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A combined presentation by Artist-in-Residence Ho Rui An and artist Tan Biyun, Future Trees and the Pulp of History explores the artists’ shared interests in participatory democracies, historical archives, and speculative futures. Their works engage various strategies to rearrange existing narrative structures and activate new forms of political imagination.
Programme Type
Talk and Lecture
Related Countries
Singapore
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Place.Labour.Capital.
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General
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
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No
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No
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No
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Future Trees and the Pulp of History by Ho Rui An, Artist-in-Residence, and Tan Biyun (Singapore), artist
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<div class="event_single_dates text__residencies">12 Nov 2016, Sat - 10 Dec 2016, Sat 12:00 PM - 07:00 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">Residencies Studio #01-03, Block 37 Malan Road</div>
<br />A combined presentation by Artist-in-Residence Ho Rui An and artist Tan Biyun, <i>Future Trees</i> and the <i>Pulp of History</i> explores the artists’ shared interests in participatory democracies, historical archives, and speculative futures. Their works engage various strategies to rearrange existing narrative structures and activate new forms of political imagination. <br /><br />For the first time in Singapore, Ho exhibits the documentation of <i>Screen Green</i> (2015-16), a lecture performance that examines the politics of screening and greening in the city-state. Screen Green has been produced for the exhibition Public Spirits, currently running at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland. Beginning with an observation of the lush greenery often seen as backdrop of political discourse in Singapore, the lecture addresses this botanical green in relation to the “green screen” normally used in cinema, using this uncanny connection to examine the politics of screening and greening in the city-state. Central to the work is the contention that the numerous green spaces in Singapore act as giant green screen studios designed to solicit the participation and imagination of the masses in order to limit and modulate their articulations. <br /><br />Against the “horticultural futurism” discussed in Ho’s lecture, Tan posits a speculative near-future where the history of Singapore faces the fate of being pulped. Tan conjures a scenario where students, sick of the propaganda purveyed in their textbooks, have abandoned the study of History altogether, prompting the Ministry to recall and destroy all textbooks in circulation. Conceived as a “protest against forgetting” (Eric Hobsbawn), Tan’s The Unforgetting Space seeks a more inclusive understanding of the past and triggers the process of reclaiming the writing of history from the authorities. This participatory project features several textbooks dating from the 1970s and two old typewriters on which audiences are invited to retype historical episodes selected from the books. They are also encouraged to contribute a text based on their own sources should a historical episode be found to be missing or misrepresented. <br /><br />Launched on occasion of Gillman Barracks’ <i>Art Day Out!</i>, <i>Future Trees and the Pulp of History</i> is open to the public from 12 November to 10 December 2016, every Saturday and Sunday, 12.00 to 7.00pm. Block 37 #01-03, Malan Road, Gillman Barracks.
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2015-11-12
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Ho Rui An
Tan Biyun
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Southeast Asia
Subject
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Knowledge Production
Politics
History
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Ho Rui An leads this series of talks engaging participants in discussions on Yang Fudong's works in the exhibition.
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Talk and Lecture
Programme Series
Exhibition (de)Tour
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Place.Labour.Capital.
Audience
General
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
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No
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No
Education
No
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Exhibition (de)Tour with Ho Rui An
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<span>14 Jan 2015, Wed 7:00 - 8:30 pm<br /></span>Block 43 Malan Road Seminar Room<br /><br />Join artist and writer Ho Rui An in this series of talks engaging participants in discussions on Yang’s works in the exhibition. Ho is the Singapore desk editor for ArtAsiaPacific and has contributed to numerous catalogues and periodicals.<br /><br />This is a public programme of <em>Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts</em>.
Date
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2015-01-14
Contributor
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Ho Rui An
Coverage
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Asia
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Ways of Seeing
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A recipient and producer of knowledge, NTU CCA Singapore’s publishing activities contribute to its holistic approach, expanding the connections across the Centre’s exhibitions, residencies, public programming, and academic education.
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Electronic (eBook)
Print
Print
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Artist Research Platform
Library
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None
Library
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Place.Labour.Capital.
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Place.Labour.Capital.
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Institutional Critique
Geopolitics
Urbanism
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Place.Labour.Capital., published by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) and Mousse Publishing, connects cultural production and artistic research to broader political and social concerns, engaging readers with contemporary debates in Southeast Asia and beyond.<br /><br />The title of the book refers to the framework employed at NTU CCA Singapore in its first cycle of activities, from 2013 to March 2017, which took Singapore, the world’s second-largest trading port and the economic epicentre of Southeast Asia, as a point of departure to investigate the notion of place, the intersection between locality and the global, labour, and flows of capital.<br /><br />Unfolding across four broad sections of “The Making of an Institution,” “The Geopolitical and the Biophysical,” “Incidental Scripts,” and “Incomplete Urbanism,” this publication reads as an exhibition. Drawing connections across disciplines and merging theory with practice, Place.Labour.Capital. weaves together a constellation of different bodies of materials from essays, poetry, and fiction to artworks and documentation of the Centre’s past exhibitions.<br /><br />Richly illustrated, the publication brings together the voices of more than 80 contributors, from former Research Fellows such as Tony Godfrey (Philippines), Regina (Maria) Möller (Germany), T. K. Sabapathy (Singapore), Yvonne Spielmann (Germany), to former Artists-in-Residence including Tiffany Chung (Vietnam/United States), Amanda Heng (Singapore), Shooshie Sulaiman (Malaysia), Lee Wen (Singapore), and Yee I-Lann (Malaysia). Other contributions include those from the Centre’s exhibitions and public programmes such as artists, academics, and curators including Amar Kanwar (India), Lee Weng Choy (Malaysia), David Teh (Australia/Singapore), and June Yap (Singapore).<br /><br />This extensive publication “reminds us that institution building remains enormously significant as a means of opening up new spaces, claims, communities, dialogues, publics, and trajectories for critical artistic practice.” (Felicity D. Scott, Associate Professor Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York)<br /><br />“Drawing together stories, voices, and thinking by leading artists and academics, Place.Labour.Capital. traces the invention of a remarkable model of an institution. The publication is an inspiration and a valuable tool to anyone trying to find ways of building releveant arts institutions for the future.” (Sally Tallant, Director, Liverpool Biennial)<br /><br />Place.Labour.Capital. takes a reflective look the art institution, and serves as a means to review the parameters of its own position in the present globalised art world and knowledge-production economies. <br /><br />The visual concept of the book was conceived by renowned Singapore design firm H55.
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Mousse Publishing
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2018
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Mousse Publishing
H55
Koh Nguang How
Paul Tan
Eugene Tan
T. K. Sabapathy
Khim Ong
Fareed Armaly
Jesko Fezer
Julian "Togar" Abraham
Post-Museum
Kray Chen
Vera Mey
Amanda Heng
Yan Jun
Lee Wen
Marc Glöde
Jeremy Sharma
Heman Chong
Shooshie Sulaiman
Mona Vătămanu
Florin Tudor
Hilde Van Gelder
UuDam Tran Nguyen
James Jack
Jegan Vincent de Paul
Dennis Tan
Erika Tan
Regina (Maria) Möller
Hamra Abbas
Mercedes Vicente
Bo Wang
Ho Rui An
Stefano Harney
Arjuna Neuman
Bani Haykal
Tiffany Chung
Amar Kanwar
Helena Varkkey
Nikos Papastergiadis
Saleh Husein
Sam Durant
June Yap
Roslisham "Ise" Ismail
Shubigi Rao
Guo-Liang Tan
Tamara Weber
Loo Zihan
Zac Langdon-Pole
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Jompet Kuswidananto
Otty Widasari
Yvonne Spielmann
Mark Nash
Arin Rungjang
Filipa Ramos
Yason Banal
Kenneth Dean
Yee I-Lann
Alex Mawimbi
anGie seah
Alexandra Murray-Leslie
Andrew Johnston
Zulkifle Mahmod
Newell Harry
Jason Wee
Anocha Suwichakornpong
Shirley Surya
Sissel Tolaas
Tan Pin Pin
SHIMURAbros
Etienne Turpin
Li Ran
Gary-Ross Pastrana
Yvonne P. Doderer
Matthew Mazzotta
Art Labor
Xu Tan
Weixin Chong
Pratchaya Phinthong
Marc Glode
Mona Vatamanu
Regina Moller
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English
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978-981-11-3843-0
978-88-6749-308-1
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Asia
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Available for browsing onsite at NTU CCA Singapore physical archive. Contact ntuccareseach@ntu.edu.sg to make an appointment.
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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
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Bazaar Rd, Mattancherry,
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River Rd, Fort Kochi,
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Spice Market
near Jeevamatha Church
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Mattancherry, Kochi,
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Church Rd, Fort Kochi,
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Cochin Club
7, St. Francis Church Road,
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convened by TBA21 The Current
expedition leaders
Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia
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Stefanie Hessler
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tba21.org/convening2kochi
facebook.com/TBA21
#tba21 #convening2kochi
@tba_21
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Fort Kochi, Kerala, India
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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
8.30–9.45am
Attentional exercise
7–8pm
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
8–10pm
10.30am–12.30pm
Unpredictable Oceans
and the Monstrosity of
the Sea
Guided visit of the installation
and sound piece
10.30am–12.30pm
Structured conversation
The Ocean as Habitat:
The rights of nature
and the international
Law of the sea
Cochin Club
2–5pm
Workshop
moderated by Ute Meta Bauer
with Ravi Agarwal, Nabil Ahmed,
D. Graham Burnett, TJ Demos, Jegan
Vincent de Paul, Markus Reymann,
Davor Vidas
“Ambiguous Objects”
and the University
Museum
Cochin Club
ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക
by Clémentine Deliss
സന്ധ
5–6.30pm
Introduction
Into The Current
moderated by Daniela Zyman
with Ute Meta Bauer, Cesar Garcia,
Francesca von Habsburg, Stefanie
Hessler, Markus Reymann
Cochin Club
The Capitalocene
Pacific
Midday, uccaykk, avatea
2–5pm
Cochin Club
Workshop
“Ambiguous Objects”
and the University
Museum
6–6.30pm
Keynote
The Law of the Sea —
through time and place
by Clémentine Deliss
Closed workshop,
various sites in Fort Kochi
by Davor Vidas
Cochin Club
2–5pm
6.30–7pm
Workshop
Prose reading
Rising Sea Levels
Reading a Wave
by Francesca von Habsburg
by Ho Rui An
Closed workshop,
deep-sea vessel by CMLRE
Vasco da Gama Plaza
3–4pm
Performative talk
2–5pm
Workshop for children
Guided visit of the installation
and sound piece
by Joan Jonas
with Filipa Ramos
Cochin Club
2–5pm
The Document’s
Expanded Field
by Jamie Y. Shi
Cochin Club
2–5pm
Cochin Club
Oceans–
sketches and notes
Fish Tails and Fish
Tales
Midday, uccaykk, avatea
by Jamie Y. Shi
by TJ Demos
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
Vasco da Gama Plaza
by Christopher Myers
Short films
Gianini with Ishu Patel
Wutharr, Saltwater
Dreams by Karrabing Film
Collective
Poetry reading
The Tagore Letters
by Aveek Sen
Vasco da Gama Plaza
7–8pm
Sound performance
Drifting
by Jana Winderen
Vasco da Gama Plaza
8–10pm
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
Speeches—Chapter 1:
Mother Tongue
by Bouchra Khalili
Brouillard—Passage 14
by Alexandre Larose
by Sylvia Schedelbauer
originally selected for the Dhaka Art
Summit program Passages
by Shanay Jhaveri
Vasco da Gama Plaza
December
13 –15
ALL DAY
Film shoot
The Episodic
by The Propeller Group
Various sites in Fort Kochi
ALL DAY
Exhibition of books
From the (Kula) Ring to
the Belt (& Road)
by Jegan Vincent de Paul
Cochin Club
ALL DAY
Installation and sound piece
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
by Christopher Myers
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
8–10pm
Swimmy by Leo Lionni & Giulio
6.30–7pm
Sea of Vapors
The Document’s
Expanded Field
7–8pm
Workshop
Dusk, sandhya, maruapö
ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക
Keynote
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
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
5–5.30pm
by ESTAR(SER)
Nuclear Pacific
Cochin Club
Workshop
8.30–9.45am
Protocol of the Sea
Watch, Action of the
Crow’s Nest
Workshop
by Christopher Myers
Dusk, sandhya, maruapö
Attentional exercise
2–5pm
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
സന്ധ
പ്രഭാതം
ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക
December 14
Cochin Club
Guided visit of the installation
and sound piece
moderated by Stefanie Hessler
with Nabil Ahmed, Ute Meta Bauer,
Georg Eder, Amar Kanwar, Charles Lim,
Markus Reymann, Davor Vidas
by Christopher Myers
by Jamie Y. Shi
3–4pm
The Ocean as
Treasure Trove:
Deep-sea mining —
the next gold rush?
