Online Talk: What Is Art Good For? by <span>Chương-Đài Võ</span>, Researcher, Asia Art Archive
Lee Wen and many artists of his generation were known for using art to question conventions. To get a better understanding of his practice as well as what performance art meant to him and his peers, we will look at material from the Lee Wen Archive — the artist’s notebooks and sketchbooks, documentation of his projects, and his activities as an arts organiser. <br /><br />This programme is jointly organised by <u>Asia Art Archive (AAA) and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore). The Lee Wen Archive</u> was digitised through a collaborative project initiated in 2017 by NTU CCA Singapore and AAA, with National Gallery Singapore as an additional partner, to give access to culturally significant materials recording the arts of Singapore and beyond.
2020-11-03
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In Conversation: Trinh T. Minh-ha, artist, and Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore, and Professor, NTU ADM
Following an excerpt of What about China? (Part I of II, 2020–21), her newest film, Trinh will read from her film script. This point of departure will bring Trinh’s multivocal practice in conversation with the curatorial and spatial concept of this exhibition.
2020-10-17
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In The Single Screen: Yeo Siew Hua, An Invocation to the Earth (2020)
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<p>Co-produced by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) for st_age</p>
<p>Single channel HD Video, colour, sound, 16 min, 16:9</p>
<br />Deep in the tropical rainforest of Southeast Asia, a series of incantations invoke the spirits of yore, including those of the nimble, tricksy Kancil (mouse-deer) and the ferocious Buaya (crocodile). The ancient animals enact their folkloric vendetta in a furious dance of dominance, yet long-overdue vengeance is shrouded in smoke. Meanwhile, an effigy of a tree is burning, summoning a whole other host of spectres and ancestors. Conceived during the month of the Hungry Ghost Festival in 2019, while large-scale fires were consuming the forests of Indonesia, Yeo Siew Hua’s An Invocation to the Earth confronts climate collapse through the lens of pre-colonial folktales and animistic rituals. Through spoken spells and bodily entanglements, the video conjures up the fallen environmental defenders of a region ridden with ecological threats in the hope that their spirits will be reborn once again.
29 September - 29 October 2020
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Residencies Recorded #2: Seeding Spaces
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<span>In this series, the Centre looks back at the Residencies Programme’s archives of talks, conversations, and performances to periodically highlight select events that take on particular resonance with the present times.</span><br /><br />From extant buildings to the lack of arts infrastructure, reflections on the social roles of the built environment cut across these talks where artists address cultural spaces not just as containers but also as agents in the production of contemporary art and in the development of collective consciousness. Addressing different scenarios, the artists expound on the spatial contours of cultural life and their multiple oscillations between creation and recreation asking: How does the built environment shape ways of working, sharing, and being together? How can we reimagine the premises on which these spaces come to exist?<br /><strong><em><br />Creatif Compleks</em></strong><strong> – Artist talk by Michael Lee (Singapore), Artist-in-Residence</strong><br /><p>17 March 2018</p>
<p>Unravelling a series of intersecting reflections on the function of the artist’s studio within the arts ecology of a city, Michael Lee presents <em>Creatif Compleks</em>, a project developed during the residency for The Vitrine, the Centre’s smallest <em>Space of the Curatorial. </em>Through a diagrammatic reconfiguration of a hypothetical studio, the work takes a speculative leap into the utopian and the absurd, rendering visible the physical, psychological, and social factors layered in the most private and intimate environment of creative making.</p>
<p><strong><em>On Museums Made by Artists</em></strong><strong>, Artist talk by Tun Win Aung (Myanmar)</strong><br />30 July 2019</p>
<p>In this talk, artist Tun Win Aung highlights the challenges related to envisioning a contemporary art institution in the context of Myanmar. As he speaks about the creation of transient museums through collaborative processes and continuous conversations with local artists, Tun Win Aung recalls on his friendship and multiple artistic partnerships with the late Phyoe Kyi, a former Artist-in-Residence, focusing on the conception and development of <em>The Museum Project.</em></p>
<p><strong>Residencies Insights: <em>Models of Organisation. Images as Comrades,</em> Film screening and discussion with Irina Botea Bucan and Jon Dean (Romania and United Kingdom), Artists-in-Residence</strong><br />10 December 2019</p>
<p>Previous Artists-in-Residence, Irina Botea Bucan and Jon Dean, present past films and discuss their collaborative practice. Examining the formation of cultural spaces, the duo draws attention to the cumulative energies and community engagement that lie at the core of their long-term comparative research on the history, usage, and imagination of community centres as spaces for collective authorship of culture.</p>
24 July - 27 September 2020
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Online Screening: Joris Ivens, Indonesia Calling, 1946
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This film shows the role trade union seaman and waterside workers in Sydney played in Indonesia’s independence struggle after World War II. Comprising different nationalities and races, they united together to prevent the departure of Indonesia-bound Dutch ships that carried weapons meant to bring the Indonesian National Revolution to a halt. The film seeks to distil aspects of the historical context of the events depicted in the film and gives insight to the major re-alignments in the relationship between Australia and Indonesia.<br /><br />Introduction by Vladimir Seput.
