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First Name Charles Surname or Business Name Lim Years Affiliated Year range (starting year/ending year) affiliated with NTU CCA Singapore, or leave blank if not applicable. For date range with year only: YYYY/YYYY, e.g., 2014/2015 For date range with year and month: YYYY-MM/YYYY-MM, e.g., 2014-07/2015-06 2014-2015 Affiliation Company, organization, or institution name NTU CCA Singapore Birthplace Singapore Occupation Professional title or identity Artist Biographical Text Long-form biography for the Contributor (no character count). A short-form biography (no more than 240 characters) should be added to the Contributor's Description Charles Lim (b. 1973, Singapore) sees Singapore like no other artist. As a former professional sailor, his senses are keenly attuned to environments we rarely see and to forces most of us do not even notice. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibitions Description An account of the resource NTU CCA Singapore’s exhibitions focus on contemporary artistic production that provides a critical platform for reflection and discussion. Exhibition Curated group or solo shows that happen over a period of time, usually a few months, supported by auxiliary programmes. Examples include exhibition hall presentations, lab presentations, vitrine presentations, curated film programmes, and festivals. Related Countries Singapore Short Description Building upon the NTU CCA Singapore’s research theme Climates. Habitats. Environments. and IdeasCity’s exploration of the role of art and culture beyond the walls of the museum, IdeasCity Singapore’s residency and public program will examine the urgency of solidarity structures in negating climate change and its impact on Southeast Asia and communities worldwide. Exhibition Mode Festival Show Type Individual Artist (solo show) Thematic Presentation (group show) Thematic Presentation Location Onsite (CCA) Offsite Online Onsite (CCA) Online Exhibition Start Date 2020-02-15 Exhibition End Date 2020-02-22 Collaboration Yes Commissioned Work No Theme Place.Labour.Capital. Climates. Habitats. Environments. None Climates. Habitats. Environments. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ideas Fest 2020 Subject The topic of the resource Climate Crisis Ecology Sustainability Description An account of the resource NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and the New Museum are pleased to announce participants and collaborators for the second edition of the NTU CCA Ideas Fest, IdeasCity Singapore, guest-curated by IdeasCity, taking place in Singapore and across Southeast Asia from February 15 to 22, 2020. Building upon the NTU CCA Singapore’s research theme Climates. Habitats. Environments. and IdeasCity’s exploration of the role of art and culture beyond the walls of the museum, IdeasCity Singapore’s residency and public program will examine the urgency of solidarity structures in negating climate change and its impact on Southeast Asia and communities worldwide. Twenty practitioners have been selected from an international open call for the residency program at the NTU CCA Singapore to develop independent research at the intersection of art and ecology. Throughout the residency, participants will engage in workshops and lectures presented by local artists, practitioners, and community leaders, including Heman Chong, Lynette Chua, Drama Box, Charles Lim, Zarina Muhammad, and Post-Museum, along with organizations such as New Naratif, The Projector, Singapore Community Radio, soft/WALLS/studs, and The Substation. Residency Fellows include: Francisco Brown (United States), Jane Chang Mi (United States), Kar-men Cheng (Singapore), Lingying Chong (Singapore), Chloe C. Chotrani (Philippines/Singapore), Calvin Chua (Singapore), Fataah T. Dihaan (United States), ila (Singapore), Heider Ismail (Singapore), Lily Kwong (United States), Clarissa Ai Ling Lee (Malaysia), Michelle Lai (Singapore), Kwan Q Li (Hong Kong), Angela Mayrina (Indonesia/United Kingdom), John Kenneth Paranada (Philippines/United Kingdom), Patricia Sayuri (Japan/Brazil), Pen Sereypagna (Cambodia), Shahmen Suku (Singapore/Australia), Ruby Thiagarajan (Singapore), Dat Vu (Vietnam), Nikan Wasinondh (Bow) (Thailand) and Jason Wee (Singapore). For more information please visit: <a href="http://www.ideas-city.org/">http://www.ideas-city.org</a>. On February 22, 2020 at NTU CCA Singapore, IdeasCity Singapore will present and broadcast a series of dialogues between local and international artists and community leaders on topics including food sovereignty (Angela Dimayuga and Emeka Ogboh), underground archives (Heman Chong and Monica Narula of Raqs Media Collective), image and power (Ho Rui An and Shumon Basar), ecofeminism (Marwa Arsanios), and traces of migration (Kunlé Adeyemi, Eleena Jamil, Bouchra Khalili and Alfian Sa’at). A sequence of debate circles will examine the roles of solidarity and speculation in addressing climate injustice, featuring interdisciplinary perspectives from speakers such as Becca D’Bus, Kirsten Han, Prasoon Kumar and Zarina Muhammad. Workshops and conversations facilitated by Bakudapan Food Study Group and a presentation of new VR work by artist Rindon Johnson will invite select audiences to engage directly with artists envisioning pathways to equitable and sustainable futures. The programme will also feature screenings, showings, and remarks by performance artist ila and Digital Minister of Taiwan, Audrey Tang. Responding to the context of climate crisis, in which artists, activists, and scholars around the world are working today, IdeasCity Singapore will include a series of programmes across Southeast Asia in collaboration with The Forest Curriculum and Nomina Nuda (Los Baños, Philippines), Malaysia Design Archive (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), House of Natural Fiber (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), The Land (Chiang Mai, Thailand), Sàn Art (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (Boston, United States). Facilitated by IdeasCity and workshopped at NTU CCA Singapore with an advisory council of Singaporean community members whose work exemplifies equitable practices, a community agreement was developed that details best practices for achieving an accountable, sustainable, and authentic collaboration in Singapore. Programme on 22 February 2020 10.00am Start and Finish by Ute Meta Bauer and Vere van Gool 10.15am Dialogues by Shumon Basar and Ho Rui An on capitalism and the extreme self 11.00am Lecture by Kirsten Han on emergent medias and speech 11.20am Film screening by ila 12.00pm Presentation by Heman Chong on archives as commons 12.15pm Lecture Screening by Marwa Arsanios on ecofeminism and community 1.00pm Presentation by Monica Narula on submarine horizons 1.30pm Performance by Radha “Midnight Masala” 1.55pm Hologram lecture by Audrey Tang 2.00pm Conversation between Becca D’Bus and Fellows on solidarity with nature 3.00pm Discussion by Shumon Basar, Heman Chong, Vere van Gool, Charles Lim, and Zarina Muhammad on sovereignty and indigenous contexts 4.00pm Lecture by Emeka Ogboh on food diasporas 4.15pm Reading by Alfian Sa’at on the poetics of migration 4.30pm Presentations by House of Natural Fiber and the Land Foundation on strategies for combatting climate change 5.00pm Video Presentation by Angela Dimayuga on culture and cookbooks 5.10pm Discussion by Ute Meta Bauer, Vanessa Ho, and Prasoon Kumar on trust networks and sustainability 6.00pm Kitchen Mapping Workshop by Bakudapan Food Study Group 6.30pm VR Demo by Rindon Johnson on speculative futures 7.00pm Roundtable by Fellows 7.45pm Live Music by Bani Haykal 8.00pm Lecture Screenings by Kunlé Adeyemi, Eleena Jamil, and Bouchra Khalili on the poetics of migration 10.00pm Start and Finish by Ute Meta Bauer and Vere van Gool NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2020 is guest-curated by IdeasCity, New Museum, New York. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Heman Chong Lynette Chua Drama Box Charles Lim Zarina Muhammad Post-Museum New Naratif The Projector Singapore Community Radio soft/WALLS/studs The Substation Francisco Brown Jane Chang Mi Kar-men Cheng Lingying Chong Chloe C. Chotrani Calvin Chua Fataah T. Dihaan ila Heider Ismail Lily Kwong Clarissa Ai Ling Lee Michelle Lai Kwan Q Li Angela Mayrina John Kenneth Paranada Patricia Sayuri Pen Sereypagna Shahmen Ruby Thiagarajan Dat Vu Suku Nikan Wasinondh Jason Wee Ho Rui An Shumon Basar Angela Dimayuga Emeka Ogboh Monica Narula Marwa Arsanios Kunlé Adeyemi Eleena Jamil Bouchra Khalili Alfian Sa’at Becca D’Bus Kirsten Han Prasoon Kumar Ute Meta Bauer Ideas City Vere Van Gool Bani Haykal Rindon Johnson Bakudapan Food Study Group Vanessa Ho House of Natural Fiber Land Foundation Audrey Tang Radha Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Southeast Asia https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/57163/archive/files/b998b0e8081206b130445ac1f99b7676.pdf?Expires=1781740800&Signature=akQ5ili%7ElEQVQ8d6FYFbMGbjmWDbl0Y67WToHzAX0AxgyEsiY6e1gjGCE-DLNvalV9ws1X8NYJU2UhtfgXAVUKtDFLPom%7En5QikTTdfX5Sq0O3fcEHfRDFcixmgY1Jkbh4hj0l24bhVStTJMFZgPFggfyilCIqendW2JboSG7qdu%7EQVHs5goMX5TMlniBU2zd4U%7EIfkCa5QJgEALVKcNRh-eoG4IE%7ERSKqR4vH7SeOWRovk3MOdcrdzw%7E-puOFxOpvJQPxkRx78PumSoCmLuBC3J85yeiMZJ0LsPAaxllWuurETuYpl7iXwA5LJq-MqMvaaRzDxGKXEGfu25tK%7E9dQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM e42b11f6c42fbb57a862eea3e4341d89 PDF Text Text FRONT 01 OF 08 RED IS DIE CUT LINE l log ta m Sy y: Met aB au er F Dr D db Co ns ul ise Prof Ut e an Keyno te spe aker : rg her arc ese dr an Teh vid a een Scr gle Sin he ,T fa ta i Yo ng re Dr Vivien ne W ee Lim Y in do Char le s tS an Dr Imran bin Tajudeen ed e eiv un 8J 1 20 rC o nt Dr D em onn po aB ra run ry ero Ar Seth Denizen 6 e2 Day aO Th 01 6 ng 2 eG Ro Pro be rt fM Da H. ich t e: Lo wi ael Sa eD Josh M. tu i st ua i Grid J. 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SEA STATE by artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, commissioned for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, explores the biophysical, political and psychic contours of Singapore and serves as a point of departure for the symposium. Part I of the symposium took place in Venice, Italy during the Commissioned by: ABOU T THE SYMP Supported by: Held in: opening days of the Biennale, and this second iteration will continue and deepen the discussions on the occasion of SEA STATE’s presentation at NTU CCA Singapore. The symposium is organised by NTU CCA Singapore under its Research & Education programme, which aims to connect research based artistic practices with other forms of knowledge production. The programme is commissioned by the National Arts Council (NAC) and supported by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), with additional support from U.S. Embassy Singapore and National Gallery Singapore. Symposium supporter: Symposium venue partner: UM OSIU POSI M T ABOU YM THE S �FRONT 03 OF 08 The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II A symposium conceived and organised by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore on the occasion of Charles Lim Yi Yong : SEA STATE Southeast Asia, as a geographical region and conceptual category, is a contested entity shaped by diverse cultures and communities. The possibilities and uncertainties in this region – such as urban development, geopolitical relations, and anxieties surrounding national and regional identities – continue to pose unique social and political challenges. ABOU T THE The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II brings together an array of eminent speakers and respondents to address questions of contemporary art and culture through interdisciplinary approaches – considering bodies of water as cultural-territorial spaces in an exploration of rivers, land reclamation, sea ports, and nomadic communities. The conversations arising from this symposium offer insight into the Southeast Asian consciousness and how it informs the region’s evolving relationship with the wider world. SIUM SYMP OSIU M T ABOU YMPO THE S �FRONT 04 OF 08 Auditorium, National Gallery Singapore 1 St Andrew’s Road, S178957 Screening of ﬁlms by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Day 1: Wednesday, 1 June 2016 Day 2: Friday, 3 June 2016 This selection of ﬁlms by the award-winning Thai artist and ﬁlmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul serves as a prelude to the symposium. The screening of these ﬁlms set up a “conversation” between two artist-ﬁlmmakers, Apichatpong and Charles Lim Yi Yong, whose ﬁlms both explore tropical sensibilities. SCHEDULE: Wednesday, 1 June 2016 7.30 – 10.00pm Cemetery of Splendour (2015) 122 mins Friday, 3 June 2016 7.30 – 10.00pm Tropical Malady (2004) 118 mins Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tropical Malady (2004), ﬁlm still. Courtesy of Kick the Machine Films. PREL UDE E UD PREL �FRONT 05 OF 08 The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II A symposium conceived and organised by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore on the occasion of Charles Lim Yi Yong : SEA STATE DAY 1: FRIDAY, 17 JUNE 2016 DAY 2: SATURDAY, 18 JUNE 2016 7.00pm Registration & refreshments 9.30am Registration & refreshments 7.30pm Welcome addresses Paul Tan Deputy CEO, National Arts Council Professor Ute Meta Bauer 10.00am Opening address by morning session chairperson Professor Ute Meta Bauer 7.45 – 9.00pm Keynote Lecture Professor Aihwa Ong 10.10am Keynote Lecture Professor Michael M.J. Fischer In a Time of Earthquakes: Contemporary Chinese Artists Shake the World The rise of China as an economic and a political power has reshaped the global order. At a recent policy forum in Tokyo, Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large, Bilahari Kausikan, spoke about how Southeast Asian countries must be able to stand up to and get along with China at the same time. Indeed, any appreciation of the geopolitical situation of the region has to consider the presence of Asia’s largest nation and economy. In her keynote lecture, Professor Aihwa Ong speaks about how the emergence of Chinese contemporary art is also reshaping a global cultural order, and discusses the ramiﬁcations for Southeast Asian artists and their societies. SEA STATE: Charles Lim’s Video- and Photo-graphic Eye In his keynote lecture, Professor Michael M.J. Fischer attempts to read Charles Lim Yi Yong’s SEA STATE as an anthropologist, and to think about the visibility, visualisation and visions of Singapore, and how these imaginings are layered in the past, erased in the present, and sketched ahead for the future. Respondent: Dr Kristy H.A. Kang Respondent: Professor C.J. Wee Wan-ling SYMP OSIU M DA Y1 AY 2 UM D OSI SYMP �FRONT 06 OF 08 11.20am Session 1 – The River and its Representations Speaker: Gridthiya Gaweewong Respondent: Dr David Teh How do the arts engage the region or regional themes? How have cultural workers looked at geography as a means to explore ideas about local speciﬁcity as well as regional commonality? The Mekong River has been a source of inspiration for many artists and curators, including acclaimed Thai artist and ﬁlmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. His ﬁrst solo exhibition, Primitive, was largely shot in the border town, Nabua, where the Mekong divides Thailand and Laos, as well as his ﬁlm Mekong Hotel which screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Gridthiya Gaweewong will discuss the Mekong River in Apichatpong’s body of works, as well as her curatorial project Mekong Laboratory. 12.30pm Opening address by afternoon session chairperson Dr David Teh 1.40pm SYMP Lunch Break 1.30pm Session 2 – The Land and its Reclamations Speakers: Joshua Comaroff and Seth Denizen Respondent: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa If the sea has long been a preoccupation of Singapore artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, so has the reclamation of land from the sea. Since Singapore’s OSIU M DA Y2 independence in 1965, the island-city-state has grown over a quarter of its area through land reclamation on its outer lying islands and coasts. These circumstances may make Singapore unique in Southeast Asia, but in what ways does this demonstration of the technocratic state’s mastery over nature represent or misrepresent a shared aspiration of modernity in the region? In this session, Joshua Comaroff and Seth Denizen offer their perspectives on the larger implications of land reclamation. 2.50pm Session 3 – Of Nomads and Sea Ports Speakers: Dr Donna Brunero, Dr Wee Beng Geok and Dr Vivienne Wee Respondent: Dr Imran bin Tajudeen The total land area of Southeast Asia is almost evenly divided between countries which are part of continental Asia, and countries that are made of archipelagoes such as The Philippines and Indonesia. But beyond the lands of continents and islands, the sea is also one of the most important geophysical reality of the region. In this session, Dr Vivienne Wee examines the sea nomads — the Orang Laut community in the Riau region; Dr Donna Brunero speaks about histories of port city communities; and Dr Wee Beng Geok will talk about maritime commerce and industry. 