Architecture]]> Urbanism]]> Public Sphere]]> Knowledge Production]]> 18 Jan 2020, Sat 03:20 PM - 05:00 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road


Thinking through co-existence of species and the city as a habitat for diverse life forms, this panel consists of artists, researchers, and practitioners for whom interspecies interaction is at the core of their practice. Animali Domestici studied the existence of pythons in the city of Bangkok, Yun Hye Hwang observes the outcomes of zero intervention on landscapes, Sarah Ichioka looks at social-impact architecture at the intersections of urban planning and ecology, and Michelle Lai advocates for urban farming embedded in local culture and knowledge.

A public programme of The Posthuman City.Climates.Habitats.Environments.]]>
Yun Hye Hwang]]> Sarah Ichioka]]> Michelle Lai]]> Laura Miotto]]> Animali Domestici]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]>
Knowledge Production]]> Architecture]]>

24 September 2019

Nomadic Reading 1: Clytemnestra: A Special Exhibition Tour by torchlight.

Focusing on books by female architect, Ida Faré, the experience of “Mothers of Architecture”

 

15 October 2019

Nomadic Reading 2: Cassandra: A Reading Session/Who do we learn from?

Focusing on our masters, our inspirations, Lina Bo Bardi, and others

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Laura Miotto]]> Savina Nicolini]]> Asia]]> North America]]> Europe]]>
Architecture]]> Urbanism]]>

SPEAKERS

Ute Meta Bauer(Germany/Singapore), Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore and Professor, NTU School of Art, Design and Media.

Calvin Chua (Singapore), Adjunct Assistant Professor, Architecture and Sustainable Design at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.

Woon Tien Wei (Singapore), artist/ curator.

Sophie Goltz (Germany/Singapore), Deputy Director, Research and Academic Programmes at NTU CCA Singapore, and Assistant Professor, NTU School of Art, Design and Media

Laura Miotto (Italy/Singapore), Associate Professor, NTU School of Art, Design and Media, and Design Director of GSM Project in Singapore.

Part of the Singapore Art Book Fair 2019.]]>
Ute Meta Bauer]]> Calvin Chua]]> Woon Tien Wei]]> Sophie Goltz]]> Laura Miotto]]> Southeast Asia]]>
disegno; P.C. Ee (Singapore), Co-founder, Industry+; and Lim Masulin (Indonesia), Founder, BYO Living]]> Materiality]]> Design]]> 25 Aug 2018, Sat 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Moderated by Laura Miotto (Italy/Singapore), Associate Professor and Co-director, MA Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University (NTU ADM)

Dedicated to spatial and furniture design, this panel brings together designers and manufacturers who use traditional weaving techniques guided by an environmental consciousness. These specialists are also at the forefront of innovating the traditional uses of rattan on an international scale.

A public programme of Trees of Life – Knowledge in Material.]]>
Paola Bellani]]> P.C. Ee]]> PC Ee]]> Lim Masulin]]> Laura Miotto]]> Asia]]> Europe]]>
The Making of an Institution — Communication and Mediation, Part II –SPATIAL IDENTITY: Lectures by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad (Iran/United Kingdom), Wilfried Kuehn (Germany), and Laura Miotto (Italy/Singapore)

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Design]]> Curatorial Practice]]> Identity]]> Public Sphere]]> 18 Mar 2017, Sat 10:00 AM - 01:30 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad’s practice spans from neighbourhood plans and public spaces to recipes, games and objects. His approach to design draws on play theories and strategies of defamiliarisation as contextual research tools that actively engage different publics in design processes.

His presentation will focus on Hello Stranger (2016), a critical game designed with and for staff members at the Victoria & Albert’s Museum of Childhood, London, United Kingdom. Estrangement devices were created to induce “question-making” as a tool to recalibrate the overfamiliar and sense the museum anew in order to critically reflect upon the experiences it offers and the qualities it values.

In this lecture, Wilfried Kuehn will address the concept of “Curatorial Design”, an expression coined by the Kuehn himself. He will explore the role of space and architecture in artistic and curatorial practices through several case studies of exhibition displays and institutional projects he developed, including the exhibition design for Documenta11.

Laura Miotto will address site-specific spatial narratives focusing on her work for the Malay Heritage Centre in Singapore. Located in the historical precinct of Kampong Glam and re-opened to the public in 2012, the Centre undergone three years of interpretative planning that repositioned the institution in the cultural ecosystem of Singapore. Miotto will unpack site-specific strategies to regenerate connections with the many identities associated to this significant place, looking at the intersection between architecture, site, and narratives.

