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Ade Darmawan, Tuban, 2019, multimedia installation. Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again (2019), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Shubigi Rao, Traduttore, traditore, 2019, mixed media on paper, 50 x 70 cm. Back: Zac Langdon-Pole, Paradise Blueprint, 2017, wallpaper. Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again (2019), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again, 22 March – 23 June 2019, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, foyer view. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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ila, bekas, 2019, in collaboration with Kin Chui, video projection, stereo, 12 min. Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again (2019), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again, 22 March – 23 June 2019, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, installation view. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again, 22 March – 23 June 2019, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, installation view. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again, 22 March – 23 June 2019, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, installation view. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again, 22 March – 23 June 2019, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, installation view. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again, 22 March – 23 June 2019, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, installation view. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again, 22 March – 23 June 2019, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, installation view. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Shubigi Rao, Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book, 2016–18, 5 photographic prints, 60 x 85 cm each. Back: Zac Langdon-Pole, Paradise Blueprint, 2017, wallpaper. Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again (2019), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Lucy Raven, Debris flow erosion series, 2019, wet cement on sand, approx. 225 x 133 cm each. Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again (2019), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Melati Suryodarmo, Dancing Under the Black Sky, 2019, four-channel video, 5 min. Back: Zac Langdon-Pole, Paradise Blueprint, 2017, wallpaper. Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again (2019), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again, 22 March – 23 June 2019, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, opening view. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again, 22 March – 23 June 2019, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, installation view. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
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Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again, 22 March – 23 June 2019, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, installation view. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
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Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again, 22 March – 23 June 2019, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, installation view. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Zac Langdon-Pole, Passport (Argonauta) (viii), 2018, paper nautilus shell, Campo del Cielo meteorite (iron; coarse octahedrite, landsite: Chaco / Santiago del Estero, Argentina), 9.4 x 3.1 x 5.3 cm. Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again (2019), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Arus Balik re-imagines the histories and politics of transitory processes like, colonisation and decolonisation, or shifts in maritime power for people and ports below (e.g. South China Sea) and above (e.g. Indian Ocean) the wind.
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2019-03-22
Exhibition End Date
2019-06-23
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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<i>Arus Balik: From below the wind to above the wind and back again</i>
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Oceans & Seas
Ecology
The Anthropocene
Politics
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Archipelagic State
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NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is pleased to present <i>Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again</i>, an exhibition project that initiated from a conversation between Belgian curator <b>Philippe Pirotte</b> and Jakarta-based artist <b>Ade Darmawan</b>. Reconsidering Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s epic book <i>Arus Balik</i> (1995), which could be translated into English as a “turning of the tide,” the eponymous exhibition takes the novel as a starting point to reflect on perspectival shifts in geopolitical, cultural, social, religious, and natural spheres. <br /><br />In his fictional account, Pramoedya elaborates on the weakening of the maritime culture of Javanese kingdoms in the early 16th century, the progressive Islamisation, and the beginning of Portuguese occupation on parts of the now Malay and Indonesian peninsula and archipelago. Important is that Pramoeda’s reversal of perspective as a meta-geographical impulse is comparable to the notion of the “inverted telescope” Benedict Anderson advances in his seminal book <i>Spectre of Comparisons</i> (1998): as a non-Eurocentric method of comparison in which for example Portugal is viewed from the standpoint of Southeast Asia, as through an inverted telescope, which causes a kind of vertigo. Pramoedya suggests that the final decline of the Majapahit empire, and the “change from traditional independence to colonial possession,” was largely caused by the different Javanese kingdoms having gradually turned their backs to the sea. <br /><br />The participating artists expand on this prompt through installations, sculptures, films, performances, and texts, both existing works as well as new commissions. <b>Ade Darmawan</b> re-read <i>Arus Balik</i> with a special focus on how protagonists use natural resources, and will create a distilling dispositive with alkaline water from the straits, recalling that all the scrambling for the control of the archipelago was about the extraction of ore and goods. <b>ila</b> questions what it means to be Boyanese, Buginese, Minangkabau, or Javanese through encounters with Singapore residents now conflated as Malay. Their testimonies will be written on her body and wither, while exposed to salty water and weather on reclaimed areas of Singapore island. <i>Paradise Blueprint</i> (2017), a wallpaper designed by <b>Zac Langdon-Pole</b>, based on a cyanotype photogram of the removed legs of a so-called “Bird of Paradise,” addresses the history of cultural exchange and mythology surrounding the birds native to Papua New Guinea. <b>Lucy Raven</b> creates silk paintings or monoprints, made by imprint of sedimentation in erosion tables, as scrim backdrops she uses for a forthcoming film-production, called <i>Kongkreto</i>, inspired by the 1991 eruption of Mt Pinatubo in the Philippines that finally chased off the Americans from Clark Airbase. Book-aficionado, artist, and writer <b>Shubigi Rao</b> delves into the stories related to the difficult conditions, but also extraordinary examples of solidarity Pramoedya faced on prison island Buru while writing <i>Arus Balik</i>. A new video-installation by <b>Melati Suryodarmo</b>, <i>Dancing under the Black Sky</i> (2019), traces the history behind Reog performances, an art form of resistance and criticism of Ponorogo people of East Java towards Bhre Kertabhumi, a Majapahit king who slowly lost his authority in the 15th century, before Islam became a major force in Demak and controlled the coastal region of Java. <br /><br />The exhibition <i>Arus Balik</i> aims to imagine the implication of histories and politics in processes of transition, such as colonisation and decolonisation, or shifts in maritime power for people and ports below (the straits of Malacca, South China Sea, Java Sea, and further east) and above (the Indian Ocean and further West) the wind. Have the multiple colonisations in Southeast Asia alienated the people from the sea coast? Is it possible to attempt a return? The reversal of the colonial fact, the promise of reversal of a geo-political, -cultural, and social systems, initially embodied by the Bandung conference in 1955, caused Afro-American author Richard Wright to write that “it smacked of tidal waves, of natural forces.” <br /><br />The accompanying public programmes further investigate the topics raised, including a conversation on <b>Saturday, March 23</b>, around the book <i>Arus Balik</i> and the reception of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s oeuvre. On <b>Saturday, May 25</b>, another conversation will focus on living with the sea and the history of the straits. <br /><br /><i>Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again</i> is NTU CCA Singapore’s response and contribution to this year’s nation-wide bicentennial commemorations that reflect on Singapore’s history since the arrival of the British statesman Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819, considered the founder of modern Singapore. <br /><br />Guest curated by <b>Philippe Pirotte</b>, Rector, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule, and Director, Portikus, Frankfurt, and Visiting Professor (2018/19), MA Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU.
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Ade Darmawan
ila
Zac Langdon-Pole
Lucy Raven
Shubigi Rao
Melati Surydarmo
Philippe Pirotte
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Southeast Asia
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Philippe
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Pirotte
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2019-2021
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Belgium
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Art Historian
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Philippe Pirotte is Rector of Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule, and Director of Portikus, Frankfurt, and Visiting Professor (2018/19) of MA Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU.
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Philippe Pirotte
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Posthumanism
Sustainability
Coexistence
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Climate Crisis
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Southeast Asia
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Philippe Pirotte
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PuBLiC aND eDuCatioN
ProGrammes
Saturday, 23 March 2019, 3.30 – 5.30pm
In Conversation Part I: Arus Balik
with Ade Darmawan, Shubigi Rao,
and Melati Suryodarmo,
moderated by Philippe Pirotte
The first session of a two-part conversation,
this panel discussion will focus on the book
Arus Balik (1995) by Indonesian author
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, which is the
starting point for the eponymous exhibition
on view. Three of the participating artists
will be joined by the curator of the exhibition,
Philippe Pirotte, to discuss Pramoedya’s
body of work, its influence and legacy,
as well as notions of censorship and the
forbidden book.
For artists’ and curator’s biographies,
please see overleaf
Unless otherwise stated,
all programmes
are admission free
and take place at
NTU CCA Singapore.