4.20pm 4.40 – 6.00pm Tea Break Roundtable discussion Participants: Professor Michael M.J. Fischer, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa and Professor Aihwa Ong Moderators: Professor Ute Meta Bauer and Dr David Teh AY 2 UM D OSI SYMP �FRONT 07 OF 08 Professor Aihwa Ong is Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies, Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology and Chair of Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Her research interests include governance and citizenship, Asian cities, cosmopolitan science and contemporary Asian art. Professor Ong has authored the publications Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (1987); Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural Logics of Transnationality (1999); Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (2003) and Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (2006). Among the publications she co-edited are Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (2005); Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar (2008); Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate (2010) and Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments with the Art of Being Global (2011). Professor Ong has given numerous lectures internationally and she has been invited to the World Economic Forum. Her forthcoming book draws on research in Biopolis, Singapore: Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life (Duke University Press, 2016). Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology and Chair of Asian Studies, UC Berkeley (Malaysia/United States) DAY 1 KEYN OTE Professor Michael M.J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School; and a Principal Investigator at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) International Design Center. He was the inaugural Ngee Ann Kongsi Visiting Professor at Tembusu College, National University of Singapore (NUS). Professor Fischer is the author of “Ethnography for Aging Societies: Dignity, Cultural Genres, and Singapore’s Imagined Futures”, American Ethnologist (April 2015) and articles on Singapore’s life science initiative (Biopolis). He has also authored three books on Iran, and three on social theory including Anthropology as Cultural Critique (with George Marcus, 1996), Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice (2003), and Anthropological Futures (2009). In the arts, he has authored pieces with psychiatrist-print-maker Eric Avery, painter Parviz Yashar, and most recently a catalogue essay with artists Entang Wiharso and Sally Smart. Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, MIT (United States) SPEA KERS DAY 2 TE EYNO PROF K AIHW A ON G HAEL MIC PROF M.J. ER FISCH KERS SPEA �FRONT 08 OF 08 Professor Ute Meta Bauer is the Founding Director of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) and a Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Prior to this, she was Dean of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, London (2012-2013); Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Founding Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (2005-2012). She also served as Founding Director of the Office for Contemporary Art (OCA), Oslo (2002-2005); was Artistic Director of the 3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2004), and was co-curator of Documenta11 (2001/2002). Most recently in 2015, she co-curated with MIT List Centre for Visual Art Director Paul Ha the U.S. Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale presenting eminent artist Joan Jonas, the exhibition was honoured with a Special Mention for best National Pavilion.. CHAI Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore and Professor, School of Art, Design & Media, NTU (Germany/Singapore) RPER S Dr David Teh is a writer, curator, art advisor, and researcher based at the National University of Singapore (NUS), specialising in Southeast Asian contemporary art. Before moving to Singapore, he worked as an independent curator and critic in Bangkok (2005-2009), and has since realised projects in Germany, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Dr Teh’s writings have appeared in Third Text, Afterall, LEAP Magazine, Art Asia Paciﬁc, artforum.com and The Bangkok Post. His new book on Thai contemporary art will be published in 2017 by MIT Press. Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, NUS (Australia/Singapore) ONS S RPER CHAI ONS PROF UTE M EH ETA B AUER T AVID DR D �BACK 01 OF 08 Located in Gillman Barracks, the NTU CCA Singapore is a national research centre of Nanyang Technological University and is supported by a grant from the Economic Development Board, Singapore. The Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of exhibitions, residencies, research and academic education. The NTU CCA Singapore positions itself as a space for critical discourse and encourages new ways of thinking about Spaces of the Curatorial in Southeast Asia and beyond. As a national research centre, it aims to provide visiting researchers and curators a comprehensive study on the contemporary art ecosystem in Singapore and the Southeast Asian region. The Centre’s dynamic public programme serves to engage with various audiences through lectures, workshops, open studios, Office & Research Centre Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10 Singapore 108934 Exhibitions Block 43 Malan Road Singapore 109443 ABOU T NTU Residencies Studios Block 37 & 38 Malan Road Singapore 109452 & 109441 Office +65 6460 0300 Exhibitions +65 6339 6503 Email ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg ﬁlm screenings and Exhibition (de)Tours. Since the Centre’s inauguration in October 2013, the NTU CCA Singapore has presented several high-proﬁle, ﬁrst-to-launch exhibitions of leading artists, making it one of the ﬁrst spaces in the region to present international exhibitions of such a scale. The Centre’s residencies programme is dedicated to facilitating the production of knowledge and research, engaging and connecting artists, curators and researchers from Singapore, Southeast Asia and beyond, and across various disciplines. The Centre’s seven studios support the artistic process in the most direct way – by giving the time and locale to be fully engaged, and the access to an interesting and immersive context to further the space for developing ideas. Symposium Organisation Team Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director Cheong Kah Kit, Manager, Research Samantha Leong, Executive, Conference, Workshops & Archive For updates on exhibitions and programmes, visit www.ntu.ccasingapore.org www.facebook.com/ntu.ccasingapore Instagram: @ntu_ccasingapore E APOR CCA SI NGAP ORE ABOU TN NG CA SI TU C �BACK 02 OF 08 Dr Vivienne Wee is an anthropologist who has done extensive ﬁeld research in Singapore and Indonesia, especially the Riau Archipelago. She was previously Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and also at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2015, together with Geoffrey Benjamin and Sarah Benjamin, Dr Wee co-founded Ethnographica Private Limited, which is dedicated to ethnographic research on social development, community engagement, heritage conservation, cultural mapping, linguistic documentation and other related ﬁelds. DAY 2 SPEA Independent anthropologist and researcher (Singapore) KERS DR V IVIEN NE W EE Charles Lim Yi Yong: SEA STATE Exhibition: 30 April – 10 July 2016 Charles Lim Yi Yong: SEA STATE, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, installation view. Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore. SEA STATE by artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, commissioned for the Singapore Pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale and curated by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, examines Singapore's vexed relationship with the sea. SEA STATE at NTU CCA Singapore is the ﬁrst signiﬁcant gathering of the various critically acclaimed components of the project since it started in 2005, and the Centre’s ﬁrst major exhibition of a Singaporean artist. ON IBITI T ABOU XH THE E �BACK 06 OF 08 Dr Wee Beng Geok is a consultant of the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) where she was Associate Professor from 1999 to 2014. In 2000, she set up the Asian Business Case Centre at the Nanyang Business School, and was its Director until 2014. Dr Wee has written and published many business case studies and several casebooks, including a series of case studies on the maritime industries in Singapore. Her career in Singapore’s corporate sector spanned two decades of which more than half were in the maritime sector. Dr Wee's current research interests include the history of maritime businesses and industries in Singapore. DAY 2 SPEA Professor C.J. Wee Wan-ling is a Professor of English at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore and has held visiting fellowships at – among other institutions – the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, United States and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and the Humanities, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. Professor Wee is the author of Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern (2003) and The Asian Modern: Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore (2007). He is also a co-editor of the anthology Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research (2010). Professor Wee is a member of the editorial board of the journal Modern Asian Studies. Consultant, Nanyang Business School, NTU (Singapore) Division of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU (Singapore) KERS DR W EE BE NG G EOK PRO . WEE F C.J DAY 1 KERS SPEA ING -L WAN �BACK 05 OF 08 Charles Lim Yi Yong presented SEA STATE for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore). In 2002, he participated in Documenta11 in Kassel, Germany as a member of the net-art collective tsunamii.net. A former professional and Olympic sailor, Lim’s practice stems from an intimate, bodily engagement with the natural world, mediated and informed by ﬁeld research and experimentation, performance, drawing, photography and video. His moving image works have been screened in international ﬁlm festivals at Rotterdam, Tribeca and Edinburgh. Lim’s short ﬁlm all the lines ﬂow out premiered at the 68th Venice Film Festival in 2011 and received a Special Mention, making him the ﬁrst Singaporean to be honoured at the festival. Recent iterations of SEA STATE have been exhibited at Manifesta 7 (2008), the Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne, France (2013) and at biennales in Shanghai (2008), Singapore (2011) and Osaka (2013). Various stages of the project have been presented at all of Singapore’s major institutions, including the National Museum of Singapore, National Library (NLB), Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and National University of Singapore Museum (NUS Museum). DAY 2 SPEA Shabbir Hussain Mustafa curated SEA STATE for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore). He is Senior Curator at the National Gallery Singapore, where he researches art from Singapore and Southeast Asia. Mustafa was formerly a curator at the National University of Singapore Museum (NUS Museum) from 2007 – 2013, where his approach centred on deploying archival texts as ploys in engaging different modes of thinking and writing. His numerous curatorial projects have ranged across Southeast Asia, including the critically acclaimed The Suﬁ and The Bearded Man (2010) and Camping and Tramping through The Colonial Archive: The Museum in Malaya (2011). Mustafa co-conceived the experimental project space prep room | things that may or may not happen. Most recently, he curated In Search of Raffles’ Light | An Art Project with Charles Lim (2013), a three-year collaboration with the artist that tracked the immaterial, mundane and irreconcilable traces surrounding Singapore’s fractured relationship with the sea. Mustafa has written extensively about methodological considerations for the rethinking of curatorial practice in Singapore and is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, Singapore. Artist, SEA STATE (Singapore) Curator, SEA STATE, and Senior Curator, National Gallery Singapore (Singapore) KERS CHAR LES L IM YI YONG BIR SHAB AIN HUSS DAY 2 KERS SPEA AFA MUST �BACK 04 OF 08 Dr Imran bin Tajudeen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests include place histories and the processes, underlying motivations and assumptions through which notions of heritage have been constituted, and how they are narrated in contemporary reconstructions and representations. Dr Imran has been engaged in a number of urban history and heritage documentation projects, among which the most recent is as the main consultant for the recovery and documentation of the historic graves at Jalan Kubor, Kampung Gelam with Nusantara Consultancy. His doctoral dissertation (NUS, 2009) on the architecture and urban histories of Southeast Asian cities won the ICAS Book Prize for Best PhD (Social Sciences) in April 2011. Dr Imran was postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden, The Netherlands. DAY 2 SPEA KERS Dr Kristy H.A. Kang is a media artist and scholar whose work explores narratives of place and geographies of cultural memory. She is Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and Associate Director of the Spatial Analysis Lab (SLAB) at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Sol Price School of Public Policy in Los Angeles, United States. In Singapore and the United States, Dr Kang collaborates with urban planners and policy specialists on ways to visualise overlooked spaces, histories and people. She is a founding member of the Labyrinth Project research initiative on interactive narrative and digital scholarship at USC where she has served as researcher, project director, and designer on a range of collaborative projects. These works have been presented internationally at venues including the Getty Center, The ZKM Center for Art and Media, Museum of Art at Seoul National University, The Jewish Museum, Berlin, and received several awards including the Jury Award for New Forms at the Sundance Online Film Festival. Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, NUS (Singapore) Media artist and Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design & Media, NTU (United States/Singapore) DR IM RAN BIN T AJUD EEN 2 DAY KERS SPEA D IST Y R KR NG KA H.A. �BACK 03 OF 08 Seth Denizen is a landscape architect trained in evolutionary ecology and is currently completing a PhD in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). His doctoral research is currently investigating the vertical geopolitics of urban soil in Mexico City, where he is working with geologists and systems ecologists to characterise the material complexities and political forces that shape the distribution of geological risk in Distrito Federal’s urban periphery. In 2014 he was the recipient of a SEED-fund grant supporting his research “Mapping the Microbiome of Hong Kong”, which is an ongoing collaboration between the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Science at the University of Hong Kong to investigate the genetic diversity of transportation infrastructure. In 2013, Denizen took 1st prize in an international information design competition: OUT OF BALANCE – CRITIQUE OF THE PRESENT by ARCH+ Journal for Architecture and Urban Design and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. DAY 2 SPEA Gridthiya Gaweewong is currently a Curator and Artistic Director of the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok. She is co-founder and director of Project 304, a non-proﬁt art space based in Bangkok, focusing on multidisciplinary and cross-cultural contemporary art projects by local and international artists. Gridthiya has curated numerous exhibitions and ﬁlms festival including the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (1997-2007), Under Construction (2002), Politics of Fun (2005), Saigon Open City (2006-7), Short Film Festival from Southeast Asia (2009), Between Utopia and Dystopia (2011) and Primitive (2011). She is the curator of Serenity of the Madness, a restrospective exhibition of Apichatpong Weerasethakul that will open in July 2016 at the Mai Iam Contemporary Art Museum (MICAM), Chiangmai. PhD candidate, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley (United States) Artistic Director and Curator, Jim Thompson Art Center (Thailand) KERS DAY 2 KERS SPEA SETH NG EWO AWE YA G THI DENI ZEN GRID �BACK 07 OF 08 Dr Donna Brunero is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research and teaching focuses include the British empire in Asia, colonial port cities of Asia, maritime history, heritage, and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. Amongst the publications Dr Brunero has authored are Britain’s Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949 (2006) and “To capture a vanishing era: the development of the Maze Collection of Chinese Junk Models, 1929–1948”, Journal for Maritime Research (April 2015). She was the recipient of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Awards in AY2015-16 and AY2014-15. DAY 2 SPEA KERS Joshua Comaroff is an academic geographer and designer at Lekker Architects. He studied literature and creative writing at Amherst College before joining the Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture programmes at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Comaroff’s doctoral research focused upon the subject of haunted landscapes and urban memory in Singapore. In recent years, he has written about architecture, urbanism, and politics, with an Asian focus, and is the co-author (with Ong Ker-Shing) of Horror In Architecture (2013). In addition to practice, Comaroff teaches at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, NUS (Australia/Singapore) Design consultant, Lekker Architects (United States/Singapore) DR D ONN A BR UNER O DAY 2 KERS SPEA UA JOSH ROFF A COM �BACK 08 OF 08 Screening of ﬁlms by Apichatpong Weerasethakul NTU CCA Singapore, The Single Screen Day 2: Saturday, 18 June 2016 NTU CCA Singapore, The Single Screen Block 43 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks, S109443 Block 43 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks, S109443 SCHEDULE: SCHEDULE: Day 1: Wednesday, 1 June 2016 7.30 – 10.00pm 9.30am Registration & refreshments Day 2: Friday, 3 June 2016 7.30 – 10.00pm 10.00am Opening address – morning session 10.10am Keynote Lecture The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II Day 1: Friday, 17 June 2016 National Gallery Singapore, Auditorium 11.20am Session 1 12.30pm Lunch Break 1.30pm Opening address – afternoon session 1.40pm Session 2 1 St Andrew’s Road, S178957 2.50pm Session 3 4.20pm Tea Break 4.40 – 6.00pm Roundtable discussion SCHEDULE: 7.00pm DULE Welcome addresses 7.45 – 9.00pm SCHE Registration & refreshments 7.30pm Keynote Lecture Free Admission. 