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Cultures, Climate Crisis and Disappearing Ecologies
1–3 December 2022
Jakarta, Indonesia
Join virtually at
bit.ly/KONNECTASEAN_CF
Conceived by Professor Ute Meta Bauer, founding director and Magdalena Magiera, curator and
research associate , NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. In partnership with KONNECT
ASEAN and in-kind support of Goethe-Institut Singapore and Jakarta.
�Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett, The Call of Fragility - Through
the lens of Eurasian Plate fragility in Java Island (Indonesia)
and Turkey, 2022, video still. Courtesy the artists.
�Notes from the Curators
Climate Futures #1: Cultures, Climate Crisis,
and Disappearing Ecologies takes the
format of a three-day on-site conference
that will be distributed globally via live
stream. It has been conceived to allow a
better understanding of the accelerated
decline in cultural and ecological diversity
across Southeast Asia, one of the regions
most impacted by climate change.
This transregional and transdisciplinary
gathering proposes to look at how the
endangerment of traditional cultures
and forms of knowledge in the face of
environmental challenges affects the
region’s ecosystems. It is the aim of this
conference to foreground and expound
upon the fundamental interconnectedness
of these often separately negotiated fields.
By involving participants from the spheres
of art, design, and the media, alongside
members of impacted communities,
we hope to contribute to finding and
implementing tangible solutions based on
citizen climate action. This get-together of
stakeholders, scientists, academics, artists,
activists and self-organized initiatives
will study and document the precarious
conditions of this climate-vulnerable
region primarily by means of audio-visual
cultural practices. It will also analyse the
many ways in which climate change is
linked to histories of extractivism and the
cultivation of mono-cultures.
The conference intends to map how the
climate crisis informs contemporary
perceptions of the world, while exploring
how diverse cultures can take ownership
of the process of adaptation to new
environmental realities without losing a
sense of purpose. Discussions will touch
upon rising sea-levels and temperatures,
and the loss of flora and fauna as well as
of traditional forms of knowledge. Speakers
will point to the pluralism of ecologies, and
the many ways in which species and their
social relations are in stress due to climate
change.
The effects of culture loss – caused by
the climate crisis or otherwise – are far
reaching. It will require dialogue and
debate across many forms of border to
establish the kind of productive exchange
that might result in meaningful shifts
in policy as well as contributing to a
widespread acceptance of the need to
change the ways we live and live together.
The loss of habitat and ecosystems strip
communities of their sense of kinship,
belonging and dignity in a way that cannot
fail to impact future generations. A climate
future can only be achieved by means of
a holistic approach and a transformation
that respects ancestral relationships to
land, water, and air.
�We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and
express gratitude towards the people, organisations, and
government bodies that made the creation of Climate Futures
#1: Cultures, Climate Crisis, and Disappearing Ecologies
possible, namely ASEAN, KONNECT ASEAN, ASEAN Foundation,
ASEAN-KOREA COOPERATION Fund, Goethe-Institut Singapore
and Jakarta, Nanyang Technological University (NTU),and NTU
CCA Singapore.
Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director and Magdalena Magiera,
Research Associate and Curator, NTU CCA Singapore
�DAY 1
8.30am
Registration and Coffee
9.00am
Opening addresses by
H.E. Choi Jaeha (Korea) Minister Counselor, Korean Mission to ASEAN
Thursday, 1 December 2022
8.30am – 6.30pm
H.E. Khamsouk Keovongsay (Laos), Director General, National Institute of Fine Arts, Ministry of
Information, Culture and Tourism of Lao PDR
Dr. Yang Mee Eng (Malaysia), Executive Director of ASEAN Foundation
Prof. Tim White, Vice President (Singapore) (International Engagement); President’s Chair in Materials
Science and Engineering; Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological
University
9.30am
Welcome and Introduction by co-curators Prof. Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore) NTU CCA
Singapore and Magdalena Magiera (Germany/Singapore) Curator and Research Associate NTU CCA
Singapore and Ben Hampe (Myanmar/Australia) Project Director KONNECT ASEAN, ASEAN Foundation
9.45am
Circularity, Climate, Culture & Community: a Sabah story
Keynote Lecture by Cynthia Ong (Malaysia), Chief Executive Facilitator, Forever Sabah Institute and LEAP
11.00am
Pendekar Laut: Sea Warrior Fishermen fighting for Survival in the face of Climate Change &
Coastal Development
Case study by Dr. Serina Rahman (Singapore/Malaysia), Lecturer, Department of Southeast Asian
Studies, National University of Singapore
11.40am
Beyond the God’s Eye: Militant Approaches to Cognitive Maps
Case Study by Cian Dayrit (Philippines), artist
12.00pm
Indigo as Livelihood
Case Study by Dr. Chomwan Weeraworawit (Thailand), lawyer, producer curator, creative director of
fashion brand Philip Huang
12.20pm
Discussion with Cynthia Ong (Malaysia), Dr. Serina Rahman (Singapore/Malaysia), Dr. Chomwan
Weeraworawit (Thailand), and Cian Dayrit (Philippines)
Moderated by Prof. Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore)
Break
3.00pm
Introduction: Can we Visualise Neocolonialism in Southeast Asia?: Solidarities and Cultural Practices
for a Climatic Accountability
by Kathleen Ditzig (Singapore) PhD Candidate at the School of Art Design and Media, NTU
3.20pm
Struggles for Sovereignty
Case Study presented by Eliesta Handitya (Indonesia) writer, independent researcher and
Shilfina Putri Widatama (Indonesia) independent researcher
3.40pm
Monumen Antroposen
Case Study by Ignatia Nilu (Indonesia), curator
Break
4.20pm
Resettlement in Vietnam - Policies and Social Impact Assessment
Case Study by Hương Vũ (Vietnam), architect
4.40pm
The Tonlé
Case Study by Sao Sreymao (Cambodia), artist
5.00pm
Keeping the Flow
Case Study by Lêna Bùi (Vietnam), artist
5.20pm
Discussion with Kathleen Ditzig (Singapore), Eliesta Handitya (Indonesia), Shilfina Putri Widatama
(Indonesia), Ignatia Nilu (Indonesia), Huong Vu (Vietnam), and Sao Sreymao (Cambodia), Lêna Bùi
(Vietnam) Moderated by Magdalena Magiera (Germany/Singapore)
�DAY 2
Friday, 2 December 2022
8.30am – 1.00pm
8.30am
Registration and Coffee
9.00am
Introduction by Co-Curators
9.15am
The Language Opacities of Climate Change Discourses
Keynote Lecture by Marian Pastor Roces (Philippines), curator, critic and policy analyst
10.20am
Why Tikar? The Politics, Geographies, Architecture, Stories, and Language of our Mat
Case Study by Yee I-Lann (Malaysia), artist
10.40am
Bantayan Island: An Island in Transition
Case Study by Martha Atienza, artist and Jake Atienza (both Philippines), MA Student / Graduate
Assistant at University of Hawai’i
Break
11.20am
Archiving Resistance
Case Study by Elisa Sutanudjaja (Indonesia), co-founder and Executive Director, Rujak Center for Urban
Studies
11.40pm
Discussion with Marian Pastor Roces (Philippines), Yee I-Lann (Malaysia), Martha Atienza and Jake
Atienza (both Philippines), and Elisa Sutanudjaja (Indonesia)
Moderated by Prof. Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore)
Break
2.00pm
CLOSED SESSION
Ziarah Utara (Pilgrimage to the North)
Activation by Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina (both Indonesia), artists
�DAY 3
Saturday, 3 December 2022
8.30am – 1.30pm
8.30am
Registration and Coffee
9.00am
Introduction by Co-Curators
9.20am
Frequencies of Tradition, Frequencies for Sustainable Future
Keynote Lecture by Hyunjin Kim (Korea), curator and writer
10.20am
Moving Earth, Crossing Water, Restless Topographies: Lessons on Threshold Crossing and Wayfinding
alongside Non-Human Collaborators
Case Study by Zarina Muhammad (Singapore), artist
Break
11.00am
Uncovering Borneo’s Little Green Jade, Moving Towards Post-Colonialism or
Unlearning Stockholm Syndrome
Case Study by Jang Elroy Ramantan (Brunei), artist
11.20am
ASEAN Foundation in 2022 and Beyond:Building Greater Awareness of the Climate Crisis
with ASEAN Youths
Case Study by Dr. Yang Mee Eng (Malaysia), Executive Director of ASEAN Foundation
11.40pm
Discussion with Hyunjin Kim (Korea), Zarina Muhammad (Singapore), Jang Elroy Ramantan (Brunei),
and Dr. Yang Mee Eng (Malaysia) Moderated by Dr. Ingo Schöningh (Germany/Indonesia), Head of
Cultural Programmes Goethe-Institut Jakarta
1.00pm
Closing Remarks
Prof. Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore) NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore,
Cynthia Ong (Malaysia) Chief Executive Facilitator, Forever Sabah Institute and LEAP and
Marian Pastor Roces (Philippines) curator, critic and policy analyst
Break
3.00pm
CLOSED SESSION: Where do we go from here?
