Architecture]]> Design]]> Urbanism]]> Published by NTU CCA Singapore and Weiss Publications, 2022
By Mary Otis Stevens, Thomas McNulty. Edited with text by Ute Meta Bauer, Karin Oen, Pelin Tan. Afterword by Mary Otis Stevens. Essy by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley.
Design by Enver Hadzijaj
Printed by Kopa
© 2022 the editors, Mary Otis Stevens, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Weiss Publications
ISBN: 9783948318178
Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Copies are available for sale at NTU CCA Singapore S$35/US$25

World of Variation
is a a visual/verbal essay addressing critical societal issues such as community versus privacy, public versus private realms, social justice and humane, sustainable developments from a global perspective. To avoid datedness and the cultural biases inherent in realistic representations, the two authors, Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas F. McNulty, both MIT graduates and noted for their projects in the Modern Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, formulated an abstract visual language to convey their conceptual ideas.

This new edition contains a facsimile of the original edition published in 1970 with added commentaries by Pelin Tan, sociologist and art historian, professor at Fine Arts Academy, Batman University, and senior fellow of CAD+SR; Karin G. Oen, principal research fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design, and Media (NTU ADM); Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and professor at NTU ADM; and a text by Beatriz Colomina, professor of the history of architecture at Princeton University, and Mark Wigley, professor of architecture and Dean Emeritus, Columbia University.

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Mary Otis Stevens]]> Thomas McNulty]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Karin Oen]]> Pelin Tan]]> Beatriz Colomina]]> Mark Wigley]]> North America]]>
Architecture]]> Urbanism]]> Published by NTU CCA Singapore and Weiss Publications, 2022
By Andrei Baburov, Georgi Djumenton, Alexei Gutnov, Zoya Kharitonova, Ilya Lezava, Stanislav Zadovskij. Edited with text by Ute Meta Bauer, Karin Oen, Pelin Tan. Afterword by Mary Otis Stevens. Essay by Ana Miljački.
Design by Enver Hadzijaj
Printed by Kopa
© 2022 the editors, Mary Otis Stevens, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Weiss Publications
ISBN: 9783948318161
Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Copies are available for sale at NTU CCA Singapore S$35/US$25

The Ideal Communist City
(Andrei Baburov, Georgi Djumenton, Alexei Gutnov, Zoya Kharitonova, Ilya Lezava, Stanislav Zadovskij), comprised urban concepts by architects and planners at the University of Moscow written during the late 1950s and first published in a journal of a communist youth organisation in 1960. The architects’ collective imagines urban life “structured by freely chosen relationships represents the fullest, most well-rounded aspects of each human personality.”

The Ideal Communist City was first published in English in 1971 within the influential series on architecture and urban theory, the i press series on the human environment, initiated by Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas McNulty. This volume comprises a facsimile edition of the original title with a foreword by Ana Miljacki, professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Andrei Baburov]]> Georgi Djumenton]]> Alexei Gutnov]]> Zoya Kharitonova]]> Ilya Lezava]]> Stanislav Zadovskij]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Karin Oen]]> Pelin Tan]]> Ana Miljački]]> Ana Miljacki]]> Mary Otis Stevens]]> Europe]]>
Geopolitics]]> Politics]]> 11 Oct 2022, Tue – 6 Nov 2022, Sun
The Screening Room, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-06
12 pm – 7pm, every day except Monday
Film starts every hour

Premier Screening: Tuesday 11 October, 7:00pm-8:30pm
The screening will be followed by a conversation between the artist Tekla Aslanishvili, artistic-scientific collaborator Dr. Evelina Gambino and Assistant Professor Dr. Marc Gloede, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU, Singapore.
The welcome will be given by Ute Meta Bauer, Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, and Founding Director, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, and Dr. Karin Oen, Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Art History, NTU School of Humanities.

A State in a State is the result of Aslanishvili winning the Han Nefkens Foundation – Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Grant 2020, in collaboration with Jameel Art Centre, Dubai; the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila; NTU CCA Singapore and WIELS, Brussels. The Award appraises the work of emerging artists aged 40 and under, who live in West or Central Asia and have established a solid trajectory but not yet received recognition by international art institutions.

Aslanishvili was selected by an international jury, including NTU CCA Singapore’s Founding Director Ute Meta Bauer and former Deputy Director of Curatorial Programmes, Dr Karin Oen, for her body of meticulously researched work and her commitment to exploring a specific geopolitical context, whilst connecting to a wider discourse on the impact of extractivist economies on a planetary scale.

Revolving around the scenes of delay and waiting that constitute cargo mobility, the film reads the optimistic narratives about the New Silk Road against the grain. It observes how the iron foundation of connectivity can be used as a weapon of exclusion and geopolitical sabotage. Dotting the same lines, other forms of sabotage are deployed by workers to disrupt the political violence. Looking at historic and current practices of resistance, A State in a State explores the potential of railroads for building a different, infrastructural consciousness, and the lasting transnational kinship among the people who live and work around them

The film is developed in artistic-scientific collaboration with Dr. Evelina Gambino, Margaret Tyler Research Fellow in Geography at Girton College, University of Cambridge.