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
Vasco da Gama Plaza
Midday, uccaykk, avatea
Closed workshop,
various sites in Fort Kochi
Structured conversation
3–4pm
selected by the Dharamshala
International Film Festival
introduced by Ritu Sarin &
Tenzing Sonam
Cochin Club
The Document’s
Expanded Field
10.30am–12.30pm
by Gianfranco Rosi
moderated by Ute Meta Bauer
with Tanya Abraham, Natasha Ginwala,
Ho Rui An, Joan Jonas, Filipa Ramos,
Vivek Vilasini, Daniela Zyman
Workshop
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
8.30–9.45am
Protocol of the Sea
Watch, Action of the
Crow’s Nest
2–5pm
by Christopher Myers
Breakfast area of Fragrant
Nature Hotel
Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana
Attentional exercise
Perfomative talk
by ESTAR(SER)
2–5pm
December 15
2–5pm
Poetry reading
പ്രഭാതം
6.30–7pm
സന്ധ
പ്രഭാതം
December 13
Dusk, sandhya, maruapö
5–6.30pm
Europium by Lisa Rave
Toilets Not Temples
Performative talk
by Will Benedict & David Leonard
by Anthony Acciavatti &
D. Graham Burnett
selected and introduced by
Filipa Ramos
Vasco da Gama Plaza
WATER MACHINES
Cochin Club
Please find detailed information about
the program inside.
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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.
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None
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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The Current Convening #2 Poster
Description
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NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is pleased to be the funding partner of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary–Academy (TBA21) for <i>The Current Convening #2</i> in numerous locations on the occasion of the opening of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016.<br /><br /><i>The Current</i> 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 <i>Convenings</i> in which the investigations of the Expedition leaders and participants can be shared with an audience. <i>The Convening #2</i> 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<i> The Current</i> Expedition leaders Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21-Academy curator Stefanie Hessler. Organized by Markus Reymann.
Date
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2016-12-13/2016-12-15
Contributor
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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
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Postcard
Coverage
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on the occasion of
the opening of the
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Fort Kochi, Kerala, India
TBA21–Academy media links
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Partners
December 13–15, 2016
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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.
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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
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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.
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�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
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is pleased to be the funding partner of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary–Academy (TBA21) for <i>The Current Convening #2</i> in numerous locations on the occasion of the opening of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016.<br /><br /><i>The Current</i> 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 <i>Convenings</i> in which the investigations of the Expedition leaders and participants can be shared with an audience. <i>The Convening #2</i> 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<i> The Current</i> Expedition leaders Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21-Academy curator Stefanie Hessler. Organized by Markus Reymann.
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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
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Hamra Abbas
Rodolfo Andaur
Diana Campbell Betancourt
Dinu Bodiciu
Kray Chen
Chris Chong Chan Fui
Heman Chong
Renée Staal
Weixin Chong
Choy Ka Fai
Ann Demeester
Rosemary Forde
Marc Glöde
Yuko Hasegawa
Bani Haykal
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad
Maria Hlavajova
Ho Rui An
James Jack
siren eun young jung
Christoph Knoth
Koh Nguang How
Wilfried Kuehn
Bastien von Lehsten
Li Ran
Loo Zihan
Zulkifle Mahmod
Ato Malinda
Alice Miceli
Laura Miotto
Regina Möller
Arjuna Neuman
UuDam Tran Nguyen
Nikos Papastergiadis
Jegan Vincent de Paul
Emily Pethick
Thao-Nguyen Phan
Souliya Phoumivong
Ana Prvački
Arin Rungjang
anGie seah
Jeremy Sharma
SHIMURAbros
Alec Steadman
Sanne Oorthuizen
Anocha Suwichakornpong
Erika Tan
Guo-Liang Tan
Tan Pin Pin
Philip Tinari
John Tirman
Mona Vătămanu
Florin Tudor
Bo Wang
Farah Wardani
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EXHIBITION
THE MAKING OF
A N INSTITUTION
A PUBLIC R EPORT
1 1 Fe b r u a r y — 7 M ay 2 01 7
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�NO TE S FROM
TH E CUR AT OR S
An institution is a living entity: it grows, develops, and goes through cycles of
change and transformation. Part of a larger political, social and cultural environment, an institution does not evolve in full isolation; on the contrary it is
shaped by forces and actors that contribute to its making — staff, artists, stakeholders, multiple publics, and an increasing virtual audience.
The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (NTU CCA Singapore), a national research
centre, was established by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) with a
grant from the Economic Development Board, Singapore. NTU CCA Singapore
officially opened its doors in October 2013 at Gillman Barracks, a former military
site built by the British in the 1930s. The Centre’s start-up phase was overseen by
NTU ’s School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) and its first exhibition Engaging
Perspectives, opened in January 2013 in the designated Artist-in-Residence
studios. The exhibition was curated by Eugene Tan, who also masterminded
Gillman Barracks as Singapore’s first international arts precinct.
NTU CCA Singapore embodies the complexity of a contemporary art institution
in times of knowledge economies, a globally expanded art world, and institutional building in Southeast Asia. The Centre’s inaugural programme, conceived by
its small newly appointed start-up team, was titled Free Jazz and addressed the
foundational question “What can this institution be?” through improvisation and
free play. Three years later, new questions are to be raised: What is the role of the
NTU CCA Singapore within its local, regional, and global cultural landscape?
How does such an institution contribute to a wider understanding of knowledge
production? What are the criteria to evaluate its achievements, impact, and outreach?
Since its inauguration, the NTU CCA Singapore has developed with a fast pace
surpassing expectations. This rapid growth is reflected in all institutional components, from programming to facilities and staff. As an institution the Centre
literally started from scratch: an empty exhibition hall, a small team that worked
from a temporary, improvised office. The Centre’s infrastructure was shaped
hand in hand with its programming, they became inseparable from each other.
The exhibition space was reconfigured in March 2015 into The Exhibition Hall,
The Lab, The Single Screen, The Vitrine, by artist and writer Fareed Armaly.
Together with The Seminar Room, The Artist-in-Residence Studios, The Office
and Public Resource Centre, NTU CCA Singapore’s physical spaces not only
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�represent its curatorial environment, but also reflect the variety of the Centre’s
programmes. Following its focus on Spaces of the Curatorial, the Centre connects exhibitions, residencies, public programmes with academic education and
publishing. This constellation of curatorial formats and spaces shape the Centre’s
identity and its holistic approach to knowledge production, while its academic
mandate is closely intertwined with the NTU ’s School of Art, Media and Design.
Nowadays the role of a contemporary art institution is not limited to the presentation of art: it feeds off and nurtures the cultural ecosystem it belongs to through
a complex series of actions that often reside in the realm of the immaterial. As an
art institution emerging from a university environment, NTU CCA Singapore
places at the core of its mission a strong commitment to research in the field of
contemporary art. Many activities and processes carried within the institution
remain less known to a wider audience and don’t reach an immediate level of
public visibility. The Residencies Programme that launched its first cycle of international Artists-in-Residence in June 2014 is defined by its research focus. In
seven studios, the Centre hosts every year around 20 Artists-in-Residence from
Singapore, Southeast Asia, wider Asia, and other parts of the world. NTU CCA
Singapore also provides residencies to curators and writers aiming to facilitate
exchanges and fostering dialogues within and beyond the region. The Centre’s
guests benefit from its facilities, curatorial support andaffiliation with the University,
as well as from its connections in the region and its global network. The main distinctive benefit of The Residencies Programme is perhaps the space and time
that the Centre provides to pursue ideas and research without the pressuring
expectation of a tangible outcome. In times where intensive productions and
tight deadlines reached both the art world and academia, a research-focused
residency is a rare and valuable opportunity. But it is also a risky endeavor for an
institution since nurturing research does not lead to immediate, tangible results.
It is a long-term process whose outcomes cannot be easily determined beforehand
nor evaluated shortly afterwards.
Our commitment to research is formalised through our connection to the
University. Established under NTU ’s College of Humanities, Art and Social
Science (CoHASS), the Centre’s academic programmes are part of NTU ADM and
currently offer a Master of Art (M A ) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) with a focus on Spaces of the Curatorial. The research-oriented MA & PhD programmes of
NTU ADM provide students with the opportunity to pursue research in dis
ciplines such as Museum Studies & Cultural Heritage, Curatorial Practice,
Exhibition Design, and most recently in Art in Public Space & Critical Spatial
Practice. The Centre’s Visiting Research Fellows contribute to the aforementioned
areas of inquiry.
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�The wider public from Singapore and abroad might be more familiar with the
Centre’s exhibition programme that features four large-scale exhibitions a year
either focusing on a long-term project of an individual artist or on a thematic, often interdisciplinary exhibition. One of the defining aspects of our approach to
exhibition-making is the spatial display. With each show, the reconfiguration of
the exhibition space has been driven by a strong curatorial understanding of
the exhibition as a complex spatial experience. Another distinctive curatorial
approach to exhibition-making is reflected in the public programme. During the
first years, the NTU CCA Singapore developed different formats of programming that approach the exhibition as a working tool. Such public programming
formats include Exhibition (de)Tours, Stagings, and Behind the Scenes that
approach the presented works and each distinctive display as an open-ended
discourse whose questions and concerns are relevant across other disciplines.
Geographers, scientists, anthropologists, historians, and experts from other
fields have been invited in different occasions to interpret the exhibition from
their perspective. Such interdisciplinary encounters grounded our efforts
to place contemporary art as a method of inquiry in the field of knowledge production.
The symbiosis between the programmes of research, residencies, and exhibitions
developed organically over time and many of the Artists-in-Residence share
communal interests and lines of investigation with the artists or topics featured
in the Centre’s exhibitions. The current NTU CCA Singapore’s overarching curatorial narrative, Place.Labour.Capital . emerged in response to these overlap of
interests rather than predetermining them. Reflections on the dynamic relation
between topography, labour migration, and global capital served as entry point
to connect cultural production with a world in flux. Such inquiry is placed within the context of the wider region of Southeast Asia subjected to fast changes and
rapid growth, but also to the inequalities of capital distribution.
In this moment of institutional self-reflection, we look back at our organisation
through the same lens of Place.Labour.Capital . Part of larger national agenda of
cultural development and knowledge economy, an art institution is a producer of
capital, an employer, and a provider of labour. Part of a larger geographical and
cultural environment, an institution is subjected to the conditions and contingencies of the place in which it situates itself. The effort of The Making of an
Institution is to “evaluate” the institution in all its aspects in the attempt to make
visible what usually stays behind the scenes.
The Making of an Institution captures different moments in the development of
the Centre connecting artistic projects, discursive manifestations, and the insti-
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�tutional apparatus in a seamless display. It looks back into its recent past in order
to shape its near future. Challenging the format of an exhibition, this curatorial
collaboration creates a communal space where projects and research explorations
by the Centre’s Artists-, Curators-in-Residence, and Research Fellows coexist
with a discursive public programme of talks, screenings, performances, and
workshops.
In revisiting its own process of institutional building, NTU CCA Singapore
appropriates the format and language of a “public report”. The use of a public
report format is a reflection on the evaluation process to which any institution
is subjected, but also on the responsibility it carries towards its many publics
including the funders. While this format is conventionally employed to deliver
an official written narrative, the Centre’s report unfolds in the exhibition space
through the languages of the performative, the discursive, and the archival.
The Making of an Institution is divided into four main sections. The first section,
Reason to Exist: The Director’s Review, focuses on institutions that place research
at the core of their identity. Invited directors of research-oriented institutions
will closely examine the vision, mission, and operative model of their respective
organization in a series of talks aimed at deepening our understanding of the
changing role of contemporary art institutions. Ownership, Development, and
Aspirations stresses the importance of a wide network of expertise and collaborative exchange in shaping the development of an institution by creating a public
panel with members of the NTU CCA Singapore’s International Advisory Board.
The section dedicated to Artistic Research frames the material and immaterial
aspects that constitute contemporary art practices. It takes over the Centre’s
physical Spaces of the Curatorial — The Exhibition Hall, The Single Screen, The
Lab, and The Vitrine — juxtaposing artworks and research projects by NTU CCA
Singapore’s Artists-, Curators-in-Residence and Research Fellows alongside a
series of talks, screenings, studio sessions, and performances. In addition, it
provides access throughout the duration of the exhibition to the Centre’s Artist
Resource Platform. Finally, the fourth session, titled Communication and
Mediation, explores the production of an institution’s identity through visual
communication and spatial practices in a series of workshops and presentations
with contributions by architects and designers who work in this particular field.
A chronology of events incorporating various institutional materials traces the
Centre’s history of curatorial programmes since its establishment. The Making
of an Institution takes place within the traces of NTU CCA Singapore’s pre ious
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exhibition Incomplete Urbanism : Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice (October
2016 — January 2017) that will serve as a display platform, but also as a form of
exhibition documentation that becomes part of the institutional public report.
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�Within this framework, we will produce a publication gathering the voices of all
the artists, curators, researchers, and academics who have contributed to the
making of this institution.
In this moment of reflection and evaluation, we take the opportunity to acknowledge and express gratitude towards the wide net of people and organisations,
public and private, that contributed to the Centre’s achievements in its founding
phase. Entrusted with the establishment of the Centre, we wouldn’t have been
able to undertake this challenging journey without the constant support of our
stakeholders, NTU CCA Singapore’s staff, artists, collaborators, and our loyal
audience.
Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director
Anna Lovecchio, Curator, Residencies
Anca Rujoiu, Manager, Publications and previous Curator, Exhibitions
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�NTU CCA Singapore’s staff, opening of Amar Kanwar, The Sovereign Forest, in collaboration
with Sudhir Pattnaik/Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur, 29 July — 9 October 2016.
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�Danné Ojeda, Basic Object Of Knowledge [ B .O.O. K . ]: The Contemporary Book And
Its Model , recipient of the R E D D OT DESIGN AWA R D : COMUNIC ATION DESIGN 2015;
presented during NTU CCA Singapore’s Publishing as Expanded Form,
Singapore Art Book Fair, 13 — 16 November 2014, The Exhibition Hall.