Workshop / Networking Session for Speakers and Presenters
�Programme Information
Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina
Activation: Ziarah Utara (Pilgrimage to the North)
Friday, 2 December 2022
2.00 – 7.00pm
Over the last four years, Irwan Ahmett and
Tita Salina have conducted Ziarah Utara
(Pilgrimage to the North) every year in their
city, Jakarta. Initiated together with the
Australian artists and geographers Jorgen
Doyle and Hannah Ekin, this annual walk
aims to build trust and intimacy with people
they encounter along the way, from informal
settlements to gated communities, by way
of visual documentation, trespassing, and
listening to fading stories.
On a physical and sensorial level, Ahmett and
Salina expose their bodies to nature afflicted
by industrial contamination. Population
growth and land conversions, coupled with
massive human activity along the coastline,
have resulted in ecological collapse, land
subsidence, and rising sea levels in Jakarta,
which now faces an uncertain future. This
accumulation of sedimented problems
becomes Ahmett and Salina’s “ground zero”
to elaborate another side of the first capital
in modern world history that plans to escape
due to the climate crisis.
During the conference, Ahmett and Salina
invite participants to be in dialogue with
the fishing community of Kampung Dadap,
Tangerang, to learn about its struggle through
cultural activities that aim to defend its
dignity. While looking at Jakarta from the sea,
participants are called to search for pearls
of hope while critically questioning if the
megalopolis is just an empty shell burdened
with a narrative battle that exacerbates
polarisation?
Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina (Indonesia)
are an artist duo based in Jakarta. Since
2014, they have been working on a project
in the Ring of Fire – Pacific Rim, a global
region prone to natural disasters as well
as persistent ideological violence. In their
search for answers about planetary anxieties
regarding human existence by means of
evolutionary perspectives, Ahmett and
Salina participate in residency programmes,
research, field study and exhibitions,
especially in specific yet paradoxical areas.
Through their artistic practice, they produce
knowledge in relation to injustice, humanity,
and ecology.
�Martha Atienza and Jake Atienza
Bantayan Island: An Island in Transition
Friday, 2 December 2022
10.40 – 11.00am
In the Visayas region of central Philippines,
the fishing communities of the Bantayan
Islands have, for decades, borne the brunt
of detrimental, government-endorsed
commercial enterprises. Under the guise of
promised economic prosperity, the group of
islands has, in recent years, been increasingly
subject to the interests of the private
sector. From a bill removing Bantayan’s
Wilderness area which made way for the
privatisation of land and the formation of
the North Cebu Economic Zone, to the push
to allow foreigners to have 100% ownership
of assets, a neoliberal agenda continues to
impose coercive ways of dispossession. The
intersectionality of governance, environment,
and community necessitates an art-practice
that tackles these issues through actions and
collaborations.
Martha Atienza’s (Philippines/Netherlands)
practice explores installation and video
as ways of documenting and questioning
issues around the environment, community,
and development. Her work mostly takes
the form of video of an almost sociological
nature, studying her direct environment
in the Philippines. In 2017, Atienza won the
Baloise Art Prize in Art Basel for her seminal
work Our Islands. Since 2017, her work has
been shown and collected worldwide.
Currently, she lives and works in Bantayan
Island, Philippines.
Jake Atienza (Philippines/Netherlands) is
an M.A. student and Graduate Assistant
in the Sociology program at the University
of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His paternal home
of Bantayan Island in central Philippines
has shaped his interest in islands as social
and physical spaces where exploitation
and dispossession are rampant. This is the
starting point of artistic and scholarly work on
institutional violence, power and the judiciary,
and systems of social and environmental
exploitation, with a particular focus on the
mining industry.
�Lêna Bùi
Keeping the Flow
Thursday, 1 December 2022
5.00 – 5.20am
Bùi will share a meditation on the nature of
all things being in constant exchange with
themselves and with each other.
Lêna Bùi (Vietnam) lives and works in Ho Chi
Minh City, Vietnam. Her practice is deeply
fascinated with intangible aspects of life,
such as faith, death, and dreams, and the
ways in which they influence our behaviours
and perceptions. Incorporating anecdotes
and personal stories, her works articulate
intimate reflections on the impact of rapid
development and the relationship between
humans and nature.
Cian Dayrit
Beyond the God’s Eye: Militant Approaches to Cognitive Maps
Thursday, 1 December 2022
11.40 – 12.00pm
Maps are usually impersonal objects that
conceal the experiences of the people
inhabiting a represented space, yet beneath
the cartographic surface are stories upon
stories of struggle and survival. Influenced
by his position as artist, scholar, and activist,
Dayrit’s presentation outlines his explorations
of cognitive mapping as both a cultural and
political tool to challenge the hegemonic
grids of maps authored by centralised bodies
such as the state or corporations. Working
within the context of counter-mapping, Dayrit
facilitates cognitive mapping workshops with
various subsistence communities, indigenous
and labour groups. In these pedagogical
interventions, geo-narratives are activated to
express precarious conditions and systemic
oppression as well as collective resistance,
whilst producing material that can be further
activated for solidarity campaigns. The maps
produced in these workshops are raw and
intimate articulations of the everyday lives
of populations historically disenfranchised
through the conditions of a neo-colonial
society. Informed by approaches from
humanistic and radical geography and
artistic social practice, the method explores
the ways in which the narratives of individuals
can reflect the shared conditions of their
respective communities. In this light,
cognitive mapping becomes a processbased approach to building solidarity and
collectively articulating shared aspirations.
Cian Dayrit (Philippines) is an artist whose
work investigates notions of space, power
and identity as they are represented and
reproduced in monuments, museums,
maps, and other institutionalized
media. Working with textile, installations,
archival interventions, and community-based
workshops, Dayrit’s work responds to different
marginalised communities, encouraging
a critical reflection on dominant and
privileged perspectives. While informed by
the experience of neo-colonialism from the
perspective of the Philippines, his work defies
being tied to a specific position or location.
Dayrit is a member of Sama-samang Artista
Para sa Kilusang Agraryo (SAKA), an alliance
of cultural workers advocating for land rights
and food sovereignty. He is also currently
enrolled at the Department of Geography in
University of the Philippines Diliman.
�Kathleen Ditzig
Introduction: Can we Visualise Neocolonialism in Southeast Asia?: Solidarities and Cultural
Practices for a Climatic Accountability
Thursday, 1 December 2022
3.00 – 3.20pm
Neocolonialism is a form of colonialism
where states and communities have the
appearance of autonomy but do not
have political or economic independence.
Providing a brief review of the entangled
Cold War legacies of cultural production
and ecological extraction in Southeast Asia,
this introduction emphasizes the urgency of
curatorial practices and cultural practices
to critically consider the region’s enduring
legacy of colonialism while mobilising the
exceptionalism of cultural projects to imagine
a global climate accountability.
Kathleen Ditzig (Singapore) is a researcher
and curator currently pursuing her PhD at
Nanyang Technological University, School
of Art Design and Media. She was a fellow in
the Getty Foundation’s “Connecting Modern
Art Histories in and across Africa, South and
Southeast Asia” project, organised by Cornell
University and Asia Art Archives. Her research
interests include exhibitionary histories of
Southeast Asia, global histories of capitalism
and enduring legacies and networks of the
Cold War in cultural production.
Eliesta Handitya and Shilfina Putri Widatama
Struggles for Sovereignty
Thursday, 1 December 2022
3.20 – 3.40pm
Handitya and Widatama, two members of
the collective Struggles for Sovereignty, will
amplify alternative narration and realities
of climate injustice struggles from the
perspective of grassroot communities,
activists, indigenous and local communities,
researchers, and artists, amongst others, from
Indonesia and other parts of the world. Their
curatorial practice connects global struggles
and provides a space for those involved to
participate and learn from each other in the
spirit of solidarity.
Eliesta Handitya (Indonesia) is part of
Bakudapan Food Study Group and Struggles
for Sovereignty – a collective focused on
structures for social and ecological justice.
She is involved in curatorial practices that
deal with social and climate injustice to
create translocal solidarity. Handitya is
also an independent researcher and writer
concerned with decoloniality, interdisciplinary
art, and “carework” amongst cultural workers.
Shilfina Putri Widatama (Indonesia) is part of
Bakudapan Food Study Group and Struggles
for Sovereignty, and a researcher who deals
with social and climate justice. Within the
framework of these two collectives, Widatama
is involved in learning practices and curatorial
frameworks that address climate injustice.
She currently works as a visual campaigner
for an NGO focused on democratic and
sustainable energy transformation.
�Hyunjin Kim
Frequencies of Tradition, Frequencies for Sustainable Future
Saturday, 3 December 2022
9.20 – 10.20am
How can tradition be engaged with as a
mode of sustainability? Although negative
perceptions have alienated tradition as
a source of patriarchal, authoritarian,
hierarchical, and outdated customs, tradition
still connects various generations, transmits
values of community, and serves as a
living archive of the future emergence of
cultures. This keynote speech first examines
how traditions are entangled with different
modes of modernisation in the Asian region.