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NTU CCA Singapore presents an International Symposium dedicated to the late photographer, theorist, photography historian and critic, Allan Sekula. Situated within the context of Allan Sekula’s exhibition Fish Story, to be continued at NTU CCA Singapore, the symposium will mark a concluding point to the show and highlight the continued relevance of his work and writing on the theme of globalisation. The programme of the symposium will focus on key themes underlying Allan Sekula’s practice including questions of critical realism in contemporary art, representation of labour as well as the vast topic of the sea as the “forgotten space” of the contemporary global economy. SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS The symposium will bring together art professionals who have collaborated with Allan Sekula across the years and who will share their insights and experience of working with the artist. The list of contributors comprises: Hilde Van Gelder (Director of the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Leuven), Carles Guerra (Director of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona), Roger Buergel (Director of the Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich), Mercedes Vicente, Curator and Writer (PhD Candidate, Royal College of Art, London). In the second part of the symposium, the complexities of the maritime world and maritime nations unpacked by Allan Sekula in his extensive research will be grounded in the local context of Singapore, an important harbour in colonial and post-colonial times. Contributors to this discussion include Shabbir Hussain Mustafa (Curator for the Singapore Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale) Charles Lim (Artist for the Singapore Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale) and Chung Chee Kit (Naval Architect and former Director of Keppel). The symposium will be moderated by Ute Meta Bauer (Founding Director of NTU CCA Singapore) and Anca Rujoiu (Curator, Exhibitions of NTU CCA Singapore). Acknowledgments: Frac Bretagne | Museum of Modern Art, New York | Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Collection, Vienna �EXHIBITION RESEARCH RESIDENCIES NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Block 6, #01-09/10, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108934 Offices Website +65 6460 0300 ntu.ccasingapore.org SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME Part I: Working with Allan Sekula 10:50am | Welcome note by Ute Meta Bauer with Anca Rujoiu 11:00 – 11:30am | Keynote: Working with Allan Sekula by Hilde Van Gelder This lecture addresses a selection of collaborations and exchanges between Allan Sekula and Hilde Van Gelder during the last decade of the artist’s life. Starting from the outdoor billboard panel installation Shipwreck and Workers, which Sekula exhibited at STUK Arts Centre in Leuven in 2005 and two years later at Documenta 12 in Kassel, the discussion will lead up to Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum (2010-2013) – Sekula’s last and, sadly, incomplete project. That trajectory will allow us to understand in more depth the many ways in which Fish Story (1990-1995) was the decisive, foundational project for most, if not all, of Sekula’s later works, which we have come to understand in terms of “critical realism” (as coined by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh). 11:30 – 12:00pm | Presentation: Arrested Flow by Carles Guerra On November 19, 2002 the Galician coast suffered one the biggest ecological disasters. A tanker carrying 77,000 tons of fuel oil split in half at about 130 miles offshore. The fuel oil released from the single-hulled tanker soon reached the Spanish, Portuguese and French coastline and polluted the seabed and its beaches. In spite of the overwhelming evidence, the conservative government ruling Spain at the time denied the immediate and severe consequences of the oil spill. The national media made invisible what became a massive reaction of the population who undertook a mobilisation to clean up thousands of kilometers invaded by the chapapote. The disaster turned into a spectacular organisation. Corrupt leaders and volunteers engaging in a Sisyphean task shared the stage. For Allan Sekula, a photographer committed in the long-term to the peculiarities of the maritime economies, this was beyond the logic of the documentary. In Galicia he experienced the absurdity of the events as they were gathered and recollected by factual descriptions. That is to say, he who championed documentary aesthetics experienced the limits of such a genre. Finding impossible to report in a journalistic vein, Black Tide. Fragments for an Opera (2003) delivered a pseudo-photojournalistic approach to the disaster. This was the result of an invitation issued by the newspaper La Vanguardia that brought the two of us together during the last days of December 2002. The result, one of the rare interventions Allan ever did in a newspaper, was finally published early in 2003. Footage from these days was to be included in The Lottery of the Sea (2006), where the disaster appears as a fleeting episode in a more ambitious constellation describing a global disorder based on the power that emanates from the sea. 12.00 – 12.30pm | Presentation by Roger Buergel 12.30 – 1:00pm | Q & A – Moderated by Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu 1.00 – 2.00 pm | Lunch Break 2.00 – 2.30 pm | Presentation: Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors? (Poem “Questions From a Worker Who Reads”, Bertolt Brecht 1935) by Mercedes Vicente This presentation will draw on some of the themes that Allan Sekula’s essayistic film The Lottery of the Sea touches upon — free markets, democracy, war – built around a bank of images of the lives of working people that form the backdrop and the social and political fabric of what we term globalisation. At the roundtable discussion, Vicente will also introduce parallels between Allan Sekula’s and Darcy Lange's mutual interest in the representation of labour, their fidelity to the social referent in photographic and moving image practices, and their commitment to critically question realism while being understood and articulated through their different approaches. Sekula’s ‘critical realism’ sought structuralist semiotics as a way to engage with the complexity of social representation, while Lange’s positivism offered a systematic and aesthetically uninflected approach that rejected artistic expression for its prevailing social referential function. Both were invested in the image of work and of the people at work so seldom portrayed and in documentary's potential of social transformation. �EXHIBITION RESEARCH RESIDENCIES NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Block 6, #01-09/10, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108934 Offices Website +65 6460 0300 ntu.ccasingapore.org Part II: The Sea as Forgotten Space 2.30 – 3.30pm | Conversation between Chung Chee Kit, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa & Charles Lim 3.30 – 3.45pm | Coffee Break 3.45 – 4.45 pm | Final roundtable discussion BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS Hilde Van Gelder is a curator, writer and the director of the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, together with Alexander Streitberger (Université catholique de Louvain). She is editor of the Lieven Gevaert Series (University Press Leuven). With a background in law and philosophy, her research focuses on how photographic and moving image as contemporary art can contribute to shaping insights into the current state of the global political and socio-economic sphere. She has published on a wide range of artists, including Allan Sekula, Victor Burgin, Peter Friedl, Gilles Saussier, and Bruno Serralongue. She is the co-editor of Critical Realism in Contemporary Art, Around Allan Sekulla’s Photography. Carles Guerra is an artist, art critic and independent curator based in Barcelona. He was the Chief Curator at MACBA (2011-2013) and Director of La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (2009-2011). Guerra is currently an associate professor at the Universitat PompeuFabra. In 2011, he was awarded the Ciutat de Barcelona Prize for his contribution in the field of visual arts. He is currently the member of the editorial board at Cultura/s since 2001 where he authored numerous essays, N for Negri (2000), Allan Sekula speaks with Carles Guerra (2005) and Negatives of Europe. Video Essays and Collective Pedagogies (2008). Roger Buergel is an art critic, a curator, and a member of Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015’s Professional Advisory Board. Before serving as a guest curator for the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona he taught art history at Luneburg University (1999–2005) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe (2007–09). He was appointed the artistic director of Documenta XII (Kassel, 2007) with art historian and curator Ruth Noack. Buergel also served as the artistic director of the 6th Busan Biennale (2012). In 2010, he was appointed the Founding Director of the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich, an exhibition space and research institution dedicated to the cultural residue of global trade routes. Mercedes Vicente is a curator and writer undertaking an AHRC-funded PhD at the Royal College of Art, London. Prior to her current studies, Mercedes worked in New York and New Zealand. She was Curator of Contemporary Art at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Darcy Lange Curator-at-Large. Mercedes earned masters’ degrees in Film and the Arts at New York University and in Curatorial Studies at Bard College and was the Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Recent curatorial projects include Art and Social Change Research Project: Delhi Residency, 2013 (Te Tuhi and The Physics Room 2014); Vestigios invisibles (EACC, 2014), and at Govett-Brewster: Walters Prize nominee Maddie Leach’s If you find the good oil let us know (2013). She is also contributing editor of Darcy Lange: Study of an Artist at Work (Govett-Brewster and Ikon Gallery, 2008) published in conjunction with the exhibition Darcy Lange Work Studies in Schools (Ikon Gallery, 2008). Shabbir Hussain Mustafa is Curator at the National Gallery of Singapore, where he researches on art from Singapore and Southeast Asia. He was formerly Curator at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum from 2007 till 2013. Charles Lim sees Singapore like no other artist. As a former professional sailor, his senses are keenly attuned to environments we rarely see and to forces most of us do not even notice. His early collaborative project, tsunamii.net, which participated in Documenta 11 (2002) traced the hidden submarine infrastructure that underpins our global computer networks. After sailing for Singapore in the 1996 Olympics, Lim studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London, graduating in 2001. His SEA STATE series is an ongoing body of work that has been exhibited at the Dojima River Biennale, Osaka (2013); Lyon Biennial Rendez-Vous 13 at the Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne (2013); the Singapore Biennale (2011); Manifesta 7, Trentino-South Tyrol (2008); Shanghai Biennale (2008). Lim’s moving image works have been screened in international film festivals at Rotterdam, Tribeca and Edinburgh. His multi-award-winning short film, All The Lines Flow Out, premiered at the 68th Venice Film Festival, winning a Special Mention, the first award ever won there by a Singaporean production. �EXHIBITION RESEARCH RESIDENCIES NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Block 6, #01-09/10, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108934 Offices Website +65 6460 0300 ntu.ccasingapore.org Chung Chee Kit graduated in Naval Architecture from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. His career with Keppel Corporation, Straits Steamship and IMC Shipping brought him into contact with ship repair, shipbuilding, offshore engineering, ship management and port development, and he has developed a deep love for all things connected with the sea and ships. Currently retired, he now enjoys painting maritime subjects, and is an advocate of a greater appreciation of maritime heritage in Singapore. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION, FISH STORY, TO BE CONTINUED The exhibition Fish Story, to be continued (3 July – 27 September 2015) brings together at NTU CCA Singapore core works of Allan Sekula’s research of the global maritime industry from the collections of Fond Regional d’art contemporain Bretagne, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna. Curated by Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu (NTU CCA Singapore), the exhibition introduces chapters from Fish Story (1988 – 1993) alongside two filmic extensions of the project, Lottery of the Sea (2006) and The Forgotten Space (2010), co-directed with the film theorist and director Nöel Burch. In juxtaposition to Allan Sekula’s exhibition, NTU CCA Singapore invited the curator Mercedes Vicente (Darcy Lange Curator-at-Large) to present Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work (12 August – 27 September 2015). This selection of works by the late New Zealand artist Darcy Lange from the Darcy Lange Estate and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, examines these two artistic practices that meet in a shared interest of representing labour, yet through different approaches. Fish Story, to be continued and Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small day-to-day work punctuate NTU CCA Singapore’s overarching narrative PLACE.LABOUR.CAPITAL. NTU CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART SINGAPORE The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore), opened in October 2013, is a national research centre of Nanyang Technological University developed with support from the Economic Development Board, Singapore. Located in Gillman Barracks alongside a cluster of international galleries, NTU CCA Singapore led by Founding Director, Professor Ute Meta Bauer takes a holistic approach towards art and culture, intertwining its three platforms: exhibitions, residencies, research & education. NTU CCA Singapore positions itself as a centre for critical discourse and experimental practices for Singapore, the region and beyond. It aims to play an active role within the local art scene, and contribute to the development of regional and international art infrastructures. Research Centre & Office: Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108934 Email: ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg Phone: +65 6460 0300 For updates on exhibitions and programmes, visit www.ntu.ccasingapore.org www.facebook.com/ntu.ccasingapore Follow us on Instagram: @ntu_ccasingapore � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resources Programme Resource Collateral and other print or digital materials pertaining to residency programmes. Examples include residency brochures, postcards, etc. Short Description NTU CCA Singapore presents an international symposium that will mark a concluding point to the show and will highlight the continued relevance of Allan Sekula’s work and writings on the theme of globalisation and capitalism. 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The symposium will bring together art professionals who have collaborated with Allan Sekula across the years, as well as different researchers and artists who share a set of common interests with his work.The programme will focus on key themes underlying Allan Sekula’s practice including questions of critical realism in contemporary art, representation of labour as well as the vast topic of the sea. The exhibition Fish Story, to be continued (3 July – 27 September 2015) brings together at NTU CCA Singapore core works of Allan Sekula’s research of the global maritime industry from the collections of Fond Regional d’art contemporain Bretagne, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York and Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna. Curated by Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu (NTU CCA Singapore), the exhibition introduces chapters from Fish Story (1988 – 1993) alongside two filmic extensions of the project, Lottery of the Sea (2006) and The Forgotten Space (2010), co-directed with the film theorist and director Nöel Burch. 