For updates please visit
ntu.ccasingapore.org
arus BaLik
from below the wind
to above the wind
and back again
22 March – 23 June 2019
Guest Curator:
Philippe Pirotte
Curatorial Team:
Ana Sophie Salazar
Rani Lawson
Public and Education Programmes:
Magdalena Magiera
Ilya Katrinnada Binte Zubaidi
Exhibition Production:
Frankie Fang
Isrudy Shaik
Jonathan Liu
Saturday, 6 April 2019, 3.00 – 5.30pm
Workshop: Reclaiming Nusantara?
by ila, Norah Lea, and Nurshafitri Ya’akob
Tuesday, 16 April 2019, 7.00 – 8.30pm
In Conversation: ila and Khim Ong
The artist will expand on the works
she has developed for the exhibition,
which directly address matters of
provenance and heritage. ila reflects
on what it means to live on an island,
and explores the collective memory
of living in close relationship with
the sea and its manifold stories. She
will also discuss how she uses her
body as a space of confrontation and
negotiation, and how her performance
work explores issues about gender,
identity, and historical narratives.
Workshop fee: $10
Registration required: reclaimingnusantara.peatix.com
Where is the Nusantara? Who is the Nusantara? What do we align ourselves with in the
past and what futures will we create together?
This workshop, a follow-up to a workshop held last year, Siapa Dia Wanita Nusantara
(Who is the Nusantara Woman?), aims to create conversations around the idea of the
“Nusantara,” an arguably dated and oftentimes unclear regional construct that has
resurfaced every now and then with regards to recent waves of conversations around
decolonisation of the Malay archipelago. Centering around themes of intersecting
identities, belonging, and speculative histories, this workshop invites anyone who feels
that they can benefit from sharing their own stories and experiences, and the explorations
of their personal oral histories through spoken word and collectively imagining the past
and future.
Norah Lea (Singapore) is a multidisciplinary artist whose works investigate the performative aspects
of our identities. Her work is rooted in self-portraiture, exploring themes such as gender, sexuality, and
ethnicity through photography, film, performance, and spoken word.
Nurshafitri Ya’akob (Singapore) explores the nuanced psyche that individuals keep hidden in their
subconscious. She expounds on the duality and sometimes hypocrisy of certain ideologies and theories
that have been made palatable for the society.
Tuesday, 14 May 2019, 7.00 – 8.30pm
Screening and Conversation: Kiri Dalena and Lucy Raven,
moderated by Philippe Pirotte
Screenings by Filipino human-right activist, artist, and
filmmaker Kiri Dalena and by American artist Lucy Raven
will be followed by a conversation with both artists. Based on
the true story of the drowning of a young activist, Dalena’s
film From the Dark Depths (2017) opens with a beautiful and
surreal sequence underwater in which a woman dances slowly
brandishing a red flag. Around her, many red flags are planted
in the seabed. This hypnotic and captivating dream is shuttered
by sequences with authentic 16mm, analog, and digital video
footage from the artist’s own archive with documentation of
political unrest spanning two decades, and an ominous longtrack of a police car at night prompting the citizens to respect
the curfew—a gloomy reminder of a lost freedom. Lucy Raven
will screen material from Kongkreto, currently in production.
Shot entirely with miniature models and sets, but referring
to the eruption of Mount Pinutabo (described further in
Notes from the Curator) in the Philippines, it is a study into
unpredictable state changes from liquid to solid and back again,
as a means to explore the larger implications and effects of state
change. A short horror film, the material monster has the ability
to opportunistically, erratically change state (from heavy rain
to liquid flow, to solid cement, and back again), speed (fast rush,
slow creep, explosive, eruptive), and form (pyroclastic ashflow,
military barracks, dams, dikes, cast Brutalist buildings,
civic infrastructure).
Kiri Dalena (Philippines) is an acclaimed visual artist and filmmaker
known for her works which reveal persistent social injustices and
inequalities, particularly in the Philippines. She graduated from the
University of the Philippines-Los Baños with an undergraduate degree
in Human Ecology, and pursued further studies in 16mm documentary
filmmaking at the Mowefund Film Institute. She has been featured in
several international art events such as the Asia Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary Art, Brisbane (2015); Yokohama Triennale (2014); and
the Singapore Biennale (2013). Her works are currently in the permanent
collections of the Singapore Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery,
Gallery of Modern Art, and the Ateneo Art Gallery.
Saturday, 25 May 2019, 3.30 – 5.30pm
In Conversation Part II: Living with the Sea
with Mirwan Andan, Nirwan Ahmad Arsuka, Zac Langdon-Pole,
Dr Imran bin Tajudeen, and Juria Toramae, moderated by Philippe Pirotte
The second session of a two-part conversation, this panel discussion will focus on the
history of the Straits, historical maps, and the geography of maritime Southeast Asia.
This involves an approach to the region through underlying indigenous patterns,
which will necessarily stretch the limits of ingrained westernised cultural visions
and mental habits. The participants will discuss complexities of heritage, notions
of belonging, and strategies of mapping. Rather than a static given, the Nusantara
Straits will be considered as an environment with an incipient psychology, invoking
a transpiring age-old knowledge of the region, but also as a habitat that continues
to profoundly influence our existence.
Mirwan Andan (Indonesia) was born and raised in Watampone, South Sulawesi. From 1999 to
2004, he enrolled at the Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, majoring in French Literature. In early
2005, he moved to Jakarta and in 2012 graduated from Political Science, while working in ruangrupa
as a researcher and developer since 2007. He was invited to speak in several forums, seminars,
and conferences such as Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Conference, Surabaya (2015); State of
Independence - A Global Forum in Alternative Space, Los Angeles (2011); and Expressing Political
Aspiration Creatively, Jakarta (2011). In 2015, Andan was researcher for the Jakarta Biennale.
Nirwan Ahmad Arsuka (Indonesia) completed his formal education in Nuclear Engineering,
Gadjah Mada State University. He has worked as a guest editor for Kompas Daily, a member of the
Curator Board of Bentara Budaya Jakarta, and as Director of the Freedom Institute. His writings have
appeared in the Inter-Asian Cultural Studies and International Journal of Asian Studies. His publications
include Two Essays (Trilingual edition: Indonesian, English, German. 2016), Percakapan dengan
Semesta (A Conversation with the Universe) (2017), and Semesta Manusia (This Universe of Mankind)
(2018). Since 2014, he has been actively developing Pustaka Bergerak Indonesia (Indonesian Mobile
Library Network), a grassroot literacy movement.
Dr Imran bin Tajudeen (Singapore) is Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, School of
Design and Environment, National University of Singapore. He researches architectural encounters
in Singapore and Southeast Asia, first in their intersections with colonial practices, modern interventions, and colonial and nationalist heritage representation, and second through historiographical
questions on Southeast Asia’s Indic and Islamic architecture from a vernacular architectural perspective.
He was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT’s AKPIA (2009–10) and the IIAS in Leiden (2010–11). He is coeditor of Southeast Asia’s Modern Architecture: Questions in Translation, Epistemology and Power (2018),
and is currently working on a monograph that extends his doctoral dissertation on the local/regional
and cosmopolitan in the vernacular urban heritage of maritime Southeast Asia.
Saturday, 1 June 2019, 3.00 – 6.00pm
Workshop: Visualising Sense of Place through
Map-Making by Juria Toramae
Workshop fee: $10
Registration required: visualisingsenseofplace.peatix.com
Artist Juria Toramae will discuss map-making as an art
form and will guide the participants through the basics of
creating a map. The workshop will include conceptualising
and drawing a map of one’s own imagined Singapore.
Saturday, 23 March 2019, 10.00am – 12.30pm
Friday, 26 April 2019, 3.00 – 5.30pm
Workshop for Teachers: Turning Tides: Identities in Transit
by Kelly Reedy
Registration required:
23 March 2019: turningtides-23march2019.peatix.com
26 April 2019: turningtides-26april2019.peatix.com
Taking inspiration from the novel Arus Balik (1995) by Indonesian
author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, this workshop will examine how the
turning of historical tides form our personal and collective identities.
The work by the six participating artists will guide and challenge us on
this journey, probing how the social, geopolitical, religious, and cultural
transitions in this region have influenced our concepts of who we are,
where we come from, and where we are going.
Kelly Reedy (United States/Singapore) has worked in Singapore for over 18 years as
an artist and educator. 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. 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.
Juria Toramae (Thailand/Singapore) is a visual artist. Having had an
itinerant childhood, she is interested in place attachment and displacement.
Her practice draws on historical and field research and reflects on human
relationship with nature. Her work has been presented at the Singapore
Art Museum at 8Q; the Singapore International Photography Festival;
the Photobook Exhibition for Athens Photo Festival; the Obscura Festival
of Photography, Penang; the Chiang Mai University Art Center; and
The Substation, Singapore.