Research & Script: Tekla Aslanishvili / Evelina Gambino
Music: Ani Zakareishvili / Nika Pasuri
Cinematography: Nikoloz Tabukashvili / Tekla Aslanishvili
Typography: Dato Simonia

Editing: Tekla Aslanishvili
Sound: Viktor Bone / Irakli Shonia
Color: Sally Shamas

A State in a State will be also presented at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona  from October 8th till November 27th.

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Tekla Aslanishvili]]> Marc Glöde]]> Marc Glode]]> Hans Nefkens Foundation]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Karin Oen]]> Europe]]>
Materiality]]> Spaces of the Curatorial]]>
Contributors: Yanyun Chen, Karin Oen
Editor: Magdalena Magiera
Programme Manager: Nadia Amalina
Sound Engineer: Ashwin Menon
Intro & Outro Music: Zachary Chan
Cover Image & Design: Arabelle Zhuang, Kristine Tan]]>
Yanyun Chen]]> Karin Oen]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Nadia Amalina]]> Ashwin Menon]]> Zachary Chan]]> Arabelle Zhuang]]> Kristine Tan]]> Podcast]]> https://www.buzzsprout.com/1845756/13841518-aircast-15-yanyun-chen]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Activism]]> Nature]]> Oceans & Seas]]> Sustainability]]> 23 Nov 2019, Sat 02:00 PM - 07:00 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

With practices at the intersection of art and activism, Irene Agrivina and inhabitants will share more about their works, on view in the Exhibition Hall and the Lab respectively. While Agrivina teaches local women communities in Indonesia how to transform wastewater into valuable goods, inhabitants informs a wider public about the threats of seabed mining. Environmental researchers Dr Serina Abdul Rahman and Dr Janelle Thompson will present their findings on floral and faunal marine communities, as well as sustainable and ecological solutions regarding natural resources.

Part of Symposium: Techno-Optimism and Eco-Hacktivism]]>
Serina Abdul Rahman]]> Janelle Thompson]]> Karin Oen]]> Irene Agrivina]]> inhabitants]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Botany]]> Nature]]> Sustainability]]> Ecology]]> Oceans & Seas]]> 23 Nov 2019, Sat 02:00 PM - 07:00 PM The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

3.20 – 5.00pm Presentation and Conversation: Eco-Hacktivism with Irene Agrivina, artist; inhabitants, artists; Dr Serina Abdul Rahman, Visiting Fellow, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore; and Janelle Thompson, Associate Professor, Asian School of the Environment, NTU; moderated by Dr Karin Oen, Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes, NTU CCA Singapore

With practices at the intersection of art and activism, Irene Agrivina and inhabitants will share more about their works, on view in the Exhibition Hall and the Lab respectively. While Agrivina teaches local women communities in Indonesia how to transform wastewater into valuable goods, inhabitants informs a wider public about the threats of seabed mining. Environmental researchers Dr Serina Abdul Rahman and Dr Janelle Thompson will present their findings on floral and faunal marine communities, as well assustainable and ecological solutions regarding natural resources."]]>
Irene Agrivina]]> Serina Abdul Rahman]]> Janelle Thompson]]> Karin Oen]]> inhabitants]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]>
Education]]> Karin Oen]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Education]]>
Course Instructor: Dr Karin Oen, Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Asian Art and Design, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University]]>
Karin Oen]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Artistic Research]]> Knowledge Production]]> Iwona Piorko]]> Joseph Liow]]> Anna Lovecchio]]> Karin Oen]]> Priyageetha Dia]]> Ngoc Nau]]> Nguyen Hong Ngoc]]> Saroot Supasuthivech]]> Southeast Asia]]> Ritual]]> Performance]]> Nature]]> Blk 37, Malan Road, #01-04

To Burn, Forest, Fire takes place as a series of incense burning ceremonies that awaken our sensorium and elicit an intimate, intuitive relation to the natural world confronting us with the sensorial richness of forest ecologies and the prospect of extinctions caused by humanity. Stemming from collaborations with scientists across different disciplines, the work speculates on the olfactory qualities of the first and last forest on our planet. The earliest forest is believed to have formed in present-day Cairo (New York State, United States) about 385 million years ago; whereas the last forest before environmental collapse is identified with the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, an ecosystem threatened by rampant deforestation and unsustainable agricultural practices. Katie Paterson’s interdisciplinary investigation resulted in the creation of incense sticks, blended by Japanese incense maker Shoyeido, that propagate the distinct fragrances of the two forests pushing our understanding
of reality beyond the domain of the visible.

This project was originally initiated by IHME Helsinki, a contemporary art organisation in Finland that situates its activities in a dialogue between art and science.

Part of Free Jazz IV. Geomancers

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Katie Paterson]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Karin Oen]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Southeast Asia]]>