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Title A name given to the resource The Geopolitical and Biophysical II A3 Posters Description An account of the resource The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) presents The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II, a symposium addressing the multiple notions of “Southeast Asia” and the various issues surrounding its borders, territories, dilemmas and anxieties. SEA STATE by artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, commissioned for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, explores the biophysical, political and psychic contours of Singapore and served as a point of departure for the symposium. Part I of the symposium took place in Venice, Italy during the opening days of the Biennale, and this second iteration will continue and deepen the discussions on the occasion of SEA STATE’s presentation at NTU CCA Singapore. Southeast Asia, as a geographical region and conceptual category, is a contested entity shaped by diverse cultures and communities. The possibilities and uncertainties in this region – such as urban development, geopolitical relations, and anxieties surrounding national and regional identities – continue to pose unique social and political challenges. The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II brings together an array of eminent speakers and respondents to address questions of contemporary art and culture through interdisciplinary approaches – considering bodies of water as cultural-territorial spaces in an exploration of rivers, land reclamation, sea ports, and nomadic communities. The conversations arising from this symposium offers insight into the Southeast Asian consciousness and how it informs the region’s evolving relationship with the wider world. The symposium is organised by NTU CCA Singapore under its Research & Education programme, which aims to connect research based artistic practices with other forms of knowledge production. As a prelude to the symposium, NTU CCA Singapore will screen films by Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul on 1 and 3 June 2016 to set up a “conversation” between two artist-filmmakers, Apichatpong and Charles Lim Yi Yong. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-06-17/2016-06-18 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Aihwa Ong Michael M.J. Fischer Donna Brunero Joshua Comaroff Seth Denizen Gridthiya Gaweewong Imran bin Tajudeen Kristy H.A. Kang Charles Lim Shabbir Hussain Mustafa Dr Wee Beng Geok Professor C.J. 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SEA STATE by artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, commissioned for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, explores the biophysical, political and psychic contours of Singapore and serves as a point of departure for the symposium. Part I of the symposium took place in Venice, Italy during the Commissioned by: ABOU T THE SYMP Supported by: Held in: opening days of the Biennale, and this second iteration will continue and deepen the discussions on the occasion of SEA STATE’s presentation at NTU CCA Singapore. The symposium is organised by NTU CCA Singapore under its Research & Education programme, which aims to connect research based artistic practices with other forms of knowledge production. The programme is commissioned by the National Arts Council (NAC) and supported by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), with additional support from U.S. Embassy Singapore and National Gallery Singapore. Symposium supporter: Symposium venue partner: UM OSIU POSI M T ABOU YM THE S �FRONT 03 OF 08 The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II A symposium conceived and organised by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore on the occasion of Charles Lim Yi Yong : SEA STATE Southeast Asia, as a geographical region and conceptual category, is a contested entity shaped by diverse cultures and communities. The possibilities and uncertainties in this region – such as urban development, geopolitical relations, and anxieties surrounding national and regional identities – continue to pose unique social and political challenges. ABOU T THE The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II brings together an array of eminent speakers and respondents to address questions of contemporary art and culture through interdisciplinary approaches – considering bodies of water as cultural-territorial spaces in an exploration of rivers, land reclamation, sea ports, and nomadic communities. The conversations arising from this symposium offer insight into the Southeast Asian consciousness and how it informs the region’s evolving relationship with the wider world. SIUM SYMP OSIU M T ABOU YMPO THE S �FRONT 04 OF 08 Auditorium, National Gallery Singapore 1 St Andrew’s Road, S178957 Screening of ﬁlms by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Day 1: Wednesday, 1 June 2016 Day 2: Friday, 3 June 2016 This selection of ﬁlms by the award-winning Thai artist and ﬁlmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul serves as a prelude to the symposium. The screening of these ﬁlms set up a “conversation” between two artist-ﬁlmmakers, Apichatpong and Charles Lim Yi Yong, whose ﬁlms both explore tropical sensibilities. SCHEDULE: Wednesday, 1 June 2016 7.30 – 10.00pm Cemetery of Splendour (2015) 122 mins Friday, 3 June 2016 7.30 – 10.00pm Tropical Malady (2004) 118 mins Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tropical Malady (2004), ﬁlm still. Courtesy of Kick the Machine Films. PREL UDE E UD PREL �FRONT 05 OF 08 The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II A symposium conceived and organised by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore on the occasion of Charles Lim Yi Yong : SEA STATE DAY 1: FRIDAY, 17 JUNE 2016 DAY 2: SATURDAY, 18 JUNE 2016 7.00pm Registration & refreshments 9.30am Registration & refreshments 7.30pm Welcome addresses Paul Tan Deputy CEO, National Arts Council Professor Ute Meta Bauer 10.00am Opening address by morning session chairperson Professor Ute Meta Bauer 7.45 – 9.00pm Keynote Lecture Professor Aihwa Ong 10.10am Keynote Lecture Professor Michael M.J. Fischer In a Time of Earthquakes: Contemporary Chinese Artists Shake the World The rise of China as an economic and a political power has reshaped the global order. At a recent policy forum in Tokyo, Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large, Bilahari Kausikan, spoke about how Southeast Asian countries must be able to stand up to and get along with China at the same time. Indeed, any appreciation of the geopolitical situation of the region has to consider the presence of Asia’s largest nation and economy. In her keynote lecture, Professor Aihwa Ong speaks about how the emergence of Chinese contemporary art is also reshaping a global cultural order, and discusses the ramiﬁcations for Southeast Asian artists and their societies. SEA STATE: Charles Lim’s Video- and Photo-graphic Eye In his keynote lecture, Professor Michael M.J. Fischer attempts to read Charles Lim Yi Yong’s SEA STATE as an anthropologist, and to think about the visibility, visualisation and visions of Singapore, and how these imaginings are layered in the past, erased in the present, and sketched ahead for the future. Respondent: Dr Kristy H.A. Kang Respondent: Professor C.J. Wee Wan-ling SYMP OSIU M DA Y1 AY 2 UM D OSI SYMP �FRONT 06 OF 08 11.20am Session 1 – The River and its Representations Speaker: Gridthiya Gaweewong Respondent: Dr David Teh How do the arts engage the region or regional themes? How have cultural workers looked at geography as a means to explore ideas about local speciﬁcity as well as regional commonality? The Mekong River has been a source of inspiration for many artists and curators, including acclaimed Thai artist and ﬁlmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. His ﬁrst solo exhibition, Primitive, was largely shot in the border town, Nabua, where the Mekong divides Thailand and Laos, as well as his ﬁlm Mekong Hotel which screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Gridthiya Gaweewong will discuss the Mekong River in Apichatpong’s body of works, as well as her curatorial project Mekong Laboratory. 12.30pm Opening address by afternoon session chairperson Dr David Teh 1.40pm SYMP Lunch Break 1.30pm Session 2 – The Land and its Reclamations Speakers: Joshua Comaroff and Seth Denizen Respondent: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa If the sea has long been a preoccupation of Singapore artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, so has the reclamation of land from the sea. Since Singapore’s OSIU M DA Y2 independence in 1965, the island-city-state has grown over a quarter of its area through land reclamation on its outer lying islands and coasts. These circumstances may make Singapore unique in Southeast Asia, but in what ways does this demonstration of the technocratic state’s mastery over nature represent or misrepresent a shared aspiration of modernity in the region? In this session, Joshua Comaroff and Seth Denizen offer their perspectives on the larger implications of land reclamation. 2.50pm Session 3 – Of Nomads and Sea Ports Speakers: Dr Donna Brunero, Dr Wee Beng Geok and Dr Vivienne Wee Respondent: Dr Imran bin Tajudeen The total land area of Southeast Asia is almost evenly divided between countries which are part of continental Asia, and countries that are made of archipelagoes such as The Philippines and Indonesia. But beyond the lands of continents and islands, the sea is also one of the most important geophysical reality of the region. In this session, Dr Vivienne Wee examines the sea nomads — the Orang Laut community in the Riau region; Dr Donna Brunero speaks about histories of port city communities; and Dr Wee Beng Geok will talk about maritime commerce and industry. 4.20pm 4.40 – 6.00pm Tea Break Roundtable discussion Participants: Professor Michael M.J. Fischer, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa and Professor Aihwa Ong Moderators: Professor Ute Meta Bauer and Dr David Teh AY 2 UM D OSI SYMP �FRONT 07 OF 08 Professor Aihwa Ong is Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies, Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology and Chair of Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Her research interests include governance and citizenship, Asian cities, cosmopolitan science and contemporary Asian art. Professor Ong has authored the publications Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (1987); Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural Logics of Transnationality (1999); Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (2003) and Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (2006). Among the publications she co-edited are Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (2005); Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar (2008); Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate (2010) and Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments with the Art of Being Global (2011). Professor Ong has given numerous lectures internationally and she has been invited to the World Economic Forum. Her forthcoming book draws on research in Biopolis, Singapore: Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life (Duke University Press, 2016). Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology and Chair of Asian Studies, UC Berkeley (Malaysia/United States) DAY 1 KEYN OTE Professor Michael M.J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School; and a Principal Investigator at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) International Design Center. He was the inaugural Ngee Ann Kongsi Visiting Professor at Tembusu College, National University of Singapore (NUS). Professor Fischer is the author of “Ethnography for Aging Societies: Dignity, Cultural Genres, and Singapore’s Imagined Futures”, American Ethnologist (April 2015) and articles on Singapore’s life science initiative (Biopolis). He has also authored three books on Iran, and three on social theory including Anthropology as Cultural Critique (with George Marcus, 1996), Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice (2003), and Anthropological Futures (2009). In the arts, he has authored pieces with psychiatrist-print-maker Eric Avery, painter Parviz Yashar, and most recently a catalogue essay with artists Entang Wiharso and Sally Smart. Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, MIT (United States) SPEA KERS DAY 2 TE EYNO PROF K AIHW A ON G HAEL MIC PROF M.J. ER FISCH KERS SPEA �FRONT 08 OF 08 Professor Ute Meta Bauer is the Founding Director of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) and a Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Prior to this, she was Dean of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, London (2012-2013); Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Founding Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (2005-2012). She also served as Founding Director of the Office for Contemporary Art (OCA), Oslo (2002-2005); was Artistic Director of the 3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2004), and was co-curator of Documenta11 (2001/2002). Most recently in 2015, she co-curated with MIT List Centre for Visual Art Director Paul Ha the U.S. Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale presenting eminent artist Joan Jonas, the exhibition was honoured with a Special Mention for best National Pavilion.. CHAI Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore and Professor, School of Art, Design & Media, NTU (Germany/Singapore) RPER S Dr David Teh is a writer, curator, art advisor, and researcher based at the National University of Singapore (NUS), specialising in Southeast Asian contemporary art. Before moving to Singapore, he worked as an independent curator and critic in Bangkok (2005-2009), and has since realised projects in Germany, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Dr Teh’s writings have appeared in Third Text, Afterall, LEAP Magazine, Art Asia Paciﬁc, artforum.com and The Bangkok Post. His new book on Thai contemporary art will be published in 2017 by MIT Press. Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, NUS (Australia/Singapore) ONS S RPER CHAI ONS PROF UTE M EH ETA B AUER T AVID DR D �BACK 01 OF 08 Located in Gillman Barracks, the NTU CCA Singapore is a national research centre of Nanyang Technological University and is supported by a grant from the Economic Development Board, Singapore. The Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of exhibitions, residencies, research and academic education. The NTU CCA Singapore positions itself as a space for critical discourse and encourages new ways of thinking about Spaces of the Curatorial in Southeast Asia and beyond. As a national research centre, it aims to provide visiting researchers and curators a comprehensive study on the contemporary art ecosystem in Singapore and the Southeast Asian region. The Centre’s dynamic public programme serves to engage with various audiences through lectures, workshops, open studios, Office & Research Centre Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10 Singapore 108934 Exhibitions Block 43 Malan Road Singapore 109443 ABOU T NTU Residencies Studios Block 37 & 38 Malan Road Singapore 109452 & 109441 Office +65 6460 0300 Exhibitions +65 6339 6503 Email ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg ﬁlm screenings and Exhibition (de)Tours. Since the Centre’s inauguration in October 2013, the NTU CCA Singapore has presented several high-proﬁle, ﬁrst-to-launch exhibitions of leading artists, making it one of the ﬁrst spaces in the region to present international exhibitions of such a scale. The Centre’s residencies programme is dedicated to facilitating the production of knowledge and research, engaging and connecting artists, curators and researchers from Singapore, Southeast Asia and beyond, and across various disciplines. The Centre’s seven studios support the artistic process in the most direct way – by giving the time and locale to be fully engaged, and the access to an interesting and immersive context to further the space for developing ideas. Symposium Organisation Team Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director Cheong Kah Kit, Manager, Research Samantha Leong, Executive, Conference, Workshops & Archive For updates on exhibitions and programmes, visit www.ntu.ccasingapore.org www.facebook.com/ntu.ccasingapore Instagram: @ntu_ccasingapore E APOR CCA SI NGAP ORE ABOU TN NG CA SI TU C �BACK 02 OF 08 Dr Vivienne Wee is an anthropologist who has done extensive ﬁeld research in Singapore and Indonesia, especially the Riau Archipelago. She was previously Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and also at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2015, together with Geoffrey Benjamin and Sarah Benjamin, Dr Wee co-founded Ethnographica Private Limited, which is dedicated to ethnographic research on social development, community engagement, heritage conservation, cultural mapping, linguistic documentation and other related ﬁelds. DAY 2 SPEA Independent anthropologist and researcher (Singapore) KERS DR V IVIEN NE W EE Charles Lim Yi Yong: SEA STATE Exhibition: 30 April – 10 July 2016 Charles Lim Yi Yong: SEA STATE, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, installation view. Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore. SEA STATE by artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, commissioned for the Singapore Pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale and curated by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, examines Singapore's vexed relationship with the sea. SEA STATE at NTU CCA Singapore is the ﬁrst signiﬁcant gathering of the various critically acclaimed components of the project since it started in 2005, and the Centre’s ﬁrst major exhibition of a Singaporean artist. ON IBITI T ABOU XH THE E �BACK 06 OF 08 Dr Wee Beng Geok is a consultant of the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) where she was Associate Professor from 1999 to 2014. In 2000, she set up the Asian Business Case Centre at the Nanyang Business School, and was its Director until 2014. Dr Wee has written and published many business case studies and several casebooks, including a series of case studies on the maritime industries in Singapore. Her career in Singapore’s corporate sector spanned two decades of which more than half were in the maritime sector. Dr Wee's current research interests include the history of maritime businesses and industries in Singapore. DAY 2 SPEA Professor C.J. Wee Wan-ling is a Professor of English at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore and has held visiting fellowships at – among other institutions – the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, United States and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and the Humanities, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. Professor Wee is the author of Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern (2003) and The Asian Modern: Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore (2007). He is also a co-editor of the anthology Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research (2010). Professor Wee is a member of the editorial board of the journal Modern Asian Studies. Consultant, Nanyang Business School, NTU (Singapore) Division of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU (Singapore) KERS DR W EE BE NG G EOK PRO . WEE F C.J DAY 1 KERS SPEA ING -L WAN �BACK 05 OF 08 Charles Lim Yi Yong presented SEA STATE for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore). In 2002, he participated in Documenta11 in Kassel, Germany as a member of the net-art collective tsunamii.net. A former professional and Olympic sailor, Lim’s practice stems from an intimate, bodily engagement with the natural world, mediated and informed by ﬁeld research and experimentation, performance, drawing, photography and video. His moving image works have been screened in international ﬁlm festivals at Rotterdam, Tribeca and Edinburgh. Lim’s short ﬁlm all the lines ﬂow out premiered at the 68th Venice Film Festival in 2011 and received a Special Mention, making him the ﬁrst Singaporean to be honoured at the festival. Recent iterations of SEA STATE have been exhibited at Manifesta 7 (2008), the Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne, France (2013) and at biennales in Shanghai (2008), Singapore (2011) and Osaka (2013). Various stages of the project have been presented at all of Singapore’s major institutions, including the National Museum of Singapore, National Library (NLB), Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and National University of Singapore Museum (NUS Museum). DAY 2 SPEA Shabbir Hussain Mustafa curated SEA STATE for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore). He is Senior Curator at the National Gallery Singapore, where he researches art from Singapore and Southeast Asia. Mustafa was formerly a curator at the National University of Singapore Museum (NUS Museum) from 2007 – 2013, where his approach centred on deploying archival texts as ploys in engaging different modes of thinking and writing. His numerous curatorial projects have ranged across Southeast Asia, including the critically acclaimed The Suﬁ and The Bearded Man (2010) and Camping and Tramping through The Colonial Archive: The Museum in Malaya (2011). Mustafa co-conceived the experimental project space prep room | things that may or may not happen. Most recently, he curated In Search of Raffles’ Light | An Art Project with Charles Lim (2013), a three-year collaboration with the artist that tracked the immaterial, mundane and irreconcilable traces surrounding Singapore’s fractured relationship with the sea. Mustafa has written extensively about methodological considerations for the rethinking of curatorial practice in Singapore and is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, Singapore. Artist, SEA STATE (Singapore) Curator, SEA STATE, and Senior Curator, National Gallery Singapore (Singapore) KERS CHAR LES L IM YI YONG BIR SHAB AIN HUSS DAY 2 KERS SPEA AFA MUST �BACK 04 OF 08 Dr Imran bin Tajudeen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests include place histories and the processes, underlying motivations and assumptions through which notions of heritage have been constituted, and how they are narrated in contemporary reconstructions and representations. Dr Imran has been engaged in a number of urban history and heritage documentation projects, among which the most recent is as the main consultant for the recovery and documentation of the historic graves at Jalan Kubor, Kampung Gelam with Nusantara Consultancy. His doctoral dissertation (NUS, 2009) on the architecture and urban histories of Southeast Asian cities won the ICAS Book Prize for Best PhD (Social Sciences) in April 2011. Dr Imran was postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden, The Netherlands. DAY 2 SPEA KERS Dr Kristy H.A. Kang is a media artist and scholar whose work explores narratives of place and geographies of cultural memory. She is Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and Associate Director of the Spatial Analysis Lab (SLAB) at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Sol Price School of Public Policy in Los Angeles, United States. In Singapore and the United States, Dr Kang collaborates with urban planners and policy specialists on ways to visualise overlooked spaces, histories and people. She is a founding member of the Labyrinth Project research initiative on interactive narrative and digital scholarship at USC where she has served as researcher, project director, and designer on a range of collaborative projects. These works have been presented internationally at venues including the Getty Center, The ZKM Center for Art and Media, Museum of Art at Seoul National University, The Jewish Museum, Berlin, and received several awards including the Jury Award for New Forms at the Sundance Online Film Festival. Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, NUS (Singapore) Media artist and Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design & Media, NTU (United States/Singapore) DR IM RAN BIN T AJUD EEN 2 DAY KERS SPEA D IST Y R KR NG KA H.A. �BACK 03 OF 08 Seth Denizen is a landscape architect trained in evolutionary ecology and is currently completing a PhD in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). His doctoral research is currently investigating the vertical geopolitics of urban soil in Mexico City, where he is working with geologists and systems ecologists to characterise the material complexities and political forces that shape the distribution of geological risk in Distrito Federal’s urban periphery. In 2014 he was the recipient of a SEED-fund grant supporting his research “Mapping the Microbiome of Hong Kong”, which is an ongoing collaboration between the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Science at the University of Hong Kong to investigate the genetic diversity of transportation infrastructure. In 2013, Denizen took 1st prize in an international information design competition: OUT OF BALANCE – CRITIQUE OF THE PRESENT by ARCH+ Journal for Architecture and Urban Design and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. DAY 2 SPEA Gridthiya Gaweewong is currently a Curator and Artistic Director of the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok. She is co-founder and director of Project 304, a non-proﬁt art space based in Bangkok, focusing on multidisciplinary and cross-cultural contemporary art projects by local and international artists. Gridthiya has curated numerous exhibitions and ﬁlms festival including the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (1997-2007), Under Construction (2002), Politics of Fun (2005), Saigon Open City (2006-7), Short Film Festival from Southeast Asia (2009), Between Utopia and Dystopia (2011) and Primitive (2011). She is the curator of Serenity of the Madness, a restrospective exhibition of Apichatpong Weerasethakul that will open in July 2016 at the Mai Iam Contemporary Art Museum (MICAM), Chiangmai. PhD candidate, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley (United States) Artistic Director and Curator, Jim Thompson Art Center (Thailand) KERS DAY 2 KERS SPEA SETH NG EWO AWE YA G THI DENI ZEN GRID �BACK 07 OF 08 Dr Donna Brunero is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research and teaching focuses include the British empire in Asia, colonial port cities of Asia, maritime history, heritage, and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. Amongst the publications Dr Brunero has authored are Britain’s Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949 (2006) and “To capture a vanishing era: the development of the Maze Collection of Chinese Junk Models, 1929–1948”, Journal for Maritime Research (April 2015). She was the recipient of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Awards in AY2015-16 and AY2014-15. DAY 2 SPEA KERS Joshua Comaroff is an academic geographer and designer at Lekker Architects. He studied literature and creative writing at Amherst College before joining the Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture programmes at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Comaroff’s doctoral research focused upon the subject of haunted landscapes and urban memory in Singapore. In recent years, he has written about architecture, urbanism, and politics, with an Asian focus, and is the co-author (with Ong Ker-Shing) of Horror In Architecture (2013). In addition to practice, Comaroff teaches at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, NUS (Australia/Singapore) Design consultant, Lekker Architects (United States/Singapore) DR D ONN A BR UNER O DAY 2 KERS SPEA UA JOSH ROFF A COM �BACK 08 OF 08 Screening of ﬁlms by Apichatpong Weerasethakul NTU CCA Singapore, The Single Screen Day 2: Saturday, 18 June 2016 NTU CCA Singapore, The Single Screen Block 43 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks, S109443 Block 43 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks, S109443 SCHEDULE: SCHEDULE: Day 1: Wednesday, 1 June 2016 7.30 – 10.00pm 9.30am Registration & refreshments Day 2: Friday, 3 June 2016 7.30 – 10.00pm 10.00am Opening address – morning session 10.10am Keynote Lecture The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II Day 1: Friday, 17 June 2016 National Gallery Singapore, Auditorium 11.20am Session 1 12.30pm Lunch Break 1.30pm Opening address – afternoon session 1.40pm Session 2 1 St Andrew’s Road, S178957 2.50pm Session 3 4.20pm Tea Break 4.40 – 6.00pm Roundtable discussion SCHEDULE: 7.00pm DULE Welcome addresses 7.45 – 9.00pm SCHE Registration & refreshments 7.30pm Keynote Lecture Free Admission. Refreshments will be served. For the full programme, please visit: www.ntu.ccasingapore.org. For further information and to RSVP, please contact NTUCCAresearch@ntu.edu.sg. DULE SCHE � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resources Programme Resource Collateral and other print or digital materials pertaining to residency programmes. Examples include residency brochures, postcards, etc. Short Description A symposium addressing the multiple notions of “Southeast Asia” and the various issues surrounding its borders, territories, dilemmas and anxieties. Programme Series None Theme Place.Labour.Capital. Climates. Habitats. Environments. None Place.Labour.Capital. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Geopolitical and Biophysical II Conference Guides Description An account of the resource The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) presents The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II, a symposium addressing the multiple notions of “Southeast Asia” and the various issues surrounding its borders, territories, dilemmas and anxieties. SEA STATE by artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, commissioned for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, explores the biophysical, political and psychic contours of Singapore and served as a point of departure for the symposium. Part I of the symposium took place in Venice, Italy during the opening days of the Biennale, and this second iteration will continue and deepen the discussions on the occasion of SEA STATE’s presentation at NTU CCA Singapore. Southeast Asia, as a geographical region and conceptual category, is a contested entity shaped by diverse cultures and communities. The possibilities and uncertainties in this region – such as urban development, geopolitical relations, and anxieties surrounding national and regional identities – continue to pose unique social and political challenges. The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II brings together an array of eminent speakers and respondents to address questions of contemporary art and culture through interdisciplinary approaches – considering bodies of water as cultural-territorial spaces in an exploration of rivers, land reclamation, sea ports, and nomadic communities. The conversations arising from this symposium offers insight into the Southeast Asian consciousness and how it informs the region’s evolving relationship with the wider world. The symposium is organised by NTU CCA Singapore under its Research & Education programme, which aims to connect research based artistic practices with other forms of knowledge production. As a prelude to the symposium, NTU CCA Singapore will screen films by Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul on 1 and 3 June 2016 to set up a “conversation” between two artist-filmmakers, Apichatpong and Charles Lim Yi Yong. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-06-17/2016-06-18 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Aihwa Ong Michael M.J. Fischer Donna Brunero Joshua Comaroff Seth Denizen Gridthiya Gaweewong Imran bin Tajudeen Kristy H.A. Kang Charles Lim Shabbir Hussain Mustafa Dr Wee Beng Geok Professor C.J. Wee Wan-ling Vivienne Wee Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Southeast Asia https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/57163/archive/files/fc94dae21d6f9c65d6bf5e4278bb8eb0.pdf?Expires=1781740800&Signature=frxx9RlfEYSM0ofBNLyBvUlKv5j0Vpv0DU%7E12xrMvMw1dLoj23YxxerfmzUQJMJ7LPRrMkg7XxNxWFdeBvRqEOMs8XSRIRo31EjUxwQEU22Ld0RGChe5GaUfENrDEsy3hNfi2leJffM4WM7u1kQPDkN8uUHXflSH9wcPC6qbMWsWwSpEtkJEobiNTGiifLD4IjItb5LG3-9QEh7xddTKSR5zxVY4ct%7Eue2gF6Mg8J9JLomk5DRmIIBDpoJS60-CCcGPqQ5yvkIyZJk0QHgP8VkwalRRk9F2CnUSyXKrQZ2yB8VWDkME9hpswu95meneg4BnMLcVzki4DL66ODlJq8A__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 569394fbdc6f6c2a4e697f9a312d3527 PDF Text Text on the occasion of the opening of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale Fort Kochi, Kerala, India TBA21–Academy media links tba21.org/convening2kochi facebook.com/TBA21 #tba21 #convening2kochi @tba_21 Partners December 13–15, 2016 TBA21–Academy Köstlergasse 1 1060 Vienna, Austria Media Partner Convening #2 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary The Current B . Cochin Club Vasco da Gama Plaz a Mah a atm Gan dhi Bea ch Vasco da Gama Chu rch Kochi-Muziris Biennale– Aspinwall Main Site Kochi-Muziris Biennale Spice Market Vasco da Gama Plaza Cochin Club a Convening #2 Locations tm Please find all locations here: ha Cover photo: Drone Shot, Atif Akin, 2016 Ma Fragrant Nature Hotel Bazaar Rd, Mattancherry, Fort Kochi, Kerala 682001 ch Kochi-Muziris Biennale Aspinwall River Rd, Fort Kochi, Kerala 682001 ea Spice Market near Jeevamatha Church Jew Town Rd, Jew Town, Kappalandimukku, Mattancherry, Kochi, Kerala 682002 iB Vasco da Gama Plaza Church Rd, Fort Kochi, Kerala 682001 dh Cochin Club 7, St. Francis Church Road, Opp Parade Ground, Fort Kochi, Kerala 682001 Kochi-Muziris Biennale kochimuzirisbiennale.org Rd Ga n convened by TBA21 The Current expedition leaders Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21–Academy curator Stefanie Hessler TBA21–Academy tba21.org/convening2kochi facebook.com/TBA21 #tba21 #convening2kochi @tba_21 ar Fragrant Nature Hotel on the occasion of the opening of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016 Fort Kochi, Kerala, India a az Spice Market follow Bazaar Rd., 20 min walk Funding Partner Convening #2 December 13–15, 2016 �Workshop Landscapes Open in the Empty Self Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana Nuclear Pacific by Nabil Ahmed with Ravi Agarwal, Ute Meta Bauer, Zuleikha Chaudhari, Stefanie Hessler, Amar Kanwar, KHOJ (Sitara Chowfla, Radha Mehandru, and Pooja Sood), Davor Vidas, Linz Wilbur by Sharmistha Mohanty Vasco da Gama Plaza 8.30 –9.45 am 7–8 pm Protocol of the Sea Watch, Action of the Crow’s Nest Cochin Club Marketplace [Cartography 4] “Ambiguous Objects” and the University Museum Workshop Vasco da Gama Plaza 8–10 pm 10.30 am–12.30 pm Unpredictable Oceans and the Monstrosity of the Sea Guided visit of the installation and sound piece Cochin Club Nuclear Pacific by ESTAR(SER) Breakfast area of Fragrant Nature Hotel by Nabil Ahmed with Ravi Agarwal, Ute Meta Bauer, Zuleikha Chaudhari, Stefanie Hessler, Amar Kanwar, KHOJ (Sitara Chowfla, Radha Mehandru, and Pooja Sood), Davor Vidas, Linz Wilbur Workshop “Ambiguous Objects” and the University Museum Closed workshop, various sites in Fort Kochi by Jamie Y. Shi Cochin Club by TJ Demos Cochin Club ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക 2–5 pm Workshop for children Fish Tails and Fish Tales with Filipa Ramos Cochin Club by Aveek Sen Vasco da Gama Plaza 7–8 pm Sound performance Drifting by Jana Winderen Vasco da Gama Plaza 8–10 pm Short films Elementary Maps No. 3 by Anna Bella Geiger Occidente by Ana Vaz The Disappearance of the Aïtus by Pauline Julier Cargo by Laura Waddington Brouillard—Passage 14 by Alexandre Larose Sea of Vapors by Sylvia Schedelbauer originally selected for the Dhaka Art Summit program Passages by Shanay Jhaveri Vasco da Gama Plaza December 13 –15 Keynote by Clémentine Deliss Closed workshop, various sites in Fort Kochi Cochin Club Exhibition of books by Jegan Vincent de Paul Closed workshop, deep-sea vessel by CMLRE Vasco da Gama Plaza 7–8 pm 3–4 pm Guided visit of the installation and sound piece Oceans– sketches and notes Marketplace [Cartography 4] by Joan