Displacement]]> Identity]]> 19 Nov 2014, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm

NTU CCA Singapore Artist-in-Residence Anocha Suwichakornpong will be joined in conversation by filmmaker and NTU School of Art, Design and Media faculty, member Chen-Hsi Wong. Their conversation, interspersed with film clips and shorts, will discuss narrative in relation to memory, displacement and imaginings of the nation state.]]>
Anocha Suwichakornpong]]> Chen-Hsi Wong]]> Wong Chen-Hsi]]> Asia]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Residencies Insights: Conversations with Erin Gleeson and Luke Willis Thompson, Where’s beauty going to be when things get better? Memorialisation and the traumatic object

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Materiality]]> Identity]]> 3 Dec 2014, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Join NTU CCA Singapore Curator-in-Residence Erin Gleeson and Artist-in-Residence Luke Willis Thompson, winner of New Zealand’s acclaimed “Walters Prize” in 2014, as they tackle issues around the histories of objects and its nature in this dynamically led discussion. Gleeson will introduce the practice of late Cambodian artist Svay Ken (1933-2008) and the significance of his paintings. Thompson will present recent projects on looking at the vexed nature of objects and their memorialisation.]]>
Erin Gleeson]]> Luke Willis Thompson]]> Southeast Asia]]> Oceania]]>
Spaces of the Curatorial]]> 23 Jan 2015, Fri 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Matthew Mazzotta is a recipient of the Chamberlain award by the Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, which recognises an artist work in the discipline of social practice. He will discuss his ongoing practice of creating public interventions that open new social spaces focusing on community and public participation. The Q & A session will be facilitated by Curator-in-Residence, Robin Peckham.]]>
Matthew Mazzotta]]> Robin Peckham]]> North America]]>
Knowledge Production]]> Identity]]> 24 Sep 2014, Wed 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Malevich focuses on the idea of going back to square one and a time for the artist to work on unfinished projects enabled by NTU CCA Singapore’s Residencies Programme, dedicated to facilitating the creation of work through research and knowledge production. Join Lee Wen and guest collaborators in a multi-disciplinary showcase involving drawing, music and performances based on Lee’s playful response to Singapore being “square” and Russian Suprematist artist, Kazimir Malevich’s painting Black Square (1915).]]>
Lee Wen]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]> Artistic Research]]> 12 Feb 2015, Thu 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Seminar Room Block 43 Malan Road

Join eminent performance artist, Lee Wen and art historian, Nora Taylor as they present a conversation that will traverse time. An attempt at historicising the temporal based practice of performance art, this “transversation” suggests a journey, a cutting through, a kind of dissection.

Taylor is known for her field research in the ethnography of Vietnamese art and holds the Alsdorf Chair of South and Southeast Asian Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her current research explores the role of oral history in remembering performance art specifically in Singapore, Vietnam and Myanmar.]]>
Lee Wen]]> Nora Taylor]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Labour]]> Curatorial Practice]]> Cultural Heritage]]> 24 Mar 2015, Tue 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road
Tara McDowell will explore the shifts from artist and curator, to cultural and creative worker, as points of entry to discuss labour issues that may have been overlooked.]]>
Tara McDowell]]> Asia]]> Oceania]]>
Technology]]> History]]> 1 Apr 2015, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Caesium Forest is a feature-length video essay by artist Arjuna Neuman that visits five reverential sites of ‘big technology’. The project moves fluidly between nuclear, neoliberal and ecological histories through documenting space shuttles, techno raves, TED talks and a World War II re-enactment inside a nuclear weapons facility. This two-part presentation includes a viewing of the documentary followed by a question and answer session with the artist.]]>
Arjuna Neuman]]> North America]]>
Institutional Critique]]> Capitalism]]> 1 Apr 2015, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks

This talk by Curator-in-Residence, Hendrik Folkerts takes the Stedelijk Museum’s performance programme since 2010 as a point of departure. How does museum architecture, scale and monumentality affect the display of contemporary performance practice? And in what ways can we address questions of capital and economy – relating to the presentation, acquisition and conservation of performance work?]]>
Hendrik Folkerts]]> Europe]]>
Artistic Research]]> Performance]]> 15 Apr 2015, Wed 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Join NTU CCA Singapore Artist-in-Residence, Newell Harry in conversation with National Gallery Singapore, Senior Curator, Russell Storer. This talk will focus on Newell’s practice and touch upon his work during time spent engaging with Vanuatu.

Following the talk, Newell and fellow Artist-in-Residence, Bani Haykal have organised Artists for Vanuatu, a fundraising event for the Singapore Red Cross Vanuatu Appeal in response to the recent aftermath of Cyclone Pam that struck the island on 13 March 2015. The performance will bring together various music and art communities within Singapore and consists of music and improvised ensemble performances. Participants include: weish, Hell Low, Tim O’Dwyer, Erik Satay and the Kampong Arkestra.]]>
Newell Harry]]> Russell Storer]]> Bani Haykal]]> Southeast Asia]]> Oceania]]>
Architecture]]> History]]> 20 May 2015, Wed 7:00pm - 9:00pm
NTU CCA Singapore, The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road

This seminar takes two approaches on notions on place. The first will look at this through the work of Artist-in-Residence, Hamra Abbas whose past work has engaged with different facets of iconographic architecture. Simon Soon will share his research findings on the architectural and landscape history of Nanyang University (1955 and 1980) in relation to his larger project addressing how landscape and architecture facilitate a form of “social memory-practice” to Chinese modernity outside of China. Cheo Chai Hiang (artist) and Lai Chee Kien (architect) will act as respondents in this lively discussion.]]>
Hamra Abbas]]> Simon Soon]]> Cheo Chai Hiang]]> Lai Chee Kien]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]>