In the Lab
VaPour isLaNDs: to LiVe aND Die WeLL
toGether iN a thiCk PreseNt*
7 March – 7 April 2019
Conceived by sophie Goltz, Deputy Director, Research & Academic
Programmes, NTU CCA Singapore and Assistant Professor NTU ADM
and soh kay min, Executive, Conference, Workshops & Archive
Thinking through the cycle of water, Vapour Islands: to live and die well together in a thick present* moves through
and between loss and regain, release and redistribution, to consider the ways in which thin air can be transformed
into a present thick with possibility. Taking the Earth’s hydrologic cycle—that is, the sequence of processes detailing
the cyclical movement of water on and off the Earth’s surface—as its entry-point, the presentation is an archipelago
of thematic “islands,” in which each island corresponds to each of the four stages of the hydrologic cycle: evaporation,
condensation, precipitation, and percolation. This cycle, like the ecological imminence of the present, begins with
disappearance—of water, of trees, of entire habitats and species. This presentation interacts with books and research
materials from NTU CCA Singapore’s Public Resource Platform, responding to the Centre’s overarching research
topic CLIMATES. HABITATS. ENVIRONMENTS.
Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 7.00 – 8.30pm
Speculative Lecture: Becoming Post-Human
by Professor Ute Meta Bauer, followed by a conversation with Sophie Goltz
Situating the post-humanist position between artificial intelligence and forces of nature, Bauer suggests that the
current debate about future scenarios is not about humanity in itself, but rather the pervasiveness of an anthropocentric
perspective and action that dominates much of human life.
In the Lab
irwan ahmett and tita salina
the riNG of fire (2014–ongoing)
13 April – 11 June 2019
curated by anna Lovecchio, Curator, Residencies
Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina, A Tumbling Inch (image taken from the closest distance
between Irwan and Singapore border on December 11, 2018), 2018. Courtesy the artists.
Invisible to the human eye, geological kinships flow under the oceans and lay deep into the Earth’s crust.
When they manifest themselves, it is often in apocalyptic forms that disrupt existing ecosystems and the
course of human life. In geography, The Ring of Fire denotes the volcanic belt and the collision zone of
tectonic plates running around the edges of the Pacific Ocean, a deadly area where the majority of the world’s
earthquakes and eruptions occur. For Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina, this geologically unstable territory
demarcates a field of artistic inquiry.
Saturday, 13 April 2019, 3.00 – 4.00pm
Artist’s Tour
Join Tita Salina for a walk-through of The Ring of Fire. The artist will
discuss the origin and the development of this five-year project, charting out
the ways in which the works weave together natural catastrophes, historical
occurrences, and present-day social and environmental crises.
Tuesday, 11 June 2019, 7.00 – 8.30pm
Performance: A Tumbling Inch
On 28 March 2018, Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina concluded their residency
at NTU CCA Singapore with the lecture Name Laundering during which
Ahmett made the solemn pledge (sumpah) not to return to Singapore, an oath
that holds true until today. A Tumbling Inch is a performative action broadcasted in livestream from Batam, the Indonesian island closest to Singapore.
Performed from a vantage point rife with strategic and symbolic implications,
the work revolves around a man’s nostalgic longing for the Lion City.
Following the free movement of sea waves across the Straits of Malacca, the
man addresses archipelagic histories, the relations between Indonesia and
Singapore, and the inequalities created by ruthless economic development.
Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore
and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU
Ntu CCa siNGaPore
GoVerNiNG CouNCiL
Ntu CCa siNGaPore
staff
Ade Darmawan, Ferry trip from Merak to Bakauheni, Sunda
Strait, Indonesia, 2018, documentation. Courtesy the artist.
The Tower of Tuban: the first level, 2019
Mixed media on paper, 70 x 100 cm
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Collaterals:
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Since 2014, the Indonesian duo has embarked upon a journey that engages issues of social injustice, political
struggles, colonial histories, and environmental crises encountered along erratic routes that stretch from
Indonesia to New Zealand, from Taiwan and South Korea to Japan. The Ring of Fire (2014–ongoing) brings
together for the first time the most significant works realised by the artists, either together or individually,
since the inception of the project. Fuelled by an activist attitude and a zest for playfulness, Ahmett and Salina
continuously share the imaginative resources to transpose political, environmental, and affective fractures in
performative actions that are poetic and poignant at the same time. This presentation conveys the scope of
their investigation by showcasing video documentation and material traces of their performances as well as
a visual statement on the artists’ working methodology.
An artist duo based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina have been working together since 2010. Their
ephemeral interventions articulate sharp social commentaries on urgent issues concerning urban development, ecological
catastrophes, political repression, colonial legacies, and the exploitation of human and ecological resources. Spanning from the
prankish to the subversive, the duo can mobilise playfulness in the public sphere, irony in radioactive sites, and empathy in relation
to conditions of human and environmental vulnerability. Their work has been exhibited at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
(2018); Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2017); ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland (2016); and Biennale
Jogja (2015); amongst others. Ahmett and Salina were Artists-in-Residence at NTU CCA Singapore in March 2018.
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sPaCes of the
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CO-CHAIRS
Professor Joseph Liow, Dean, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social
Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Paul Tan, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, National Arts Council (NAC)
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A leading international art institution,
NTU CCA Singapore is a platform, host,
and partner creating and driven by dynamic
thinking in its three-fold constellation:
Exhibitions; Residencies Programme;
Research and Academic Education.
A national research centre for contemporary
art of Nanyang Technological University,
the Centre focuses on Spaces of the Curatorial.
It brings forth innovative and experimental
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practices that intersect the present and
histories of contemporary art embedded in
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Voyages de Rhodes, Phan Thảo Nguyên, artist’s book
commissioned and published by NTU CCA Singapore, 2018.
PLACE.LABOUR.CAPITAL. Mousse Publishing,
distributed by NUS Press, 2018.
SouthEastAsia: Spaces of the Curatorial. Jahresring 63.
Sternberg Press, 2017.
Becoming Palm, Simryn Gill and Michael Taussig.
Sternberg Press, 2017.
Tomás Saraceno: Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions. 2017.
Theatrical Fields: Critical Strategies in Performance,
Film, and Video, in collaboration with Bildmuseet Umeå.
König Books, 2016.
In August 2018, NTU welcomed the first intake of MA students for Museum Studies and
Curatorial Practices. The programme prepares graduates for professional positions in the
highly complex and diverse museum landscape in Southeast Asia and the ever-expanding
field of contemporary curating.
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Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished
Book, 2016–18
5 photographic prints, 60 x 85 cm each
1. Books rescued from the burning National
and University Library, stored and unused
in dilapidated stables for the last 26 years.
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2016.
2. Damaged manuscript salvaged from the
burning of the Oriental Institute in 1992.
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2016.
3. Singular transcribed copy of forgotten oral
stories, from writer Syeda Hamed’s personal
collection. New Delhi, India, 2018.
4. and 5. Library books destroyed by floods
in August 2018. Kochi, India, 2018.
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EXHIBITION
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ila
Zac Langdon-Pole
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Exhibition
22 March –
23 June 2019
the sons and daughters of hungry ghosts,
2019
6 photographic prints, 29.7 x 42 cm each
again
bekas, 2019
In collaboration with Kin Chui
Video projection, stereo, 12 min
F — ila
back
the
wind
Passport (Argonauta) (viii), 2018
Paper nautilus shell, Campo del Cielo
meteorite (iron; coarse octahedrite,
landsite: Chaco / Santiago del Estero,
Argentina), 9.4 x 3.1 x 5.3 cm
Tuban, 2019
Installation with distillation process,
books, pottery, spices, seawater, leaves,
stones, and soil.
and
the
wind
C — Ade Darmawan
2-26-19: Debris flow erosion, wet cement
on sand-L, 2019
Cement and sand on silk, 228 x 133 cm
2-26-19: Debris flow erosion, wet cement
on sand-R, 2019
Cement and sand on silk, 228 x 133 cm
2-28-19: Debris flow erosion, wet cement
on dry cement and sand-R, 2019
Cement and sand on silk, 223 x 134 cm
3-3-19: Debris flow erosion, wet cement
on dry cement and sand-L, 2019
Cement and sand on silk, 214 x 133 cm
3-3-19: Debris flow erosion, wet cement
on dry cement and sand-R, 2019
Cement and sand on silk, 231 x 132 cm
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Paradise Blueprint, 2017
Wallpaper based on a cyanotype
photogram of the removed legs of
a bird of paradise
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E — Zac Langdon-Pole
Dancing Under the Black Sky, 2019
Four-channel video, 5 min
D — Melati Suryodarmo
From
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above
the
wind
From
below
and
the
wind
back
22 March
– 23 June 2019
Ade Darmawan
ila
Zac Langdon-Pole
Shubigi Rao
Lucy Raven
Melati Suryodarmo
Notes from the
Curator
NTU CCA Singapore is pleased to present you the exhibition Arus Balik – From below
the wind to above the wind and back again, featuring the six distinguished artists Ade
Darmawan, ila, Zac Langdon-Pole, Shubigi Rao, Lucy Raven, and Melati Suryodarmo,
with works that engage with the maritime history of Southeast Asia, its political
trajectories and struggles, as well as the diversity of its cultural wealth.
again
Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again is an exhibition project
that developed from conversations I conducted with Jakarta-based artist Ade Darmawan,
initially about the topography of the early colonial city Batavia (now Jakarta) and its
orientation of buildings and canals, and about the history of Javanese rulers, who, from
the 16th century onwards, moved their attention away from the sea, a tendency they
maintained until very recently (former dictator Suharto was a general of the land forces).