Furthermore, it will address possible wisdom
for sustainability through artistic investigation
and practices derived from or adapted from
tradition, such as community belonging,
resilience, symbiotic life with nature,
spirituality, and de-anthropocentric thinking.
Hyunjin Kim (Korea) is a curator and writer
based in Seoul. Kim was recently the Artistic
Director of Incheon Art Platform 2021 and
the KADIST Lead Curator for Asia, with which
she developed her three-year program and
exhibition, Frequencies of Tradition. She
was also the co-curator of the 7th Gwangju
Biennale (2008), and the Director of Arko
Art Center, Seoul (2014–15). She curated
the exhibition History Has Failed Us, But No
Matter for the Korean Pavilion at the 58th
International Art Exhibition of La Biennale
di Venezia (2019), and co-curated 2 Or 3
Tigers at HKW, Berlin (2017) with Anselm
Franke.
Zarina Muhammad
Moving Earth, Crossing Water, Restless Topographies:
Lessons on Threshold Crossing and Wayfinding alongside Non-Human Collaborators
Saturday, 3 December 2022
10.20 – 10.40am
For this sharing, Muhammad reflects on
the processes and pathways undertaken
in recent selected projects namely <earth,
land, sky and sea as palimpsest>, Dioramas
for Tanjong Rimau, and Breathing in
Unbreathable Circumstances. These works
have emerged from her long-term research
project that engages with environmental
histories, extractive capitalist urbanisation,
and archival fragments in order to redraw
hegemonic cartographies and seek out
a more-than-human, multidimensional
understanding of our place in the world.
Zarina Muhammad (Singapore) is an artist,
educator, and researcher whose practice is
deeply entwined with a critical re-examination
of oral histories, ethnographic literature
and other historiographic accounts of
Southeast Asia. Working at the intersections
of performance, installation, text, sound,
moving image and participatory practice,
she is interested in the broader contexts
of ecocultural identities and interactions,
indigenous ontologies and the cultural
translations within myth-making. Muhammad
has presented her work and been involved
in collaborative research projects across the
Asia Pacific region and Europe.
�Ignatia Nilu
Monumen Antroposen
Thursday, 1 December 2022
3.40 – 4.00pm
Reclaiming the Piyungan Landfill — a site
loaded with deep ancestral knowledge
dating back to the Islamic Mataram Kingdom,
during which it inspired other regions,
villages, and kingdoms with its flourishing
advancements across architecture and
science under the rule of King Sultan Agung
(1613–1645) — Monumen Antroposen is a
radical attempt to present an alternative
ecosystem of the Piyungan area and to
reactivate public awareness of its historical
identity.Designed with temple-shaped
complexes made of plastic “stone” alongside
reliefs narrating holocene-anthropocene
and post-anthropocene scenography ,the
complex is also equipped with a makerspace,
which is intended as an experimental public
laboratory, compiling prototypes from
plastic materials found near landfills. In her
presentation, Nilu expands on Monumen
Antroposen’s desire to transform this area
into a space for activities that allow the
public to participate in a circular materials
economy, s and for the performance of local
culture, not to evoke past religious or ethnic
factionalism, but rather, to demonstrate
how the preservation of cultural knowledge
plays an important role in safeguarding
contemporary thought, allowing us to
maintain human harmony with the natural
surroundings.
Ignatia Nilu (Indonesia) is a writer,
independent curator and cultural producer
based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Through
the lens of her formal studies in political
science, she has worked extensively in
arts management and the curation of
visual, media, and sound art in different
formats. Since 2015, she has been curator
of ARTJOG| International Contemporary Art
Festival,Yogyakarta , and a founding member
of ARTBALI since 2018.Currently, she is working
on Monumen Antroposen with other curators
and the Indonesian Upcycle Forum, to
develop an innovative arts and culture project
through ecology and sustainability insights.
She has a strong concern that the arts should
bring openness to humanity and inclusivity.
She believes that the arts have an important
role to play in questions of inclusivity, and part
of her research has focused on the feminism
movement in Indonesia and art projects that
intersect with STEM-based approaches.
�Cynthia Ong
Circularity, Climate, Culture & Community: A Sabah story
Thursday, 1 December 2022
9.45 – 11.00am
In her keynote lecture, Ong shares the ways in
which Forever Sabah envisions the transition
towards a diversified, equitable, circular
economy in Malaysian Borneo, humanising
processes through facilitative approaches
that tend to emergent potential. An initiative
rooted in local aspirations, Forever Sabah
serves as a collaborative social movement
built by an enthusiastic team that believes in
the empowering potential of local Sabahan
knowledge and experience.
Cynthia Ong (Malaysia) engages in
facilitating processes, partnerships and
projects that provoke ecologically sustainable
coexistence between groups, communities,
regions, and nations. With a passion for
finding the creative tension and balance
between process and outcome, Ong led the
founding of Forever Sabah, the Malaysian
Borneo state of Sabah’s transition towards
a diversified, equitable circular economy
with the focal areas of food, agriculture and
fisheries, forests, water and soil, infrastructure,
energy and waste, livelihoods, tourism, and
enterprise.
Marian Pastor Roces
The Language Opacities of Climate Change Discourses
Friday, 2 December 2022
9.15 – 10.20am
Roces opens her keynote lecture with
discussion of an ongoing work to create a
museum for cross-cultural understanding
on the island of Basilan – heretofore
synonymous with extreme sectarian violence
in the Philippine south – to explore the opacity
of one language to another in a multilingual
setting. By the word language, Roces does not
refer alone to language qua language spoken
by locals, but to the different languages of
development circles, artists, economists,
historians, anthropologists, and so forth. As
the presentation moves from the Basilan
microcosm to a macro perspective that
encompasses the Coral Triangle, it sketches
out the challenges of translation that must be
met in order to address the climate crisis.
Marian Pastor Roces (Philippines) is an
independent curator, critic, and policy
analyst. She runs a corporation, TAOINC,
which curates the establishment of museums:
notably, 21AM, the online museum of the
Cultural Center of the Philippines; and the
museum of the Bangsamoro Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao. She is also a
partner of the sustainable development
think tank, Brain Trust Inc. “Gathering: Political
Writing in Art and Culture,” an anthology of
her writing, was published in 2019.
�Dr. Serina Rahman
Pendekar Laut: Sea Warrior Fishermen Fighting for Survival in the Face of Climate Change
& Coastal Development
Thursday, 1 December 2022
11.00 – 11.20am
In the western corner of the Tebrau Strait
a fishing community is trying to find ways
to survive irreversible socio-economic and
climate changes. They are losing their land
and sea to development and urbanisation
and increased severe weather compounds
decreasing fish stocks, jeopardising their
ability to bring home the catch. A local
community organisation, Kelab Alami,
set up the Sea Warriors Market (Pasar
Pendekar Laut) to ensure better earnings for
the fishermen, more sustainable fisheries
and supplementary means of earning
incomes. This is the story of their effort to
stand up and make the best of what befalls
them.
Dr. Serina Rahman (Malaysia) is a lecturer in
the Southeast Asian Studies Department at
National University of Singapore, teaching
environmental politics, the intersection of
religion with politics and society, and about
Southeast Asia through the lens of the sea.
Trained as a conservation scientist, her
practice is in community empowerment
through citizen science, community research
and ecotourism, and artisanal marine
fisheries resource management; all of
which is done at Kelab Alami, a community
organisation in Johor, Malaysia that she cofounded in 2008.
Jang Elroy Ramantan
Uncovering Borneo’s Little Green Jade: Moving Towards Post-Colonialism or Unlearning
Stockholm Syndrome
Saturday, 3 December 2022
11.00 – 11.20am
How do we navigate indigenous ecological
knowledge in the digital age of globalization?
Based on this question, Ramantan, a
multidisciplinary artist and creative, will speak
about how cultural heritage and knowledge
correlates to environmental appreciation and
conservation.
Jang Elroy Ramantan (Brunei) works hand-inhand with civil groups and societies as well
with creatives and artists in creating social
change in Brunei Darussalam. His initiatives
include partnerships with indigenous and
minority communities, highlighting how such
communities are valuable co-agents of
social change.
�Dr. Ingo Schöningh
Moderator
Saturday, 3 December 2022
12.00 – 1.00pm
Dr. Ingo Schöningh (Germany / Indonesia) is
Head of Cultural Programmes Southeast Asia,
Australia, New Zealand, at the Goethe-Institut
Indonesia. He has been and active for 20
years in foreign cultural policy, dealing with
migration, language and cultural diplomacy
over the course of his postings to Vietnam,
Korea, Japan, Germany, and Indonesia.
