Art, Urban Change, and the Public Sphere: Public Art Education Summit]]> Architecture]]> Public Art]]> Urbanism]]> NTU CCA Singapore is pleased to present Art, Urban Change, and the Public Sphere, which engages with art in privately owned public spaces through a Public Art Education Summit and research presentation. Taking as its point of departure the neighbouring Culture City. Culture Scape. Public Art Trail at Mapletree Business City—developed with curatorial consultation by NTU CCA Singapore—the presentation and Summit explore broader cultural and artistic developments on a civic scale situated in urban landscapes. How do political and economic changes in the public realm evoke a regional discourse on art in cities?

The Public Art Education Summit is the first of its kind in Singapore and part of a larger engagement of NTU CCA Singapore in professional education of public art. It focuses on cultural place-making and building communities through artistic practices. It aims to stimulate a debate between art professionals, policy makers, urban developers and other local stakeholders, on how and for whom art creates public spaces in our built environment. Any artistic or curatorial initiative in “public space” must address the question of how to construct “a public” and with it, how to encounter identity. Any difference—be it regional and local, ethnic and religious, economic and social—generates its own cohabitation of urban space and public culture to communicate with. The challenge for art in the public sphere lies in its openness to existing and yet, imagined communities of civic urbanism. Ranging from corporate cultural engagement in privately owned public spaces to urban regeneration, the invited speakers draw connections to the beginnings of community engagement in public art with its fluid methods. Furthermore, they suggest a critical look at different artistic and curatorial practices which reflect on “artists as citizens.” Or, how any space called public, first and foremost, is created by the different people inhabiting that space.

Guest-of-Honour: Prof Wang Dawei, Executive Dean, College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University

With contributions by: Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Richard Bell (Australia), Lewis Biggs (United Kingdom), Antonia Carver (United Kingdom/United Arab Emirates), Lilian Chee (Singapore), Amanda Crabtree (United Kingdom/France), Daniel Mudie Cunningham (Australia), Catherine David (France), Eileen Goh (Singapore), Sophie Goltz (Germany/Singapore), Limin Hee (Singapore), Kok Heng Leun (Singapore), Richard Lim (Singapore), Hongjohn Lin (Taiwan/Singapore), Massamba Mbaye (Senegal), Alecia Neo (Singapore), Alan Oei (Singapore), Nikos Papastergiadis (Australia), Jasmeen Patheja (India), Lorenzo Petrillo (Italy/Singapore), Milenko Prvački (Ex-Yugoslavia/Singapore), Ashley Thompson (United Kingdom), Philip Tinari (United States/China), Katherine Ann Leilani Tuider (United States), et al.

With capability-development workshops by Amanda Crabtree (United Kingdom/France), Daniel Mudie Cunningham (Australia), Hongjohn Lin (Taiwan/Singapore) and Katherine Ann Leilani Tuider (United States).

Held in association with Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, and Institute for Public Arts, London. Supported by Mapletree Investments and, additionally, by Public Art Trust, an initiative of National Arts Council Singapore.

Programme for Public Art Education Summit

Thursday, 17 October 2019, 9.00am – 7.30pm
Venue: The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

8.45am             Registration and Coffee

9.00am             Opening addresses by Low Eng Teong (Singapore), Assistant Chief Executive, Sector Development, National Arts Council Singapore, Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore and Professor, NTU ADM, and Guest-of-Honour Wang Dawei (China), Executive Dean, College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University followed by Introduction by Sophie Goltz (Germany/Singapore), Deputy Director, Research & Academic Programmes, NTU CCA Singapore, and Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU

9.45am            Context is Everything, Presentation by Lewis Biggs (United Kingdom) Chair, Institute for Public Art, London

10.15am           Making Art, Making Society, Presentation by Amanda Crabtree (France), Director, artconnexion

10.45am          Community-First Public Art, Presentation by Katherine Ann Leilani Tuider (United States), Executive Director and Co-founder, Honolulu Biennial Foundation

11.15am           Coffee Break and Discussions

12.00pm          Public Art and Community Building
Roundtable Discussion with Eileen Goh (Singapore), Assistant Manager, Art-in-Transit at Land Transport Authority; Richard Lim (Singapore), Manager, Art Management, Project Development, CapitaLand; Lorenzo Petrillo (Italy/Singapore), Director and Founder, LOPELAB, moderated by Lilian Chee (Singapore), Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore

1.00pm             Lunch Break

2.00pm            Capability-Development Workshops
                         Venue: Studios, Block 37 Malan Road

#Activating#Communities New Patron Model for Public Art Commissioning, Workshop by Amanda Crabtree (France), Director, artconnexion. Register at tiny.cc/amandacrabtreeworkshop.