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�R E A S ON T O E X I S T:
THE DIR ECTOR’S
R EVI EW
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�What is the role of a contemporary art institution today? This series of talks
brings together directors and founders of organisations that adopt critical and
innovative strategies to advance the development of contemporary art practices
and discourses. Combining different activities and experimenting with a variety of programmes, these institutions stretch the concept of artistic practise beyond the conventional parameters of exhibition making placing the production
of knowledge at the core of their identity. Through a critical reading of the vision
and mission of their own institution, the guest speakers will reflect upon the
“reason to exist” and the “modes of existence” of the institution in a specific social context and will discuss current challenges and future developments.
TA L K S
The Exhibition Hall
Emily Pethick
Wednesday
15 February 2017
7.30 — 9.00 pm
Since 2008, Emily Pethick (United Kingdom) has been Director of The Showroom,
London, United Kingdom, a contemporary art space committed to collaborative
and process-driven approaches to cultural production within its locality and beyond. She was previously Director of Casco, Off ice for Art, Design and Theory,
Utrecht, Netherlands (2005—2008). Pethick has contributed to several catalogues and magazines, such as Artforum, Frieze, Afterall, and The Exhibitionist,
and edited numerous publications including Wendelien van Olden borgh ’s
monograph Amateur (2016) and Cluster: Dialectionary (with Binna Choi, Maria
Lind, and Natasa Petresin-Bachelez, 2014). Pethick is a jury member for the
2017 Turner Prize.
Diana Campbell
Betancourt
Wednesday
8 March 2017
7.30 — 9.00 pm
(United States/Philippines/Bangladesh) is currently Artistic Director of Samdani
Art Foundation and Chief Curator of Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
a major research and exhibition platform for art in South Asia. In addition,
Betancourt is Artistic Director of Bellas Artes Projects, Bagac, Philippines. She
has collaborated with sculpture parks such as the Yorkshire Sculpture Park,
Wakef ield, United Kingdom; deCordova Sculpture Park, Lincoln, United States;
and Wånas Konst, Knislinge, Sweden, on commissions of Indian sculpture.
Betancourt is also responsible for developing the Samdani Art Foundation collection.
Farah Wardani
Wednesday
15 March, 2017
7.30 — 9 pm
(Indonesia/Singapore) is currently Assistant Director of the Resource Centre at
the National Gallery Singapore. She was previously Director of the Indonesian
Visual Art Archive (ICA A ), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, a centre for digital archive
and documentation of Indonesian art, as well as a platform for research. Wardani
has also been active as a teacher, writer, and curator. Her curatorial work encompasses collaborations with art spaces such as Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta and
ruangrupa, Jakarta, Indonesia. She also served as artistic director of Biennale
Jogja XII Equator #2, Indonesia (2013).
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�Maria Hlavajova
Wednesday
22 March 2017
7.30 — 9.00 pm
(Slovakia/Netherlands) is Artistic Director of BA K , basis voor actuele kunst,
Utrecht, Netherlands, an institution that advocates for the critical role of art in
society through various programmes of education, exhibitions, and publishing.
Hlavajova is also initiator and artistic director of FOR MER WEST, an eight-year
long transnational research, education, exhibition, and publication project organised and coordinated by BA K . She regularly contributes to numerous critical
readers, catalogues, and magazines internationally. In addition, Hlavajova is
co-founder of tranzit, a network established in 2002 that supports contemporary
art practices and exchanges in Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and
Romania. She serves on the Advisory Board of Bergen Assembly, Norway.
Sanne Oorthuizen
and Alec Steadman
Wednesday
12 April 2017
7.30 — 9 pm
Sanne Oorthuizen (Netherlands/Indonesia) is a curator, editor, translator, feminist, daughter, educator and partner. She is Co-Chief Curator at Cemeti — Institute
for Art and Society, Yogyakarta, Indonesia where she is currently working with
Alec Steadman on Maintenance Works, a year-long project in which they envision alternative futures for Cemeti. Previously she was Curator at Casco-Off ice
for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht, Netherlands (2012—2016), curatorial
team member for the SONSBEEK Triennial, Arnhem, Netherlands (2015—2016,
with ruangrupa).
Alec Steadman (United Kingdom/Indonesia) is a curator and researcher. He is
currently Co-Chief Curator at Cemeti — Institute for Art and Society, Yogyakarta.
Previously he occupied various roles including: Curator, Arts Catalyst, London,
United Kingdom (2015—2016); Exhibition Studies Research Fellow, Asia Art
Archive, Hong Kong (2015); Artistic Director, Contemporary Image Collective,
Cairo, Eg y pt (2013—2014); Curator in Residence, Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2013), and Head of Exhibitions, Zoo Art Enterprises,
London, United Kingdom (2005—2010).
1 The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: A Structured Conversation on Art and
Southeast Asia in Context, Part II, 18 June 2016, The Single Screen.
2 Halimah-the-Empire-Exhibition-weaver-who-died-whilst-performing-her-craft,
14 July — 2 August 2015, Erika Tan, Artist-in-Residence, The Lab.
3 NTU CCA Singapore Public Resource Centre.
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D E V E L O P M E N T, A N D
A SPI R ATIONS
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�Who owns a public institution? How does an institution balance the different
sets of expectations held by its various stakeholders? What is the role of an international advisory board and how does it contribute to the institution’s development within a global perspective? Shifting the top-down operational model, can
an institution learn from artists and incorporate artistic methodologies into its
own structure? To address such questions, this session brings together several
members of the NTU CCA Singapore’s International Advisory Board into a public discussion moderated by Founding Director Ute Meta Bauer. The conversation will be ushered in by Words , They, Wrote, (2015—ongoing), a performance
by Artist-in-Residence Heman Chong. Utilising words written or spoken by several artists, the performance generates a moment of introspection opening up a
space for the artists’ thoughts on their own lives and works.
PE R F OR M A NC E A ND P UBL IC DI S CUS SION
Saturday
25 February 2017
3.00 — 6.00 pm
The Single Screen
Ute Meta Bauer
(Germany/Singapore) is the Founding Director of the NTU CCA Singapore and
Professor at School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University
(NTU), Singapore and was prior Associate Professor (2005—2012) at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT ), Cambridge, United States, where she served as
Founding Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology. Bauer
was Co-Curator for Documenta11 (2001—2002), Artistic Director for the 3rd
berlin biennale for contemporary art (2004), and the Founding Director of the
Off ice for Contemporary Art Norway (2002—2005). She recently co-curated
with MIT List Centre for Visual Art Director Paul Ha the US Pavilion at the 56th
Venice Biennale (2015), Italy, presenting eminent artist Joan Jonas, and developed the concept for Cities for People (2017), the pilot edition of an annual NTU
CCA Ideas Fest. She co-edited with Brigitte Oetker Southeast Asia Spaces of the
Curatorial (2016) published by Sternberg Press.
Heman Chong
(Malaysia/Singapore) is an artist whose work is located at the intersection between image, performance, situations, and writing. His work continuously interrogates the functions and the production of narratives in our everyday lives.
Chong has presented solo exhibitions in institutions such as the Rockbund Art
Museum, Shanghai, China (2016); South London Gallery, United Kingdom (2015);
Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea (2015); The Reading Room, Bangkok, Thailand
(2013). He has also participated in numerous international biennales including
the 20th Sydney Biennale, Australia (2016); 10th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
(2014); Asia Pacif ic Triennale 7, Brisbane, Australia (2012); Performa 11, New
York, United States (2011); Manifesta 8, Spain (2010); and represented Singapore
at the 50th Venice Biennale, Italy (2003).
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�Ann Demeester
(Belgium/Netherlands) is currently the Director of Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem,
Netherlands. She was appointed Manager of Art and Urban Development for
Amsterdam City Council, co-curated the 10th Baltic Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania
(2009) and was previously the Director of De Appel Arts Centre and W139,
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Demeester was part of the editorial team of the literary
journals, Yang, A Prior Magazine and F.R . David, and wrote catalogue texts on
the work of Luc Tuymans, Michael Borremans, Jennifer Tee, Richard Hawkins,
Mika Rottenberg and Bjarne Melgaard, amongst others. She is member of the
NTU CCA Singapore’s International Advisory Board.
Yuko Hasegawa
(Japan) is Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan and
Professor at the Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan. Since 2008, Hasegawa has
been a member of the Asian Art Council at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, United States. She is also currently Artistic Director of Inujima Art
House Project, Okayama, Japan. Past appointments includeFounding Artistic
Director, 21st Centur y Museum of Contemporar y Art, Kanazawa, Japan (1996—
2006); Curator of 11th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates (2013); co-curator
of 29th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2010); co-curator of the 4th Shanghai Biennale,
China (2002); and Artistic Director of the 7th International Istanbul Biennial,
Turkey (2001). She is member of the NTU CCA Singapore’s International Advisory
Board.
Nikos Papastergiadis
(Australia) is Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures and Professor,
School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia. His
current research focuses on the investigation of the historical transformation of
contemporary art and cultural institutions by digital technolog y. He was coeditor of Third Text. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities,
Canberra, Australia; Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Melbourne,
Australia; Member of Clare College, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Visiting Fellow,
University of Tasmania School of Art, Australia; Advisory Board Member to
University of South Australia School of Art and Architecture, Adelaide, Australia;
co-chair of the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture, Melbourne, Australia,
and NTU CCA Singapore’s International Advisory Board.
Philip Tinari
(United States/China) is Director of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art,
Beijing, China, since 2011. He was founding editor of LEA P, contributing editor
of Artfor um, and Adjunct Professor, China Centra l Academy of Fine A r ts,
Beijing. Tinari was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
in 2015 and was selected for the Public Intellectuals Program of the National
Committee on U.S.-China Relations in 2016. He is currently a D.Phil. candidate
in Art History at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Tinary is member
of the NTU CCA Singapore’s International Advisory Board.
John Tirman
(United States) is the Executive Director and a Principal Research Scientist at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies,
Cambridge, United States. Tirman is author, co-author and editor, of 14 books
on international affairs, including, most recently, Dream Chasers: Immigration
and the American Backlash (2015) and The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians
in America’s Wars (2011). Earlier work includes The Fallacy of Star Wars (1984),
the f irst important critique of strategic defense, and Spoils of War: The Human
Cost of America’s Arms Trade (1997). In addition, he has published more than 100
articles in periodicals such as the The Nation, Boston Globe, New York Times,
Washington Post, Esquire, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Review. He is also a
trustee of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting. Tirman is member of the
NTU CCA Singapore’s International Advisory Board.
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and Wu Jun Han), Free Jazz, 23 October 2013, The Exhibition Hall.
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R ESE A RCH
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�What is artistic research? Which are the material and immaterial aspects that
constitute contemporary art practices? How can we challenge conventional hierarchies and rethink the value judgments of what remains in the realm of the invisible, unspoken, unproduced? Bringing to the fore the research-driven nature
of the NTU CCA Singapore and its holistic approach to cultural production, this
section presents a selection of artworks, working processes, and research projects
developed by the Centre’s former Artists-in-Residence and its Research Fellows
together with a series of talks, discussions, screenings, and performances by
current Artists- and Curators-in-Residence aimed to further our understanding of
the process of artistic research. In addition, the Centre’s Artist Resource Platform
will be accessible to the public in The Exhibition Hall throughout the duration of
the public report.
The presentation of the artists’ works unfolds within, but is not limited to, the
Centre’s Spaces of the Curatorial — The Exhibition Hall, The Lab, The Single
Screen, and The Vitrine — pouring out into some less frequently used spaces,
such as the foyer and the rear room in the exhibition area.
Since 2013, the Centre’s Residencies Programme has hosted over 60 local, regional, and international artists providing them with a concentrated period of
time and a studio space to focus on the development of their practice away from
the pressure of deadlines and production requirements. The artists have responded to the research-based approach of the residency in different ways. Some
have taken this opportunity to delve more deeply into an existing project. Some
have embarked on context-specific investigations exploring the social, political,
and historical specificities of Singapore. Others have expanded their current
perspectives experimenting with topics and materials outside their habitual
practice. Within this open, not-outcome driven framework, it also happened that
artworks were created. Featuring artworks together with research materials and
visual traces of projects and works-in-progress, this section creates a constellation of elements that revolve around the concept of artistic research to further our
understanding of its processual nature, multiple stages, and diverse patterns of
development. In The Single Screen, a film programme brings together a diversity
of works realized by the Artists-in-Residence selected by Visiting Scholar Marc
Glöde to provide a better insight into their practice.
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�R E SE A RCH PROJEC T S
The Exhibition Hall
The Foyer
The Vitrine
Hamra Abbas
Place. Labour. Capital .
2016
(b. 1976, Kuwait)
Lives and works between
Boston, United States and
Lakhore, Pakistan
Artist-in-Residence:
4 May — 5 June 2015
ink on silk, dry mount
28 x 22 cm
Kray Chen
Critical Fengshui
(Fengshui Studio)
2016
(b. 1987, Singapore)
Lives and works in
Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
18 April — 12 August 2016
video, projection, colour
and sound
2 min
Critical Fengshui
(Gillman Barracks)
2017
video, projection, colour
and sound
10 min
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In the research during her residency, Hamra Abbas
learnt the courtly Chinese painting style of Gongbi, a
meticulous and realist painting technique usually executed on raw silk. The subjects in her painting are based
on photographic documentation of people (chefs, waiters,
etc.) she met and conversed with in the Singaporean
neighbourhood Little India. Set up as a colony by Indians
who came to Singapore as prisoners of the British Raj
in the early 1800s as well as by other labourers, Little
India became home to many who chose to remain in
Singapore. Abbas’ s portraits of these workers is a commentary on the history of labour mobility. By appropriating courtly Chinese techniques to address the story of
Indian migration, she reveals the complex intertwining
of histories, class, race, and culture that defines contemporary postcolonial spaces.