Sao Sreymao
The Tonlé
Thursday, 1 December 2022
4.40 – 5.00pm
Sreymao’s presentation begins with the
experience of witnessing the loss of Tonlé
Sap in 2016, a lake in Northwest Cambodia
connected to the Mekong River. The lake,
which is one of the world’s most vibrant
ecosystems, has been drying up over the
past several years. Exploring the connections
between rivers and memories, Sreymao’s
research on the Mekong led to the creation
of multiple series of works which will be
discussed during her presentation: Under the
Water, Daydream, Shaking Land, as well as
her current ongoing work with the Kampong
Chhnang community that is part of Tonlé Sap.
Sao Sreymao (Cambodia) was born in the
Site Two Refugee Camp on the CambodianThai border in 1986. She graduated from
Phare Ponleu Selpak’s School of Visual
and Applied Arts, Battambang Province, in
2006, and was a participant of Sa Sa Art
Projects Contemporary Art Class in 2016. Her
multidisciplinary practice includes painting,
photography, digital drawing, sculpture and
performance. Her works explore personal
expression and memories, as well as the
changing physical and psychological
landscapes of Cambodian urban and rural
communities. She has collaborated with
various writers in visual storytelling and
published a number of graphic novels.
�Elisa Sutanudjaja
Archiving Resistance
Friday, 2 December 2022
11.20am – 11.40am
Cities are formed and shaped through
various social, economic, political, and
cultural processes. The act of planning, in the
sense of urban planning, is never neutral, and
power relations always matter. For Jakarta,
modern urban planning is a technocratic
process that is also a reproduction of
colonial practices, where active city-making
from underprivileged residents, such as the
urban poor, is considered unnecessary or
undesirable. As a result, underprivileged
habitus are always on the margin. In order
to secure their rights to the city, resistance
became a means to stand up against
plans from above. Archiving Resistance will
highlight several strategies by Jakarta’s
urban poor in Kampung Akuarium in order to
secure residents rights to live and prosper in
capitalist cities like Jakarta.
Elisa Sutanudjaja (Indonesia) is educated
as an architect specialising in sustainable
and urban development. In 2009 she cofounded the Rujak Center for Urban Studies,
an NGO focused on urban and knowledge
issues. Currently serving as RCUS’s Executive
Director, her concerns are on urban studies
and urbanism, the right to adequate housing,
informal economy, and mobility. Sutanudjaja
was an Eisenhower Fellow in 2013.
Hương Vũ
Resettlement in Vietnam: Policies and Social Impact Assessment
Thursday, 1 December 2022
4.00 – 4.20pm
Involuntary resettlement is one of many
challenges imposed by the extractive
sector, particularly balancing the competing
interests and responsibilities of governments,
companies and affected local communities.
Unfortunately, resettlement projects are
established with so many competing interests
that inhabitants are involuntarily relocated
to sites where living conditions are poor and
there is little infrastructure. The displaced
are often from minority ethnic communities,
whose customary land rights do not appear
to be considered under the Vietnamese
government’s Land Use Policy and its
associated documents. The rehabilitation and
resettlement statements are often prepared
only after the project investment has already
received approval from the Provincial
People’s Committee, resulting in limited
engagement and agency for inhabitants. No
social impact assessment is considered.
Hương Vũ (Vietnam/Germany), studied at
the Technical University of Berlin. Together
with her partner, sheruns the architecture
studio ‘vn-a’, basedbetween Berlin, Germany
and Da Lat, Vietnam. In 2016 they won the
second prize at the international Awards for
Sacred Architecture VI Edition, Fondazione
Frate Sole, Pavia, Italy and the Hans
Schäfers Prize, BDA Berlin. In 2017, vn-a was
appointed a full member of the BDA, Bund
Deutscher Architekten, Landesverband
Berlin (Association of German Architects).
�Dr. Chomwan Weeraworawit
Indigo as Livelihood
Thursday, 1 December 2022
12.00 – 12.20pm
The natural blue dye indigo grows abundantly
in the Northeast of Thailand, and it was
the journey to find that blue that connects
Weeraworawit’s research to the ways in
which traditional knowledge can be used
to forge a different path of development.
Weeraworawit’s research and practice is
guided by the belief that we are all capable
of making and creating in harmony with the
land, and that this knowledge is crucial in
the face of the climate crisis and decline of
biodiversity. Learning ancient know-how from
artisans is a means of telling their stories,
sharing in the processes and creations made
through collaboration.
Dr. Chomwan Weeraworawit (Thailand) has
worked with artists for over 15 years. With a
PhD from King’s College London in intellectual
property, she uses her training to work with
artists, filmmakers, architects, and designers.
In 2010, she founded Mysterious Ordinary, a
creative studio that creates and produces
projects. In 2016, she co-founded Philip Huang,
a fashion brand and vehicle that collaborates
with artisans in the Northeast of Thailand. In
2022, she co-curated the third Bangkok Art
Biennale.
Dr. Yang Mee Eng
ASEAN Foundation in 2022 and Beyond:Building Greater Awareness of the Climate Crisis
with ASEAN Youths
Saturday, 3 December 2022
11.20 – 11.40am
Dr. Yang Mee Eng (Malaysia) worked in
private and government sectors for over
26 years. She was most recently the Senior
Vice President at Alphacap. Prior to that,
she was the CEO of Gameview, the largest
mobile game publisher in Malaysia, where
she oversaw three offices in Malaysia, China
and Thailand. Before moving to the private
sector, Yang spent 19 years working as the
Business Development Manager at Malaysia
Digital Economy Corporation. Yang also led
the Digital Media sector foresight studies
and created the Malaysia’s creative industry
forecast for 30 years (2019-2050) under Mega
Science 3.0 project with Academy Science of
Malaysia.
�Yee I-Lann
Why Tikar? The Politics, Geographies, Architecture, Stories, and Language of our Mat
Friday, 2 December 2022
10.20 – 10.40am
Engaging with the complex geopolitical
histories of Southeast Asia by way of a
community-based practice of mat-making,
Yee has changed the way she thinks about
art, culture and the world we live in.
Yee I-Lann (Malaysia) lives and works in
her hometown Kota Kinabalu, capital of
the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah. Her
practice engages with regional Southeast
Asian histories by addressing issues of
colonialism, power, and the impact of
historical memory in lived social experience.
She employs a complex, multi-layered visual
vocabulary drawn from historical references,
popular culture, archives, and everyday
objects. In recent years she has been
working collaboratively with communities
and indigenous mediums in Sabah. Yee
has worked in art departments and as
a production designer in the Malaysian
film industry since 1994, and between
2003-2008 established the production
design department and lectured at Akademi
Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan
(ASWARA). With her partner, rock n roll
subculture archivist, musician and designer
Joe Kidd, Yee shares KerbauWorks, a crossdiscipline project label and pop-up space.
She is currently a Board member for Forever
Sabah, and a co-founding partner of KOTA-K
Studio in Tanjung Aru Old Town, Kota Kinabalu.
�Organisers & Partners
NTU CCA
Singapore
Staff
Ute Meta Bauer
Founding Director, NTU CCA
Singapore and Professor,
School of Art, Design and
Media, NTU
Jasmaine Cheong
Senior Assistant Director,
Business Operations
Management
Dr Anna Lovecchio
Assistant Director, Programmes
Regina Yap
Manager, Finance
Nadia Amalina
Programmes Coordinator
Magdalena Magiera
Research Associate & Curator
Kay Min Soh
Research Associate
Mei Jia Ng
Research Assistant
Low Ming Aun
Assistant Manager,
Programmes & Operations
Maggie Yin
Manager, Research &
Publications
ASEAN
Foundation
Staff
Dr Yang Mee Eng
Aulia Ramadhina
Mahmudi Yusbi
Ratieh Ayuningtyas
Executive Director
Head of Programme
Anthoni Octaviano
Head of Communications
Benjamin Milton Hampe
Project Director |
KONNECT ASEAN
Barnev Theodore
Soukotta
Project Coordinator |
KONNECT ASEAN
Collaterals
Design
Matterials
Proofreading
Amy Sherlock
Programme Support Officer
Executive Support and
Administrative Officer
Fatima Alifha
Digital Communications
Coordinator
�NTU CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART SINGAPORE
A leading international art institution, NTU CCA Singapore is a platform, host, and partner creating
and driven by dynamic thinking in its three-fold constellation: Research and Academic Education;
Residencies Programme; and Exhibitions. A national research centre for contemporary art of
Nanyang Technological University, the Centre focuses on Spaces of the Curatorial. It brings forth
innovative and experimental forms of emergent artistic and curatorial practices that intersect the
present and histories of contemporary art embedded in social-political spheres with other fields
of knowledge.
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
A research-intensive public university, NTU has 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students
in the colleges of Engineering, Business, Science, and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and its
Graduate College. NTU’s campus is frequently listed among the top 15 most beautiful university
campuses in the world and has 57 Green Mark-certified (equivalent to LEED-certified) buildings.
Besides its 200-ha lush green, residential campus in western Singapore, NTU has a second
campus in the heart of Novena, Singapore’s medical district.