This lecture is part of the public programme of The Making of an Institution.]]>
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad]]> Wilfried Kuehn]]> Laura Miotto]]> Southeast Asia]]> Middle East]]> Europe]]>
Urbanism]]> 26 Oct 2016, Wed 4:00pm - 5:30pm
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road

In conversations takes as its point of departure, similar to the exhibition Incomplete Urbanism, William Lim’s latest collaborative model, the Asian Urban Lab. Together with the exhibition’s main contributors, Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore will discuss the various key ideas extended and responded by these contributors which look into spatial and cultural aspects of city life. Comparing the city to a laboratory, the conversation will address how urbanity is engineered, claimed, sensed and sensitised; and look into ways for imagining future habitats.

A public programme of Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spacial Practice.]]>
Ute Meta Bauer]]> Marc Glöde]]> Marc Glode]]> Laura Miotto]]> Sissel Tolaas]]> Etienne Turpin ]]> Asia]]>
Free Jazz III. Sound. Walks.]]> Performance]]> Body]]> Nature]]>

Collaborative and experimental by nature, Free Jazz III builds upon its past iterations by activating and challenging common understandings of exhibition-making and the use of space. Sound walks. Machines listen. We are living through unusual times. 

As the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore approaches a major transformation away from a permanent exhibition space in early 2021, Free Jazz III continues to explore the possibilities of an international research centre for contemporary art, featuring many artists who have been part of NTU CCA Singapore’s exhibitions, residencies, and programs since 2013, when the Centre presented Free Jazz as its inaugural event. The project began as a form of inquiry and an active tool to generate new possibilities for conceptualizing and programming an art institution. Free Jazz III convenes diverse projects united by themes of adaptation via masterful improvisation, trans-mediatic pivots, and the conscious renegotiation of our relationships to nature, technology, and each other. The disparate components of Free Jazz III explore the elements of dissonance, resistance, and innovation embedded in its musical namesake and the ability for sound and art to transcend physical and social distance. Embracing sound and walking as two powerful ways to overcome distance and bring people together, Free Jazz III comprises projects that can take place in non-gallery spaces, independently, asynchronously, or in purposeful syncopation with the present moment, reflecting on the past and looking forward to the future. 

Admission to all programmes and events is free.

Sound. Walks.
January–March 2021 (On-site and online)

Reflecting on the loss of physicality through increased virtual interactions as well as many histories of sound and walking, artists address common life and communality in times of social distancing. In this series of performative explorations of sound, music, and community building, reflections take the form of soundwalks, sonic wayfinding and other physical and aural experiences, offering multiple ways for the public to actively witness, listen and participate, both remotely and on-site. Soundwalks by Tini Aliman (Singapore), Christa Donner and Andrew S Yang (United States), and Diana Lelonek (Poland) and Denim Szram (Poland/Switzerland) are propelled by sonic outputs of nature. Storytelling, correspondence, and the impossibility of direct communication factor into projects by Cheryl Ong (Singapore), Ana Prvački (Romania/Germany) in collaboration with Joyce Bee Tuan Koh (Singapore) and Galina Mihaleva (Bulgaria/Singapore), and Vivian Wang (Singapore/Switzerland). Sound, history, culture, and space overlap and intertwine in works by Arahmaiani (Indonesia) and Jimmy Ong (Singapore), bani haykal (Singapore) and Lee Weng Choy (Malaysia), Reetu Sattar (Bangladesh), and anGie Seah (Singapore).

Free Jazz III. Sound. Walks. is curated by Magdalena Magiera (Germany/Singapore), NTU CCA Singapore Curator, Education and Outreach, and Dr Karin Oen (United States/Singapore), NTU CCA Singapore Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes

Under the Skin
1 December 2020 – 31 January 2021 (Online)

World premiere and special performance
1 December 2020, 7pm SGT

This trio of performative works by artists George Chua (Singapore), Nina Djekić (Slovenia/Singapore/Netherlands), and Noor Effendy Ibrahim (Singapore) engages with sound, bodily movements, and performance. These new pieces are cinematically translated into the medium of video by filmmaker Russell Morton (Singapore) and viewed online, acknowledging the curatorial premise that, “the pandemic has pushed us into a space of dramatic convergence—where a deep tech, hyper-connected future collides with social political unrest,” in both the work itself and the medium in which it is presented.

Under the Skin is curated for Free Jazz III by artist Cheong Kah Kit (Singapore) as part of Proposals for Novel Ways of Being, a united response to the changes brought about by COVID-19 hosted by twelve Singapore arts institutions, initiated by the National Gallery Singapore and Singapore Art Museum.