Kray Chen developed a Fengshui survey of his residency studio and the larger Gillman Barracks precinct,
with the aim to enliven and invigorate a crucial site of
art that it is struggling to meet the initial expectations
to establish itself as a vibrant cultural hub. Fengshui,
the art of living harmoniously with the surrounding environment, is a common practice in Singapore as a way
to extend one’s fortune. It utilises geomantic surveys
that map the flow of metaphysical and mystical energies within and around an architectural space. In the
context of NTU CCA Singapore’s reflection on the process of its own making, this project addresses the nonphysical forces that inhabit the infrastructure and the
psyche, the “hardwares” and the “softwares”, raising a
broader question about the status of art in Singapore.
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�Heman Chong
The Library of Unread Books
2016 — ongoing
(b. 1977, Malaysia)
Lives and works in
Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
19 September 2016 —
24 February 2017
donated unread books
A History of Amnesia
2016
acrylic paint on canvas
61 x 46 x 3,5 cm
Weixin Chong
Beige Dreams
2017
(b. 1988, Singapore)
Lives and works in
Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
3 August —
30 November 2015
fabric, aluminum,
mixed media
dimensions variable
Bani Haykal
sketches of violence
2015
(b. 1985, Singapore)
Lives and works
in Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
10 September —
31 December 2014
audio, stereo
5 min 33 sec
Ho Rui An
2020x3
2016
(b. 1990, Singapore)
Lives and works
in Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
5 September 2016 —
31 January 2017
80 digital images
transferred to 35mm slides,
documentation materials
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As part of his residency, Heman Chong and his collaborator Renée Staal embarked on a ten-year project, The
Library of Unread Books — a members-only reference
library made up of donated books that are unread by
their previous owners. The price for a lifetime membership to the library is the donation of a single unread
book. Through the gradual accumulation of unread
volumes, The Library of Unread Books benef its from a
collective gesture and traces the shifting perimeters of
unwanted knowledge. For the duration of his residency,
The Library was open to the public every Friday, from
noon to midnight in the artist’s studio transformed into
an artist-run space. Currently located in The Lab, it has
gathered a collection of more than 300 books to date.
In counterpoint to ideas of tropicality, Weixin’s Beige
Dreams is a response to the abundant vegetation of
Gillman Barracks. The artist transforms The Vitrine
through a mixed-media installation of images and different materials, bringing out flesh-like qualities in
flowering plants. At close examination, it reveals the
lush details of petals and leaves, fluids and f inishes.
Beige is poised against green to question the widespread practice and continued aspiration to sanitise
and tame the wildness of tropical nature.
sketches of violence is a response to Place.Labour.Capital.,
the Centre’s current overarching curatorial framework.
Drawing on several talks, discussions, books and articles, the work reflects on the contemporary climate of
Singapore with regards to culture, politics, and economics. It is a combination of improvisation and composition, that attempts to comment on the importance of
structure (or lack thereof). sketches of violence is written
and performed on drums, contact microphones, speakers, electronics, chains, screws, bass clarinet mouthpiece, soprano clarinet, and voice.
2020x3 is a set of images gathered by the artist for the
research into the history of foresight in Singapore undertaken during his residency at NTU CCA Singapore.
Extracted from a CD -ROM realized on the occasion
of an exhibition organised in 1997 to celebrate Public
Service 21 (PS21 ) — an initiative that can be regarded as
a precursor to the current Smart Nation programme —
these images project forms of millennial optimism, or
anxiety. Among them are illustrations of three national scenarios for the year 2020. Reproduced as 35mm
slides, these images appear at once anachronistic and
enchanted, suggestive of both futures passed (over) and
yet to come.
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�Koh Nguang How
(b. 1963, Singapore)
Lives and works
in Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
1 July 2014 —
31 January 2015
James Jack
(b. 1979, United States)
Lives and works
in Tokyo, Japan
Artist-in-Residence:
3 February — 14 April 2015
Joan Jonas
(b. 1935, United States)
Lives and works in New York,
United States
Snippets from Singapore
Art Archive Project at NTU
CCA Singapore
2014 — 2015
32 photographs, digital
print on paper
Reparative Islands
2016
Khayalan Island is rumoured to have disappeared from
the Singapore harbour in the beginning of the 19th
century when the British were establishing a post in
audio, stereo
Southeast Asia. James Jack ’s research on the history of
5 min 20 sec
Khayalan as part of his residency expanded his ongoing
interest in archipelagic thinking that previously brought
him to investigate the islands of Seribu, Setouchi,
Khayalan Island from Pulau
Ryukyu and Riau. The search resulted into a collection
Balakan Mati (as seen by a
of poems, titled Stories of Khayalan, shaped by the voices
seven-year old island resident) of former islanders migrating from small islands,
2015
mari ime diaries, and the actual experience of searcht
ing for Khayalan. Inspired by this exploration, the poem
photograph, inkjet print
Reparative Islands is read aloud by two participants on
on paper
a boat trip in the South Harbour in search of Khayalan
63 x 95 cm
Island. The night before the search trip, the seven-year
old participant to the expedition, an islander himself,
drew an image of the island f iguring forth its appearance. Presented in an intimate installation that merges
memory and imagination, the poem — read aloud by the
artist, Veryan and Jasper Stephens — and the image
serve as mnemonics for reimagining the rich stories of
the island we live on today.
Props used in Theatrical
Fields (2014) and
They Come to Us without a
Word (2016)
dimensions variable
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As part of his residency, Koh Nguang How presented to
the public his long-term artistic endeavour, Singapore
Art Archive Project (SA A P ). For longer than 30 years,
Koh has been documenting the local art scene, gathering an impressive collection of printed matters ranging
from exhibition flyers, catalogues, newspapers, as well
as photographs and audio recordings produced by the
artist himself. As a living body of knowledge, SA A P
never stops expanding. During his residency, the artist
continued the documentation process collecting a
variety of items and taking photographs of minor and
major events, exhibition openings, and construction
works across Gillman Barracks. For The Making of an
Institution, Koh has made a selection of materials that
document the SA A P ’s activity and tell the story of the
establishment of the Centre and the Gillman Barracks
from the point of a view of the artist. He captured details
and situations that often remain overlooked or easily
forgotten.
The work of American artist Joan Jonas has been presented at NTU CCA Singapore in the group exhibition
Theatrical Fields (2014) and in the large-scale solo show
They Come to Us without a Word (2016), originally organised for the U.S. Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale by
the MIT List Visual Arts Center and co-curated by Paul
C. Ha, Director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center and
Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director of the NTU CCA
Singapore. For each exhibition, several display structures and props have been manufactured in Singapore
following the artist’s instructions. As it often happens
with theatre props, such objects remained in the institution storage space awaiting an uncertain future. In
the context of The Making of an Institution, the props
are integrated in the display of Heman Chong’s Library
of Unread Books.
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�Li Ran
(b. 1986, China)
Lives and works
in Beijing, China
Artist-in-Residence:
7 September —
13 November 2015
It is not Complicated,
A Guide Book
2016
Commissioned for the exhibition Encounter w ith
Pompidou (2016), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, and
started during his residency, Li Ran’s work playfully
blends the free gesture of artistic observation with the
video, high def inition,
automatism of touristic contemplation. These distinct
1 projection and 1 flat screen, visual approaches are overlaid in a two-screen video
color and sound
installation that comprises different footage of two of
18 min 28 sec
Singapore’s most popular attractions: Gardens by the
7 min 51 sec
Bay and Marina Bay Sands Hotel. In one video, the artist replicates the conventional and predetermined gaze
of a tourist experiencing the city from a sightseeing bus
tour, while in the other he explores the same subjects
from the unconstrained point of view of “the lost wonderer”, experimenting with unconventional angles and
shooting techniques. The text featured in the video installation originates from the Mandarin Chinese version
of the Centre Pompidou’s museum guide. Discussing
150 works from the collection, this guidebook (originally written by Jean Poderos and translated by Hu
Bin) conveys an account of modernism that resonates
uncannily with Singapore’s contemporary landscape.
Loo Zihan
I am Paying Attention
2016
(b. 1983, Singapore)
Lives and works
in Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
16 June — 9 September 2016
archival materials
dimensions variable
Zulkifle Mahmod
(b. 1975, Singapore)
Lives and works
in Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
1 February — 1 Jun 2016
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video, flat screen, colour
and sound
20 min
Resonances: Readymade
Sound Sculptures
2016
wok covers, utensils,
32-channel microcontroller
connected to a Midi player
This installation combines materials from The Ray
Langenbach Archive of Performance Art with the documentation of I am LGB, a participatory performance
realized by the Lan Gen Bah Society of Mind (LGBSM )
in 2016. Commissioned by the Singapore International
Festival of Arts, I am LGB was developed during Loo
Zihan’s residency. The four-hour performance raises
questions of identity construction, highlights the fragile relation between education and control, and brings
our attention to forms of authoritarianism embedded
in our daily environment. During I am LGB, audience
members were encouraged to reflect on the choices
they would make in this highly scripted experiment
and question their performance as subjects in the wider political and social landscape. I am Paying Attention
is a section of the experiment designed by Loo Zihan, a
member of LGBSM in collaboration with other LGBSM
members.
Constructed during his residency, Zul Mahmod ’s installation is a chamber orchestra made of readymade
items turned into unconventional sound sculptures.
Everyday objects including kettles, glasses, and tin cans
create a holistic acoustic experience where each sculpture plays an individual sonic role. By modifying and
turning daily objects into sound sculptures, Mahmod
gives new meanings to their function and history, recasting their forms and textures in terms of their unexpected sonic properties. The artist draws the viewer’s
attention to the act of listening and transforms items
that populate our daily life into performative objects
that reshape the aural architecture of space.
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1 Anocha Suwichakornpong, Nightfall, 2015, f ilm still. Courtesy the artist.
2 Ato Malinda, Out of Africa , Out of Reach , 2016, drawing. Courtesy the artist.
3 Bo Wang, Land Reclamation in Progress, Johor Strait, 2016, video still.
Courtesy the artist.
4 Jeremy Sharma, Vertical Progression, 2016, video still. Courtesy the artist.
5 Kray Chen, Critical Fengshui (Fengshui Studio), 2016, f ilm still. Courtesy the artist.
6 Li Ran, It is not Complicated, A Guide Book, 2016, f ilm still. Courtesy the artist.
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10
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7 Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor, Le monde et les choses, silk, 2014,
installation view, The Wretched of the Earth (2016), Salonul de Proiecte,
Bucharest, Romania. Photo by Ștefan Sava. Courtesy the artists.
8 Otty Widasari, Fiksi (Fiction), 2016, film still. Courtesy the artist.
9 Regina (Maria) Möller, INTE R RO GATIVE PAT TE R N — TE XT(IL E)
WE AVE , 2015—2017, The Lab.
10 SHIMUR Abros, Chasing the Light, 2017, f ilm still. Courtesy the artists.
11 Tamara Weber, Close Readings . R EBUS, 2016, inkjet digital print.
Courtesy the artist.
12 Zul Mahmod, Resonances: Readymade Sound Sculptures, 2016. Courtesy
the artist.
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�Ato Malinda
Out of Africa , Out of Reach
2016
(b. 1981, Kenya)
Lives and works in Schiedam,
2 drawings, ink on paper
Netherlands
19 x 25 cm
Artist-in-Residence:
29 August —
Untitled
28 October 2016
2016
3 drawings, ink on paper
21 x 29.7 cm
Regina (Maria)
Möller
(Germany)
Lives and works in
Singapore and Germany
Visiting Professor:
21 September 2015 —
20 September 2016
Visiting Artist:
21 September 2016 —
31 May 2017
INTER ROGATIVE PAT TER N As part of her research fellowship, Regina (Maria)
— TE XT(IL E) WE AVE
Headgears
Headgear No. 2
2017
wood, gauze
dimensions variable
Headgear No. 5
2017
cardboard
dimensions variable
Headgear No. 62
2017
fabric, tape, ink
dimensions variable
Dinu Bodiciu
(b. 1979, Romania)
Lives and works
in Singapore
The work of Ato Malinda investigates African identity,
contesting notions of authenticity as well as fixed assumptions about gender and sexuality. Since 2012, she has
been working on a series of drawings that relate to her
innermost feelings and fantasies about queer-related
issues. Often inspired by events in her life and in the
life of her friends, the drawings portray half-human,
half-animal creatures caught up in intimate situations
and pensive poses. During her residency, she continued
her series of self-portraits (Out of Africa , Out of Reach)
and realized several portraits of one of Singapore’s most
famous drag queens, represented in the surreal metamorphosis into a peacock (Untitled).
Möller explored the relation between labour, identity
construction, and cultural assimilations in an emerging global sameness through the case study of the
Samsui women iconic headdress. A work-in prog ress,
Interrogative Pattern — Text(ile) Weave unfolded in various stages and formats incorporating in its development the complex stories embedded in textile productions. As an extension of this artistic research project,
Möller collaborated with the designer Dinu Bodiciu in
the production of a series of headgears informed by the
Samsui women headscarf. Each work in the installation is a reconfiguration of the original source. Through
the use of unconventional techniques and materials,
the Headgears are invested with a sculptural quality —
they operate at the interface of art and design, and become cultural materials of a history that is rewritten
and reimagined.