KONNECT ASEAN
As the post-Cold War reality of a new world has taken shape and formed new directions and
conversations, ASEAN has re-entered the contemporary art space via collaborative efforts between
various ASEAN bodies. The Republic of Korea celebrated 30 years of diplomatic relations with
ASEAN in 2019 and in the same year established KONNECT ASEAN, an ASEAN-Korea arts programme.
Supported by the ASEAN-Korea Cooperation Fund (AKCF) and administered by the ASEAN
Foundation, KONNECT ASEAN signals both an eagerness by ASEAN to revitalise its once integral role
in contemporary visual arts and South Korea’s sincerity in establishing closer ties with ASEAN.
The programme celebrates Southeast Asian arts using different platforms (exhibitions, education
and conferences, public programmes, residencies, and publications and archives) to explore and
discuss social, political, economic, and environmental issues in the region. The artists’ works and
activities engages and strengthen the public’s understanding of ASEAN’s role in facilitating cultural
diplomacy. Furthermore, the programme intends to connect with the three major stakeholder
groups of government, business, and civil society to achieve the vision of an ASEAN Community.
Outcomes provide permanent resources recording why ASEAN matters and its ongoing
contribution to the region’s growth, prosperity, and stability.
GOETHE-INSTITUT SINGAPORE AND JAKARTA
The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global
reach. It promotes knowledge of the German language abroad and fosters international cultural
cooperation. Its interdisciplinary work brings together people from different disciplines, cultures,
and countries.
�With contributions by artists Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina (both Indonesia); artist Martha Atienza
and MA Student / Graduate Assistant at University of Hawai’i Jake Atienza (both Philippines);
artist Lêna Bùi (Vietnam); artist Cian Dayrit (Philippines); curator and PhD Candidate at the
School of Art Design and Media, NTU Kathleen Ditzig (Singapore); Struggles for Sovereignty’s
Eliesta Handitya and Shilfina Putri Widatama (both Indonesia); curator Hyunjin Kim (Korea);
artist Zarina Muhammad (Singapore); curator Ignatia Nilu (Indonesia); Chief Executive
facilitator Forever Sabah Institute, and LEAP Cynthia Ong (Malaysia); curator, writer, art critic
Marian Pastor Roces (Philippines); Lecturer, Southeast Asian Studies, NUS Dr. Serina Rahman
(Malaysia); artist Jang Elroy Ramantan (Brunei); Head of Cultural Programmes Goethe-Institut
Jakarta Dr. Ingo Schöningh (Germany/Indonesia); artist Sao Sreymao (Cambodia); co-founder
and Executive Director, Rujak Center for Urban Studies Elisa Sutanudjaja (Indonesia); architect
Hương Vũ (Vietnam); lawyer, producer curator, and creative director, Philip Huang Dr. Chomwan
Weeraworawit (Thailand); artist Yee I-Lann (Malaysia); and Executive Director ASEAN Foundation
Dr. Yang Mee Eng (Malaysia).
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Year of the Pig!
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ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
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Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Gillman Barracks
Singapore 108934
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Year of the Pig!
Ute Meta Bauer (Professor)
Founding Director
Shubigi Rao
Palmprints from a New Almanac
2018
Courtesy the artist.
Artist-in-Residence
October 2015 – January 2016
�Offices +65 6460 0300
Website ntu.ccasingapore.org
Email
ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
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Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Gillman Barracks
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Palmprints from a New Almanac
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Founding Director
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2011
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Gallery,Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore
�NTU CCA Singapore presented Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, 12 December 2014 – 1 March 2015
Offices +65 6460 0300
Website ntu.ccasingapore.org
Email
ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Gillman Barracks
Singapore 108934
NTU CCA Singapore wishes you
Happy Lunar New Year!
Ute Meta Bauer
Founding Director
恭
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新事
春如
意
YANG FUDONG 杨福东
Yejiang / The Nightman Cometh 4
2011
120 x 180cm
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Courtesy of Yang Fudong and ShanghART
Gallery,Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore
�NTU CCA Singapore presented Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, 12 December 2014 – 1 March 2015
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NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Gillman Barracks
Singapore 108934
YANG FUDONG 杨福东
Yejiang / The Nightman Cometh 4
2011
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RESIDENCIES
The Centre’s Residencies programme is
dedicated to facilitating the production of
knowledge and research by engaging and
connecting artists, curators, and researchers
from various disciplines around the world.
Its seven studios support the artistic process in
the most direct way; they provide the artists
with the time and space to pursue their researchbased practices and enable them access to
interesting and immersive contexts to develop
new ideas.
RESEARCH & EDUCATION
The Research programme aims to connect
academic research with other forms of knowledge production. The Centre collaborates with
researchers of various disciplines whose work
focuses on contemporary concerns addressing
Singapore and the region. In addition to the
Centre’s focus on Spaces of the Curatorial, its
current research clusters engage with questions
raised by climate change and its impact on
habitats and environments.
NTU CCA SINGAPORE
RESI ERCH &
R E S AD E N C I E S E D U C A T I O N
ntu.ccasingapore.org/exhibitions
Exhibitions at the Centre are focused on
international contemporary artistic production
linked to various fields of inquiry providing a
critical platform for reflection and discussion.
Embracing art in all its diverse media with
a commitment to current debates, each
exhibition is accompanied by an extensive
public programme ranging from talks, tours,
screenings to performative interventions.
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
�Trinh T. Minh-ha’s approach to film has
addressed a wide field of discussions—
reaching from the ethics of representation
in ethnographic film, to aspects of migration,
debates on global socio-political
developments, and different layers
Co-curated by Assistant Professors, Dr Marc Glöde,
NTU ADM, and Dr Ella Raidel, NTU ADM
and WKWSCI.
< Learn more
Nervous Translation, Shireen Seno, 2018,
film still. Courtesy Reel Suspects.
NTU CCA SINGAPORE
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SPEAKING / THINKING
NEARBY
RESEARCH & EDUCATION
FILM PROGRAMME
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of feminist discourse. Her films are
investigations into the question of the
voice as well as into the relationship
between the visible and audible. This
programme will present a selection of
films that echo some of these discussions
negotiated by Trinh in her filmic works
as well as in her writings, and create a
dialogue with other filmmakers including
Jean Rouch and Kimi Takesue.
ntu.ccasingapore.org/exhibitions
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Marvin Tang (Singapore)
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April 2020 – January 2021
Using photography, moving image, and objectbased installations, Tang draws from the history
of botanical institutions and imagery to visualise
the dynamics of systems of control.
Studio of Tan Kai Syng,
Residencies OPEN, 20 September 2019
ntu.ccasingapore.org/research
Sim Chi Yin (Singapore/United Kingdom)
November 2020 – March 2020
Sim’s photographic practice and archival
interventions combine rigorous research with
intimate storytelling to render visible both
personal and societal trajectories of neglected
histories focusing on issues of memory, conflict,
and migration.
Green Zeng (Singapore)
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April 2020 – January 2021
Examining different structures of power and
the writing of history, Zeng’s practice involves
a constant questioning of his own role as a
filmmaker and an artist in relation
to truth.
RESEARCH & EDUCATION
ila (Singapore)
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September 2020 – February 2021
Often engaging her own body as the locus of
multiple tensions and negotiations, the works
of ila combine video, photography, text, and
performance to generate alternative points of
entry into the peripheries of experience and
unspoken narratives.
ntu.ccasingapore.org/residencies
Kin Chui (Singapore)
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April 2020 – January 2021
Originally trained in film, Chui explores the
imprints of the colonial past on the present
through a socially-oriented and collaborative
approach in his artworks.
Boedi Widjaja (Indonesia/Singapore)
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September 2020 – February 2021
With an underlying emphasis on process and
form, Widjaja poetically speculates in his works
on experiences of diaspora, displacement, and
travel engaging concepts of home, belonging,
and cultural identities.
R E S ED E N C I E S E D U C A T I O N
RESI ARCH &
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
�MASTER OF ARTS IN MUSEUM STUDIES
AND CURATORIAL PRACTICES
Culture City. Culture Scape.
The forthcoming publication Culture City. Culture Scape.
underscores the significance of art in public space through
curatorial reflections from the editors as well as interviews
with Edmund Cheng, Chairman of Mapletree Investments,
and internationally renowned artists Dan Graham, Zulkifle
Mahmod, Tomás Saraceno, and Yinka Shonibare CBE
(RA). Their commissioned artworks for the eponymous
Culture City. Culture Scape. Public Art Trail in Mapletree
Business City II marked the beginning of the ongoing
partnership between Mapletree Investments and
NTU CCA Singapore (2017–present).
APPLIC ATIO N PE RIO D : E NDS 1 5 M ARCH 2021
( F O R A U G U S T 2 0 2 1 I N TA K E )
The MA in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices
prepares graduates for professional positions in the diverse
museum landscape and expanding spaces of the curatorial,
which require knowledge, experience and creativity. The
MA places emphasis on theoretical and practical challenges
of contemporary and historic art and culture, with a focus
on South East Asia.
< Learn more
CONFERENCE
“THERE IS NO SUCH THING
AS DOCUMENTARY”
GUIDED TOUR
C U LT U R E C I T Y. C U LT U R E S C A P E .
