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]]> History]]> Migration]]> The period between 1948 and 1960 witnessed the forced exodus of over 35,000 Malayan leftists to Southern China, including the artist’s own grandfather. Expanding on her long-term research project which excavates overlooked and contested histories of the Malayan anti-colonial war and her own family histories, Sim Chi Yin intends to trace the trajectories of the Malayan deportees, excavating both their individual experiences and the institutional circumstances which lead to their disappearance from collective memory. With the ports of Singapore being both sites of transit and origins of deportation, during the residency Sim will further her investigation through archival research and oral history interviews working towards the development of a new work. Often evoking a sense of spatial haunting, her aesthetic approach consistently slips away from the documentary into the realm of the affective, the imaginary, and the spectral.]]> ]]> Sim Chi Yin]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> Urbanism]]> Townhall or Marketplace, Can Art find a Public Space on the Internet? Can it Create One? which is part of Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice’s public programme. She will look at a number of specific artworks, which conflate the urban and digital space as well as the hidden aspects of the internet’s infrastructure. In light of internet changes since 1995, Gat will examine possibilities art opens up to make the internet a genuine public space of the commons.]]> Orit Gat]]> Writing/Text]]> Southeast Asia]]> Body]]>
Marianna Simnett made a new film Tito’s Dog (2020) as part of the Residencies Online Screening Programme Stakes of Conscious(ness), conceived by Dr Anna Lovecchio for the three artists whose residency at NTU CCA Singapore has been disrupted by the viral pandemic.]]>
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History]]> Politics]]> Luke Willis Thompson]]> Object]]> Southeast Asia]]> Curatorial Practice]]> Fiction]]> (de)Tour of Joan Jonas: They Come to Us Without a Word. Joan Jonas’s work is inhabited by a multitude of human and non-human creatures, which traverse her drawings, videos, and performances in a plurality of gestures and configurations. Assembled in idiosyncratic, non-narrative manners, these animal selves propose new temporal conventions and ways of being in the world. Ramos’ (de)Tour will be a journey across the creatures Jonas summons and collaborates with through her work. Ramos will also connect with artists and writers and explore the Singapore art scene as well as the larger region of Southeast Asia.]]> Filipa Ramos]]> Curating]]> Film]]> Spaces of the Curatorial]]> The Making of an Institution, Emily Pethick will present a talk on The Showroom, London, United Kingdom looking at its mission statement and how this was developed in tandem with the organisation’s development. This talk is part of Reason to Exist: The Director’s Review that brings together directors and founders of organisations that adopt critical and innovative strategies to advance the development of contemporary art practices and discourses. Pethick will also engage and connect with local artists and institutions.]]> Emily Pethick]]> Curating]]> Curatorial Practice]]> Curatorial Consciousness. Participation between practice and process in the context of Mapletree-NTU CCA Singapore Art Education Programme Series.]]> Michael Birchall]]> Curating]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]> Urbanism]]> Environmental Crisis]]> As They Grow Older and Wiser (2016). Ang was fascinated by the legal loopholes that allowed for a massive transplanting of rare and exotic trees from the region of Chiang Mai to the fast-changing city of Bangkok for decorative purposes. Framed against Singapore’s nation-building narratives, the artist is interested in the manipulation of nature through state-driven initiatives and policies of environmental control, greening, and city-branding. Such endeavours include the Tree Planting campaign of 1963 and the government’s subsequent initiatives directed to fabricate a new understanding of nature and obliterate the country’s past of clearing forests to make way for plantation economy.]]> Ang Song Nian]]> Photography]]> Installation]]> Southeast Asia]]>