Headgear No. 7
2017
wool, cement
dimensions variable
Headgear No. 52
2017
sinamay (abacá), cotton tape,
wire, ribbon
dimensions variable
Headgear No.1038
2017
wire, waxed paper tape,
glitter, glue, silk organza, pin
dimensions variable
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�Jegan Vincent
de Paul
(b. 1978, Sri Lanka)
Lives and works
in Singapore
PhD Candidate at the
NTU CCA Singapore and
the School of Art, Design
and Media, Nanyang
Technological University
Arin Rungjang
(b. 1975, Thailand)
Lives and works in
Bangkok, Thailand
Artist-in-Residence:
3 October —
30 November 2016
Book Box: Field Experiment
2016 — ongoing
2 maps printed on outdoor
fabric with waterproof ink
84.1 x 118.9 cm
13 bound volumes
Chinese jewellery box
(early 20th century)
33 x 50 x 32 cm
Johnston (450% high
exposure photoshop)
2016
Arin Rungjang’s research during his residency focused
on unoff icial stories that circulate by word of mouth
while connecting them to the politics of governance
and notions of historical truth. The work presented is
photograph, digital print on the trace of the artist’s encounter with Johnston, an
paper, mounted on acrylic
albino born and raised in Singapore. The artist inter84.1 x 47.3 cm
viewed him on the very f irst day they met which turned
out to be also Johnston’s last day in Singapore before
his relocation to the United States. The interview captured an intimate and poignant moment of introspection during which Johnston speaks about his personal
history, family relationships, and struggles growing up
as an albino in Singapore. The choice not to show the
work in its entirety is based on the artist’s agreement
with Johnston. What is presented instead is a fully
washed-out still from the video recording. The technical gesture of overexposing the image highlights a political reality — the underexposure of such narratives
and their circulation at the margins of visibility.
anGie seah
Talk to the Hand
2015–2016
(b. 1979 Singapore)
Lives and works
in Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
17 August —
18 December 2015
works on paper
29.7 x 21cm
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Book Box: Field Experiment is a travelling archive of research materials, including bound books and maps,
contained into an antique Chinese jewellery box. The
research materials trace the logistics of shipping in the
geographic areas examined by Jegan Vincent de Paul
for his ongoing doctora l research on the People’s
Republic of China’s major infrastructure development
plan titled One Belt, One Road. Two boxes of books,
with auspicious and inauspicious content respectively,
travel on a specif ied route beginning from Singapore.
Questioning the role of art in creating new understandings of today’s geopolitical events, his project
brings together critical analysis and aesthetic accounts
of One Belt, One Road. Attention is paid to countries
where construction and conflict overlap, particularly
Burma, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.
While in residence, anGie seah researched the concept
of “ineffable expression” creating site-specif ic rituals
and instructional tools for uplifting activities. In a digitally driven age, one of the incredible benef its of the
current communication patterns is that we are no longer
limited to verbal language — with all the implications in
terms of meaning, association, ambiguity, translations,
and interpretation — to express ourselves. A sign of love
can be expressed through a simple emoji and a special
moment in one’s life be conveyed through gifs. These recent forms of communication are closer to the intuitive
directness of body language which precedes all forms
of verbal expression.
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�Jeremy Sharma
Vertical Progression
2016
(b. 1977, Singapore)
Lives and works
in Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
4 May — 31 July 2015
video, projection, colour
and sound
35 min
SHIMURAbros
Chasing the Light
2017
(b. 1976, 1979, Japan)
Live and work between
Berlin, Germany and
Tokyo, Japan
Artist-in-Residence:
1 November —
30 December 2016
video, projection, colour
and sound
7 min
Anocha
Suwichakornpong
Nightfall
2015
(b. 1976, Thailand)
Lives and works in
Bangkok, Thailand
Artist-in-Residence:
25 September —
22 November 2014
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video, high def inition,
projection, colour and
sound
15 min 30 sec
Vertical Progression explores the process of producing
an artwork and the transformation of its identity as a
continued mediation between idea, reflection, object,
reality, subject, and experience. It reveals a physical
and virtual network of collaborators, scientists, fabricators, movers, and collectors, while also addressing
the economic cycle of art making and the complex interplay of data, materials, nature, labour, and place that
lay behind its methods of production and modes of display. The video spans across two years, from the time of
Jeremy Sharma’s participation in the 4th Singapore
Biennale (2013) to his residency.
SHIMUR A bros’s research project during the residency
continued their investigations on the archeology of film
and its structural components. A series of events are woven together, but the main focus is on light as the power
source in the cinematic process and the essential condition for seeing. The layering of events is translated
into f ilm through the simultaneous blending of three
sources of light: an ancient coconut lamp, an amalgam
of city lights, and the masterful phenomena of the
lightning setup during the recording. Playing with the
limits of perception, the work emerges as an abstract
pattern until it slowly dissolves into a still-life image of
the industrial scenery in the port area of Singapore.
Co-directed with Tulapop Saenjareon, Nightfall is a
f ictionalised account of Anocha Suwichakornpong’s
research on the politics of her homeland, Thailand, as
seen from a foreign land. Merging personal memories
with facts and f iction, Suwichakornpong structured
the f ilm around an exchange of congratulatory messages between former Thai Prime Minister, Thanom
Kittikachorn and his Singaporean counterpart, Lee
Kuan Yew. The off icial diplomatic communication is
set against the quiet and intimate encounter between
the artist and another woman. Following each other,
the two flâneurs wander in the area around Gillman
Barracks, moving within a landscape that exemplif ies
Singapore’s progress as praised by the former Thai Prime
Minister. The relation between Thailand and Singapore
is presented in its multifaceted aspects through the
symbolic presence of two defining elements: the bronze
statue of an elephant that was donated by King Rama V
to Singaporean authorities as a token of appreciation
after his state visit, and Golden Mile Complex, the
most popular gathering place of the Thai community in
Singapore.
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�Mona Vătămanu &
Florin Tudor
Le monde et les choses
2014
silk, hand-sewn
(b. 1968, 1974, Romania)
150 x 300 cm
Live and work in
Bucharest, Romania
Artists-in-Residence:
14 July — 10 September 2014
Bo Wang
Work-in-progress
dimension variable
(b. 1982, China)
Lives and works between
New York, United States
and China
Artist-in-Residence:
1 August —
30 September 2016
Land Reclamation in
Progress, Johor Strait
2016
video, flat screen, colour
4 min
A Saturday Night in Tuas
2016
video, flat screen, colour
and sound
15 min
Produced during the artists’ residency, Le monde et les
choses traces the power imbalances and the inequalities in capital distribution that def ine the contemporary global world. The map is created on the basis of
statistical studies published online by the Central Intelligence Agency (CI A ), which indicated the dominant
industries in each world country. The map exposes the
contradictions of global neo-liberalism, revealing the
large domination over industries by a small number of
countries. The viewer can explore the map through a
specif ic colour code: green for food and drink; red for
metals and minerals; brown for wood; black for oil, petroleum, and natural gas; pink for textile and apparel;
light grey for machinery and transport equipment; blue
for electronics and capital goods, and white for opium
or “other”.
This mixed-media mind map presents materials related to Wang’s ongoing research on sand, land, development, labour, and transnational interconnectivity in
Southeast Asia. Interested in contemporary urban
landscapes that are undergoing intensif ied processes
of transformation, during the residency he explored
the conditions of the migrant workers in Singapore
and Forest City, a development project under construction on four artif icial islands on the Malaysian side of
the Johor Strait, an hour away from Singapore. Forest
City stands out as an exemplary case of the process of
constant territorial expansion and renewal widespread
in contemporary Asia. The artist aims to excavate the
power structures related to such intensif ied forms of
transition and to address the social and political implications and cultural anxieties of this relentless transformation.
National Day Fireworks,
Looking from Geylang
2016
video, flat screen, colour
12 min
Tamara Weber
Close Readings . R EBUS
2016
(b. 1976, United States)
28 photographs,
Lives and works in
digital print on paper
New York, United States
29.7 x 21 cm
Artist-in-Residence:
3 October — 2 December 2016
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In the last year, Tamara Weber has been working closely with New York-based curator Annie Seaton on Close
Readings, a collaborative process of visual investigation that casts an anthropomorphising look on architecture and other bodies. Deconstructing the logic of
the book, Close Readings . R EBUS features a series of
interactive images with textual insertions that reference 1960s advertising, botanical imagery, pulps, abstraction and Eugenic vignettes. Realized during the
artist’s residency, these photographs reinterpret the
iconic Parkroyal Hotel in Singapore, designed by
WOH A Architects, an impressive building that merge
the rigorousness of abstraction and the unruliness of
tropical greenery. The images will form an artist’s book
meant to be continually deconstructed, disassembled,
and re-constructed through an open-ended editorial
process that unfolds multiple meanings.
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�Jason Wee
(b. 1978, Singapore)
Lives and works
in Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
26 September 2016 —
16 January 2017
I Keep Returning to Tomorrow The image of a dark horizon, seen from the aerial point
2016
of view of a drone, evokes the perspective of a spacecraft’s slow descent to earth. Hung from the ceiling,
ink on chiffon
I Keep Returning to Tomorrow reconf igures the vanish96 x 289 cm
ing points of the exhibition space creating a secondary
horizon and an alternative set of coordinates to position ourselves in space and time. This work extends a
series of spatial experiments with fabrics in which the
artist investigates the architectural properties of textiles through the creation of temporary structures that
respond to the structural features of the built environment.
Otty Widasari
Fiksi (Fiction)
2016
(b. 1973, Indonesia)
Lives and works in
Jakarta, Indonesia
Artist-in-Residence:
5 October —
27 November 2015
video, flat screen, colour
and sound
11 min 48 sec
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Fiksi (Fiction) focuses on state-driven efforts to establish historial truths in the collective memory of a nation.
The artist revisits the Diaroma section at the National
Museum, part of the National Monument (known as
Monas), Jakarta, Indonesia. Produced by the artist
Edhi Sunarso (Indonesia, 1932—2016) during the leadership of the Indonesia’s f irst two Presidents, Sukarno
and Suharto respectively, the diaromas recreate significant moments of the country prior and during colonial
era, and post independence. The artist highlights the
use of dioramas — three-dimensional models reproducing historical events or natural landscapes that
became popular among museums at the end of 19th
century — to create official narratives. The work unfolds
as a journey inside various episodes complicating our
understanding of history through the overlap of multiple linguistic layers. The artist aims to investigate alternative narratives and broaden our perspectives on
writing history in a postcolonial space.
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�1
2
3
4
5
6
1 Heman Chong and Renée Staal, The Library of Unread Books, 2016—ongoing, artist studio,
November 2016.
2 Ho Rui An, 2020x3, 2016, slide. Courtesy the artist.
3 Koh Nguang How, Snippets from Singapore Art Archive Project at NTU CCA Singapore, 2014—2015,
photograph. Courtesy the artist.
4 James Jack, Khayalan Island from Pulau Balakan Mati (as seen by a seven-year old island resident),
2015, photograph. Courtesy the artist.
5 Loo Zihan and members of the Lan Gen Bah Society of Mind, I am Paying Attention, 2016, archival
materials, installation view, I am LGB (2016), TheatreWorks, Singapore. Courtesy the artist.
6 anGie seah, Thousand Horses Running in my Head, Part 1, performance, Residencies OPEN:
Art After Dark, 25 September 2015.
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�TA L K S
Various Locations
siren eun young jung
Artist-in-Residence
Wednesday
22 February 2017
7.30 — 9.00pm
Thao-Nguyen Phan
Artist-in-Residence
Wednesday
1 March 2017
7.30 — 9.00 pm
Alice Miceli
Artist-in-Residence
Wednesday
29 March 2017
7.30 — 9.00 pm
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The artistic practice of siren eun young jung (b. 1974, South Korea) focuses on
the politics of desire and historical and political acts of resistance. Since 2008,
she has been researching Yeosung Gukgeuk, a remake of traditional Korean theatre developed at the end of the 1940s that uniquely features only female actors.
Drawing on this research, she has produced f ilms, photographs, performances,
and installations. Her works have been included in major group exhibitions
including Taipei Biennial 2016, Taiwan (2016); 8th Asia Pacif ic Triennial,
Brisbane, Australia (2015); and The Future is Now, M A X X I , Rome, Italy (2014).
Through a combination of painting, video, performance, and installation,
Thao-Nguyen Phan (b. 1987, Vietnam) creates provocative artworks focusing on
historical events, traditional narratives, and minor gestures that challenge common assumptions and social conventions. Recent exhibitions include Concept
Context Contestation, Art and the Collective in South East Asia, Goethe Institut,
Hanoi, Vietnam (2016); Haunted Thresholds: Spirituality in Contemporary
Southeast Asia, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany, (2014). Phan is also a member
of the collective Art Labor.
The work of Alice Miceli (b. 1980, Brazil) addresses issues of time, memory, and
violence through formal experimentations, archival research, and investigative
travels. In her projects In Depth (landmines) (2014—ongoing) and Chernobyl
Project (2007—2011), she charts the visual, physical, and cultural manifestations
of human-induced trauma inflicted on social and natural landscapes. Her exhibition record includes the 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art,
Russia (2016) and 17th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan (2014).