PUBLIC ART TRAIL AT MAPLETREE
BUSINESS CITY II
26 FEBRUARY 2021, 4 – 7PM
27 FEBRUARY 2021, 1.30 – 7PM
ONLINE
< Learn more
This public art project at Mapletree Business City II,
comprising works by artists Dan Graham (United
States), Zulkifle Mahmod (Singapore), Tomás
Saraceno (Argentina/Germany), and Yinka Shonibare
CBE (RA) (Nigeria/United Kingdom), explore the
interplay between landscape, architecture, and the broader
social and economic environments.
To sign up for a guided tour, please email
ntuccaeducation@ntu.edu.sg.
< Learn more
ntu.ccasingapore.org/research
As the concluding programme of the exhibition Trinh T.
Minh-ha. Films., this four-part conference brings together
scholars and practitioners across filmic, anthropological
and curatorial disciplines, addressing notions of multivocality,
performativity, and truth in fiction, through Trinh’s
practice as a filmmaker and theorist.
Co-organised by Dr Erika Balsom
(Canada/United Kingdom), Prof Ute
Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore),
Dr Marc Glöde (Germany/Singapore),
and Dr Ella Raidel (Austria/Singapore)
Forthcoming early 2021
Edited by Ute Meta Bauer, Sophie Goltz, and Khim Ong
NTU CCA SINGAPORE
PUBLICATIONS
RESEARCH & EDUCATION
ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
�NTU CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
SINGAPORE
As a non-profit organisation, NTU CCA Singapore’s acclaimed
programmes are made possible through grants and generous gifts
from kind donors. Our exhibitions present contemporary art from
leading international artists, many of whom shown in the region
for the first time. Our residencies connect artists and curators from
Singapore, Asia and beyond. Our Education and Research teams
reach out to local schools and organise symposia, talks, screenings,
and workshops. Most of these public programmes are free of
charge to promote greater access to the arts. No matter how big or
small, your contribution goes towards developing and enriching
our programmes year-round.
A leading international art institution, NTU CCA Singapore is a
platform, host, and partner creating and driven by dynamic thinking
in its three-fold constellation: E X H I B I T I O N S ; R E S I D E N C I E S
P R O G R A M M E ; R E S E A R C H A N D E D U C A T I O N . A national
research centre for contemporary art of Nanyang Technological
University, the Centre focuses on Spaces of the Curatorial.
It brings forth innovative and experimental forms of emergent artistic
and curatorial practices that intersect the present and histories of
contemporary art embedded in social-political spheres with other
fields of knowledge.
If you are a Singapore taxpayer, donations are eligible for a
250% tax deduction. Plus, every dollar you give qualifies for
the Cultural Matching Fund.
Be part of a unique art institution!
< Pledge your support by scanning the QR code
NTU CCA Singapore, its Founding Director, Ute Meta Bauer,
and the Centre’s entire team would like to thank our artists,
contributing supporters and audience for the past seven years!
The Centre seeks to engage the potential of “curating” and its
expanded field. What are the infrastructures and modes of presenting
and discussing artistic and cultural production in diverse cultural
settings and in particular throughout Southeast Asia’s vastly changing
societies? Specific focuses are on “Curating the City” and “Curating
time-based media.”
N A N YA N G T E C H N O L O G I C A L U N I V E R S I T Y,
SINGAPORE
A research-intensive public university, NTU has 33,000 undergraduate
and postgraduate students in the colleges of Engineering, Business,
Science, and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and its Graduate
College. NTU’s campus is frequently listed among the top 15 most
beautiful university campuses in the world and has 57 Green Markcertified (equivalent to LEED-certified) buildings. Besides its 200-ha
lush green, residential campus in western Singapore, NTU has a
second campus in the heart of Novena, Singapore’s medical district.
NTU CCA SINGAPORE
SUPPORT US TODAY!
�NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore’s final presentation in its
current Exhibition Hall coincides with the Centre’s seventh anniversary.
The Centre has hosted over 55 exhibitions since its inception in 2013,
inaugurated by the show Paradise Lost (2014), featuring the works
of Trinh T. Minh-ha alongside those of Zarina Bhimji and Fiona Tan.
EXHIBITION
T R I N H T. M I N H -H A . F I L M S .
17 OCTOBER 2020 — 28 FEBRUARY 2021
WHAT ABOUT CHINA? (PART I OF II, 2020–21)
31 OCTOBER 2020 — 28 FEBRUARY 2021
“The making of each film transforms the way I see myself and the world. Once
I start engaging in the process of making a film or in any artistic excursion,
I am also embarking upon a journey whose point of arrival is unknown to me.”
—Trinh T. Minh-ha
Trinh T. Minh-ha. Films. is the first solo exhibition of filmmaker, music
composer, anthropologist, feminist and postcolonial theorist Trinh T.
Minh-ha in Asia, presented in an exhibition space. Five of her films—
Forgetting Vietnam (2015), Night Passage (2004), The Fourth Dimension
(2001), A Tale of Love (1995) and Shoot for the Contents (1991), filmed
over a quarter of a century, in different parts of Asia—are simultaneously
on view in the Exhibition Hall. The spatial configuration of five small-scale
movie theatres enables the film narratives to interrelate, as the viewer
wanders from one theatre to the next, creating a unique physical and
temporal experience for each visit.
Alongside these five films, presented in The Single Screen, is her newest
work, What about China? (Part I of II, 2020–21), initiated by NTU CCA
Singapore, and co-commissioned with Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai.
Cover and left: Trinh T. Minh-ha, Forgetting Vietnam, 2015, film still. Courtesy the artist.
�S INGAPORE ART WEEK CALENDAR
2 2 – 3 0 J A N U A RY 2 0 2 1
Extended hours during Singapore Art Week:
Friday, 22 & 29 January 2021, 12.00pm – 9.00pm
All programmes at Block 43 Malan Road (unless otherwise stated)
Residencies OPEN (Block 37 & 38 Malan Road)
Friday, 22 January 2021: 3.00 – 9.00pm
Saturday, 23 January 2021: 2.00 – 7.00pm
Three of Trinh’s earlier films—Surname Viet Given Name Nam
(1989), Naked Spaces—Living is Round (1985) and Reassemblage
(1982), are screened as part of the exhibition’s accompanying
online film programme.
Curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore,
and Professor, NTU School of Art, Design and Media (ADM).
Trinh T. Minh-ha (Vietnam/United States) is Professor of Rhetoric and
of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
This exhibition and related programmes and projects focus on the multi-layered
practice of Trinh T. Minh-ha as a filmmaker, writer, music composer and educator,
generating a multi-year (2019–2022) research and programme partnership
between NTU CCA Singapore, Rockbund Art Museum, CCA Wattis Institute
for Contemporary Arts, and the Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart.
< For more information about
Trinh T. Minh-ha. Films. and
other public programmes
Supported by
Trinh T. Minh-ha, Tale of Love, 1995, film still. Courtesy the artist.
Curator-Led Tours
Trinh T. Minh-ha. Films.
Friday, 22 January 2021: 6.30 – 7.00pm, 7.30 – 8.00pm
Saturday, 23 January 2021: 3.00 – 3.30pm
Sunday, 24 January 2021: 4.00 – 4.30pm
Friday, 29 January 2021: 6.30 – 7.00pm, 7.30 – 8.00pm
Saturday, 30 January 2021: 3.00 – 3.30pm, 5.00 – 5.30pm
Campur, Tolak, Kali, Bahagi, Sama Dengan (Add, Subtract,
Multiply, Divide, Equals) with Anca Rujoiu
Friday, 22 January 2021: 6.00 – 6.30pm, 7.00 – 7.30pm
Saturday, 23 January 2021: 2.30 – 3.00pm, 4.30 – 5.00pm
Culture City. Culture Scape.
Public Art Trail at Mapletree Business City II
Friday, 22 January 2021: 1.30 – 2.00pm, 3.30 – 4.00pm, 5.00 – 5.30pm
Saturday, 23 January 2021: 1.30 – 2.00pm, 3.30 – 4.00pm, 5.00 – 5.30pm
Sunday, 24 January 2021: 1.30 – 2.00pm, 3.30 – 4.00pm, 5.00 – 5.30pm
Friday, 29 January 2021: 1.30 – 2.00pm, 3.30 – 4.00pm, 5.00 – 5.30pm
Saturday, 30 January 2021: 1.30 – 2.00pm, 3.30 – 4.00pm, 5.00 – 5.30pm
Free Jazz III. Sound. Walks.
Screening: Harano Sur (Lost Tune), Reetu Satar
Friday, 22 January 2021: 8.00 – 9.00pm
Activation: Mouthful (masked duet) by Ana Prvački
Saturday, 23 January 2021: 5.00 – 7.00pm
Sunday, 24 January 2021: 5.00 – 7.00pm
�FREE JAZZ III. SOUND. WALKS.