#Building#Communities, Fundraising as Community Engagement, Workshop by Katherine Ann Leilani Tuider (United States), Executive Director and Co-founder, Honolulu Biennial Foundation. Register at tiny.cc/katherinetuiderworkshop.

5:30pm            End of Workshop

On the occasion of NTU CCA’s International Advisory Board annual meeting, invited members share their knowledge and experience.

6.00pm            Lecture by Nikos Papastergiadis (Australia), Professor, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne

6:30pm            Lecture by Ashley Thompson (United Kingdom), Hiram W. Woodward Chair of Southeast Asian Art, SOAS University of London

7:00pm            Roundtable Discussion with Antonia Carver (United Kingdom/United Arab Emirates), Director, Jameel Arts Centre; Catherine David (France), Deputy Director, Research and Globalisation, MNAM/CCI, Centre Pompidou; Philip Tinari (United States/China), Director, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, moderated by Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU

7:30pm            Reception

 

Friday, 18 October 2019, 9.00am – 5.30pm
Venue: The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

8.45am             Registration and Coffee

9.00am            Introduction by Sophie Goltz (Germany/Singapore), Deputy Director, Research & Academic Programmes, NTU CCA Singapore, and Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU

9.15am            A Railroad Switch in Time: South Eveleigh Case Study, Presentation by Daniel Mudie Cunningham (Australia), Director, Programs, Carriageworks

9.45am             Biennials as Public Space, Presentation by Hongjohn Lin (Taiwan/Singapore), Associate Professor, Taipei National University of Arts

10.15am           Action Sheroes, Heroes, Theyroes. Resonate #NeverAskForIt, Presentation by Jasmeen Patheja (India), Founder, Blank Noise

10.45am           Beyond Education, Beyond Community, Presentation by Milenko Prvački (Ex-Yugoslavia/Singapore), Senior Fellow, LASALLE College of the Arts, artist and founder, ART WALK Little India

11.15am            Coffee Break and Discussions

12.00pm           Art, Public Space, and Urban Development
Roundtable Discussion with Kok Heng Leun (Singapore), Artistic Director, Drama Box; Alecia Neo (Singapore), artist and co- founder, Brack; Alan Oei (Singapore), Artistic Director, The Substation, moderated by Limin Hee (Singapore), Director, Research, Centre for Liveable Cities

1.00pm             Lunch Break

2.00pm            Capability-Development Workshops
                         Venue: Studios, Block 37 Malan Road

#Supporting#Communities Urban Communities and their Stakeholders, Workshop by Daniel Mudie Cunningham (Australia), Director, Programs, Carriageworks.

#Educating#Communities Biennials as Public Space: Between Artistic Approaches and Public Demands, Workshop by Hongjohn Lin (Taiwan/Singapore), Associate Professor, Taipei National University of Arts.

5:30pm            End of Workshop

 

Saturday, 19 October 2019, 9.00am – 1.00pm
Venue: The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

8.45am            Registration and Coffee

9.00am            Introduction by Sophie Goltz (Germany/Singapore), Deputy Director, Research & Academic Programmes, NTU CCA Singapore, and Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU

9.15am            Participation in Practice: Artists as Ally, Presentation by Alecia Neo (Singapore), artist

9.45am             The Village of the Arts of Senegal, Presentation by Massamba Mbaye (Senegal), lecturer, Dakar Cheikh Anta Diop University & Virtual University of Senegal

10.15am           Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Presentation by Richard Bell (Australia), artist

10.45am           Coffee Break and Discussions

11.15am            Roundtable Discussion with Richard Bell (Australia), artist, Hongjohn Lin (Taiwan/Singapore), Associate Professor, Taipei National University of Arts, Massamba Mbaye (Senegal), lecturer, Dakar Cheikh Anta Diop University & Virtual University of Senegal, and Alecia Neo (Singapore), artist, moderated by Sophie Goltz (Germany/Singapore), Deputy Director, Research & Academic Programmes, NTU CCA Singapore, and Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU

12.00pm           Closing Remarks by Lewis Biggs (United Kingdom)

 

Programme as of 1 October 2019, subject to change.

