. Having previously addressed different aspects of the rich Tamil cultural traditions of his maternal lineage via the alter ego Radha, the artist has spent his residency letting go of this persona and directly confronting the conflicting and multipolar narratives of his family history which include economic struggles, heated arguments, health issues, and prolonged disagreements. Presented in his studio is documentation of a recent trip to India, alongside research conducted in Singapore that evidence the artist’s attempt to further uncover the story of his maternal grandfather. Documentation on display includes photographs, films, government documents, recipes, and the artist’s family tree that traces back three generations to his grandfather who first migrated to Singapore.</p>
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20 - 21 January 2024
27 - 28 January 2024
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Residencies Studio Session with Zulkhairi Zulkiflee: World
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<p><strong>ZULKHAIRI ZULKIFLEE<br /><em>WORLD</em></strong><br />Lecture performance</p>
<p>Saturday, 12 August, 2.00 – 2.30pm<br />Sunday, 13 August, 2.00 – 2.30pm<br />Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03</p>
<p>In this lecture performance, Zulkhairi Zulkiflee unpacks the nuances of Singaporean-Malay slang ‘world’. The colloquial use of ‘world,’ as employed in the Singaporean context, mainly refers to insubstantial claims that tend towards self-aggrandizement. By subjecting this colloquial parlance to creative examination, the artistic navigates the semantic scope of the term and traces out a multiplicity of obscured knowledge trajectories. Employing primary sources, social media, and insights from postcolonial theories, the lecture performance acts as a creative intellectual endeavour that glides through disciplinary boundaries, different structures of signification, the particular and the universal to connect local contexts with broader global frameworks.</p>
12 - 13 August 2023
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Priyageetha Dia
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<div class="type-subtitle highlight-yellow"><b>17 April - 14 July 2023<br />Artist-in-Residence at Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht)</b></div>
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<p><em>“To be given this opportunity to further my research and artistic practice at Jan van Eyck Academie is an incredible one. Being part of the SEA AiR residency in the EU will allow me to explore the potential for a deeper and broader comprehension beyond the Southeast Asian landscape and into the corners and crossings that ties its relation to the Netherlands. To be able to witness, engage in and respond to an interdisciplinary environment with the possibility to gather with other peers and cultural workers, access resources and facilities, and share knowledge is what I am really looking forward to.”<br /><br /></em>Priyageetha Dia is an arts practitioner who experiments with time-based media, 3D animation and game engine software. Her practice addresses the transnational migration of ethnic communities and the intersections of the colonial production with land, labour and capital in Southeast Asia through speculative methods and counter-narratives. She has been invited to participate in several exhibitions including the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2022); Attention Seeker, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Australia (2022); An Exercise of Meaning in a Glitch Season, National Gallery Singapore (2020); 2219: Futures Imagined, ArtScience Museum Singapore (2019). She was a recipient of the IMPART Art Award in 2019.</p>
<p>The migratory movements of her ancestral lineage from Southern India to Malaysia, and later to Singapore, sparked Priyageetha’s deep-seated engagement in South Asian diasporic histories, the labour relations that underlie plantation agriculture in Malaya and the vast terrain of colonial narratives. Interweaving these research threads in her multimedia practice, her works figure alternative histories that empower subaltern forms of existence. </p>
<p>During her residency at Jan Van Eyck Academie, the artist is interested in delving deeper into the emergence and expansion of agro-industrial plantation projects, the dispossession and displacement of lands and communities in Southeast Asia, and their relation to The Netherlands through archival research. Moreover, the residency will provide her with a supportive environment to articulate critical viewpoints and counter-narratives through her ongoing and self-led experiments with computer-generated imagery (CGI), animation technologies and game engine software while also allowing her to gain an understanding of issues related to contemporary transnational interactions within Southeast Asia and Europe.</p>
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17 April - 14 July 2023
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Irfan Kasban
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As part of his interest in trauma and the potential of ritual healing through performance, during the residency Irfan Kasban intends to work on a long-term research project tentatively titled Port of Reciprocity, with a special focus on “Acoustic Sculptures and Communal Activations for the Burn-out Artist”. As part of his interest in trauma and the potential of ritual healing through performance, during the residency Irfan Kasban intends to work on a long-term research project tentatively titled Port of Reciprocity, with a special focus on “Acoustic Sculptures and Communal Activations for the Burn-out Artist”. Reacting to the tightly-knit architecture of Singapore’s public housing estates where the boundaries of individual and communal life are strictly compartmentalised and sound spillages are regarded as nuisances, the artist aims to unpack the socially-accepted notions that define noise pollution in the country. Irfan will experiment with building acoustic sculptures inspired by organic shapes that will augment the human voice without electronic intervention and enhance conscious listening through communal activations. Oscillating between different sonic dimensions, the human voice will be cast as a mode of disruption and forging connections. Throughout the residency, the artist also intends to conduct interviews and group discussions with fellow artists and creatives as a way of better understanding the causes of burnout and formulating strategies against it.
