Diaspora]]> History]]> Sonic Spiritualties. Interweaving the artist’s interest in popular culture and diaspora studies, the trilogy explores the impact of economic and environmental turbulences on music and various forms of spirituality in Southeast Asia. By framing situations where Buddhism meets pop music and violent displacement is translated into songs, the trilogy envisages sonic environments that challenge the borders of traditional and experimental music, the sacred and the mundane, the sublime and the banal. Halfway between documentary and music video, this hybrid production re-envisages the relationship between music and spiritual practices by working across dance, art history, ethnomusicology, and anthropology. Lê’s residency is dedicated to pursuing follow-up research and post-production editing for the final stages of this project.]]> ]]> Việt Lê]]> Viet Le]]> Curating]]> Labour]]> Urbanism]]> Technology]]> Materiality]]> Identity]]> ]]> Tyler Coburn]]> Installation]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]> Architecture]]> Performance]]> Close Readings, a collaborative project of visually informed investigative research. Close Readings’ recent works explore selective multimedia deconstruction. Their process involves, first, making photographs—then turning those images into xeroxes (or) otherwise altering them. In Singapore and New York, they will be simultaneously and asynchronously researching in various media. Through a collaborative process of visual and text-based interaction, Annie and Tamara will create book-like objects that will serve as blueprints for further work.]]> Tamara Weber]]> Film]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]> History]]> Ecology]]> Hydraulic Islands, comprising a multi-part anthology and a new-media atlas, that revolves around the pivotal role Hawa'i plays in the history and future of human settlements across Oceania and beyond. During the residency, the artist will work on the graphic atlas which results from a combination of geographic information system (GIS) technologies, counter-mapping techniques, and extensive fieldwork across Hawai'i. By delving deep into aboriginal ecologies, planetary systems, and network economies, he aims to recover indigenous knowledge and practices that can advance more sustainable oceanic systems of urbanism, energy, economy, and time as they relate to cities and natural resources.]]> Sean Connelly]]> Southeast Asia]]> North America]]> Politics]]> Sam Durant]]> Curating]]> Southeast Asia]]> Architecture]]> Education]]> Sally Tallant]]> Film]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]> Knowledge Production]]> Mechtild Widrich]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]> Transnationalism]]> Mary Sherman]]> Painting]]> Sound]]> Artistic Research]]> Hendrik Folkerts]]> Film]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]> Environmental Crisis]]> Ecosystems]]> Be Dammed (2012-ongoing) investigates the environmental and social effects caused by human intervention on water flows. During her residency, the artist will expand her research in a two-pronged direction by inquiring on the current state of traditional fishing practices and communities in Singapore and on the country’s integrated water supply strategy known as Four National Taps (FNT). On one hand, she will research the impact of coastal and economic developments on traditional fishermen’s lifestyle in the past two decades, taking into consideration related processes of resistance and/or adaptation to change and dispossession. On the other hand, she will probe the history of rivers and reservoirs and the FNT water management plan implemented by the Public Utilities Board in order to question the internationally acclaimed “holistic approach” of this strategy. 

This residency was cancelled due to personal circumstances.]]>
Carolina Caycedo]]> Southeast Asia]]>