The conversation led to Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s epic book Arus Balik
(1995), which in English means a “turning of the tide.” Darmawan and I chased the book in
Jakarta antiquarian and second-hand book shops, only to realise it was very difficult to find
(certainly its first edition), though we knew that a lot of people own a copy of the book privately.
This exhibition stems from an invitation by the NTU CCA Singapore to the renowned
curator Philippe Pirotte, the Rector of Frankfurt’s Städelschule, and Director of Portikus,
who is this academic year Visiting Professor at NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media,
in the newly established MA in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices.
With Arus Balik, in reference to Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s epic novel, Philippe conveys
the Centre’s contribution to this year’s bicentennial that commemorates the arrival
of Englishman Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch
East Indies and Bencoolen, considered the founder of modern Singapore. In his novel,
Pramoedya argues that it was a strategic mistake by the coastal kingdoms of 16th-century
Java to focus inland instead of continuing to consider the sea as a connecting body.
Arus Balik unpacks humankind’s perpetual longing to build empires, overwrite cultures,
and produce grand narratives, which inevitably continues today in the form of renewed
nationalism across the world.The project comes from ongoing conversations between
the curator and the artists, some over years, some more recent, bringing together every
artist’s individual attempts to come to terms with the complexities of their own cultural
and political history and identity.
This historical novel by Pramoedya is placed in the early modern period of globalised trade
and geopolitical intrigue around the Straits after the waning of the Majapahit Empire.
Throughout history, trade into and out of the Straits provided strategic power positions to
many early empires like Srivijaya or the sultanates of Aceh and Malacca. For example, Pasai,
which plays an important role in the book, or later Aceh, Indragiri, Singapura, Johore, and
Kedah used the Straits as their lifeline and path to prosperity. The sea passages connect and
divide a region characterised by immense cultural wealth and biodiversity. Arus Balik is in
part a soul-searching about who was to blame for the weakening of the coastal kingdoms
in the Straits—and especially of Java—in the early 16th century, the progressive Islamisation
of the region, and the beginning of Portuguese occupation on parts of the now Malay and
Indonesian peninsula and archipelago.
We are grateful to the curator and the artists, as well as to each contributor of the public
programmes, for lending us their readings and subsequent artistic interpretations, their
journeys into the fictionality of constructed pasts, and allowing us to contextualise and
situate recent historical events within a wider context. We hope that you will enjoy this
exhibition as a point of departure for your own journey and enquiry into history and
its entanglements.
Ute Meta Bauer,
Founding Director NTU CCA Singapore,
and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU
From the 16th century onwards, Sumatra, Java, the Riau Islands, and the Thai-Malay
Peninsula, once linked by the Straits into one cultural area with many cross-cutting
networks of trade and religion, were carved up by colonial powers. Rivalries and the
increasing penetration of foreign traders led eventually to the Dutch colonisation
of parts of the now Indonesian archipelago. Pramoedya suggests that the final
decline of the Majapahit Empire—in Arus Balik mostly the swan song of the port
city of Tuban, presented as the main successor state to the empire—and the “change
from traditional independence to colonial possession” was caused largely by the
different Javanese kingdoms gradually turning their back to the sea and jealously
Curated by Philippe Pirotte
Left: Shubigi Rao, Singular
transcribed copy of forgotten
oral stories, from writer Syeda
Hamed’s personal collection.
New Delhi, India, 2018.
guarding their sovereignty, rather than attempting to recreate the empire.
Another element was the doubt amongst many of them whether to fight
the Portuguese who appeared with powerful ships in the Indian Ocean,
or to accommodate them. The book recounts the story of the two failed
expeditions that a federation of kingdoms, under the lead of the Demak
Sultanate, undertook to win back the strategically important city of
Malacca from the Portuguese. With the exception of these two expeditions,
Pramoedya locates the end of Majapahit and its cosmopolitanism in the
notion of “Kampung civilisation,” an idea that depicts extreme parochialism
and lack of interest in the outside world that existed among the Javanese
aristocracy, even before colonisation.1 With the fall of Majapahit, the
outside world imposed itself on its own terms, and Pramoedya vividly
portrayed this reversal of the current: “Now fewer and fewer Javanese ships
sailed to the north, to the lands Above the Winds, such as Champa or China.
The stream of ships to the north became reduced to a trickle. The stream to
the south, however, became wider and swifter, carrying new commodities,
new ideas, new religions. One branch of this stream came to Tuban.” 2
The title of the book refers to this reversal of Java’s position in the
world, from actively sailing out to remaining inactive and receiving
others. “Arus balik” is “a current, particularly a current of water, that
turns back and heads in the other direction,” according to Pramoedya
scholar John Roosa.3 Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s reversal of the current
also involves another reversal, a meta-geographical impulse that is
comparable to the notion of the “inverted telescope” that Benedict
Anderson advances in his seminal book The Spectre of Comparisons,
as a non-Eurocentric method of comparison in which, for example,
Portugal is viewed from the standpoint of Southeast Asia.4
Have the multiple colonisations in Southeast Asia alienated the people from the
sea coast? Is it possible to attempt a return? The reversal of the colonial fact,
the promise of reversal of a geopolitical, cultural, and social system, initially
embodied by the Bandung Conference in 1955, caused Afro-American author
Richard Wright to write that “it smacked of tidal waves, of natural forces.” 5
The exhibition Arus Balik – From below the wind to above
the wind and back again aims to imagine the implication
of histories and politics in processes of transition, such as
colonisation and decolonisation, or shifts in maritime power
for people and ports below (the Straits of Malacca, South
China Sea, Java Sea, and further east) and above (the Indian
Ocean and further west) the wind. The exhibition takes
the novel Arus Balik as a starting point to reflect on
perspectival shifts in geopolitical, cultural, social,
religious, and natural spheres.
Right: Shubigi Rao, Books
rescued from the burning
National and University
Library, stored and unused in
dilapidated stables for the last
26 years. Sarajevo, BosniaHerzegovina, 2016.
Both from Pulp:
A Short Biography of the
Banished Book, 2016–18,
5 photographic prints,
60 x 85 cm each.
Courtesy the artist.
Shubigi Rao (b. 1975, India/Singapore) is an artist and writer working with layered installations
of books, etchings, drawings, pseudo-scientific machines, metaphysical puzzles, video works,
ideological board games, and archives. These works demonstrate her diverse interests in subjects such
as archaeology, neuroscience, libraries, archival systems, histories and lies, literature and violence,
ecologies, and natural history. Her current decade-long art project, Pulp: A Short Biography of the
Banished Book, is about the history of book destruction. The first portion of the project, Written in
the Margins, won the Juror’s Choice Award at the triennial APB Foundation Signature Art Prize
2018; and the project’s first book was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize (non-fiction)
2018. Rao graduated from Delhi University with a BA (Hons) in English Literature, and a BA and
MA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. She recently completed a residency
at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and has presented solo exhibitions at Objectifs Centre for
Photography and Film, Singapore; Künstlerhaus Bethanien; National Museum of Singapore; Grey
Projects, Singapore; and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE. Rao’s work has
been featured at Kochi Biennale (2018), Taipei Biennial (2016); Pune Biennale (2017); Singapour en
France–Le Festival (2015); Digital Arts Festival, Copenhagen (2013); and Singapore Biennale (2008).