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�Rodolfo Andaur
Curator-in-Residence
Souliya Phoumivong
Artist-in-Residence
Wednesday
5 April 2017
7.30 — 9.00 pm
Rosemary Forde
Writer-in-Residence
Wednesday
19 April 2017
7.30 — 9.00 pm
Chris Chong Chan Fui
Artist-in-Residence
Friday
21 April 2017
7.30 — 9.00 pm
Choy Ka Fai
Artist-in-Residence
Friday
3 March 2017
7.30 — 9.00 pm
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Rodolfo Andaur (Chile) has been coordinator of various contemporary art projects in northern Chile, promoting local artistic practices in relation to Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. Rodolfo has also contributed to various magazines and publications such as Artishock, Atlas Magazine and Rotunda Magazine.
He is currently part of the academic staff of the Diploma in Critical and Curatorial
Studies at Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago, Chile.
Souliya Phoumivong (b. 1983, Laos) is a media artist working with f ilm, video
art, photography, and clay animation. He is currently lecturer at National Institute
of Fine Arts, Vientiane, Laos. His work embraces the ever-changing landscape
of media and digital equipment in Laos, and the adaptation of a younger generation to a fast paced life. Most recently he participated in the exhibition Missing
Links, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand (2015).
Rosemary Forde (Australia) is a curator who has presented exhibitions and
events at a range of institutions and contemporary art spaces in Australia and
New Zealand. She is Chair of un Projects, a collective based in Australia that
aims to generate independent and critical dialogue around contemporary art,
primarily through publishing projects. Forde is currently undertaking a PhD in
Curatorial Practice at Monash University Faculty of Art Design & Architecture,
Melbourne, Australia.
Chris Chong Chan Fui (b. 1982, Malaysia ) questions and redirects the processes
and methodologies within varying fields such as migration, economics, natural
sciences through moving images, projections, printmaking, photography and installations. Chong has exhibited his works at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2015);
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington
D.C., United States (2010). He has also premiered at prestigious film festivals
such as the Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes, France (2009).
Choy Ka Fai (b. 1979, Singapore) is an artist and performance maker inspired by
histories and theorizations that explore the uncertainties of the future. His research springs from a desire to understand the conditioning of the human body,
its intangible memories, and the forces shaping its expressions. His projects
have been presented in major festival worldwide, including Sadler’s Wells London,
United Kingdom (2016), and ImPulsTanz Festival, Vienna, Austria (2015).
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�Allan Sekula, Fish Story to be continued, 3 July — 27 September, 2015,
The Forgotten Space, f ilm, 2010, The Single Screen.
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�FI L M PRO GR A M M E
The Single Screen
Selected by
Marc Glöde
(Germany/Singapore)
Lives and works
in Singapore
Visiting Research Fellow:
25 February — 26 May 2016
Visiting Scholar:
23 September 2016 —
31 May 2017
Marc Glöde is a curator, critic, and f ilm scholar. His work focuses on the relation of
images, technology, space, and the body, as well as the dynamics between f ields such
as art/architecture, art/f ilm, and f ilm/architecture. He studied f ilm studies, comparative literature, and Dutch philology at the Free University, Berlin, Germany, where
he also received his PhD. Glöde taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, Germany,
the Free University, Berlin, Germany, and was Assistant Professor at the ETH Zürich,
Switzerland. From 2008—2014, he was curator of Art Film, Art Basel’s film programme.
Most recently, he published his book Farbige Lichträume (2014). Glöde was a Research
Fellow and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the School of Art, Design and Media at
Nanyang Technological University, and NTU CCA Singapore. For The Making of an
Institution, Glöde curated a special f ilm programme digging into the past works of
several NTU CCA Singapore’s Artists-in-Residence. The film programme will run
throughout the duration of The Making of an Institution.
Artists
Arjuna Neuman
Serpent Rain
2016
(b. 1984, United States)
Lives and works in the
United States
Artist-in-Residence:
6 January — 3 April 2015
video, high def inition,
projection, colour and
sound
30 min
UuDam Tran
Nguyen
Waltz of the Machine
Equestrians
2013
(b. 1971, Vietnam)
Lives and works in Ho Chi
Minh City, Vietnam
Artist-in-Residence:
7 November —
30 December 2016
video, projection, colour
and sound
4 min 34 sec
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Commissioned by Stefano Harney for The Bergen
Assembly and produced in a collaboration with Denise
Ferreira Da Silva, Serpent Rain is an documentary essay. An experiment with collaboration, the f ilm is also
an exploration of the future that embraces a undef ined
temporal structure to the point that the difference between beginning and end becomes indistinguishable.
The f ilm travels between histories of slavery and resource extraction, between black lives matter and the
matter of life, between the state changes of elements,
timelessness, and tarot.
UuDam Tran Nguyen transforms the boundaries between urban myth and popular legend to explore the
role and impact of human progress on rural and urban
spaces. Waltz of the Machine Equestr ians focuses on
the rapid changes of Ho Chi Minh City drawing attention to the multiple problems it experiences: heavy
traff ic, air and sound pollution, rapid urbanisation,
and real estate developments altering the cityscape. In
response to the challenges currently faced by the city,
the artist places hope in collective actions performed
by a group of twenty-eight motorbike riders connected
by raincoats and rubber strings. The urban landscape
is transformed into a surreal stage for a lyrically choreographed sequence of actions that reinterpret the
relation between the body and the city.
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�Ana Prvački
Blushing for Circulation
2008
(b. 1976, Serbia)
Lives and works between
Los Angeles, California
and Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
6 July — 28 August 2014
video, projection, colour
and sound
3 min 19 sec
Erika Tan
Shot Through
2008
(b. 1967, Singapore)
Lives and works in
United Kingdom
Artist-in-Residence:
6 July — 3 August 2015
video, projection, colour
and sound
16 min
Guo-Liang Tan
Servants & Lovers
2014
(b. 1980, Singapore)
Lives and works
in Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
7 December 2015 —
29 April 2016
video, projection, colour
3 min 6 sec
Tan Pin Pin
Moving House
2001
(b. 1969, Singapore)
Lives and works
in Singapore
Artist-in-Residence:
9 May — 9 September 2016
video, projection, colour
and sound
22 min 23 sec
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In her videos, performances, and drawings, Ana Prvački
uses a gentle pedagogical and comedic approach in the
attempt to reconcile etiquette and erotics. In the video
work Blushing for Circulation, a therapist stimulates a
patient’s ability to blush. This exercise is driven by the
intention to soften fear and insecurity while nurturing
wellbeing and conf idence in the patient. Connected to
the erotic, the act of blushing can be conceived as liberating — a place where etiquette dissolves — it is life
aff irming itself, a primal and instinctive bodily expression.
Shot Through is part of a series of works on journeys.
The work engages past journeys to China taken by the
artist, her friends, family, and others. Exercising an
archaeological ambition, Tan carefully unearths, re-traces, and assembles a range of memories, thoughts, subjective interpretations, and wild speculations that
eventually become the means through which a personal psycho-geography of China is developed. For Shot
Through, excerpts from the writings of theoreticians
such as Susan Sontag, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva,
Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes are combined
with video materials f ilmed by the artist.
Guo-Liang Tan’s practice revolves around the affective
realm of painting and writing. Servants & Lovers is part
of a series of text-based videos that explore the effects
of reading. Through subtitling the f ilm without imagery, the work constructs an abstract sequence f illed
with projections and disruptions. Language is made
malleable through structures, sounds, and f igures of
speech, registering tones of intimacy and ambivalence
in equal measures. In reading to oneself, the viewer becomes a listener while this imagined voice blurs the
boundaries between subject and object, self and other.
Tan Pin Pin is an award winning documentary f ilmmaker whose works bring to the surface alternative and
marginalised histories of Singapore. Funded by Discovery Networks Asia, Moving House is a touching story of the Chew family, one of the 55.000 Singapore
families forced to relocate the remains of their relatives to a columbarium as the gravesite is required for
urban redevelopment.
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�TH E A RTI S T R E S OURC E PL ATF OR M
The Exhibition Hall
The Artist Resource Platform contains audio and visual materials from over 100
Singapore-based artists, NTU CCA Singapore’s Artists-in-Residence, and several
independent art spaces in Singapore. It aims to provide local and visiting curators,
researchers, writers, as well as the general public, with a point of entry into contemporary art practices. Throughout the duration of The Making of an Institution,
the Artist Resource Platform is displayed in The Exhibition Hall where it is available for consultation during the Centre’s opening hours.
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�Curating with Art, Melanie Pocock in conversation with Michael Lee, 10 June 2016,
part of Artist Resource Platform: Activate!, 10 May — 7 August 2016, The Lab.
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�COM MUNICATION
A ND
M E DITATION
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�Graphic and spatial design are constitutive forces in the process of institutional
building. A series of workshops and presentations will explore how the institution identity is produced through visual languages and spatial articulations. The
programme brings together various design practitioners who take an experimental, speculative, and critical approach to design expanding their practice in
close collaboration with art institutions. Looking into the convergence between
the languages of art and design, such a programme aims to challenge the understanding of design beyond its utilitarian role as service provider. It will explore
how designers respond to an institutional brief, how they challenge and deconstruct it positioning design as a field of critical inquiry.
WO R K S H O P S A N D P R E S E N T A T I O N S
PA R T I — VI S UA L I D E N T I T Y
Friday, 10 March and Saturday, 11 March
The Seminar Room and The Single Screen
Christoph Knoth
Friday
10 March 2017
2.00 — 6.00 pm
(Netherlands) is a graphic designer, teacher, web developer and researcher who
focuses on digital typography and the Internet as a platform for experimenting
with visual language. In 2012 he was a design researcher at the Jan van Eyck
Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands, with the project Computed Type which explores the historic and future possibilities of parametric typeface generation.
Since 2011 he works together with Konrad Renner and he is currently a guest researcher at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany. He collaborated with
various artists and art institutions and designed the websites of Casco — Off ice
for Art, Design and Theory Utrecht, Netherlands, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Germany,
and the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015 amongst others.
Bastian von Lehsten
Saturday
11 March 2017
10.30 am — 1.30 pm
(Germany) is the co-founder of Novamondo Design together with Christian
Schlimok. The design agency works in the f ields of brand strategy, corporate
design, and digital communications for several international art organizations
including the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, United States , the Staatsoper and the Leibniz Association in Berlin, Germany. He is teaching branding and corporate design at the
Design Academy Berlin, Germany. His work has received numerous rewards,
including the Red Dot Award and the iF Design Award. Since 2015, Novamondo
collaborates closely with NTU CCA Singapore on communication collaterals for
exhibitions, research, and residencies.
åbäke
Saturday
11 March 2017
1.00 — 5.00 pm
50 to 70 words to fairly def ine 16 years of activities of a collective is truly challenging. Short biographies predate the self ie but somehow follow similar rules
of editing a version of oneself until we start to look very attractive indeed. We
would start by saying that åbäke is a
Presentation
Saturday
11 March 2017
6.00 — 7.30 pm
åbäke, Bastien von Lehsten, Christoph K noth.
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�PA R T I I — S PA T I A L I D E N T I T Y
Lectures
Saturday
18 March 2017
10.00 am — 1.30 pm
The Single Screen
Bahbak
Hashemi-Nezhad
(Iran/United Kingdom) is a designer based in London. His studio practice spans
from the domestic to the public realm, from neighbourhood plans to products
and recipes. He is interested in the changing role of the designer within complex
urban conditions and draws from the permissive nature of play and processes of
defamiliarisation to develop methodologies that actively engage publics within
design processes. He collaborated with various art institutions in London, United Kingdom including The Showroom, The Serpentine Gallery, and the Victoria
and Albert Museum. Hashemi-Nezhad is currently a lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom.
Wilfried Kuehn
(Germany) is the co-founder of the architectural off ice Kuehn Malvezzi established in 2001 together with Simona Malvezzi and Johannes Kuehn. Past projects include the architectural design for Documenta11, the Flick Collection in
the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, the Julia Stoschek Collection in
Düsseldorf, Germany, which was nominated for the international Mies van der
Rohe award. The f irm has designed the reconf iguration of a number of contemporary and historical art collections, and dealt with sensitive preservation issues for listed buildings such as the Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Their
projects have been shown in international solo and group exhibitions, including
the 10th, 13th and 14th Architecture Biennial in Venice and Manifesta 7 in Trento, Italy. Kuehn Malvezzi participated in the 1st Chicago Architecture Biennial
in 2015.
Laura Miotto
(Italy/Singapore) is an Associate Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University and Design Director of GSM Project in
Singapore, an international f irm specialised in exhibition design originating
from Montréal, Canada. With 15 years of experience, Miotto has worked on a
multitude of permanent and temporary exhibitions. Her focus on heritage interpretation and design strategies involves the sensorial experience in the context
of museums, thematic galleries, and public spaces. Among her projects, the Living Galleries at the National Museum of Singapore received the Design Exchange Award in Canada in 2007 and Quest for Immortality: The World of Ancient Eg ypt was Design of the Year 2010, President Design Award, Singapore.
Miotto was the exhibition designer for NTU CCA Singapore’s exhibition Incomplete Urbanism (2016 —2017).
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�Fareed Armaly, design proposal for NTU CCA Singapore’s exhibition spaces
(The Exhibition Hall, The Single Screen, and The Lab), 2014. Courtesy the artist.
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COM MUNIC ATION A ND MEDITATION
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�E DUCATION A ND
PUBL IC PROGR A M M ES
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�The Public Programmes for The Making of an Institution are an integral part of
the institutional self-reflexive effort articulated through this project. Conceived
as a discursive platform on the role and activity of art institutions and on the processes involved in artistic research, the public programmes include talks, workshops, and presentations organized within the four sections constitutive of The
Making of an Institution. This special programme of events is complemented by
existing educational formats developed by NTU CCA Singapore across the years,
such as the Workshop for Teachers and Educators, Exhibition and School Tours.