Partner programmes:

Machine Listening, a curriculum
From October 2020 (Online)

Expanded collaborations and explorations of curatorial spaces also took form in support of Machine Listening, a curriculum instigated by Melbourne-based Liquid Architecture. This evolving online resource, comprising existing and newly commissioned writing, interviews, music and artworks is a new investigation and experiment in collective learning around the emergent field of machine listening. It premiered with three online sessions open to all as part of Unsound 2020: Intermission, an experimental sound festival in Krakow, Poland. NTU CCA Singapore and Liquid Architecture will convene another collaborative online session open to the public in early 2021.

Machine Listening, a curriculum is curated by Sean DockrayDr James Parker, and Joel Stern (all Australia).

Visit the evolving open source curriculum and the recorded Unsound sessions:

(Against) the coming world of listening machines
Lessons in How (Not) to be Heard
Listening with the Pandemic

Sollum Swaramum
26 February 2021, 7.30 – 9.00pm
On-Site at Blk 43 Malan Road

Presented in collaboration with The Arts House’s Poetry with Music series, the 4th edition of Sollum Swaramum, brings together musicians Ramesh Krishnan, Mohamed Noor and Munir Alsagoff in exploration of the synergies between music and text, with devised and improvised texts based on the work of Tamil literary stalwarts P Krishnan, Ma Ilangkannnan and Rama Kannabiran. These newly devised texts are written by Harini V, Ashwinii Selvarai and Bharathi Moorthiappan, performed by Sivakumar Palakrishnan, and art direction by Laura Miotto.

Curated by Magdalena Magiera, Curator, Outreach and Education, and Dr. Karin Oen, Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes, NTU CCA Singapore. 

Free Jazz III. Sound. Walks. presented in partnership with Proposals for Novel Ways of Being, The Arts House, Liquid Architecture, as part of Singapore Art week, supported by National Arts Council.

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Tini Aliman]]> Christa Donner]]> Andrew S Yang]]> Diana Lelonek]]> Denim Szram]]> Cheryl Ong]]> Ana Prvački]]> Joyce Bee Tuan Koh]]> Galina Mihaleva]]> Vivian Wang]]> Arahmaiani]]> Jimmy Ong]]> bani haykal]]> Lee Weng Choy]]> Reetu Sattar]]> anGie Seah]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Karin Oen]]> George Chua]]> Nina Djekić]]> Russell Morton ]]> Noor Effendy Ibrahim]]> Cheong Kah Kit]]> Liquid Architecture]]> Ramesh Krishnan]]> Laura Miotto]]> Mohamed Noor]]> Harini V]]> Ashwinii Selvarai]]> Bharathi Moorthiappan]]> Sivakumar Palakrishnan]]> Munir Alsagoff]]> Nanthiyni Aravindan]]> Sean Dockray]]> James Parker]]> Joel Stern]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Topography]]> Urbanism]]>
Contributors include: Laura Anderson Barbata, Jiat-Hwee Chang, Thanavi Chotpradit, Calvin Chua, Yvonne P. Doderer, Chomchon Fusinpaiboon, indieguerillas, Marc Glöde, Sacha Kagan, Lulu Lutfi Labibi, Magdalena Magiera, Laura Miotto, Marjetica Potrč, Pen Sereypagna, Shirley Surya, Sissel Tolaas, Etienne Turpin and Nashin Mahtani, John Wagner, H. Koon Wee, Woon Tien Wei, and Ari Wulu. Foreword by Nikos Papastergiadis. Afterword by William S. W. Lim.]]>
Roger Nelson]]> World Scientific Publishing]]> Laura Anderson Barbata]]> Jiat-Hwee Chang]]> Thanavi Chotpradit]]> Calvin Chua]]> Chomchon Fusinpaiboon]]> Marc Glöde]]> indieguerillas]]> Sacha Kagan]]> Lulu Lutfi Labibi]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Laura Miotto]]> Marjetica Potrč]]> Pen Sereypagna]]> Nashin Mahtani]]> John Wagner]]> H. Koon Wee]]> Ari Wulu]]> William S. W. Lim]]> Chang Jiat Hwee]]> Marjetica Potrc]]> Marc Glode]]> H55]]> Publication]]> Asia]]>
Trees of Life — Knowledge in Material Exhibition Guide]]> Trees of Life — Knowledge in Material Exhibition Guide]]> Manish Nai]]> Phi Phi Oanh]]> Sopheap Pich]]> Liang Shaoji]]> Vivian Xu]]> Laura Miotto]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Khim Ong ]]> Guide]]> Asia]]> The Making Of An Institution A Public Report]]> Artistic Research]]> Curatorial Practice]]> Institutional Critique]]> Knowledge Production]]> The Making Of An Institution Programme Guide]]> åbäke]]> 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]]> Tamara Weber]]> Jason Wee]]> Otty Widasari]]> abake]]> Marc Glode]]> Regina Moller]]> Mona Vatamanu]]> Ana Prvacki]]> Guide]]> Southeast Asia]]>