In a series of drawings and photographs, book-aficionado, artist, and writer
Shubigi Rao connects her research to the difficult conditions, but also extraordinary
examples of solidarity, that Pramoedya Ananta Toer encountered and developed on prison
island Buru. Freed from physical labour after some years of imprisonment, his daily needs,
such as food, medicine, and cigarettes, were provided by fellow inmates, often fellow
intellectuals and artists. He used an old typewriter and adopted a routine organised
around writing. Re-typed copies were distributed inside the camp, and prisoner confrères
would write their comments. Pramoedya’s library and archive had been burnt prior to
his imprisonment and the network of oral memory developed by the prisoners on
Buru Island became, unknown to the camp guards, an editorial and social space.
Rao’s photographs feature burnt manuscripts from the 1990s in Sarajevo and images of books destroyed by floods
in India in August 2018. Selected from her ongoing research into burnt books and destroyed libraries, as well as
communities that form around print, defence of open access, and the endurance of text—particularly handwritten
or transcribed texts—these photographs call to mind the destruction of Pramoedya’s library, and the constant
attempts to silence him. Initially, in prison, Pramoedya was not even allowed to write, but he started telling
stories to other prisoners to raise the general morale. Rao’s Singular transcribed copy of forgotten oral stories,
from writer Syeda Hamed’s personal collection. New Delhi, India (2018) can be read as a response to Pramoedya’s
community of storytellers and their audience which formed in the barracks on Buru Island.
Below: ila, the sons
and daughters of
hungry ghosts, 2019,
photographic print,
29.7 x 42 cm. Courtesy
the artist.
Right: Zac Langdon-Pole, Paradise Blueprint, 2017, wallpaper
based on a cyanotype photogram of the removed legs of a
bird of paradise. Ars Viva (2018), S.M.A.K., Ghent, detail.
Courtesy the artist.
Through memories of ritual dances she witnessed in her childhood,
Melati Suryodarmo returned to a specific performance tradition that
demonstrates physical strength called Reog. A series of memories of trapped
bodies—whipping, dancing accompanied by monotonous music, eating the
broken glass of incandescent lights, dancing on horse braids, and carrying
a giant lion-figure mask named Singa Barong Dadong Sirap—were always
embedded in her mind.
Ade Darmawan (b. 1974, Indonesia) lives and works in
Jakarta as an artist, curator, and director of the artist collective
ruangrupa. He studied at the Graphic Art Department at the
Indonesia Art Institute, and was a resident at the Rijksakademie
Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (1998–2000). He works
with installation, objects, drawing, digital print, and video.
Recently he has had solo exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven (2016) and Portikus, Frankfurt (2015). Darmawan
participated in the Gwangju and Singapore Biennales (both
2016), and was a curatorial collaborator in Condition Report
(2017); Media Art Kitchen (2013); and Riverscape in-flux (2012).
ruangrupa, an artist collective co-founded in 2000 with five
other artists in Jakarta, focuses on visual arts and its relation with
the social cultural context, particularly in urban environments.
The collective has exhibited at the São Paulo Biennale (2014);
Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (2012); Istanbul Biennale (2005);
and Gwangju Biennale (2002), among others. They were also
curators of the 2016 Sonsbeek International. Darmawan was a
member of the Jakarta Arts Council (2006–09) and became the
Artistic Director of the Jakarta Biennale in 2009. Since 2013,
he is executive director of the Jakarta Biennale.
Melati Suryodarmo (b. 1969, Indonesia)
graduated in Performance Art from the
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig,
Germany, under the tutelage of Marina
Abramović and Anzu Furukawa. Her practice,
informed by butoh, dance, and history, is the
result of ongoing research in body movement
and its relationship to the self and the world.
These are enshrined in photography, translated
into choreographed dances, enacted in video, or
executed in live performances. A belief in change
or growth through bodily action belies her early
induction in meditation, which she continues to
practice. Suryodarmo has presented her work
worldwide, including Fukuoka Art Museum;
National Museum of Contemporary Art
Korea, Gwacheon; Kiasma, Helsinki; National
Art Centre Tokyo; National Portrait Gallery,
Canberra; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Para Site,
Hong Kong; Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of
Modern Art, Brisbane; Seoul Museum of Art; and
Singapore Art Museum. Her work was included
in the 5th Guangzhou Triennale (2015); Incheon
Women Artists’ Biennale (2009); Manchester
International Festival (2009); and Manifesta
7, Bolzano (2008). Since 2007, Suryodarmo
organises the annual Performance Art Laboratory
and Undisclosed Territory, a performance art
festival in Solo, Indonesia, having also founded
the art space Studio Plesungan in 2012. She was
Artistic Director for Jiwa, the 17th Jakarta
Biennale (2017).
In Dancing Under the Black Sky (2019), Suryodarmo traces the history behind
Reog performances informed by Kejawen, a Javanese spiritual tradition that
consists of an amalgam of animistic, Buddhist, Hindu, and Sufi beliefs and
practices. Reog is said to be a satirical art of resistance and criticism of the
Ponorogo people of East Java towards Bhre Kertabhumi, a Majapahit king who
slowly lost his authority in the 15th century. Bhre Kertabhumi was the last king
of Majapahit before Islam became a major force in Demak and controlled the
coastal region of Java. Reog encompasses various kinds of political satire and
elements of violence that are presented through a performance in which bodily
attractions and beauty, and their relation to the spirit of traditional culture,
unfold as various subtle layers of a political body.
Melati Suryodarmo, Dancing Under the Black Sky
(digital film still), 2019, four-channel video, 5 min.
Courtesy the artist.
Suryodarmo’s video-installation is, in part, a critical
reading of Pramoedya’s overlooking of queer
traditions when he refers to, or sometimes idealises,
precolonial Indonesian indigenous culture. Dancing
Under the Black Sky features dancing bodies of
Gemblak boys in a sweaty close-up on four flat
screens rhythmically configured on the wall.
In her video-installation bekas (2019), ila questions what it means to be Boyanese, Buginese,
Minangkabau, or Javanese through encounters with citizens now conflated as Malay Singaporeans,
writing the one-line answer to the question “What does it mean for you to be… (for example,
Javanese/ Boyanese/ Batak/ Bugis)?” on her body. These testimonies slowly wither as they are
exposed to salty water and hot weather on reclaimed areas of Singapore or removed enclaves.
The work, even though it refers to identities outside Singapore’s grand narrative, still uses a
process of “writing over,” taking away multiplicity by using simple answers to a complex question.
bekas means looking at the past, at identities formed within Nusantara, which is old Javanese for
“archipelago,” or the Malayo-Polynesian name of maritime Southeast Asia.
Above: Zac Langdon-Pole, Passport (Argonauta) (viii), 2018,
paper nautilus shell, Campo del Cielo meteorite (iron; coarse
octahedrite, landsite: Chaco / Santiago del Estero, Argentina),
9.4 x 3.1 x 5.3 cm. Courtesy the artist.
Darmawan’s laboratory setting is a reminder that the scramble for the control of the archipelago and the sea passages was
about the extraction of ore and goods in a tightly knit network of trade relations. He draws connections between the colonial
cultuurstelsel, a Dutch government policy for its colonies in the mid-19th century that required a portion of agricultural
production to be devoted to export crops—referred to by Indonesian historians as Tanam Paksa (enforcement planting)—to
Suharto’s New Order regime (1965–98) in Indonesia, by placing his distilling laboratory on books about the regime’s policy
on land and resources. Moreover, Darmawan links the local trade, which has been carried out through the centuries, to
contemporary improved traffic conditions such as ferries and airlines, promoted by the Indonesian government and
answering to a rapid, dynamic development, with sometimes contentious nationalistic overtones.
Reog Ponorogo dancers traditionally perform in a trance-like state. The dancers are expected to
follow strict rules, rituals, and exercises, both physical and spiritual. In Reog, a Warok dancer leads
the show, where he presents his pride, the Gemblak, a young feminine man, who dances on a kuda
kepang, a horse made of bamboo. The boy lover, called Gemblak, is usually kept by the Warok in
their household under the agreement and compensation to the boy’s family. Many Warok and
Gemblak were massacred by Islamic groups during the anti-communist massacre of 1965–66, their
heads placed on pikes for public display. Today, the Warok-Gemblakan practice is discouraged
by local religious authorities and is being shunned through public moral opposition.