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Ute Meta Bauer]]> Richard Bell]]> Lewis Biggs ]]> Antonia Carver]]> Lilian Chee]]> Amanda Crabtree]]> Daniel Mudie Cunningham ]]> Catherine David]]> Eileen Goh]]> Sophie Goltz]]> Limin Hee ]]> Kok Heng Leun]]> Richard Lim]]> Hongjohn Lin]]> Massamba Mbaye]]> Alecia Neo]]> Alan Oei]]> Nikos Papastergiadis]]> Jasmeen Patheja]]> Lorenzo Petrillo]]> Milenko Prvački ]]> Ashley Thompson ]]> Philip Tinari ]]> Katherine Ann Leilani Tuider]]> Low Eng Teong ]]> Wang Dawei ]]> Southeast Asia]]>
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]]> 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]]>
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 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]]> Architecture]]> Urbanism]]> Guest-of-Honour: William S. W. Lim


Emerging from an exhibition, conference, and festival that explored architect and urban theorist William S. W. Lim’s concept on “Incomplete Urbanism” and his call for “Cities for People,” this publication juxtaposes research essays, visual and textual documentation with artistic interventions and spatio-temporal maps. Organised into three chapters—“The City as Living Room,” “The City as Multiple,” and “The City as Stage,” the contributions—by architects, scholars, planners, artists, activists, and curators—constitute a diverse set of analyses. Unexpected notions of planning, building, and living in Asian cities, suggest multiple paths into critical spatial practice of Asian urban space. The volume positions Lim’s thoughts, concepts, and plans for action as that of a humanist who addresses the complex topography of an ever-changing urban Asia.

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.

Published by World Scientific Publishing
Edited by Ute Meta Bauer, Khim Ong, and Roger Nelson

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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]]> Marrjetica Potrc]]> Pen Sereypagna]]> Shirley Surya]]> Sissel Tolaas]]> Etienne Turpin]]> Nashin Mahtani]]> John Wagner]]> H. Koon Wee]]> Woon Tien Wei]]> Ari Wulu]]> Nikos Papastergiadis]]> William S. W. Lim]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Khim Ong]]> Roger Nelson]]> Marc Glode]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Climate Crisis]]> Cultural Production]]> Edited by Ute Meta Bauer
Design by mono.studio
Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH
© 2022 the artists, the authors, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Nanyang Technological University 
ISBN: 978-0-262-04681-7 
Distributed by The MIT Press 
Copies are available for sale at NTU CCA Singapore and through MIT Press S$80/US$60

Modeling the curatorial as a method for uniting cultural production and science, Climates. Habitats. Environments. weaves together image and text to address the global climate crisis. Through exhibitions, artworks, and essays, artists and writers transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on the fight for environmental justice. In doing so, they draw on the rich cultural heritage of the Asia-Pacific, in conversation with international discourse, to demonstrate transdisciplinary solution-seeking.

Experimental in form as well as in method, Climates. Habitats. Environments. features an inventive book design by mono.studio that puts word and image on equal footing, offering a multiplicity of media, interpretations, and manifestations of interdisciplinary research. For example, botanist Matthew Hall draws on Ovid's Metamorphoses to discuss human-plant interpenetration; curator and writer Venus Lau considers how spectrality consumes—and is consumed—in animation and film, literature, music, and cuisine; and critical theorist and filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli proposes “Water Sense” as a geontological approach to “the question of our connected and differentiated existence,” informed by the “ancestral catastrophe of colonialism.” Artists excavate the natural and cultural DNA of indigo, lacquer, rattan, and mulberry; works at the intersection of art, design, and architecture explore “The Posthuman City”; an ongoing research project investigates the ecological urgencies of Pacific archipelagos. The works of art, the projects, and the majority of the texts featured in the book were commissioned by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.

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Ute Meta Bauer]]> Anna Lovecchio]]> Michael Marder]]> Kong Yin Ying]]> Marian Pastor Roces]]> Ravi Agarwal]]> Donna J. Haraway]]> Matthew Hall]]> Nikos Papastergiadis]]> Donna J. Haraway]]> David Pledger]]> Dan Koh]]> Tan Zi Hao]]> May Adadol Ingawanij]]> Michael M. J. Fischer]]> Venus Lau]]> Elizabeth A. Povinelli]]> Cynthia Chou]]> Nina Oeghoede]]> Philippe Pirotte]]> Epeli Hau'ofa]]> Nabil Ahmed]]> Édouard Glissant]]> Tania Roy]]> Alfian Sa'at]]> Jake Atienza]]> Kenneth Dean]]> Faizah Zakaria]]> Stefanie Hessler]]> Huang Jui-mao]]> Anna Källén]]> Philippa Lovatt]]> Laura Miotto]]> Rob Nixon]]> Khim Ong]]> Markus Reymann]]> Dirk Snauwaert]]> Matariki Williams]]> Irene Agrivina]]> Nabil Ahmed]]> Irwan Ahmett]]> Tita Salina]]> Atif Akin]]> Animali Domestici]]> Apichatpong Weerasethakul]]> Martha Atienza]]> Tarek Atoui]]> Laura Anderson Barbata]]> Rosella Biscotti]]> Guigone Camus]]> Choy Ka Fai]]> Roko Josefa Cinavilakeba]]> Sean Connelly]]> Ade Darmawan]]> Lucy Davis]]> Ines Doujak]]> Jef Geys]]> Tue Greenfort]]> Newell Harry]]> Ho Tzu Nyen]]> Chia-Wei Hsu]]> Pierre Huyghe]]> ila]]> inhabitants]]> The Institute of Critical Zoologists]]> Kristy H. A. Kang]]> Susanne Kriemann]]> Zac Langdon-Pole]]> Jae Rhim Lee]]> Liang Shaoji]]> PerMagnus Lindborg]]> Armin Linke]]> Nicholas Mangan]]> Alice Miceli]]> Manish Nai]]> Nguyễn Trinh Thi]]> Phi Phi Oanh]]> Lucy + Jorge Orta]]> Park Chan-kyong]]> Sophia Pich]]> Marjetica Potrč]]> Shubigi Rao]]> Lisa Rave]]> Lucy Raven]]> Bridget Reweti]]> Hito Steyerl]]> Melati Suryodarmo]]> Tanatchai Bandasak]]> Sung Tieu]]> Jegan Vincent de Paul]]> Wu Mali]]> Vivian Xu]]> Yeo Siew Hua]]> Zarina Muhammad]]> Edouard Glissant]]> Anna Kallen]]> Nguyen Trinh Thi]]> Marjetica Potrc]]> mono.studio]]> Publication]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]>
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]]>
Education]]> Cultural Heritage]]>