All programmes take place at
Block 43 Malan Road,
unless otherwise stated.
For updates on the public programmes, visit
ntu.ccasingapore.org or
facebook.com/ntu.ccasingapore
Free admission to all programmes.
WO R K S H O P F O R T E A C H E R S A N D E D U C A T O R S
Saturday
11 February 2017
10.00am — 1.00pm
The Exhibition Hall
and The Seminar
Room
This workshop was developed in collaboration with Kelly
Reedy, a former lecturer at the National Institute of Education, who specialises in working with museums and galleries to enhance student learning through visual arts. The
workshop is created to engage educators in contemporary
art and artistic practices, highlighting the educational aspects of each section of the exhibition to better prepare for
visits with their classes.
Kelly Reedy (United States/Singapore) has worked in Singapore for over 18 years as
an artist and educator. Her mixed media paintings, prints, and installations reflect
her keen interest in the ancient techniques still used in Asian traditional arts as well
as the rich symbolism embedded in its mythologies. She has exhibited her artworks
internationally in Paris, Chicago, and Berlin, as well as locally at the Jendela Visual
Arts Space, Esplanade, the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, and Alliance Française.
Engaged in museum education for more than a decade, Reedy has developed educational resources for the National Gallery Singapore and trained teachers at the National Institute of Education, specialising in visual arts education in museums and
galleries.
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EDUC ATION A ND PUBL IC PRO GR A M MES
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�E X H I BITION T OUR S
First Friday
of the Month
3 March, 7 April,
5 May 2017
7.00 — 7.30pm
By NTU CCA Singapore Team
S C HO OL / GROUP T OUR S
NTU CCA Singapore’s guided school tours offer engaging
discussions on art, provide opportunities to hone observation skills, and develop interpretative thinking for both students and teachers alike. These specially designed school
tours are led by NTU CCA Singapore’s curators and will
give insight into the exhibiting artists, their works, and
personal anecdotes, while at the same time, introduce and
elaborate on the key themes of each exhibition.
For enquiries and to book a tour, email
NTUCCAEducation@ntu.edu.sg
GI L L M A N B A R R AC K S A RT & H I S T ORY T OUR S
Fridays to Sundays These free docent-led tours by Friends of the Museum will
varied timings
uncover Gillman Barracks’ rich history and introduce its
galleries, including a visit to NTU CCA Singapore.
Please register in advance at
www.gillmanbarracks.com/tours.
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�NTU CCA Singapore’s institutional Pantone colours
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�TH E M A K I NG OF A N I NSTITUTION
NTU Centre For Contemporary Art Singapore
11 February — 7 May 2017
CUR AT OR S
Ute Meta Bauer
Anna Lovecchio
Anca Rujoiu
Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore
Curator, Residencies, NTU CCA Singapore
Manager, Publications, NTU CCA Singapore
EXHIBITION PRODUCTION
Jocelyn Wong
Syaheedah Iskandar
Lynda Tay
Isrudy Shaik
Benedict Yom Bo Sung
Sant Ruengjaruwatana
Exhibition Manager, NTU CCA Singapore
ARTFACTORY LLP
Technical Installation
Design 18 (S) Pte Ltd
Helu-Trans (S) Pte Ltd
Exhibition Construction
Curatorial Assistant, NTU CCA Singapore
Curatorial Assistant, Residencies, NTU CCA Singapore
Executive, Exhibitions, NTU CCA Singapore
Intern, Technical and Productions, NTU CCA Singapore
Tehnical and Production Assistant
Art Handling and Logistics
COM MUNIC ATION
Philip Francis
Deputy Director, Operations & Strategic Development,
NTU CCA Singapore
Kayla Dryden
Anna Lovecchio and Anca Rujoiu
Communications Associate
Novamondo GmbH
First Printers
Design Collaterals
Editors, Exhibition Guide
Printing and Binding
Unless otherwise stated, all images taken at NTU Centre for
Contemporary Art Singapore. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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�NTU CE NTR E F OR CONTE M P OR A RY A RT SI NGA P OR E
(NT U C C A SI NGA P OR E)
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,
engaging in knowledge production and dissemination. 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. The
Centre’s dynamic public programmes serve to engage with various audiences
through lectures, workshops, open studios, film screenings, Exhibition(de)Tours,
and Stagings. As a research centre, it aims to provide visiting researchers and
curators a comprehensive study on the contemporary art ecosystem in Singapore
and the region.
Since the Centre’s inauguration in October 2013, it has featured leading artists for the first time in Southeast Asia, making it one of the spaces in the region
to present exhibitions of international scale. NTU CCA Singapore’s curatorial
programme embraces artistic production in all its diverse media with a commitment to critical debates in and though visual culture. The Centre’s residencies
programme is dedicated to facilitate the production of knowledge and research
by engaging and connecting artists, curators, and researchers of various disciplines from around the world. Its seven studios support the artistic process in
the most direct way: they provide artists with the time and locale to pursue their
research based practice and grant them access to an interesting and immersive
context to further the development of new ideas.
G IVI N G T O N T U C C A S I N G A P O R E
Your generous contributions support NTU CCA Singapore’s internationallyacclaimed, research driven exhibitions, residencies and extensive educational
programmes that benefit the community and the region. As a non-profit institution,
your support is crucial in the continuation of our unique programming that enables NTU CCA Singapore to contribute to the local art scene and the development
of regional and international art infrastructures. Your contribution to the NTU
CCA Singapore matters, and if you are a taxpayer to Singapore, your donation
will enjoy a 250% deduction in 2016. We believe that what we do here at the NTU
CCA Singapore makes a positive and tangible difference through art and we
hope that you will support us in achieving our aspirations. For more information
on how to donate to NTU CCA Singapore, visit ntu.ccasingapore.org/support.
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ABOUT THE NTU CCA
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�NTU C C A SI NGA P OR E STA FF
Ute Meta Bauer
Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore and Professor, School
of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technological University
EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES
Khim Ong
Dr Anna Lovecchio
Magdalena Magiera
Ana Salazar
Syaheedah Iskandar
Lynda Tay
Isrudy Shaik
Benedict Yom Bo Sung
Amrit Dhillon
Deputy Director, Exhibitions, Residencies, and Public Programmes
Curator, Residencies
Curator, Outreach & Education
Assistant Curator, Exhibitions
Curatorial Assistant, Exhibitions
Curatorial Assistant, Residencies
Executive, Exhibitions
Intern, Technical and Productions
Young Professional Trainee, Residencies
RESEARCH & EDUCATION
Sophie Goltz
Deputy Director, Research and Education, NTU CCA Singapore
and Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design, and Media,
Nanyang Technological University
Dr Marc Glöde
Visiting Scholar, School of Art, Design, and Media,
Nanyang Technological University
Regina (Maria) Möller
Visiting Artist, School of Art, Design, and Media,
Nanyang Technological University
Cheong Kah Kit
Anca Rujoiu
Samantha Leong
Manager, Research
Manager, Publications
Executive, Conference, Workshops & Archive
OPE R ATIONS & S TR ATEGIC DEVE L OPM E N T
Philip Francis
Jasmaine Cheong
Yao Jing Wei
Vijayalakshmi Balankrishnan
Lee Yan Yun
Louis Tan
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Deputy Director, Operations & Strategic Development
Assistant Director, Operations & HR
Manager, Finance
Special Projects Assistant
Executive, Admin & Finance
Executive, Operations
THE MAKING OF AN INSTITUTION
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�N TU C C A SI NGA P OR E G OVE R NI NG C OUNCI L
CO-CHAIRS
Professor Alan Chan Kam-Leung
Dean, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences,
Nanyang Technological University
Paul Tan
Covering Chief Executive Officer, National Arts Council
Professor Dorrit Vibeke Sorensen
Chair, School of Art, Design and Media,
Nanyang Technological University
Professor Kwok Kian Woon
Associate Provost (Student Life), President’s Office,
Nanyang Technological University
Dr Eugene Tan
Low Eng Teong
Ng Wen Xu
Director, National Gallery Singapore
Development, Economic Development Board
Director, Sector Development (Visual Arts), National Arts Council
Deputy Director, Lifestyle Programme Office and HR Organisation
N TU C C A SI NGA P OR E I N TE R N ATION A L A DVIS ORY B OA R D
CHAIR
Professor Nikos Papastergiadis
Director, Research Unit in Public Cultures, and Professor,
School of Culture and Communication, The University of
Melbourne, Australia
Ann DeMeester
Chris Dercon
Hou Hanru
Director, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
Rome, Italy
Professor Yuko Hasegawa
Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and Professor,
Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
Professor Sarat Maharaj
Head Supervisor of Doctoral Candidates, Malmö Art Academy,
Lund University, Sweden
Philip Tinari
Dr John Tirman
Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, United States
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Director, Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany
Artistic Director, MAXXI National Museum of 21st-Century Arts,
Executive Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for
THE STAFF
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�TH E M A K I NG OF A N I NSTITUTION
1
Bani Haykal
sketches of violence�
2015
2
Koh Nguang How
Snippets from Singapore Art Archive
Project at NTU CCA Singapore�
2014 —2015
3
Hamra Abbas
Place. Labour. Capital .�
2016
4
Mona Vătămanu &
Le monde et les choses�
2014
Florin Tudor
5
Bo Wang Work-in-progress�
2016
6
Anocha Suwichakornpong Nightfall�
2015
7
Jegan Vincent de Paul
Book Box: Field Experiment�
2016 — ongoing
8
Li Ran
It is not Complicated, A Guide Book�
2016
9
Kray Chen
Critical Fengshui�
2016—2017
10
Ato Malinda
Out of Africa, Out of Reach�
2016
11
Zul Mahmod
Resonances: Readymade Sound Sculptures� 2016
12
Regina (Maria) Möller & INTER ROGATIVE PAT TER N —
TE XT(ILE) WEAVE , Headgears�
2017
Dinu Bodiciu
13
Tamara Weber
Close Readings. R EBUS�
2016
14
Jason Wee
I Keep Returning to Tomorrow�
2016
15
Arin Rungjang
Johnston (450% high exposure photoshop)� 2016
16
Otty Widasari
Fiksi (Fiction)�
2016
17
Loo Zihan & other
I am Paying Attention�
2016
members of the Lan Gen
Bah Society of Mind �
18
James Jack
Reparative Islands and Khayalan Island � 2016
from Pulau Balakan Mati (as seen by
a seven-year old island resident)�
19a+b NTU CCA Singapore
A Selective Chronolog y of Events
20
Jeremy Sharma
Vertical Progression�
2016
21
NTU CCA Singapore
Artist Resource Platform
22
anGie Seah Props Talk to the Hand�
2015 — 2016
23
Ho Rui An
2020x3�
2016
24
SHIMURAbros
Chasing the Light�
2017
25
Film Programme selected by Marc Glöde
26
Weixin Chong
Beige dreams�
2017
27
Joan Jonas Props�
2014 + 2016
28
Heman Chong and
The Library of Unread Books�
2016 — ongoing
Renée Staal
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�SEMINAR ROOM
17
STORE ROOM
19a
20
19b
24
18
16
21
22
15
9
10
23
11
25
THE SINGLE SCREEN
12
8
14
7
THE EXHIBITION HALL
13
THE
VITR I NE
27
26
28
6
4
5
THE LAB
3
2
TOILET
2
TH E F OYE R
1
55
THE FLOOR PL AN
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�VI S I T O R S I N F O
E X HIBITION HOUR S
Tuesday – Sunday, 12.00 — 7.00pm
Friday, 12.00 — 9.00pm
Closed on Mondays
Open on Public Holidays (except on Mondays)
EXHIBITIONS
Block 43, Malan Road
Gillman Barracks
Singapore 109443
+65 6339 6503
PUBL IC PRO GR A M MES
Every Wednesday and Friday evening
R ESIDENCIES STUDIOS
Blocks 37 & 38, Malan Road
Singapore 109452 & 109441
E X HIBITION T OUR S
First Friday of the month, 7.00pm
OFFICE & RESEARCH CENTRE
Block 6 Lock Road, #01—09/10
Singapore 108934
+65 6339 6300
Free admission to all programmes
ntu.ccasingapore.org
facebook.com/ntu.ccasingapore
instagram: @ntu_ccasingapore
Email: ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
Free return shuttle bus between NTU School
of Art, Design and Media (ADM) and NTU
CCA Singapore on Wednesdays and Fridays
6.30pm: NTU ADM »
6:40pm : » NTU Admin Building (Fridays only)
» NTU CCA Singapore
9.30pm: NTU CCA Singapore
» NTU ADM
Labrador Park MRT
(Circle Line)
ALEX A NDR A ROAD
Pedestrian Walkway
Singapore
Teachers’
Academy for
the Arts
BLK 9
LOCK ROAD
BLK 43
Exhibitions
BLK 47
Carpark
BLK 5
M AL A N ROAD
Carpark A
BLK 1
DEPOT ROAD
Entrance
to Gillman Barracks
BLK 39
BLK 38
Studios
BLK 6
Off ice &
Research Centre
Carpark B
Entrance to
Gillman Barracks
BLK 22
BLK 37
Studios
Located at
© NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.
Printed February 2017. Design by Novamondo GmbH.