In the sons and daughters of hungry ghosts (2019), Singaporean artist ila reflects on the idea
of Singapore as an island and brings forth memories of living near the sea. ila photographed
seascapes in the Singapore Straits: Ubin, East Coast, Sentosa, Sisters’ Islands, Batam,
and Bintan. When put in saltwater taken from these areas, the films corroded, partially
disintegrating like the collective memories of the sea. ila directly addresses matters of
provenance and heritage, reminding Singapore Island of its intricate and historic relation
to the ocean.
Zac Langdon-Pole’s (b. 1988, Aotearoa New
Zealand/Germany) work is underpinned by questions
of belonging, translation, and identification. He has
worked in a variety of media, including sculpture,
performance, photography, film, textiles, poetry,
installation, and using the work of other artists, to
explore processes of montage, transposition,
travelling, reinterpretation, collaboration, and
appropriation. He is the latest recipient of the BMW
Art Journey Prize (2018), was awarded the Ars Viva
Prize for Visual Arts in Germany (2017), and received
the Charlotte Prinz Stipendium in Darmstadt (2016).
Langdon-Pole completed a BFA (Hons) at Elam School
of Fine Arts, Auckland (2010) and at the Städelschule,
Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt
(2016). Recent exhibitions include scions, Kunsthalle
Darmstadt (2018); Ars Viva, S.M.A.K., Ghent (2018),
and Kunstverein Munich (2017–18); Discoveries,
Art Basel Hong Kong 2018 (presented by Michael Lett
Gallery); emic etic, Between Bridges, Berlin (2018);
Trappings, Station Gallery, Melbourne (2017);
La Biennale de Montréal (2016–17); and Oratory
Index, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland (2016).
Ade Darmawan, Ferry trip from Merak to Bakauheni, Sunda
Strait, Indonesia, 2018, documentation. Courtesy the artist.
For the exhibition, Darmawan created an installation with laboratory equipment, and gathered different materials such as soil,
spices, and plants to transform them through distillation processes using alkaline water from the Java Sea and Singapore Straits,
for example, pala (nutmeg), fundamental for its preservation qualities during long sea travel; cendana (sandalwood); kayu manis
(cinnamon); lada (pepper); kemiri (candlenut); daun cengkeh (clover leaf); daun sirih (betel leaf); daun nipah (attap palm); daun
kelapa (coconut leaf); or the healing daun tapak liman (Elephantopus Scaber Linn. in Latin). Tapak liman was used in traditional
medicine for cancer treatment or as an aphrodisiac.
Though published only in 1995 (the 50th anniversary of
Indonesian independence), Arus Balik was the first novel
Pramoedya wrote while imprisoned on Buru Island in 1974. Arus
Balik and Arok Dedes were the two major historical novels he
wrote there, next to the famous Buru tetralogy.6 Considering all of
them together provides a glimpse of a broader project Pramoedya
once described as the effort to write to “the roots” of Indonesian
nationalism. Arus Balik is the only one of those novels that was
never translated into English, with the exception of the first
chapter, and the translation of its title in English is debated. The
literal translation from Bahasa Indonesia would be the “reversal
of the tide.” The Dutch title, however, De Stroom Uit het Noorden,
translates to “The Flow from the North,” which is already more
an interpretation of the novel.
Left: ila, bekas
(film still), 2019, in
collaboration with Kin
Chui, video projection,
stereo, 10 min.
Courtesy the artist.
ila (b. 1985, Singapore) is a visual and performance artist
who works with found objects, moving images, and live
performance. She seeks to create alternative nodes of
experience and entry points into the peripheries of the
unspoken, the tacit, and the silenced. With light as her medium
of choice, and invisible communities as her point of interest,
ila weaves imagined narratives into existing realities. Using her
body as a space of tension, negotiation, and confrontation, she
creates work that generates discussions about gender, history,
and identity in relation to pressing contemporary issues. ila
has performed at National Design Centre (2019), Performance
Archives Resource Orchestrator, Singapore (2018); and
ArtScience Late, Singapore (2018); had a solo presentation at
Coda Culture, Singapore (2018); and exhibited at OH! Open
House, Singapore (2019); Objectifs - Centre for Photography &
Film, Singapore (2016), Ketemu Project Space, Bali (2016), and
Unifiedfield, Granada (2015); among others.
As a starting point for his installation, Ade Darmawan
re-read Arus Balik with a special focus on how different
characters in the book use natural resources. He undertook a field trip to the city of Tuban, that plays a central
role in the book, and to the nearby town of Bojonegoro, a
major producer of teakwood and tobacco, where recently
the biggest oil reserve in Indonesia was found. Both cities
are not far from Blora, the birthplace of Pramoedya.
Zac Langdon-Pole’s Paradise Blueprint (2017), a wallpaper
based on a cyanotype photogram of the removed legs of a bird
of paradise, covers the walls of the exhibition space entirely.
This project centres upon the history of cultural exchange and
mythology surrounding the so-called birds of paradise native
to Papua New Guinea. These birds became the first form of
currency between Papuans and European explorers in the 16th
century when they were traded for tools, nails, and blankets.
They first reached Europe as trade skins that had—as part of a
local Papuan preservation tradition—been prepared with their
feet removed. Devoid of their original context, this triggered
many exaggerated speculations by European naturalists as to
why exactly these birds had no feet. One such projection was
that the birds lived in an imagined “world of paradise” and that
they had never touched the ground, perpetually held aloft by
their elaborate plumes, until they fell from the heavens.
Langdon-Pole’s Passport (Argonauta) (viii) (2018) is part of a series of works that proposes
a metaphysical reimagining of the notion of a passport. Each piece in this series combines
a delicate paper nautilus shell with a unique meteorite fragment handcrafted to fill its
aperture. Paper nautiluses are paper-thin, fragile egg-case shells made by deep sea creatures
known as Argonauts, of the genus of Octopedes. The Argonauts are often cited as being
one of the original inspirations for building sailing boats in ancient Greece since they were
observed floating upon their shell, using their webbed tentacles to catch the wind. The
meteorites used for each shell come from different geographical land sites and are entirely
unique in their chemical composition. Formed in outer space before the earth existed and
having travelled across unfathomable distances and time-scales, meteorites are unlike any
matter found on this planet. This particular piece uses a meteorite from Argentina, from a
place which gives it its name, Campo del Cielo, which translates as “Field of the Heavens.”
Lucy Raven (b. 1977, United States) received a BFA in studio art and a BA in
art history from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and an MFA from Bard
College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, New York. Primarily
grounded in animation and the moving image, Raven’s multidisciplinary practice
also incorporates still photography, installation, sound, and performative lecture.
Throughout her oeuvre, Raven explores how images can convey networks of
labour. The artist has received numerous awards, including the San Francisco Bay
Area component of the Artadia Award (2013), and residencies at the Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles (2011–12) and Oakland Museum of California (2012). Her
work has been exhibited in numerous international solo presentations, including
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014); Portikus, Frankfurt
(2014); Hammer Museum (2012–13); and Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (2010).
She participated in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, New York (2013);
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Oregon (2013); MoMA PS1, New York
(2013 and 2010); and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2010), among
others. Her work was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and can be found
in permanent collections such as Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art, the
Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim.
Lucy Raven, 3-3-19:
Debris flow erosion,
wet cement on dry
cement and sand-L,
2019, cement and
sand on silk, 214
x 133 cm, process
documentation.
Courtesy the artist.
Lucy Raven creates silk paintings or monoprints, made by imprint of sedimentation in
erosion boxes, as scrim backdrops she uses for a forthcoming film production called Kongkreto,
the Tagalog word for concrete. The film is inspired by the 1991 volcanic eruption of Mount
Pinatubo in the Philippine state of Pampanga and the subsequent evacuation of nearby Clark
Air Force Base.
Clark was the largest United States air base outside the country for most of the 20th century—
the backstage for America’s involvement in all of the wars of the Pacific, the site of Reagan’s
evacuation of Ferdinand Marcos, and a city in itself with a resident population of 15,000.
Despite growing Filipino opposition to the base beginning in the 1980s, the United States
military showed no signs of leaving—until Mount Pinatubo’s unexpected eruption (which
began on Filipino Independence Day) forced its evacuation and the abandonment of ongoing
lease renegotiations.
