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]]> The Making Of An Institution]]> Knowledge Production]]> Cultural Production]]> Institutional Critique]]> Artistic Research]]> The Making of an Institution captures different moments in the development of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) connecting artistic projects, discursive manifestations, and the institutional apparatus in a seamless display. It looks back into its young past in order to shape its future. Challenging the format of an exhibition, The Making of an Institution creates a communal space where projects and research explorations by the Centre’s Artists-, Curators-in- Residence, and Research Fellows coexist with ongoing series of talks, screenings, performances, and workshops. The project engages the Centre’s main pillars–Exhibitions, Residencies, Research and Academic Education – bringing to a close the overarching curatorial narrative Place.Labour.Capital. that served as a framework for its activities since 2013.

Established in 2013, the Centre embodies the complexity of a contemporary art institution in times of knowledge economy and global art. The role of a contemporary art institution should not be 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. The Centre’s inaugural programme Free Jazz addressed the foundational question “What can this institution be?” highlighting the skill of improvisation and free play. Three years later, different questions are to be raised: What could the role of the NTU CCA Singapore be for the years to come within a fast changing local, regional, and global cultural landscape? What are the criteria to evaluate its achievements and impact?

In revisiting its own process of institutional building, NTU CCA Singapore appropriates the format and language of a “public report”. While a public report 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.

“It’s amazing how far we were able to come in just three years,” said Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore. “The Making of an Institution is a celebration of the international community we have built, including scholars, artists, and the public. Now it is time for us to reflect and analyse our achievements before the exciting next steps ahead.”

The Making of an Institution is divided into four sections borrowed from the structure of a public report: Reason to Exist: The Director’s Review; Ownership, Development, and Aspirations; Artistic Research; and Communication and Mediation. The first section, Reason to Exist: The Director’s Review maps out a network of institutions, like NTU CCA Singapore, that place research at the core of their identity. Each guest director will closely examine the vision, mission, and operative model of her respective organisation in a series of talks aimed at deepening our understanding of the changing role of contemporary cultural institutions. Ownership, Development, and Aspirations is a public panel with several members of the NTU CCA Singapore’s International Advisory Board and its stakeholders representatives that stresses the importance of feedback and exchange among peers especially in the development phase of an institution. 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 various formats of public programming. Finally, Communication and Mediation explores the production of an institution’s identity through visual communication and spatial practices. Through workshops and presentations, artists, architects, and designers will discuss how they create diverse visual and spatial identities for art institutions.

The public report will culminate into a book planned for publication in mid-2017, gathering the voices of all the artists, curators, researchers, and academics who have contributed to this first phase of the Centre. The Making of an Institution is curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, Anna Lovecchio, Curator, Residencies, and Anca Rujoiu, Manager, Publications.]]>
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]]> Bastian 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]]> Reee Staal]]> Marc Glode]]> Regina Moller]]> Ana Prvacki]]> Installation]]> Film]]> Print]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Technology]]> Architecture]]> Urbanism]]> Nikos Papastergiadis]]> Southeast Asia]]> Oceania]]> Free Jazz]]> Spaces of the Curatorial]]> Performance]]> Free Jazz, NTU CCA Singapore’s inaugural programme brings together artists, curators, art critics and scholars to imagine and contribute to the thinking and envisioning of the potentials for this new Centre for Contemporary Art in Singapore. As the title suggests, Free Jazz is about improvisation, the ability to listen, to respond and engage into a less prescribed and controlled environment.  Improvisation stands for a form of inquiry that can become an active tool to generate new possibilities for conceptualising and programming art institutions. Free Jazz at NTU CCA  Singapore presents a series of paired presentations and juxtaposes different approaches into a single platform as a playful way to encourage conversational and performative interactions that can take spontaneous, fluid, unplanned moves.]]> Lee Wen]]> Lucy Davis]]> Grieve Perspective]]> OFFCUFF]]> Bani Haykal]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Lee Weng Choy]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Cosmin Costinas]]> Ade Darmawan]]> Mark Nash]]> Zai Kuning]]> Bige Örer ]]> Geert Lovink]]> Nikos Papastergiadis ]]> Southeast Asia]]> The Making Of An Institution Exhibition Guide]]> The Making Of An Institution Exhibition 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]]> Renee Staal]]> Ana Prvacki]]> Regina Moller]]> Mona Vatamanu]]> Guide]]> Southeast Asia]]> Amanda Crabtree]]> Katherine Ann Leilani Tuider]]> Eng Teong Low]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Dawei Wang]]> Sophie Goltz]]> Lewis Biggs]]> Eileen Goh]]> Richard Lim]]> Lorenzo Petrillo]]> Lilian Chee]]> Nikos Papastergiadis]]> Ashley Thompson]]> Antonia Carver]]> Catherine David]]> Philip Tinari]]> Daniel Mudie Cunningham]]> Hongjohn Lin]]> Jasmeen Patheja]]> Milenko Prvački]]> Heng Leun Kok]]> Alecia Neo]]> Alan Oei]]> Massamba Mbaye]]> Richard Bell]]> Southeast Asia]]> Institutional Critique]]> Geopolitics]]> Urbanism]]>
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.

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.

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).

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)

“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)

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.

The visual concept of the book was conceived by renowned Singapore design firm H55.]]>
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]]> Publication]]> Asia]]>
Modernity]]> Performance]]> 18 Dec 2013, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 AM

Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism – A talk by Nikos Papastergiadis (Professor at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne) with a focus on contemporary art as a form of the cosmopolitan imaginary, followed by with a free improvisation of music and movement performance by the Bani Haykal trio. 
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Nikos Papastergiadis]]> Bani Haykal]]> Asia]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Institutional Critique]]> 25 Feb 2017, Sat 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

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 with representatives of the Centre’s stakeholders. The session will be moderated by Founding Director Ute Meta Bauer and preceded by Heman Chong’s performance Words, They, Wrote (2015 – ongoing). 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.

3.00 – 3.30pm
Words, They, Wrote (2015 – ongoing), performance by Heman Chong (Singapore), Artist-in-Residence

3.30 – 5.00pm
Public Discussion

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

Ann Demeester (Belgium/Netherlands) Board Member; Director, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

Yuko Hasegawa (Japan), Board Member; Artistic Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

Nikos Papastergiadis (Australia), Board Chair; Director, Research Unit in Public Cultures, and Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Philip Tinari (United States/China), Board Member; Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

John Tirman (United States), Board Member; Executive Director, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States


This event is part of the public programme for The Making of an Institution.]]>
Heman Chong]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Ann Demeester]]> Yuko Hasegawa]]> Nikos Papastergiadis]]> Philip Tinari]]> John Tirman ]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> North America]]>
Institutional Critique]]> 27 Oct 2018, Sat 08:30 PM - 09:30 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

NTU CCA SINGAPORE 5th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION


Take this opportunity to meet our International Advisory Board Members Doryun Chong, Deputy Director & Chief Curator, M+, Hong Kong, Professor Nikos Papastergiadis, Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures, University of Melbourne, and Professor Ashley Thompson, Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art, SOAS University of London, and hear their views on the role of art institutions and their potential to engage in global conversations.

A public programme of Stagings. Soundings. Readings. Free Jazz II.]]>
Doryun Chong]]> Nikos Papastergiadis]]> Ashley Thompson]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]>