4 September 2023 - 31 January 2024
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Yanyun Chen
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Pursuing her ongoing research into intergenerational conflicts and trauma, Yanyun Chen will spend her residency examining methods of discipline within the family context. Pursuing her ongoing research into intergenerational conflicts and trauma, Yanyun Chen will spend her residency examining methods of discipline within the family context. With a focus on Singaporean personal and communal childhood histories of discipline and punishment, the artist will explore how the indelible traces of disciplinary behaviour linger on in people’s bodies and minds and bleed into the everyday. Observing the irony and self-deprecating humour that come into play as a self-soothing practice in the retelling of such memories, she will also seek to unpack the heterogeneous ways in which pain and violence are remembered by conducting fieldwork, literary investigations, and interviews. The research weaves through histories of punishment and discipline in Singapore. Ultimately the artist intends to create large scale drawings that address these intergenerational wounds through the lens of medical, ethnographic, historical, and material studies.
1 May - 7 September 2023
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Zulkhairi Zulkiflee
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Building upon his ongoing research into the tropes and evolving definitions of Malayness, Zulkhairi Zulkiflee plans to unpack the implications of the word “world” as it is commonly employed in Singaporean-Malay, tracing the complex socio-political implications that linger in the mixture of desires and tensions oriented towards global belonging. In the Singaporean-Malay slang, “world” is used to signal boastful aspirations towards a social status higher than one’s own, often conveyed through self-aggrandising story-telling. Utilising this as an alternative framework to the postcolonial notion of “worlding”, whereby one’s conceptualisation of the world is devised through colonial attachments, the artist will spend his residency investigating the multitude of meanings behind the word’s usages as a way of unravelling sociolinguistic constructs and processes of identity formation. This research will ultimately result in lens-based explorations that engage with “world” through conceptual propositions and visual arrangements comprising archival photos and sociohistorical accounts.
3 April - 31 August 2023
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Flash Lecture: Consumer Acceptance of Alternative Proteins: Enduring and Emerging Issues by Bianca Wassmann, Doctoral Researcher, Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC)
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Friday, 17 February 2023 2.40pm <br />Venue: CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, Theatrette Level 2, Singapore 138602 <br /><br />Rising food prices, disease-inflicted livestock and a shortage of imported chicken meat are emerging issues of concern in Singapore. The world affects what we eat, and what we eat impacts the world. Are alternative proteins a possible answer? Would you consider them? Our daily food choices have a huge impact on the environment. Production of meat has a much larger impact compared to the production of vegetable-based proteins. To create a food production and supply system that is more sustainable and environmentally friendly, food consumption behaviour needs to change. A reduction of meat intake is necessary. The introduction of alternative protein sources—for instance, those reliant on insects, cultured meat, or microalgae—could be a potential solution to replace meat. This presentation highlights the aspect of consumer acceptance and potential barriers for the creation of novel food products based on alternative proteins.
2023-02-17
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Flash Lecture: How Singapore is Addressing Global Food and Environmental Challenges Through Alternative Proteins by Valerie Pang, Innovation Associate, The Good Food Institute (GFI) APAC
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Friday, 17 February 2023 2.00pm<br />Venue: CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, Theatrette Level 2, Singapore 138602<br /><br />Protein demand is surging around the world, including here in Asia. As a result, conventional meat production is projected to nearly double by 2050, leading to historic levels of natural resource depletion and climate disruption. Industrialised animal agriculture is already responsible for roughly 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions, and more than three quarters of all agricultural land is used to raise or feed livestock. In this talk, we outline how alternative proteins can satisfy this rising consumer demand in a more efficient and secure way and spotlight Singapore’s initiatives for developing a future-proof global food supply.
2023-02-17
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Flash Lecture: Reporting on Singapore's Innovation of Cultivated Meat by Dr Keri Matwick, Lecturer, School of Humanities, NTU & Dr Kelsi Matwick, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Florida
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Friday, 17 February 2023 5.50pm <br />Venue: CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, Theatrette Level 2, Singapore 138602 <br /><br />From chicken made in a test tube to protein grown “out of thin air,” new ways of growing meat are emerging, and Singapore is leading the way. How do we talk about foods that are unfamiliar to us? This presentation examines how cultivated meats are made newsworthy through language and what values are conveyed. Focusing on The Straits Times, we examine articles published between 2019 and 2022 and identify news values and themes of positivity, impact, proximity, eliteness and superlativeness, which construct a sociocultural understanding of novel foods as positive, innovative and profitable. We discuss how this may motivate social and personal mobilisation of food choices by placing trust in the government and science technology.
2023-02-17
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