Due to its massive energetic detonation, Mount Pinatubo ejected not lava but a molten, ashy,
pyroclastic flow, called lahars, which, combined with a typhoon, distributed the material in
a devastating spiral of ashy downpour throughout the region. Lahars, known as wet concrete,
solidifies as it cools, first burying, then immobilising anything in its path. It also has a seemingly
endless afterlife: each new significant rainstorm remobilises inert lahar deposits upstream,
causing a cascade of destruction and uncertainty.
See Hilmar Farid Setiadi, “Rewriting the Nation, Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the Politics of Decolonization,” unpublished
PhD dissertation, Cultural Studies in Asia Programme (Singapore: National University of Singapore, 2014), 246.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, “The Port of Tuban,” first chapter of Arus Balik, Pramoedya’s Novel of Java’s Lost Maritime
Empire, trans. John Roosa, Emergences 10, no. 2 (2000): 288.
3
Ibid., 282.
4
Benedict Anderson, The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World (London: Verso, 2011).
5
Richard Wright, The Colour Curtain (London: Dobson, 1956), 238.
6
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Arok Dedes (Jakarta: Lentera Dipantara, 2015 [2006]).
1
2
Special thanks to Professor
Alan Chan, Vice President
(Alumni and Advancement),
President’s Office, and Professor
Dorrit Vibeke Sorensen, Chair,
NTU ADM, for their support
of Philippe Pirotte’s presence
this academic year at NTU CCA
Singapore and NTU School of
Art, Design and Media.
The exhibited scrims in the end are some sort of monotype made
by stretching silk on a sheet of plywood inside a box with a
“landscape model.” The scrims hang in the exhibition space on
horizontal rods suspended from C-stands, typically used to hang,
suspend, or position flags, backdrops, lights, and other equipment
during film production. Forming planes of one landscape, the scrims’
imprint comes from the modelling or “terraforming”—here solid
form breached by liquid in the erosion boxes—re-enacting
the solid becoming liquefied through eruption and indexing the
barrier between solid and liquid or between the land and the sea.
Like chapters in a novel, a new narrative is created through the juxtaposition
of all these works that engage with interwoven historical trajectories. From
Rao’s dusty book archives to Darmawan’s analytical distillations, from ila’s
questioning of the collective memory to Langdon-Pole’s reimagining of travel
and navigation, and from Raven’s heroic lava to Suryodarmo’s decontextualised
dancing bodies, the viewer is, not unlike Pramoedya in his own personal
experience, caught in between the tides of history, identity, and belonging.
Philippe Pirotte, Curator
Philippe Pirotte (Belgium/Germany) is an art historian and curator. He
is the Dean of the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule,
and Director of Portikus, both in Frankfurt am Main. Next to that he serves
as Adjunct Senior Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive. In 1999, he co-founded the Antwerp contemporary art centre
Objectif Exhibitions, and from 2005 to 2011 he was Director at Kunsthalle
Bern. From 2004 to 2013, Pirotte held the position of Senior Advisor at
the Rijksakademie for Visual Arts in Amsterdam. He was curator of the 2016
edition of La Biennale de Montréal, entitled Le Grand Balcon, and in 2017
was a member of the curatorial team of the Jakarta Biennale.
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Arus Balik: From below the wind to above the wind and back again Exhibition Brochure
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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<i>Arus Balik: From below the wind to above the wind and back again</i> Exhibition Brochure
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2019-03-22
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Ade Darmawan
ila
Zac Langdon-Pole
Lucy Raven
Shubigi Rao
Melati Surydarmo
Philippe Pirotte
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This conversation discusses Ananta Toer’s body of work, its influence and legacy, as well as notions of censorship and the forbidden book.
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Onsite (CCA)
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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In Conversation Part I: Arus Balik with Ade Darmawan, Shubigi Rao, and Melati Suryodarmo, moderated by Philippe Pirotte<br /><div class="event_single_venue">
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<div class="event_single_venue">The first session of a two-part conversation, this panel discussion will focus on the book Arus Balik (1995) by Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, which is the starting point for the eponymous exhibition that will be on view. Three of the participating artists will be joined by Philippe Pirotte, the curator of the exhibition, to discuss Ananta Toer’s body of work, its influence and legacy, as well as notions of censorship and the forbidden book.</div>
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2019-03-23
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Arus Balik
Ade Darmawan
Shubigi Rao
Melati Suryodarmo
Philippe Pirotte
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Southeast Asia
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Postcolonialism
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Kiri Dalena and by American artist Lucy Raven discuss Dalena’s film From The Dark Depths (2017), which opens with a beautiful and surreal sequence underwater in which a woman dances slowly brandishing a red flag.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Screening and Conversation: Kiri Dalena and Lucy Raven, moderated by Philippe Pirotte
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<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">14 May 2019, Tue 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<br />Screenings by Filipino human-right activist, artist, and filmmaker Kiri Dalena and by American artist Lucy Raven will be followed by a conversation with both artists. Based on the true story of the drowning of a young activist, Dalena’s film <i>From The Dark Depths</i> (2017) opens with a beautiful and surreal sequence underwater in which a woman dances slowly brandishing a red flag. Around her, many red flags are planted in the seabed. This hypnotic and captivating dream is shuttered by sequences with authentic 16mm, analog and digital video footage from the artist’s own archive with documentation of political unrest spanning for two decades, and an ominous long-track of a police car at night prompting the citizens to respect the curfew—a gloomy reminder of a lost freedom. Lucy Raven will screen materials connected to a new film-in-progress, alongside several recent short videos. <br /><br />A public programme of <em>Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again</em>.
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2019-05-14
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Kiri Dalena
Lucy Raven
Philippe Pirotte
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Southeast Asia
North America
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Activism
Politics
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This panel discussion will focus on the history of the straits, historical maps, and the geography of maritime Southeast Asia.
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In Conversation
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Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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In Conversation Part II: Living with the Sea with ila (Singapore), Mirwan Andan (Indonesia), Nirwan Ahmad Arsuka (Indonesia), Zac Langdon-Pole (Aotearoa New Zealand/Germany), Dr Imran bin Tajudeen (Singapore), and Juria Toramae (Thailand/Singapore), moderated by Philippe Pirotte (Belgium/Germany)
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<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">25 May 2019, Sat 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<br />The second session of a two-part conversation, this panel discussion will focus on the history of the straits, historical maps, and the geography of maritime Southeast Asia. This involves an approach to Southeast Asia through underlying indigenous patterns, which will necessarily stretch the limits of ingrained westernised cultural visions and mental habits. The participants will discuss complexities of heritage, notions of belonging, and strategies of mapping. Rather than a static given, the Straits will be considered as an environment with an incipient psychology, invoking a transpiring age-old knowledge of the region, but also as a habitat that continues to profoundly influence our existence. <br /><br />A public programme of <em>Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again</em>.
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2019-05-25
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ila
Mirwan Andan
Nirwan Ahmad Arsuka
Zac Langdon-Pole
Imran bin Tajudeen
Juria Toramae
Philippe Pirotte
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Southeast Asia
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Oceans & Seas
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In this period of solidarity, the Centre brings forth a collection of archival videos on decolonisation and the legacies of colonialism, and post-war independence movements.