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The Making Of An Institution Exhibition Guide
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Hamra Abbas
Rodolfo Andaur
Diana Campbell Betancourt
Dinu Bodiciu
Kray Chen
Chris Chong Chan Fui
Heman Chong
Renée Staal
Weixin Chong
Choy Ka Fai
Ann Demeester
Rosemary Forde
Marc Glöde
Yuko Hasegawa
Bani Haykal
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad
Maria Hlavajova
Ho Rui An
James Jack
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Christoph Knoth
Koh Nguang How
Wilfried Kuehn
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Li Ran
Loo Zihan
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Ato Malinda
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Laura Miotto
Regina Möller
Arjuna Neuman
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Nikos Papastergiadis
Jegan Vincent de Paul
Emily Pethick
Thao-Nguyen Phan
Souliya Phoumivong
Ana Prvački
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Sanne Oorthuizen
Anocha Suwichakornpong
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Guo-Liang Tan
Tan Pin Pin
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Mona Vătămanu
Florin Tudor
Bo Wang
Farah Wardani
Tamara Weber
Jason Wee
Otty Widasari
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Renee Staal
Ana Prvacki
Regina Moller
Mona Vatamanu
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Audiences participate in a breathing exercise led by Chloe Chotrani.
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Residency Fellows reflect on IdeasCity Singapore at NTU CCA Singapore. Image credit Kee Ya Ting, 2020.
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Rhada La Bia “Midnight Masala” performance at NTU CCA Singapore, 2020.
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Screening of video work by Rindon Johnson, NTU CCA Singapore. Images credit Kee Ya Ting, 2020.
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Led by Fellow Chloe Chotrani, a group of Fellows wraps up the day with a movement exercise outdoors, Singapore, 2020.
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Crit presentations by Fellows, Pati Sayuri, 2020.
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Jennifer Teo discusses the cultural history of Bukit Brown cemetery, Singapore, 2020
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Fellows on Pulau Ubin, Singapore 2020.
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Fellows work together at NTU CCA Singapore, 2020.
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Objects and materials used in Zarina Muhammad’s “Conjuring Ourselves as Ghosts” workshop at NTU CCA Singapore, 2020
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NTU CCA Singapore’s exhibitions focus on contemporary artistic production that provides a critical platform for reflection and discussion.
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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.
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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.
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Festival
Show Type
Individual Artist (solo show)
Thematic Presentation (group show)
Thematic Presentation
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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.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Ideas Fest 2020
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Climate Crisis
Ecology
Sustainability
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<p>NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and the New Museum are pleased to announce participants and collaborators for the second edition of the<span> </span><strong>NTU CCA Ideas Fest</strong>,<span> </span><strong>IdeasCity Singapore</strong>, guest-curated by IdeasCity, taking place in Singapore and across Southeast Asia from February 15 to 22, 2020.</p>
<p>Building upon the NTU CCA Singapore’s research theme<span> </span><em>Climates. Habitats. Environments.</em><span> </span>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.</p>
<p>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<span>, including </span><strong>Heman Chong</strong><span>, </span><strong>Lynette Chua</strong><span>, </span><strong>Drama Box</strong><span>, </span><strong>Charles Lim</strong><span>, </span><strong>Zarina Muhammad</strong><span>, and </span><strong>Post-Museum</strong><span>, along with organizations such as </span><strong>New Naratif</strong><span>, </span><strong>The Projector</strong><span>, </span><strong>Singapore Community Radio</strong><span>, </span><strong>soft/WALLS/studs</strong><span>, and </span><strong>The Substation</strong><span>.</span><br /><br /></p>
<p>Residency Fellows include:<span> </span><strong>Francisco Brown</strong><span> </span>(United States),<span> </span><strong>Jane Chang Mi<span> </span></strong>(United States),<strong><span> </span>Kar-men Cheng<span> </span></strong>(Singapore),<strong><span> </span>Lingying Chong<span> </span></strong>(Singapore),<strong><span> </span>Chloe C. Chotrani<span> </span></strong>(Philippines/Singapore),<strong><span> </span>Calvin Chua<span> </span></strong>(Singapore), <strong>Fataah T. Dihaan</strong><span> </span>(United States),<span> </span><strong>ila<span> </span></strong>(Singapore),<strong><span> </span>Heider Ismail<span> </span></strong>(Singapore),<strong><span> </span>Lily Kwong</strong><span> </span>(United States),<span> </span><strong>Clarissa Ai Ling Lee<span> </span></strong>(Malaysia),<strong><span> </span>Michelle Lai<span> </span></strong>(Singapore),<strong><span> </span>Kwan Q Li<span> </span></strong>(Hong Kong),<strong><span> </span>Angela Mayrina<span> </span></strong>(Indonesia/United Kingdom),<strong><span> </span>John Kenneth Paranada<span> </span></strong>(Philippines/United Kingdom),<strong><span> </span>Patricia Sayuri<span> </span></strong>(Japan/Brazil),<strong><span> </span>Pen Sereypagna</strong><span> </span>(Cambodia),<span> </span><strong>Shahmen Suku<span> </span></strong>(Singapore/Australia),<strong><span> </span>Ruby Thiagarajan<span> </span></strong>(Singapore),<strong><span> </span>Dat Vu<span> </span></strong>(Vietnam), <strong>Nikan Wasinondh (Bow) </strong>(Thailand) and<strong> Jason Wee<span> </span></strong>(Singapore). For more information please visit: <a href="http://www.ideas-city.org/">http://www.ideas-city.org</a>.<br /><br /></p>
<p>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 (<b>Angela Dimayuga</b><span> </span>and<span> </span><b>Emeka Ogboh</b>), underground archives (<b>Heman Chong</b><span> </span>and<span> </span><b>Monica Narula</b><span> </span>of Raqs Media Collective), image and power (<b>Ho Rui An</b><span> </span>and<span> </span><b>Shumon Basar</b>), ecofeminism (<b>Marwa Arsanios</b>), and traces of migration (<b>Kunlé Adeyemi</b>,<span> </span><b>Eleena Jamil</b>,<span> </span><b>Bouchra Khalili<span> </span></b>and<span> </span><b>Alfian Sa’at</b>). A sequence of debate circles will examine the roles of solidarity and speculation in addressing climate injustice, featuring interdisciplinary perspectives from speakers such as<span> </span><b>Becca D’Bus</b>,<span> </span><b>Kirsten Han</b>,<span> </span><b>Prasoon Kumar</b><span> </span>and<span> </span><b>Zarina Muhammad</b>.</p>
<p>Workshops and conversations facilitated by Bakudapan Food Study Group and a presentation of new VR work by artist<span> </span><b>Rindon Johnson</b><span> </span>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<span> </span><b>ila</b><span> </span>and Digital Minister of Taiwan,<span> </span><b>Audrey Tang</b>.</p>
<p>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<span> </span><strong>The Forest Curriculum</strong><span> </span><strong>and </strong><strong>Nomina Nuda (Los Baños, Philippines)</strong>,<span> </span><strong>Malaysia Design Archive (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)</strong>,<span> </span><strong>House of Natural Fiber (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)</strong>,<span> </span><strong>The Land (Chiang Mai, Thailand)</strong>, <strong>Sàn Art (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)</strong><span> </span>and<span> </span><strong>Harvard’s Graduate School of Design</strong><span> </span><strong>(Boston, United States)</strong>.</p>
<p>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.<br /><br /><strong><u>Programme on 22 February 2020</u></strong><span> </span><br />10.00am<br />Start and Finish by<span> </span><b>Ute Meta Bauer</b><span> </span>and<span> </span><strong>Vere van Gool</strong><br />10.15am<br />Dialogues by<span> </span><strong>Shumon Basar</strong><span> </span>and<span> </span><strong>Ho Rui An</strong><span> </span>on capitalism and the extreme self<br />11.00am<br />Lecture by<span> </span><strong>Kirsten Han</strong><span> </span>on emergent medias and speech<br />11.20am<br />Film screening by<span> </span><strong>ila</strong><br />12.00pm<br />Presentation by<span> </span><strong>Heman Chong</strong><span> </span>on archives as commons<br />12.15pm<br />Lecture Screening by<span> </span><strong>Marwa Arsanios</strong><span> </span>on ecofeminism and community<br />1.00pm<br />Presentation by<span> </span><strong>Monica Narula</strong><span> </span>on submarine horizons<br />1.30pm<br />Performance by<span> </span><strong>Radha</strong><span> </span>“Midnight Masala”<br />1.55pm<br />Hologram lecture by<span> </span><strong>Audrey Tang</strong><br />2.00pm<br />Conversation between<span> </span><strong>Becca D’Bus</strong><span> </span>and Fellows on solidarity with nature<br />3.00pm<br />Discussion by<span> </span><strong>Shumon Basar</strong>,<span> </span><strong>Heman Chong</strong>,<span> </span><strong>Vere van Gool</strong>,<span> </span><strong>Charles Lim</strong>, and<span> </span><strong>Zarina Muhammad</strong><span> </span>on sovereignty and indigenous contexts<br />4.00pm<br />Lecture by<span> </span><strong>Emeka Ogboh</strong><span> </span>on food diasporas<br />4.15pm<br />Reading by<span> </span><strong>Alfian Sa’at</strong><span> </span>on the poetics of migration<br />4.30pm<br />Presentations by<span> </span><strong>House of Natural Fiber</strong><span> </span>and the<span> </span><strong>Land Foundation</strong><span> </span>on strategies for combatting climate change<br />5.00pm<br />Video Presentation by<span> </span><strong>Angela Dimayuga</strong><span> </span>on culture and cookbooks<br />5.10pm<br />Discussion by<span> </span><strong>Ute Meta Bauer</strong>,<span> </span><strong>Vanessa Ho</strong>, and<span> </span><strong>Prasoon Kumar</strong><span> </span>on trust networks and sustainability<br />6.00pm<br />Kitchen Mapping Workshop by<span> </span><strong>Bakudapan Food Study Group</strong><br />6.30pm<br />VR Demo by<span> </span><strong>Rindon Johnson</strong><span> </span>on speculative futures<br />7.00pm<br />Roundtable by Fellows<br />7.45pm<br />Live Music by<span> </span><strong>Bani Haykal</strong><br />8.00pm<br />Lecture Screenings by<span> </span><strong>Kunlé Adeyemi</strong>,<span> </span><strong>Eleena Jamil</strong>, and<span> </span><strong>Bouchra Khalili</strong><span> </span>on the poetics of migration<br />10.00pm<br />Start and Finish by<span> </span><strong>Ute Meta Bauer</strong><span> </span>and<span> </span><strong>Vere van Gool<br /></strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2020 is guest-curated by IdeasCity, New Museum, New York.<strong><br /></strong></p>
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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
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Title
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Residencies
Description
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The studio-based Residencies programme is dedicated to facilitating the research of established and emerging artists. It serves as a forum for cultural and artistic exchange in Southeast Asia.
Residency
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Short Description
While in residence, Ho Rui An will continue his research into the aesthetics of “futurecraft” across the various futures and “horizon scanning” programmes run by state and private entities in Singapore and beyond.
Cycle
Cycle 3 (2016 – 2017)
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
Collaboration
No
Commissioned Work
No
Related Countries
Singapore
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Place.Labour.Capital.
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Title
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Ho Rui An
Description
An account of the resource
While in residence, Ho Rui An will continue his research into the aesthetics of “futurecraft” across the various futures and “horizon scanning” programmes run by state and private entities in Singapore and beyond. Of special interest is the practice of “critical futures” and the normative forces that come to bear upon it within institutional frames. Ho will further use his studio space to explore different exhibitionary forms by which his discursive projects can be manifested.
Date
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5 September – 31 January 2017
Contributor
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Ho Rui An
Coverage
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Southeast Asia
Medium
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Film
Performance
Subject
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Artistic Research
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Title
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Contributors
Contributor
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First Name
Rui An
Surname or Business Name
Ho
Years Affiliated
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2015/2016-2017
Birthplace
Singapore
Occupation
Professional title or identity
Artist
Biographical Text
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Ho Rui An (b. 1990, Singapore) is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. His work investigates the emergence, transmission and disappearance of images within contexts of globalism and governance. Working primarily across the mediums of lecture, essay and film, his recent research considers questions surrounding liberal hospitality, participatory democracy and speculative futures.He has presented projects both locally and internationally, gaining attention for his discursively compelling performances that sift through historical archives and contemporary visual culture to probe into the shifting relations between image and power. Ho has presented work at Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Australia (2016); Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries, United States (2015); LUMA/Westbau, Switzerland (2015); Para Site, Hong Kong (2015); Witte de With, The Netherlands (2014); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2014); and Serpentine Galleries, United Kingdom (2013), among others.<br /><br /><span>Ho was Artist-in-Residence at NTU CCA Singapore, between September 2016 and January 2017, where he continued his research into the aesthetics of “futurecraft” and “horizon scanning” programmes run by state and private entities in Singapore and beyond. He also contributed to NTU CCA Singapore’s public programming in January 2015 when he conducted an Exhibition (de)Tour as part of Yang Fudong’s exhibition, <em>Incidental Scripts</em>.</span>
Country of Practice
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Singapore
Public Resource Centre Affiliation
Artist Research Platform
Library
Video Resource Platform
None
Artist Research Platform
Contributor Type
Artist-in-Residence
Speaker
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Place.Labour.Capital.
Birth Date
1990
Dublin Core
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Title
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Ho Rui An
Coverage
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Southeast Asia
Subject
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Globalisation
Politics
Description
An account of the resource
Ho Rui An is an artist and writer. His focus is on the emergence, transmission, and disappearance of images within contexts of globalism and governance.
Contributor
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Ho Rui An