Jonas Vasco da Gama Plaza Cochin Club ALL DAY Installation and sound piece Marketplace [Cartography 4] by Christopher Myers Spice Market near Jeevamatha Church by Christopher Myers Spice Market near Jeevamatha Church 8–10 pm Short films Collective ALL DAY by Francesca von Habsburg by Ho Rui An Workshop Various sites in Fort Kochi From the (Kula) Ring to the Belt (& Road) Rising Sea Levels Reading a Wave 2–5 pm by The Propeller Group Workshop Prose reading Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams by Karrabing Film The Episodic 2–5 pm 6.30 –7 pm Swimmy by Leo Lionni & Giulio Film shoot “Ambiguous Objects” and the University Museum 6–6.30 pm Gianini with Ishu Patel ALL DAY Workshop Performative talk Midday, uccaykk, avatea The Tagore Letters 2–5 pm Cochin Club by Davor Vidas moderated by Ute Meta Bauer with Ravi Agarwal, Nabil Ahmed, D. Graham Burnett, TJ Demos, Jegan Vincent de Paul, Markus Reymann, Davor Vidas by Clémentine Deliss ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക The Capitalocene Pacific Structured conversation 2–5 pm Poetry reading 2–5 pm The Document’s Expanded Field Keynote The Law of the Sea — through time and place The Ocean as Habitat: The rights of nature and the international Law of the sea Midday, uccaykk, avatea 6.30 –7 pm Workshop 10.30 am–12.30 pm Cochin Club Dusk, sandhya, maruapö 8.30 –9.45 am Protocol of the Sea Watch, Action of the Crow’s Nest Workshop Dusk, sandhya, maruapö Cochin Club 5–5.30 pm Attentional exercise 2–5 pm Spice Market near Jeevamatha Church Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana Spice Market near Jeevamatha Church സന്ധ്യ പ്രഭാതം ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക December 14 by Jamie Y. Shi by Christopher Myers moderated by Stefanie Hessler with Nabil Ahmed, Ute Meta Bauer, Georg Eder, Amar Kanwar, Charles Lim, Markus Reymann, Davor Vidas by Christopher Myers 2–5 pm Marketplace [Cartography 4] The Ocean as Treasure Trove: Deep-sea mining — the next gold rush? Marketplace [Cartography 4] Vasco da Gama Plaza Midday, uccaykk, avatea Guided visit of the installation and sound piece Structured conversation 3–4 pm selected by the Dharamshala International Film Festival introduced by Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam Cochin Club 3–4 pm 10.30 am–12.30 pm by Gianfranco Rosi moderated by Ute Meta Bauer with Tanya Abraham, Natasha Ginwala, Ho Rui An, Joan Jonas, Filipa Ramos, Vivek Vilasini, Daniela Zyman The Document’s Expanded Field Breakfast area of Fragrant Nature Hotel Closed workshop, various sites in Fort Kochi Fire at Sea Structured conversation by ESTAR(SER) by Clémentine Deliss Film 8.30 –9.45 am Protocol of the Sea Watch, Action of the Crow’s Nest 2–5 pm by Christopher Myers Breakfast area of Fragrant Nature Hotel Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana Attentional exercise Perfomative talk by ESTAR(SER) Workshop പ്രഭാതം Poetry reading December 15 2–5 pm സന്ധ്യ പ്രഭാതം 6.30 –7 pm Attentional exercise സന്ധ്യ പ്രഭാതം December 13 Dusk, sandhya, maruapö 5–6.30 pm 5–6.30 pm The Document’s Expanded Field Performative talk Introduction Europium by Lisa Rave Toilets Not Temples by Jamie Y. Shi by Will Benedict & David Leonard by Anthony Acciavatti & D. Graham Burnett Into The Current moderated by Daniela Zyman with Ute Meta Bauer, Cesar Garcia, Francesca von Habsburg, Stefanie Hessler, Markus Reymann Cochin Club Cochin Club selected and introduced by Filipa Ramos Vasco da Gama Plaza WATER MACHINES Cochin Club Please find detailed information about the program inside. Program � https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/57163/archive/files/1f095e24df5ad5e8807b97a33a7c9833.pdf?Expires=1781740800&Signature=ARA8IFM%7Emv2Gh8OYkULRcpJ4kTsaECc-6vFGcZegI6k7ZPgqm2Py9jYbybaC7RXWo-K1dcRezfrUi-VOOcZXPQBXTNzH%7EuyJK5QnWXnuob3zEB-1shDJMBYjFQ1O--GorfLBmEG3q9bn79DJ4Q25z1jfjJVCt46Yz5dmghxgHQd15xxFyc90kDJKwGXf1PTzOFvOTzSVv2XT5ACWt7a7QUN%7Et6uBHogImefPexTI8O%7EpicXzCA6Q9VfhNmIp29jkDa-pAJokdhP0GCND6EwD1vZRdXhmXYFH9GCxAFcUF00VdSH36i32BhrbY54NkcuEXSe2s68sU6WNtLBHyF9WJQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 733de1529d975385163b74762446a49d PDF Text Text Dates Participants December 13–15, 2016 8.30 am–10 pm Tanya Abraham Anthony Acciavatti Ravi Agarwal Nabil Ahmed Ute Meta Bauer D. Graham Burnett Zuleikha Chaudhari Sitara Chowfla Clémentine Deliss TJ Demos Georg Eder Senator J. Kalani English ESTAR(SER) Cesar Garcia Natasha Ginwala Francesca von Habsburg Stefanie Hessler Ho Rui An Shanay Jhaveri Joan Jonas Amar Kanwar Lelei Tui Samoa LeLaulu Charles Lim Matt Lucero Radha Mehandru Sharmistha Mohanty Christopher Myers Tuan Andrew Nguyen Jegan Vincent de Paul Filipa Ramos Markus Reymann Ritu Sarin Aveek Sen Jamie Y. Shi Tenzing Sonam Pooja Sood Matthew Strother Phunam Thuc Ha Davor Vidas Vivek Vilasini Linz Wilbur Jana Winderen Daniela Zyman Venue Locations Cochin Club Vasco da Gama Plaza Spice Market near Jeevamatha Church Various sites in Fort Kochi Venue Partner Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016 Categories Exhibition of books Film screenings Film shoot Guided visits Installation and sound piece Keynotes Performances Poetry readings Structured conversations Talks Workshops �The Current The Current is the exploratory soul of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. An experimental fellowship program based in the Pacific, The Current was born out of a deep concern for the oceans and an even deeper curiosity about and love for their interconnected ecosystems, staggering biodiversity, and the cultural diversity of people who live on their shores. Covering nearly 71 percent of the earth’s surface, the oceans provide a habitat for 99 percent of life on our planet. They are home to both the largest animal and the mightiest living reef structure on our planet, the Great Barrier Reef. The reef can be seen from the moon, an environment we know more about than we know about the oceans. The oceans are our life support system, providing us with every other breath we take. The oceans are being severely exploited and polluted. They are used as a dump site for things that we want to make disappear. But the ocean has an unmatched ability to regenerate. Previously unimaginable organisms living on chemical energy have been discovered to reside in deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Yet many of these vents are rich in rare earth metals essential for electronic consumer products and have become targets of a new industry with predictably devastating effects: deep-sea mining. The events of recent weeks in international politics have underlined the urgency to act and to communicate the global challenges of our time far beyond the silos of our disciplines. The sea has been a source of inspiration for human culture for centuries, but due to the state it is in, and politicians’ lack of vision, it is imperative that we shape a different narrative. The Current Convening #2 attempts just that: to foster collaborations between international practitioners of different disciplines, to imagine together with an engaged audience positive visions for the future, and to formulate strategies to put these into action. We no longer have the luxury of ignorance and procrastination. It is in this spirit that we invite you to actively participate in this program, which is designed to spark your curiosity, inspire, and entertain you. Markus Reymann, director, TBA21–Academy �Convening #2 TBA21–Academy presents The Current Convening #2 on the occasion of the opening of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016. Convening #2 is a three-day program profoundly dedicated to the oceans. It aims to reexamine and unfold questions arising from the ethics of exploration, the rights of nature and the international law of the sea, processes of image and knowledge making, collaborative modes of exchange, as well as sharing poetic approaches to currents and flows of water across cultures. We invite you to participate in this engaging program of structured conversations, workshops, performances, talks, and screenings convened by The Current expedition leaders Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21–Academy curator Stefanie Hessler. The Convening takes the form of an archipelago of processes sited throughout Fort Kochi. The Cochin Club functions as a central hub encouraging unique moments of daily encounter among The Current Fellows, local participants, and visiting guests. Expanding beyond the hub, the Convening is nested in the city’s urban spaces, in the central Vasco da Gama Plaza, in the spice market, in its museums, and on the shores of the sea. Kochi’s maritime history and narratives shaped by trade, migration, and travel at sea, alongside contemporary concerns such as dredging and labor conditions, resonate in today’s cultural consciousness in the city and form the discursive background for the Convening. �Daily Structure Following the biorhythms of different organisms and environments, located in the zones of indeterminacy between night and day, dawn and dusk, shade and light, the Convening is organized according to three different times of day: Dawn Malayalam: sandhya പ്രഭാതം, Tahitian: hitiraa mahana ATTENTIONAL EXERCISES Each morning, research associates of the collective ESTAR(SER) www.estarser.net lead interested participants in an exercise of sustained attention to the water forms in and around Kochi. STRUCTURED CONVERSATIONS Occurring every morning in the Cochin Club, the structured conversations offer spaces of encounter, debate, and exchange. Midday Malayalam: uccaykk ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക, Tahitian: avatea ് FELLOWS PROJECTS Occurring at various sites and throughout the duration of the Convening, the Fellows projects are “works in progress” contributions by the participants in the expeditions. TEMPORARY ACADEMY A major goal of The Current is to generate new models for collective learning and knowledge dissemination. The Temporary Academy encompasses an exhibition of books and a series of workshops. Dusk Malayalam: prabhatam സന്ധ്യ, Tahitian: maruapö HUB NIGHTS Each evening, the Cochin Club is activated with �keynote talks, readings, and other interventions from a host of contributing voices. Organized thematically and drawing on a cross-section of interests, these gatherings aim to experiment with forms of presentation that allow for expanded engagement with the oceans. PLAZA CONFLUENCES Poetry readings, performances, and film screenings at the Vasco da Gama Plaza in Fort Kochi engage with the oceans from a variety of perspectives. About TBA21 Founded in 2002 by Francesca von Habsburg in Vienna, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) represents the fourth generation of the Thyssen family’s commitments to the arts. After more than fourteen years of collecting, commissioning projects, and engaged exhibition practice, TBA21 has established a highly respected collection of more than seven hundred contemporary artworks in the field of new media, including film, video, light, sound and mixedmedia installations, sculpture, painting, photography, and performance. TBA21’s unique collection is the result of its ongoing commitment to commissioning and disseminating numerous art projects, including multimedia installations, sound compositions, endurance performances, and contemporary architecture. This has led to its pioneering reputation in the art world. The foundation sustains a far-reaching regional and international orientation through collaborations with other cultural partners around the world and explores modes of presentation that are intended to provoke and broaden the way viewers perceive and experience art. In 2015 Francesca von Habsburg decided to dedicate the foundation’s ongoing program to becoming an agent of change by focusing on the complexities and urgencies of the “Anthropocene era” as well as the pressing challenges posed by climate change, with a special focus on marine ecosystems. �Itinerary December 13 –15 DEC 13 –15 ALL DAY Film shoot Various sites in Fort Kochi Please check www.tba21.org/ convening2kochi for updates DEC 13 –15 ALL DAY Exhibition of books Cochin Club The Episodic by The Propeller Group The Propeller Group is a cross-disciplinary structure for creating ambitious art projects, headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City. The Episodic is The Propeller Group’s ongoing project within The Current. Conceived as a social media organism that occupies multiple online platforms, The Episodic presents a series of connected moments in the form of short videos and images that weave interconnected narratives about the ocean and the histories of exploration. The Episodic aims to create a structure for content that can connect participants in The Current with communities encountered through travel, audiences of the Convenings, and other makers and cultural figures. In The Episodic, everyone involved is a producer and a curator at once. During the Convening, The Propeller Group stages a series of improvisational and responsive shoots that will eventually create content for The Episodic. From the (Kula) Ring to the Belt (& Road) by Jegan Vincent de Paul The Current Fellow Jegan Vincent de Paul presents a selection of books that are part of a collection of materials and ongoing research that he has �undertaken to examine (un)official perspectives on Chinese state-led infrastructure construction across the Indian Ocean littoral, attempting to reveal the political fallout of the routes and its general social, cultural, and economic effects. DEC 13 –15 ALL DAY Installation and sound piece Spice Market near Jeevamatha Church Marketplace [Cartography 4] by Christopher Myers While international capital and information technologies circulate around the globe at dizzying speeds, there are other forms of globalization that predate these technological conduits. In local marketplaces throughout the world, exchange systems that have lasted for centuries continue to connect communities, cementing relations between far-flung geographies in the intimacy of goods bought for family dinners and in the age-old rituals of negotiation and haggling that are familiar everywhere from Papua New Guinea to New York City street corners. Marketplace [Cartography 4] is an installation and sound piece by Christopher Myers that utilizes the discarded materials and evidence of these ancient and contemporary exchanges in order to highlight the overall unity in the rituals of trade and to rethink globalization from the vernacular and the cultural, rather than through formal and capital relations. �December 13 പ്രഭാതം DEC 13 8.30–9.45 am Attentional exercise Breakfast area of Fragrant Nature Hotel DEC 13 10.30 am–12.30 pm Structured conversation Cochin Club Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana Protocol of the Sea Watch, Action of the Crow’s Nest by ESTAR(SER) The amphibious Irish-American-Polynesian naturalistexplorer known as “M. I. Return Maycomb” (1764– 1818?) traced a marginal and meandering course at the peripheries of sea-knowledge and self-craft on the watershed of modernity. Was he associated with the Order of the Third Bird? New evidence, in the form of the Protocol of the Sea Watch, suggests that he was. This “attentional exercise” appears to derive from the habitus of nineteenth-century sailors, who spent years daily regarding the surface of the sea from their perches aloft, scanning for signs of shoals, whales, and weather. Each morning of The Current Convening #2, interested individuals are invited to join visiting research associates of the collective ESTAR(SER) to experiment with a reconstruction of the Protocol of the Sea Watch. Unpredictable Oceans and the Monstrosity of the Sea moderated by Ute Meta Bauer with Tanya Abraham, Natasha Ginwala, Ho Rui An, Joan Jonas, Filipa Ramos, Vivek Vilasini, and Daniela Zyman This conversation catalyzes narratives of mythological and cultural encounters with the sea, inspired by primordial, monstrous, and chaotic associations. �Artists, philanthropists, practitioners, and writers come together to share their different perspectives and forms of engagement with the oceans as moving, compelling, and precarious entities. The Current expedition leader Ute Meta Bauer moderates this conversation about the seas as unpredictable spaces that are constantly in flux, whose unstable perimeters are presently migrating due to climate change and shifts in oceanic traditions, giving rise to new challenges and evoking new imaginaries. ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക DEC 13 2–5 pm Workshop Cochin Club Midday, uccaykk, avatea The Document’s Expanded Field by Jamie Y. Shi Writer Jamie Y. Shi explores the publication as a site to document long-term, process-based projects beyond the image or video form. Thinking about experimental writing as a method, Shi works with five local emerging writers to collect distinct types of discursive elements from the Convening— transcripts from conversations, interviews with project participants, improvisational poetry, and scripts—to be included in a publication that will index the various depths, relationships, and intensities that form The Current. After the Convening, Shi will assemble a collective library of resources meant to exist on a website that will provide a communal reading list of works informing the practices of The Current participants and collaborators. �DEC 13 2–5 pm Workshop Cochin Club Nuclear Pacific: A temporary working group on the tribunal for French nuclear weapons testing in Moruroa and Fangataufa (1966–96) by Nabil Ahmed with Ravi Agarwal, Nabil Ahmed, Ute Meta Bauer, Zuleikha Chaudhari, Stefanie Hessler, Amar Kanwar, KHOJ (Sitara Chowfla, Radha Mehandru, and Pooja Sood), Davor Vidas, and Linz Wilbur The Inter-Pacific Ring Tribunal (INTERPRT) is an interdisciplinary project initiated by The Current Fellow Nabil Ahmed for an alternative commission of inquiry to investigate patterns of environmental violence and their impact on sovereignty in the Pacific region regarding land-based mining, deep-sea mining, and nuclear weapons testing. Unfolding the Pacific ring as a spatial diagram, the project tactically deploys architecture to evidence spatial realities of mineral extraction as well as spatially diffused and temporally protracted forms of environmental violence. Following The Current’s recent expedition to French Polynesia in July 2016, this workshop constitutes a temporary antinuclear working group for the Pacific. With India’s membership in the “nuclear club” in perspective, the group seeks to test the conditions for a future tribunal to emerge—one that aims to hold those responsible materially accountable for the devastating nuclear weapons tests that were conducted on and around the atolls of Moruroa and Fangataufa between 1966 and 1996, as well as the tests’ contemporary planetary impacts. DEC 13 2–5 pm Workshop Closed workshop, various sites in Fort Kochi “Ambiguous Objects” and the University Museum by Clémentine Deliss The workshop invites museum professionals, academics, and those interested in museum collections to take �with a public interface on December 15, 2–5 pm, at the Cochin Club DEC 13 3–4 pm Guided visit of the installation and sound piece Spice Market near Jeevamatha Church part in a three-day transdisciplinary, experimental exercise around “ambiguous objects.” In the first of three sessions, the workshop investigates a historical museum collection in Kochi in search of artifacts that blur the distinctions between nature and culture and sea and land, constituting “enigmatic debris” (“épaves énigmatiques,” Paul Valéry, 1921). During the second session, participants identify and acquire, where possible, unfamiliar artifacts from a local secondhand market that for them evoke the poetic uncertainty of meanings in the twenty-first century. The final and third session includes a discussion of the “ambiguous objects” acquired by each of the participants and an open exchange with the public. Through this inquiry, the workshop explores the potential for the remediation of historical artifacts using the format of a “museumuniversity,” a site of dialogical experimentation and research centered on museum collections. Marketplace [Cartography 4] by Christopher Myers Please find detailed information about the installation and sound piece in the ALL DAY program at the beginning of the itinerary. 5–6 Intro Int സന്ധ്യ Dusk, sandhya, maruapö The evening starts off with an introduction to The Current and questions related to the ethics of visiting when embarking on expeditions, forms and tactics of structuring the gaze, and the eye of the camera. At the heart of this evening are a poetry reading by the celebrated author Sharmistha Mohanty and a performance by the artist and illustrator Christopher Myers, tapping into interrogations of broader histories of methods in visual ethnography, mapping, and knowledge and meaning making. mod with von Reym C �DEC 13 5–6.30 pm Introduction Cochin Club DEC 13 6.30–7 pm Poetry reading Vasco da Gama Plaza DEC 13 7–8 pm Performative talk Vasco da Gama Plaza Into The Current moderated by Daniela Zyman with Ute Meta Bauer, Cesar Garcia, Francesca von Habsburg, Stefanie Hessler, and Markus Reymann Organized as a presentation by the founder of TBA21, Francesca von Habsburg, and the director of TBA21–Academy, Markus Reymann, “Into The Current” brings into conversation the expedition leaders Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21-Academy curator Stefanie Hessler. The conversation homes in on cross-disciplinary encounters and new research-based working modes within the framework of knowledge transfer and exchange of The Current. Panelists introduce the program of Convening #2, look back at the previous expeditions, and discuss the potential of The Current for collectively creating visions for the deep future, enhanced though the intervention of an artistic imagination. Landscapes Open in the Empty Self by Sharmistha Mohanty Marketplace [Cartography 4] by Christopher Myers Christopher Myers comes from a long line of storytellers. His performative talk traces new and vernacular forms of globalization in sound, media, and culture, thinking about how urban music, film, dance, images, and marketplaces transcend the local and provide new models for transnational communications. �DEC 13 8–10 pm Film Vasco da Gama Plaza Fire at Sea Gianfranco Rosi, 2016, 114 min. Selected by the Dharamshala International Film Festival introduced by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam Situated 150 miles south of Sicily, Lampedusa has made headlines as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees hoping to make a new life in Europe. After spending months living on the island and engaging with its inhabitants, Rosi accumulated an extraordinary array of footage, portraying the history, culture, and daily lives of the islanders. Focusing on twelve-year-old Samuele as he explores the land and attempts to gain mastery of the sea, the film slowly builds a breathtakingly naturalistic portrait of the Lampedusan people and the events that surround them. �December 14 പ്രഭാതം DEC 14 8.30–9.45 am Attentional exercise Breakfast area of Fragrant Nature Hotel DEC 14 10.30 am – 12.30 pm Structured conversation Cochin Club Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana Protocol of the Sea Watch, Action of the Crow’s Nest by ESTAR(SER) Every morning, interested individuals are invited to join visiting research associates of the collective ESTAR(SER) to experiment with a reconstruction of the Protocol of the Sea Watch. The Ocean as Habitat: The rights of nature and the international law of the sea moderated by Ute Meta Bauer with Ravi Agarwal, Nabil Ahmed, D. Graham Burnett, TJ Demos, Jegan Vincent de Paul, Markus Reymann, and Davor Vidas Climate change, pollution, and other habitat-altering agents are endangering the “common heritage of humankind.” The ocean as a global waste bin is hardly addressed as a result of insufficient international regulations of the sea. The constantly changing parameters and unpredictable developments of the oceans prompt a need to rethink and rewrite the obsolete international law of the sea that was conceived under the relative stability of the Holocene epoch. The conversation puts forward interdisciplinary �perspectives from the fields of art, ecology, law, and policy, recognizing the earth and its ecosystems as living beings with inalienable rights to exist, persist, maintain, and regenerate their vital cycles. ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക DEC 14 2–5 pm Workshop for children Cochin Club To sign up for the workshop, please email kochiworkshops@tba21.org Midday, uccaykk, avatea Fish Tails and Fish Tales by Filipa Ramos The workshop is for children aged 5–11. Together we’ll write one and many stories, thinking about how tales are told, inventing new ways of combining memory with discovery and imagination, and discussing the ways in which we share experiences, visions, and emotions with others. The starting point for the workshop is a set of images that were taken during The Current’s recent expedition to the Tuamotu Archipelago, in French Polynesia: pictures of fish, of crabs, of birds, but also of desert islands, of ecological disasters, and of people working and thinking together. How do images lead to stories? And how do stories convey images? In this workshop we’ll explore the stories that images tell and the images that stories summon. DEC 14 2–5 pm Workshop Cochin Club To sign up for the workshop, please email kochiworkshops@tba21.org The Document’s Expanded Field by Jamie Y. Shi Please find detailed information in the program of December 13, 2–5 pm. �DEC 14 2–5 pm Workshop Cochin Club Nuclear Pacific: A temporary working group on the tribunal for French nuclear weapons testing in Moruroa and Fangataufa (1966–96) Please find detailed information in the program of December 13, 2–5 pm. DEC 14 2–5 pm Workshop Closed workshop, various sites in Fort Kochi, with a public interface on December 15, 2–5 pm, at the Cochin Club DEC 14 3–4 pm Guided visit of the installation and sound piece Spice Market near Jeevamatha Church സന്ധ്യ “Ambiguous Objects” and the University Museum by Clémentine Deliss Please find detailed information in the program of December 13, 2–5 pm. Marketplace [Cartography 4] by Christopher Myers Please find detailed information about the installation and sound piece in the ALL DAY program at the beginning of the itinerary. Dusk, sandhya, maruapö The evening focuses on the rights of nature, ecological sustainability, and issues at stake in the law of the sea. The evening begins with keynotes by TJ Demos, author of Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology, and Davor Vidas, director of the Law of the Sea Program at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute �in Oslo, followed by a performative talk by the visual artist and pioneer of video and performance art Joan Jonas, who reflects on the poetic and spiritual aspects of nature in the face of climate change. DEC 14 5–5.30 pm Keynote Cochin Club DEC 14 6–6.30 pm Keynote Cochin Club The Capitalocene Pacific by TJ Demos The Capitalocene proposes an alternative terminology to the more familiar Anthropocene, designating the geologic age of the present as founded over centuries of capitalism-in-nature and nature-in-capitalism, according to the theorist of world-systems ecology Jason Moore. Drawing on his forthcoming book Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today, TJ Demos investigates the Capitalocene Pacific as a site of conflict, one positioned between, on the one hand, ongoing industrialization and militarization and, on the other, negative geologic impacts (ocean acidification, rising sea levels, and mass species extinctions) and artistic-activist interventions directed against environmental destruction and catastrophic climate change—a conflict that will only intensify under the US presidency of Donald Trump. The Law of the Sea— through time and place by Davor Vidas There are many ways of looking at the development of the law of the sea. Let us go on a journey. On a Sunday in September 1298, we start in the “Great Sea” (as the Bible calls the Mediterranean): here we visit a semienclosed sea found within a semienclosed sea. We then hoist sails and are out on the oceans: it is the late fifteenth century, the time of European overseas “discoveries”—and in 1500 we stop at a place important for the transoceanic spice trade. One hundred years later: in one strait on an early morning �in February 1602, we witness something that will lead to emergence of the law of the sea as a branch of international law. We then travel onward in time to an island—it is December 1982, and the end result of developments so far—UNCLOS—is signed here. Finally, we arrive at the present day and cast our glance toward the polar regions: what is going on there—and what is the outlook? DEC 14 6.30–7 pm Prose reading Reading a Wave by Ho Rui An Vasco da Gama Plaza DEC 14 7–8 pm Performative talk Oceans – sketches and notes Vasco da Gama Plaza by Joan Jonas Joan Jonas’s talk conceived for this Convening draws from a wellspring of materials, literature, mythology, and the artist’s collections of sketches and notes on the sea, exploring “the ocean as a poetic, totemic, and natural entity, as a life source and home to a universe of beings.” Video footage of underwater scenes— from Jean Painlevé’s black-and-white reels of sea creatures to shots of aquariums—intersect poetically and associatively with excerpts from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Sy Montgomery’s Soul of an Octopus, and Italo Calvino’s The Aquatic Uncle. The oceans are an ongoing thematic touchstone in Jonas’s recent works, such as her project for the United States Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale, They Come to Us without a Word (2015), a multilayered ambient work addressing the spiritual aspects of nature through video, drawings, objects, and sound. �DEC 14 8–10 pm Short films Selected and introduced by Filipa Ramos Vasco da Gama Plaza Leo Lionni and Giulio Gianini, with Ishu Patel, 1966, 6 min. Swimmy Swimmy is the story of a little black fish who survived a school of fish that was eaten by a large tuna. Alone and scared, different from all the other small red fish, Swimmy goes from hiding in the seaweed to making many friends and finding a way that will save them all from the big fish that terrify them. Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams Karrabing Film Collective, 2016, 29 min. A delirious, dreamlike film, Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams is the most experimental of Karrabing Film Collective’s works to date. Departing from a hypothetical situation of crisis in the Aboriginal filmmakers’ daily lives, the film explores how the group addresses it through collective problem-solving gestures and how the legacy of colonialism, as well as the imposition of Christian moral codes and settler-colonial rule of law, condition and affect ancestral land use and traditional cultures. Europium Lisa Rave, 2014, 21 min. Using various levels of imagery, the essay film Europium draws connections between Papua New Guinea’s colonial past and fetish cult, the planned high-tech excavation of raw materials, and everyday consumer goods. The film weaves its individual images and narrative around the rare earth element europium. Named after the European continent, the material will be culled from the Bismarck Sea to ensure brilliant color images on smartphone displays and other flat screens. �Toilets Not Temples Will Benedict & David Leonard, 2014, 26 min. Toilets Not Temples combines different styles of narrative–such as live interviews, newsreel, sci-fi genre, and music video–to portray specific current situations that concern the production and distribution of food, from fish farms in Norway to onion plantations in India, addressing issues of global distribution, agriculture, environmental collapse, marketing, and trade. December 15 പ്രഭാതം DEC 15 8.30–9.45 am Attentional exercise Breakfast area of Fragrant Nature Hotel Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana Protocol of the Sea Watch, Action of the Crow’s Nest by ESTAR(SER) Every morning, interested individuals are invited to join visiting research associates of the collective ESTAR(SER) to experiment with a reconstruction of the Protocol of the Sea Watch. �DEC 15 10.30 am–12.30 pm Structured conversation Cochin Club The Ocean as Treasure Trove: Deep-sea mining— the next gold rush? moderated by Stefanie Hessler with Nabil Ahmed, Ute Meta Bauer, Georg Eder, Amar Kanwar, Charles Lim, Markus Reymann, and Davor Vidas Deep-sea mining is a new extractive activity that has been recognized as an emerging threat to the oceans. Seabed mining targets polymetallic nodules that are used in the production of batteries and alloys, and there are strong indications that this might well be the next gold rush. Its effects will most likely impact ecosystems from the microbial level to the structural constitution of the seabed in a way that we are not remotely able to anticipate. TBA21-Academy was present during the 5th Deep-Sea Mining Summit in London in April 2016 and organized a conference titled “Design of the Seabed” at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial in November 2016. Departing from these previous engagements, agents and practitioners from the fields of art, ecology, law, and science bring greater visibility to the potentially immense effects on the future of the oceans and humankind. ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക DEC 14 2–5 pm Workshop Cochin Club To sign up for the workshop, please email kochiworkshops@tba21.org Midday, uccaykk, avatea The Document’s Expanded Field by Jamie Y. Shi Please find detailed information in the program of December 13, 2–5 pm. �DEC 14 2–5 pm Workshop Closed workshop, various sites in Fort Kochi, with a public interface on December 15, 2–5 pm, at the Cochin Club DEC 15 2–5 pm Workshop Closed workshop, deep-sea vessel by CMLRE, Kochi, a research institute under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India with a mandate to study the marine living resources This is a closed workshop, to find out more, please email kochiworkshops@tba21.org “Ambiguous Objects” and the University Museum by Clémentine Deliss Please find detailed information in the program of December 13, 2–5 pm. Rising Sea Levels by Francesca von Habsburg with Ravi Agarwal, Senator J. Kalani English, Francesca von Habsburg, Lelei Tui Samoa LeLaulu, Davor Vidas, and Linz Wilbur Climate change is warming the atmosphere, glaciers are melting, and sea levels are rising—with surging waters threatening coastal societies from Venice to the Pacific. As inhabitants struggle to find methods of mitigation, migration may be the only solution: entire countries could disappear altogether over the next few decades. And so too will ancient dances, traditional cultures, and spiritual sites. Aside from economic and geopolitical issues, the case of lost habitat raises a number of important questions about cultural, linguistic, and spiritual heritage. Taking as its site the city of Kochi, which is thought to lie close to the ancient port city of Muziris, this workshop considers speculative, bold, ethical, creative, and legal possibilities to combat the effects of climate change. It asks whether there may be a plan A to counter forced migration and, if so, what it might be. �DEC 15 3–4 pm Guided visit of the installation and sound piece Spice Market near Jeevamatha Church സന്ധ്യ Marketplace [Cartography 4] by Christopher Myers Please find detailed information about the installation and sound piece in the ALL DAY program at the beginning of the itinerary. Dusk, sandhya, maruapö The evening is dedicated to flows, passages, and movements, from the rivers to the sea, to everchanging currents, and to sonic ecological change. A performative talk by Anthony Acciavatti, architect, cartographer, and professor at Columbia University, and D. Graham Burnett, renowned writer, historian of science, and professor at Princeton University, is followed by a poetic and associative intervention by the curator Aveek Sen, circling around waterways and how these interweave with personal biographies, memories, and wider ecological concerns. A sound performance by the artist and former TBA21–Academy Fellow Jana Winderen turns our attention toward the sonic dimension of the oceans, making audible water currents and ecological change occurring in coral reefs. DEC 15 5–6.30 pm Performative talk Cochin Club WATER MACHINES by Anthony Acciavatti and D. Graham Burnett Wallace Stevens’s “Sea Surface Full of Clouds” (1924) is a poem in five sections, each of which returns to a single ambiguous scene: the blossoms of water vapor in a blue sky reflected in the heaving masses of water below. Across the poem, the sea and the sky function as mutual mirrors, which produce scintillating inversions that shake language loose from its moorings and leave the human adrift upon the “perplexed machine / of �ocean.” Departing from this image, Anthony Acciavatti and D. Graham Burnett will sequence through a series of water systems (hydrographic cycles, oceanographic structures, monsoon metrics, submarine optics), unfolding the poetics of techno-rationalizing regimes of aquatic knowledge. DEC 15 6.30–7 pm Poetry reading Vasco da Gama Plaza DEC 15 7–8 pm Sound performance Vasco da Gama Plaza The Tagore Letters by Aveek Sen Between 1887 and 1895 Rabindranath Tagore wrote a series of letters to his young niece, Indira, from the banks of a network of rivers in undivided Bengal. In them the river itself, with its endless flow and the myriad forms of human and animal life along its banks, animates the poet’s consciousness: the drift of his mind, his empathy, his memory, his gaze, his reading, his letters, essays, stories, songs, and poems, compulsively written throughout that leisurely time on the water. Many years later, in 1912, the year before he was awarded the Nobel Prize, Tagore published selections from these letters as Chhinnapatra (Scattered Letters). He based his text on his niece’s transcriptions of these letters but sequenced them himself as a work in its own right. Drifting by Jana Winderen Drifting is a sound performance by Jana Winderen commissioned for Convening #2. From the North Atlantic Current to the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific washing onto the shores of Panama, Winderen is surveying the soundscapes of drifts that fluctuate according to the temperature, pressure, and salinity of water and are shaped by invisible landscapes hidden beneath the waves. Telling stories of currents, movement, and migration, these sound tracings are also indicators for the health of ecosystems and the manifold inhabitants of the seas, from cetaceans to plankton, as well as mammals, fish, and crustaceans feeding from these drifting microscopic organisms. �DEC 15 8–10 pm Short films Originally selected for the Dhaka Art Summit program Passages by Shanay Jhaveri, assistant curator of South Asian art, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Vasco da Gama Plaza Elementary Maps No. 3 Anna Bella Geiger, 1976, 10 min. The visual poem alludes to the stereotypes and myths attributed to cultures from Latin America through the relationship between the anthropomorphic character of the South Cone’s topography and semantic games, between the formal and the metaphorical. Occidente Ana Vaz, 2014, 15 min. A film-poem of an ecology of signs that speak of a colonial history repeating itself. Subalterns become masters, antiques become reproducible dinner sets, exotic birds become luxury currency, exploration becomes extreme-sport-tourism, monuments become geo-data. The Disappearance of the Aïtus Pauline Julier, 2014, 35 min. A poetic essay about Tuvalu, a micro-state in the South Pacific that is threatened by rising sea levels. An analogy between the vanishing of the country itself and of its inhabitants’ imaginaries. A metaphoric fable about the electrical modernization of the country. And scientific information about waves and stories. �Cargo Laura Waddington, 2001, 29 min. Cargo is a lyrical voyage on the Mediterranean depicted in a series of extended moments. Combining diaristic text with painterly visuals, Laura Waddington recounts a dialogue between a mute woman and the forgotten men who work on a cargo ship. We are drawn into a nomadic journey at the frontier of European consciousness, a reflection on what it means to be a citizen without country, to drift without destination. Brouillard—Passage 14 Alexandre Larose, 2014, 10 min. In this film made in his family’s backyard in Lac-SaintCharles, Canada, Alexandre Larose superimposes walking trajectories shot along a man-made path leading to a lake. The result is an extremely layered one-take 35mm film, creating an impression of the filmmaker’s rich memories of this special place by the lake, reminiscent of its waters themselves. Sea of Vapors Sylvia Schedelbauer, 2014, 15 min. Sylvia Schedelbauer’s films negotiate the space between broader historical narratives and personal, psychological realms through poetic manipulations of archival footage. Sea of Vapors is a stroboscopic cascade of evocative images, cut frame by frame to flow into an allegory of the lunar cycle conflating landscapes and the human body. �July 2016 | Tuamotus – French Polynesia | Hydrophone | by Markus Reymann July 2016 | Tuamotus – French Polynesia | Tree | by Ute Meta Bauer �July 2016 | Tuamotus – French Polynesia | Diver | by Francesca von Habsburg October 2015 | The Kula Ring – Papua New Guinea | by Jegan Vincent de Paul �October 2015 | The Kula Ring – Papua New Guinea | by Francesca von Habsburg October 2015 | The Kula Ring – Papua New Guinea | Dardanella | by Francesca von Habsburg �Participants Zuleikha Chaudhari IN Artist, theater director, and lighting designer based in New Delhi and Mumbai, India Sitara Chowfla IN Curator and program manager at KHOJ International Artists’ Association in New Delhi, India, since September 2013 Tanya Abraham IN Journalist, author, and arts administrator, works for national and international publications and is the creative director and curator of Kashi Art Gallery and founder of The Art Outreach Society, Fort Kochi, India Anthony Acciavatti US Architect, historian, and cartographer, founding editor of Manifest: A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism, professor at Columbia University Ravi Agarwal IN Clémentine Deliss UK/DE Independent curator, publisher, and researcher, Fellow of Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin, curator of Dilijan Arts Observatory, former director of Weltkulturen Museum, publisher of Metronome and Metronome Press TJ Demos US Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Founder and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies Artist, environmental activist, writer, and curator; founder of the environmental NGO Toxics Link, New Delhi, India Georg Eder AT Project manager at TBA21, planning and organizing The Current Nabil Ahmed UK Senator J. Kalani English US Researcher, writer, and educator working on environmental conflict and forensic architecture Ute Meta Bauer DE/SG Founding director of NTU CCA Singapore and professor at the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), expedition leader, The Current D. Graham Burnett US Works at the intersection of historical inquiry and artistic practice, focusing on experimental approaches to hermeneutic activities traditionally associated with the research humanities. He’s an editor at Cabinet and teaches at Princeton Represents the 7th Senatorial District of Hana, East & Upcountry Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and Kahoolawe and is currently the Majority Leader of the Hawai’i Senate ESTAR(SER) US ESTAR(SER) is an established body of private, independent scholars who work collectively to recover, scrutinize, and (where relevant) draw attention to the historicity of the Order of the Third Bird. www.estarser.net Cesar Garcia MX/US Founding director and chief curator of The Mistake Room, Los Angeles; former associate director and senior curator of LA><ART (2007–12), expedition leader, The Current Natasha Ginwala IN/DE Curator, researcher, and writer. Curatorial adviser for documenta 14 as well as curator of Contour Biennale 8, entitled Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium (2017) Francesca von Habsburg CH/AT Philanthropist, founder, and chairwoman of TBA21 in Vienna since 2002, commissioner The Current Stefanie Hessler DE/SE Curator of TBA21–Academy and writer from Germany, cofounder of the art space Andquestionmark in Stockholm, curator of several exhibitions around the world, from Chile to Sweden Rui An Ho SG Artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance, and theory Shanay Jhaveri IN/US Assistant curator for South Asian modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Joan Jonas US World-renowned multimedia artist who has exhibited around the world, including in Documenta and the Biennale of Sydney, as well as in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York Amar Kanwar IN Filmmaker and artist, recipient of several awards, including Golden Gate at the San Francisco Film Festival (1999); the Edward Munch Award for Contemporary Art, Norway (2005); and the Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change (2014) �Lelei Tui Samoa LeLaulu US Special adviser to the World Bank for oceans, member of the Advisory Council of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a director of the Caribbean Media Exchange on Sustainable Tourism, and chairman of the Earth Council Alliance, Apia, Samoa Charles Lim SG Award-winning filmmaker and world-renowned artist, founder of the art collective TSUNAMII.NET, founder of Bobbing Buoy Films Matt Lucero US/VN Graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2003 and is an artist and member of The Propeller Group since 2009 Radha Mehandru IN Filmmaker and a member of the KHOJ curatorial and program team who focuses on the organization’s community-based projects and outreach Sharmistha Mohanty IN Author of three prose works, Book One, New Life, and Five Movements in Praise. She is also the founder and editor of the literature journal Almost Island Christopher Myers US Widely acclaimed for his work with literature for young people, and is also an accomplished fine artist who has lectured and exhibited internationally Tuan Andrew Nguyen VN Cofounder of the Propeller Group and cofounder of Sàn Art, an artist-initiated exhibition space and educational program in Saigon, Vietnam. Has works in the collections of the Queensland Art Gallery; Carré d’Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Guggenheim Museum Jegan Vincent de Paul LK/SG Worked as researcher and designer in various capacities around the world: from Ai Weiwei to LOT-EK architecture firm, research fellow at MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, cofounder of Counter, cofounder and writer for critical.org Filipa Ramos PT/UK Writer and editor based in London, where she works as editor-in-chief of art-agenda. Her research focuses on the historical and contemporary intersections of humans and other animals in art and cinema Markus Reymann DE/AT Director of TBA21-Academy and The Current, initiator of numerous expeditions aboard the Dardanella, a moving platform of cultural production and interdisciplinary exchange within TBA21 Ritu Sarin IN Filmmaker, artist, cofounder and codirector of the Dharamshala International Film Festival Aveek Sen IN Writer on art, literature, music, and society, associate editor at The Telegraph, Calcutta Jamie Y. Shi US Editor-at-large at MISPRINT and special projects manager at the Mistake Room, Los Angeles; curatorial assistant at Shanghai Project Tenzing Sonam IN Filmmaker, artist, cofounder and codirector of the Dharamshala International Film Festival Pooja Sood IN Independent curator and art management consultant, founding member and director of KHOJ International Artists’ Association Matthew Strother US Writer, reader, and occasional performer. He received a BA from Yale in English and an M.A. from the New School for Social Research in Liberal Studies. He is a member of the speculative historiographical collective ESTAR(SER) Phunam Thuc Ha VN Specialist in filmmaking and antiquities, has restored antique sculptures as well as produced feature films; cofounder of The Propeller Group Davor Vidas HR/NO Research professor, director of the Law of the Sea Programme, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway Vivek Vilasini IN Multimedia artist, trained in sculptural practices from traditional craftsman, works recently shown at MOCA, Shanghai, CCCB, Barcelona, Chicago Art Fair, Newark Museum, in the Sharjah Biennale and in the show Indian Highway at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway Linz Wilbur US Independent researcher and affiliate at the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Honolulu, USA Jana Winderen NO Multichannel artist, researcher of hidden depths with technology and audio Daniela Zyman AT Chief curator of TBA21 in Vienna, co-commissioner The Current �Organizers Founder & chairwoman TBA21, commissioner The Current Francesca von Habsburg Chief curator, TBA21, co-commissioner The Current Daniela Zyman Executive, Conference, Workshops & Archive, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Samantha Leong Min Yu Curator, Outreach & Education, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Magdalena Magiera Programming Chief curator, TBA21, co-commissioner The Current Daniela Zyman Curator, TBA21 Boris Ondreička Assistant curator, TBA21 Cory Scozzari Director, TBA21–Academy Assistant curator, TBA21 Markus Reymann Frederike Sperling TBA21 The Current expedition leader, founding director, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Head of Publications Eva Ebersberger Collection Ute Meta Bauer TBA21 The Current expedition leader; founding director and chief curator of the Mistake Room, Los Angeles Cesar Garcia Curator, TBA21–Academy Stefanie Hessler Project manager, TBA21–Academy Georg Eder Production assistant, TBA21–Academy Isabella Cavalletti Production assistant, TBA21–Academy Head of Collection Simone Sentall Colophon TBA21 Founder & chairwoman TBA21, commissioner The Current Registrar Collection & Exhibitions Elizabeth Stevens Francesca von Habsburg Registrar Collection & Exhibitions Trustees Media Udo Kittelmann Istvan Nagy TBA21–Academy Director, TBA21–Academy Andrea Hofinger Head of Media Sophie Bayerlein Project Manager Media Elodie Grethen Markus Reymann Development Natasa Venturi Curator, TBA21–Academy Project manager Producer, What About Art? Stefanie Hessler Susanne Janetzki Project manager, TBA21–Academy Project manager Eve Lemesle Producer, What About Art? Afrah Shafiq Georg Eder Azra Demir Ramovic Financing & Administration Karin Berger � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resources Programme Resource Collateral and other print or digital materials pertaining to residency programmes. Examples include residency brochures, postcards, etc. Short Description The conference consists of three days of structured conversations, workshops, performances, talks, and screenings convened by The Current Expedition leaders Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21-Academy curator Stefanie Hessler. Programme Series None Theme Place.Labour.Capital. Climates. Habitats. Environments. None Climates. Habitats. Environments. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Current Convening #2 Conference Guides Description An account of the resource NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is pleased to be the funding partner of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary–Academy (TBA21) for The Current Convening #2 in numerous locations on the occasion of the opening of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016. The Current is an exploratory fellowship program based in the Pacific. Working collaboratively across disciplines, the program merges the diverse approaches of deeply committed practitioners, collectively conceptualizing ways to address climate change and environmental violence to the oceans. Expeditions aboard the Dardanella research vessel are followed by Convenings in which the investigations of the Expedition leaders and participants can be shared with an audience. The Convening #2 is profoundly dedicated to the oceans, taking poetic approaches to currents and flows of water across cultures. Please join us for three days of structured conversations, workshops, performances, talks, and screenings convened by The Current Expedition leaders Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21-Academy curator Stefanie Hessler. Organized by Markus Reymann. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-12-13/2016-12-15 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Francesca von Habsburg Daniela Zyman Markus Reyman Stefanie Hessler Ute Meta Bauer Cesar Garcia Joan Jonas Amar Kanwar Davor Vidas Natasha Ginwala Ravi Agarwal Nabil Ahmed Filipa Ramos Christopher Myers The Propeller Group Jana Winderen Jamie Y. Shi Sharmistha Mohanty Ritu Sharin Tenzing Sonam Jegan Vincent de Paul Vivek Vilasini TJ Demos Ho Rui An Charles Lim Anthony Acciavatti D. Graham Burnett Aveek Sen Shanay Jhaveri Clémentine Deliss Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Southeast Asia