O C T O B E R 2 0 2 0 – M A R C H 2 0 2 1
Free Jazz III explores elements of dissonance, resistance,
and innovation embedded in its musical namesake and the
ability for sound and art to transcend physical and social
distance.
Sound. Walks.
January – March 2021
Under the Skin
December 1, 2020–January 31, 2021, Online
Under the Skin is curated for Free Jazz III by artist Cheong
Kah Kit (Singapore) as part of Proposals for Novel Ways
of Being, a united response to the changes brought about
by COVID-19 hosted by twelve Singapore arts institutions,
initiated by the National Gallery Singapore and Singapore
Art Museum.
PARTNER PROGRAMMES:
In this series of performative explorations of sound, music,
and community building, reflections take the form of
soundwalks, sonic wayfinding and other physical and aural
experiences, offering multiple ways for the public to actively
witness, listen and participate, both remotely and on-site.
Soundwalks by Arahmaiani (Indonesia) and
Jimmy Ong (Singapore), Tini Aliman (Singapore),
Christa Donner and Andrew S Yang (United States),
bani haykal (Singapore) and Lee Weng Choy (Malaysia),
Diana Lelonek (Poland) and Denim Szram (Poland/
Switzerland), Cheryl Ong (Singapore), Ana Prvački
(Romania/Germany) in collaboration with Joyce Koh
(Singapore) and Galina Mihaleva (Bulgaria/Singapore),
Reetu Sattar (Bangladesh), anGie seah (Singapore) and
Vivian Wang (Singapore/Switzerland).
Free Jazz III. Sound. Walks. is curated by Magdalena Magiera
(Germany/Singapore), NTU CCA Singapore Curator, Education and
Outreach, and Dr Karin Oen (United States/Singapore), NTU CCA
Singapore Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes
Part of
Supported by
Machine Listening, a curriculum
From October 2020, Online
Free Jazz III Activation: Improvisation and Control,
an online session
Saturday, 13 March, 3.00 – 6.00pm (SG) / 6.00 – 9.00pm (AU)
Machine Listening, a curriculum, instigated by Melbournebased Liquid Architecture, is curated by Sean Dockray,
Dr James Parker, and Joel Stern (all Australia)
Sollum Swaramum, 2021
Friday, 26 February 2021, 7.30 – 9.00pm
Saturday, 27 February 2021, 7.30pm – 9.00pm
Presented in collaboration with The Arts House’s Poetry
with Music series, the 4th edition of Sollum Swaramum,
brings together musicians in exploration of the synergies
between music and text, with devised and improvised texts.
Learn more >
�THE L AB
ROSLISHAM ISMAIL AKA ISE
CAMPUR, TOL AK, KALI, BAHAGI, SAMA DENGAN (ADD,
SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE,
EQUALS)
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In the basic arithmetic operations and their
specific properties that constitute the title of this
solo project, Roslisham Ismail aka Ise (Malaysia,
1972–2019) saw a reflection on his artistic
practice. Actions are performed differently; yet
the results could be the same. Held a little more
than one year since the artist’s saddening passing,
this exhibition captures the cosmopolitan spirit of
Ise’s practice, encounters with places, friends and
strangers alike that shaped his work and life.
Curated by Anca Rujoiu (Romania/Singapore) and realised
in collaboration with Ise parkingproject Foundation with
the support of A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur.
Learn more >
SINGAPORE ART BOOK FAIR
2021 RE:SOURCE EDITION
5 – 7 MARCH 2021
The Singapore Art Book Fair (SGABF) is an
independent annual multi-day event celebrating
contemporary art books and zines. Founded in
2013, it was the first of its kind in Southeast Asia,
and has now established itself as one of the leading
art book fairs in Asia. Each edition showcases
the innovative approaches of exhibitors from
Singapore and around the world, including artists,
designers, distributors, small presses, institutions,
galleries, zinemakers, and printmakers. Free and
open to the public, the fair draws thousands of
visitors each year, with more than 7,000 over one
weekend in the most recent 2019 edition.
SGABF is committed to deepening the
understanding of art books in Singapore, and
encouraging the exploration of this diverse
medium as a crucial, if not central aspect of art and
design practices.
Roslisham Ismail
aka Ise, Shutdown
Re.start, Operation
Bangkok, 2014.
Courtesy the artist.
< Learn more
�EXHIBITIONS
Free admission to exhibitions and public
programmes unless otherwise stated.
Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
Tel: +65 6339 6503
RESIDENCIES STUDIOS
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Blocks 37 and 38 Malan Road,
Singapore 109452 and 109441
RESEARCH CENTRE AND OFFICE
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10,
Singapore 108934 | Tel: +65 6460 0300
Email: ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
A RESEARCH CENTRE OF
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2020 BENEFIT
A
POSTHUMAN
NIGHT
In conjunction with
the exhibition
THE POSTHUMAN CITY
Thursday,
27 February 2020
7 – 10pm
NTU CCA Singapore
Exhibition Hall
Blk 43 Malan Road
Singapore 109443
Dress Code: Recycled Posthuman Chic
�PROGRAMME
7.00pm
Cocktail reception and viewing of auction lots
7.30pm
Welcome by
Professor Ute Meta Bauer
Founding Director,
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Professor, School of Art, Design and Media
Nanyang Technological University
&
Benedicta M Badia Nordenstahl
Philanthropist, Collector and Art Advocate
Special Ambassador for A Posthuman Night
8.00pm
A culinary experience by Appetite,
the research arm of the one-Michelin-starred
Restaurant Nouri
8.30pm
Performance by
The Observatory
9.00pm
Auction
Conducted by
Sara Mao, Director of Christie’s Education, Asia
Animali Domestici, Bangkok Opportunistic
Ecologies (detail), 2019. Courtesy the artists.
Artists:
Ang Song Nian, Animali Domestici, Heman Chong,
Fyerool Darma, Jae Rhim Lee, Alecia Neo,
Shubigi Rao, Wei Leng Tay,
and a surprise experience and artwork
by an internationally-acclaimed musician
10.00pm
Evening ends
A Research Centre of
�BENEFIT 2020
TICKETS
To purchase your tickets, please scan the QR Code.
Alternatively, you can fill up this card on both sides
and return it to us in the envelope provided.
Table – SGD $12,000 *
For 10 guests or alternatively nine guests + one
of our artists participating in the auction and/or
an NTU CCA Singapore Artist-in-Residence
Individual Seats – SGD $1,200 *
For
guests
If you are unable to attend and would like to make
a gift, please scan the QR Code
Alternatively, you can fill up this card on both sides
and return it to us in the envelope provided.
I will not be attending the benefit, but I would like
to make a gift of SGD $
*
*If you are a Singapore taxpayer, your gift is eligible for a 250% tax deduction
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COVER STORY
The best of
both worlds
The fruitful
outcomes at the
intersection of the
arts and sciences
Art, design and media can
create new ways to
communicate science as well as
to imagine and shape healthcare,
say researchers across NTU.
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hat do universities like
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT),
Califor nia Institute of
Technology and Princeton
University have in common?
Aside from being among the
best places in the world to conduct
scientific research and commercialise
technology, these institutions stand out
for the ways they have integrated the
arts, design and media into the research
process, often with remarkable results.
This fruitful relationship should
hardly be surprising, considering that
the terms “art” and “technology” share
the same root word, says Prof Ute Meta
Bauer, Founding Director of the NTU
Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
(NTU CCA). “The word ‘technology’
comes from the Greek word techne, which
means craftsmanship or art, so in that
sense, technology comes out of art,” she
explains. “People sometimes think of art
and technology as very separate things,
but actually, they are not.”
Founded in 2013 as a centre in NTU’s
College of Humanities, Arts, and Social
Sciences, NTU CCA actively fosters cross-
“The word
‘technology’ comes
from the Greek
word techne,
which means
craftsmanship
or art, so in that
sense, technology
comes out of art.”
Prof Ute Meta Bauer
Director, NTU Centre for Contemporary
Art Singapore
disciplinary dialogue and knowledge
transfer through its exhibitions, outreach
and educational programmes. “As an
anchor institution located in Singapore’s
Gillman Barracks international arts
precinct, we show how the arts is not
purely about economic activity driven by
the galleries, but also about knowledge
production,” Prof Bauer says. “We see
our role in introducing artistic research
and initiating collaborative projects with
a variety of partners, the results of which
we then share with the wider public.”
A SPACE FOR EXPERIMENTATION
Unlike museums, which have more
of a collection and conservation
mandate, NTU CCA functions as a living
laboratory, providing the space for artists
as well as curators to experiment and
collaborate across fields of knowledge,
Prof Bauer adds. In 2015, for example,
the Centre hosted Berlin-based artist
Tomás Saraceno, who presented a work
exploring the possibilities of interspecies
communication titled Arachnid Orchestra.
Jam Sessions.
For this project, Saraceno worked
with Singaporean arachnologist Joseph
Koh to study the webs of Southeast Asian
spiders such as Psechrus singaporensis
and Heteropoda davidbowie. The spiders
were encouraged to build webs that
then got connected to specialised
equipment like contact microphones
and laser vibrometers, which turned the
electromagnetic waves generated by the
vibrations of the spider silk into auditory
output. Local composers and musicians
were then invited to engage with the
spiders-turned-artists in three public
performances that are now available
online.