*Please note the change in time. The talk will now be held from 8.30 – 9.30pm.*

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.

BIOGRAPHIES

Doryun Chong (South Korea/Hong Kong) is Deputy Director & Chief Curator at M+, a new museum of visual culture, which will open its Herzog and de Meuron-designed building in 2020 in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. Appointed as the inaugural Chief Curator in 2013, Chong oversees all curatorial activities and programs including acquisitions, exhibitions, learning and public programs, and digital initiatives encompassing the museum’s three main disciplinary areas of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art. Some of the exhibitions he has curated at M+ include Mobile M+: Live Art, Tsang Kin-Wah: The Infinite Nothing, Hong Kong in Venice (both 2015), and Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint (forthcoming 2018). Prior to joining M+, Chong worked in various curatorial capacities at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2003­–2009) and MoMA, New York (2009–2013).

Nikos Papastergiadis (Australia) is the Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures, based at The University of Melbourne. He is a Professor in the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne and Founder – with Scott McQuire – of the Spatial Aesthetics research cluster. He is Project Leader of the Australian Research Council Linkage Project, “Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere,” and Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project “Public Screens and the Transformation of Public Space.” His long involvement with the groundbreaking international journal Third Text, as both co-editor and author, was a formative experience in the development of an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research model, which continues to inform his research practice. His publications include Spatial Aesthetics: Art Place and the Everyday (2006), and Cosmopolitanism and Culture (2012). He is also the author of numerous essays, which have been translated into over a dozen languages and appeared in major catalogues such as the Biennales of Sydney, Liverpool, Istanbul, Gwangju, Taipei, Lyon, Thessaloniki, and Documenta 13.

Ashley Thompson (United Kingdom) is Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art at SOAS University of London, where she leads the Research and Publications division of the Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme. She is a specialist of Cambodian cultural history, with a focus on classical and pre-modern arts and literatures. Objects of analysis include sculpture, ritual practices and texts, as well as other forms of fine and performing arts. The Cambodian case is informed by research on the larger South and Southeast Asian context with a view to theorising politico-cultural formations. Formative experiences include working under Hélène Cixous for her PhD, under Vann Molyvann for the creation of a Cambodian national management structure for Angkor, and with the Théâtre du Soleil and Phare Ponleu Selpak on the direction of a Cambodian production of Cixous’ Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia. Recent publications include Engendering Cambodia: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor (2016); “Hiding the female sex: a sustained cultural dialogue between India and Southeast Asia” (2017); “Emergenc(i)es: History and the Auto-Ethnographic Impulse in Contemporary Cambodian Art” (2017).

Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore) is Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore and Professor, NTU ADM. Previously, she was Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, where she also served as Founding Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology. For more than three decades, Bauer has worked as curator of exhibitions and presentations, connecting contemporary art, film, video, and sound through transdisciplinary formats. She publishes regularly on artistic and curatorial practice. Bauer served as expedition leader of TBA21–Academy The Current 2015–18 exploring the Pacific Archipelago and littorals that are most impacted by climate change and human interventions in their environments.

A public programme of Stagings. Soundings. Readings. Free Jazz II.]]>
Doryun Chung]]> Nikos Papastergiadis]]> Ashley Thompson]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Video]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> Oceania]]>
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]]>