10 - 15 July 2020
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Residencies Recorded #1: Ideas that are lying around
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<span>In this series, the Centre looks back at the Residencies Programme’s archives of talks, conversations, and performances to periodically highlight select events that take on particular resonance with the present times.<br /><br />In </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-capitalism/"><em>Corona Virus Capitalism – And How to Beat it</em></a><span>, Canadian scholar and activist Naomi Klein invokes Milton Friedman’s insight into the connection between crises and change to expand our sense of the possible. In the economist’s words: “Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.” If crises can be magnets for radical change, which ideas should be rehashed as we build our future? </span><em>Ideas that are lying around </em><span><span>reminds us that proposals to operate differently are already there. In these three talks, previous Curators-in-Residence Maria Hlavajova, Anthony Huberman, and Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez distinctly question conventional parameters of exhibition-making and advance propositions for news modes of existence for art institutions. <br /><br /></span></span>
<p><strong>The Making of an Institution – <em>Reason to Exist: The Director’s Review. Instituting Otherwise,</em> talk by Maria Hlavajova (Slovakia/Netherlands), Curator-in-Residence</strong><br />22 March 2017</p>
<p>Drawing upon the practice of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht (Netherlands), Curator-in-Residence Maria Hlavajova discusses the notion of “instituting otherwise”. Dedicated to thinking <em>about</em>, <em>with</em>, and <em>through</em> art at the intersection of research and social action, she addresses the long-term strategies of BAK aimed to collectively confront the urgencies that define our contemporary. </p>
<p><strong>Residencies Insights: <em>Against Efficiency</em>, lecture by Anthony Huberman (Switzerland/United States), Curator-in-Residence</strong><br />31 Jan 2018 </p>
<p>In this talk, Curator-in-Residence Anthony Huberman reflects upon the criteria of efficiency and fast-paced consumption that inform most of contemporary art production and proposes institutional approaches that favour small scale, slowing-down and, perhaps, even inefficiency, in order to complicate an understanding of the world where only efficiency and productivity are rewarded.</p>
<p><strong>Residencies Insights:<em> On the Necessity of Transforming One’s Practice,</em> curator talk by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (Slovenia/France), Curator-in-Residence</strong><br />27 Feb 2019 </p>
<p>In the context of her latest project, <em>Contour Biennale 9: Coltan as Cotton </em>(2019),<em> </em>Curator-in-Residence Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez discusses the necessity to slow down one’s way of working and being, to imagine new ecologies of care as a continuous practice of support, and to open up institutional borders to render them more palpable, audible, sentient, soft, porous and, most of all, decolonial and anti-patriarchal. </p>
26 June - 27 September 2020
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On AiR with Alecia Neo
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NTU CCA Singapore Artist-in-Residence Alecia Neo describes her engagement with communities during her residency and to understand how communities draw boundaries and connect with outsiders, exploring issues of identity, relationality, and the search for self.
2020-04-21
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On AiR with Trevor Yeung
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On this episode of "On AiR", we feature Trevor Yeung (Hong Kong), an artist and grower whose practice revolves around plants and local planting systems. We spoke to him at the end of his three month-long residency at NTU CCA Singapore where he reflected on the research he carried out during trips to the Botanic Gardens and local plant nurseries.
2020-04-09
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On AiR with Rossella Biscotti
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This week, "On AiR" features Artist-in-Residence Rossella Biscotti (Italy/Belgium/Netherlands) who walks us through her textile pieces “Dismembered Rafflesia” and “Seeds” during an intimate look inside her studio. During her residency at NTU CCA Singapore, she conducted research trips to oil palm and rubber plantations in Malaysia as an extension of her recent explorations into indigenous seeds and plant species in the region.
2020-04-06
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On AiR with Fyerool Darma
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Concerned with locating the intersections between history, mythology, and the literary, artist-in-residence Fyerool Darma talks about the material experimentations play on objects, symbols, texts, and images to retrace contested histories of Southeast Asia and tacke themes of migration, cultural identity and postcolonialism.
2020-03-27
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