“One great outcome of that exhibition
is that it gave us a different perspective on
spiders, species that usually are not overly
liked; not just as useful animals that eat
insects but as creators of architectural
forms that mirror the structure of
galaxies,” Prof Bauer says. “As Tomás
says, nature has had so much more time
than us to develop forms ideally suited
for the conditions of this world. There is
much we can learn from studying nature.”
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“Although Saraceno’s ar tistic
inquiries are not science, it is an important
quality of scientists to be curious and
have a speculative view to generate new
hypotheses. That was what it was like
at MIT, where students from different
scientific disciplines signed up for classes
to learn from artistic methodologies,”
says Prof Bauer, who was the Founding
Director of the Programme in Art,
Culture and Technology at MIT’s School
of Architecture and Planning.
While Arachnid Orchestra. Jam
Sessions examined how spiders and
humans could communicate with each
other, The Oceanic exhibition delved
into how the activities of humans have
impacted the oceans—from seabed
mining to nuclear tests— and how art
could be used to communicate these
findings to diverse audiences. Bringing
together artists, anthropologists, marine
biologists and policymakers, The Oceanic
was a transdisciplinary exhibition at
NTU CCA, designed to make abstract
environmental consequences concrete
and spur audiences into action.
“What is fantastic about the arts is its
tangibility and capacity to communicate
complex ideas in a non-textual way. As
a university that engages in technology,
we have so much knowledge about what
can be done with regard to sustainability.
But it takes a while for this knowledge
to reach people and change habits and
culture; I think we need more intermediary
languages like film or art,” Prof Bauer says.
The conversation first initiated with
The Oceanic is being continued up to
today as part of NTU CCA’s overarching
three-year research focus, CLIMATES.
HABITATS. ENVIRONMENTS. The theme
builds on the previous topic of PLACE.
LABOUR. CAPITAL. and will culminate in
the second edition of NTU CCA Ideas Fest,
a platform for the exchange of ideas and
potential solutions planned for February
2020.
“Ultimately, both the arts and sciences are
about making the world a better place.”
Prof Dorrit Vibeke Sorensen
Chair, School of Art, Design and Media
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Apart from helping to communicate
scientific research to the public, another
way that the arts can contribute to science
and technology is through its compressed
research and development cycle, says
Prof Dorrit Vibeke Sorensen, Chair of
NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media
(ADM). “In the arts, you have to go from
conception to presentation in a very short
time. In the middle, there may be some
deep, fundamental research, but artists
very quickly have to apply it and make it
into an artwork that is accessible to the
stakeholders, be it the art community,
general public or the scientific community
as well.”
But the benefits of interaction go
both ways, particularly for an arts
school located within one of Asia’s
leading technological universities, Prof
Sorensen adds. “Collaborations we have
across the University help to bring the
latest information and knowledge from
the constituent fields into our School at
a very high level. Conversely, we bring
a lot of the latest design concepts into
engineering and science.”
This two-way conversation is
greatly facilitated by the uniquely
interdisciplinary faculty at ADM, says
Prof Sorensen, pointing out that ADM is
not only interdisciplinary across NTU, but
also within the School and even within
individual faculty members. “Most of our
faculty have training in more than one
area; they may have great strengths in
one field but more often than not they also
have depth in another. This background
allows them to collaborate on a deep level
with other experts.”
Take for example ADM’s Asst Prof
Michael Tan, who is also a member of
the medical humanities cluster at NTU’s
School of Humanities. Asst Prof Tan,
who holds a PhD in arts and health from
Durham University, investigates how art
and design can help to foster an inclusive
society for those with chronic health
conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease
and Parkinson’s.
In a project supported by Singapore’s
Agency for Integrated Care and the
National Arts Council, Asst Prof Tan
spearheaded an artist-in-residency
programme where artists were invited to
conduct arts engagement activities with
residents across ten nursing homes as a
way to promote health and wellbeing. The
project led to a public exhibition launched
in 2018 by Singapore President Halimah
Yacob that was attended by over 10,000
visitors.
“We found that the arts engagement
programme benefitted the residents at
both the individual and social levels. It not
only gave them a sense of skills building
and fulfilment, but also created a context
that fostered socialising among residents
as well as between residents and care
staff while making their works,” Asst
Prof Tan says.
Importantly, the pilot project provided
much-needed research evidence of how
the arts can help to promote health
and wellbeing. While there is growing
recognition of the role of arts in health,
conversations are scattered and not much
is known about the range of practices
and policies in place on the ground, Asst
Prof Tan says. To address this need, he
is collaborating with colleagues at the
National University of Singapore’s school
of public health to explore the state of
arts and health in Singapore and identify
existing gaps and opportunities.
“Uniting my research and teaching
is the goal of stimulating thinking about
how the arts could play a caring role in
society. It’s no longer just arts for art’s
sake, but re-imagining the boundaries
of what art can do in society,” says Asst
Prof Tan.
“I would also like to invite colleagues
from science-based disciplines to think
of new approaches to shape health
and wellbeing,” adds Asst Prof Tan,
who teaches an innovative course on
arts, ageing and wellbeing in NTU’s
interdisciplinary Master of Science in
Applied Gerontology programme.
THE HUMANITIES FOR HEALERS
In the same vein, art plays a crucial role
in the training of future doctors at the Lee
Kong Chian School of Medicine. Artworks
such as a large-scale ceramic-and-wood
art installation titled Apollo’s Dream—a
collaborative piece between the inaugural
batch of students in the School’s Bachelor
of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
degree programme and students of
Cultural Medallion winner and master
ceramicist Iskandar Jalil—are displayed
in the School’s buildings as a reminder
that medicine is ultimately about
understanding the human condition in
all its complexity.
Furthermore, medical humanities
are integrated into the curriculum in the
belief that the arts and culture should
shape healthcare practices, an approach
unique to NTU’s medical school. Through
medical humanities, students learn skills
such as observation, critical analysis
and interpretation, as well as how to
accept differing viewpoints and tolerate
ambiguity—skills required to practise
medicine in a sensitive and holistic way.
“Ultimately, both the arts and sciences
are about making the world a better place,
whether you are trying to make new
materials or improve the lives of the
disabled,” Prof Sorensen says. “The arts
can really help to move things forward,
especially the most urgent issues of our
day, such as addressing climate change.”
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FACES
exploring the
world through
PROF Ute Meta Bauer
“The future of universities lies in knowledge exchange
among their experts and across disciplines,” says Prof
Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director of the NTU Centre
for Contemporary Art (NTU CCA), who uses art as a
communication tool to bring social, cultural, political and
environmental issues to the attention of policymakers and
the public.
Before joining NTU in 2013, Prof Bauer was Founding
Director of the Programme in Art, Culture and Technology,
as well as Director of the Visual Arts Programme at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) School of
Architecture and Planning.
She has worked as a curator over three decades—most
notably as co-curator of Documenta11 (Vienna, Berlin,
New Delhi, St Lucia, Lagos and Kassel, 2001-2002); artistic
director of the 3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
(2004); co-director of the first World Biennial Forum,
Gwangju, South Korea (2012); and co-curator of the US
Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), featuring artist
Joan Jonas that received a special honourable mention.
In Singapore, Prof Bauer and her NTU CCA team
recently curated a public art trail and education programme
called “Culture City, Culture Scape”, which featured art
installations of internationally renowned talents that
were integrated into the landscape and architecture of
Mapletree Business City II, one of Singapore’s newest and
most prominent business hubs.
She also facilitated Quadra Medicinale Singapore, the
Singapore edition of a conceptual art project by the late
artist Jef Geys, which investigates wild flowers in multiple
cities around the world. Through artwork and educational
workshops, the exhibition shared the ecological and
medicinal value of simple street plants or weeds, which
are usually overlooked and not seen as useful elements
of urban environments.
“The potential of curating—making information
visible in a spatial way—lies in its very intuitive way of
reaching out to people, in particular to audiences that are
not experts in a given field,” says Prof Bauer, who is also
a professor at NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media,
where she teaches contemporary art and its relation to
curatorial practices.
Through programmes that range from exhibitions and
public programmes to research, academic education and
artist residencies, NTU CCA translates expert knowledge to
the wider public as well as to policymakers to assist them
in understanding the multifaceted realities of our world.
“Art is a medium to tell stories,” says Prof Bauer. “I
want NTU CCA to be a stimulator, a connectome. We seek
to bring different elements together, from various places,
disciplines and audiences.”
A
rt, in all its various forms, can enhance our
experience of the world. From architectural
installations and filmmaking to visual
design and microscopic insights, three NTU
researchers are using art and art-related
technologies to connect experts and people
everywhere. In doing so, they hope to help their
audiences better appreciate the world’s
complexities, and respond to the challenges that
need our attention and support.
Credit: Christine Fenzl.
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