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Online
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In this period of solidarity, the Centre brings forth a collection of archival videos, featuring lectures, conversations, and discussions that relate to themes of decolonisation, legacies of colonialism, and post-war independence movements explored in the exhibition Non-Aligned.<br /><br /><p><strong><i>#1: Mise-en-Scéne and Misalignments: Resetting the Postcolonial Stage</i></strong></p>
<p>While the Cold War raged on in the years following 1945, in the spaces between East and West, smaller theatres of war were emerging throughout the postcolonial world. This collection highlights moments of mise-en-scène that reset a global stage framed by colonial axes of power, featuring thinkers and artists such as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Isaac Julien, Mark Nash, Stefano Harney, Škart,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Bojana Piškur.</p>
<p><strong><em>Paradise Lost: </em>Lecture: Postcolonial critique today – Stefano Harney</strong><br />7 March 2014</p>
<p>Referencing the works of Zarina Bhimji and Trinh T. Minh-ha in the exhibition<em>Paradise Lost</em>, Dr Stefano Harney investigates the renewed power of postcolonial critique today. By returning to the great thinkers of the “colonial situation” and its aftermath, Harney re-evaluates the proposition that globalisation has erased “old ideas of the lines between coloniser and colonised.”</p>
<p><strong><em>Theatrical Fields: </em>Special Brunch and Screening Session with Isaac Julien and Mark Nash</strong><br />26 October 2014</p>
<p>Dr Mark Nash and Isaac Julien discuss theatricality as criticality through<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Vagabondia</em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(2000), Julien’s seven-minute film for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Theatrical Fields</em>, in which the figure of the vagabond is used to explore how the Sir John Soane’s Museum collection has benefitted from colonisation. Julien’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Playtime</em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(2014), a part-documentary part-fiction exploration of global capital, plays following their conversation.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Residencies Insights: Non-Aligned Movement: New Spaces of Liberty, New Lines of Alliance, New Modes of Creativity</strong><br />22 November 2017</p>
<p>Belgrade-based collective<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Škart<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Bojana Piškur<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>situate the Non-Aligned Movement’s ideas, ideals, and principles in the present and apply them to exhibition-making and cultural exchange. Looking beyond the complex history of the Non-Aligned Movement, they map out possible prototypes for institutions, networks, and politics within art and culture today.</p>
<p><strong>#2: <em>Phantasms and Futurities: Decolonial Propositions </em></strong></p>
<p>From a global stage reset in <em>Mise-en-Scéne and Misalignments</em>, this collection rescripts the linear trajectories of colonial pasts and postcolonial presents, towards the realisation of decolonised futures. Prof Timothy Murray noted in his keynote lecture that “the theatrical script always opens to the arrival of the future; they are contingent and dependent upon futurity”. Artists, performers, and curators, such as Zarina Muhammad and Brigitte van der Sande enact and identify heterotopias — spatial alterities or counter-sites wherein alternative realities are constructed — that rewrite these politicised narratives through explorations of mythmaking and science fiction.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong><em>Theatrical Fields: </em>Symposium: <em>Screening Theatrical Phantasms: Toward an Uncertain Futurity</em></strong><br />Keynote Lecture by Prof Timothy Murray<br />23 August 2014</p>
<p>This talk addresses the fascination of artworks in our previous exhibition <em>Theatrical Fields</em> in 2014, which introduces theatricality as a critical strategy in performance, film and video. In providing a brief theoretical overview of “the politics of theatricality,” Murray will reflect on the exhibition’s screenic re-possession of cinematic characters, buried stories, and influential texts in ways that challenge the historical groundings of theatricality in the ethnocentric certainty of culture and law. <br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Lecture Performance: <em>Flowers from our Bloodlines </em>by Zarina Muhammad, artist; Stefania Rossett, choreographer; Vivian Wang pianist; Eric Lee, artist; and Tini Aliman, sound artist</strong><br />22 September 2017</p>
<p>Drawing from concepts of the demonised and desired body, gender-based archetypes, and mythmaking, this lecture performance invokes family histories and revokes the lineages of colonisation in Southeast Asia. Intergenerational and cross-cultural exchanges, facilitated by storytelling, rituals, gestures, and embodied movement, are explored through the rites of the Wolf Spider and the Harimau Jadian (Were-Tiger), and their multiple translations and adaptations.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Residencies Insights: <em>Speculations on other futures </em>by Brigitte van der Sande, former Curator-in-Residence</strong><br />6 December 2018</p>
<p>Brigitte van der Sande explores how science fiction is used to envision alternative futures and critique existing power structures while shunning censorship, within countries where continuous change is the status quo because of war or political instability. Her long-term project Other Futures, “a multidisciplinary online and offline platform for thinkers and builders of other futures”, features non-Western science fiction makers and thinkers.</p>
<p><strong>#3: <em>Tidalectic Topographies, Counter Cartographies </em></strong></p>
<p>Extending the exploration of counter-sites from <em>Phantasms and Futurities</em>, this collection carries postcolonial inquiry from landlocked cartographies to liquid liminalities. Reflecting on shifting geopolitical, sociocultural, ethnoreligious, and environmental rhythms that ripple throughout the global hydrosphere, artists, curators, and scholars including Ade Darmawan, Shubigi Rao, Melati Suryodarmo, Prof Philippe Pirotte, Tita Salina, Irwan Ahmett, Dr Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka’uta, and Dr Cynthia Chou introduce a tidalectic worldview – in the tradition of Barbadian poet and historian Kamau Brathwaite – as a way of troubling territorial borders that became embedded during the post-Cold War wave of nationalist independence movements.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>In Conversation Part I: <em>Arus Balik w</em>ith artists Ade Darmawan, Shubigi Rao, and Melati Suryodarmo, Moderated by curator Philippe Pirotte</strong><br />23 March 2019</p>
<p>This panel discussion focuses on the Indonesian epic <em>Arus Balik</em> (1995) – loosely translated to mean “turn of the tide” – by revolutionary writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, which served as the starting point for the eponymous exhibition <em>Arus Balik – from below the wind to above the wind and back again</em>(2019). Three of the participating artists – Ade Darmawan, Shubigi Rao, and Melati Suryodarmo – join exhibition curator Philippe Pirotte in a discussion on Pramoedya’s body of work, its influence and legacy, as well as notions of censorship and the forbidden book.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Performance: <em>A Tumbling Inch </em>by Former Artists-in-Residence Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina</strong><br />11 June 2019</p>
<p><em>A Tumbling Inch</em> is a performative action by Jakarta-based artists Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina, which crystallised in the hydrospheric spatiality between Batam, the Indonesian island closest to Singapore, and the undulating maritime borders between the two countries. The work revolves around a nostalgic longing for the Lion City. Following the free movement of sea waves across the Straits of Malacca, the performance addresses archipelagic histories and the impact of global economic development.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>The Current </strong><em><strong>Convening #3 Tabu / Tapu – Who Owns the Ocean?</strong><br /></em><strong><em>Rights of Cultures, Rights of Nature: Case Studies </em>by Dr Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka’uta, Director, Oceania Centre for Arts, and Dr Cynthia Chou, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa<br /></strong>27 January 2018</p>
<p><em>Rights of Cultures, RIghts of Nature</em> features case studies that position oceanic spaces as charged relational spaces. Dr Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka’uta’s exposition on <em>tabu/tapu </em>– the Fijian indigenous practice of taboo – outlines the relationality between environment and peoples, complicated by histories of colonial extractivism and the globalising project of cultural and environmental commodification. Dr Cynthia Chou brings these relationalities closer to home with a study of the <em>Orang Suku Laut</em> of the Riau archipelago. The practices of oceanic indigenous communities presented explore how a tidalectic way of living can inform modes of engagement with the hydrosphere, challenge conceptions of land-based embeddedness, and contribute to a vision of fluid futures.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>#4: <em>Summoning Spectres: Historiography as Hauntology</em></strong></p>
<p>This month’s curated selection of NTU CCA Singapore’s past programmes draws on Jacques Derrida’s concept of hauntology – the return or persistence of elements from the past manifesting as ghosts and apparitions. – Summoning Spectres: Historiography as Hauntology speaks to the remnants of personal and collective cultural memory incompletely erased by imperial and colonial violence. These traces of erasure remain inscribed in post-Cold War regional histories and embedded in their lexicon and legacy. Using historiography as a method of inquiry, this playlist showcases the ways in which curator Dr June Yap, artists Sung Tieu, Amy Lien, and Enzo Camacho approach the subjectivation of colonial spectres through their practices, to surface historical narratives of oppression and to summon the ghosts of lost futures.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Symposium: Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows of History</strong><br /><strong><em>In the Interest of Time </em>by Dr June Yap, Director of Curatorial Programmes and Publications, Singapore Art Museum</strong></p>
<p>28 October 2017</p>
<p>Through a survey of historiographical works by artists Nguyen Trinh Thi and Ho Tzu Nyen, Dr June Yap addresses how cinematic works engage their medium specificity in a play of historical phantoms and repressed collective memories. These works contribute to a broader artistic tradition involving the subjectivation of histories, which is at its heart a process of self-determination: “in subjectivation there is constitution — the constitution of the self and or an identity… as a rising, as produced or perpetuated… as temporal, as arising from relations, as produced in a struggle”. As Yap aptly phrases, “in temporal consciousness, an identity is arrived.”<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Residencies Insights: <em>Two Worlds, Four Spirits</em> by Sung Tieu, Former Artist-in-Residence</strong></p>
<p>3 December 2019</p>
<p>Central to the artistic practice of Sung Tieu is a personal experience of migration from Vietnam to Germany, which impels her to address Post-Cold War histories and the multiple negotiations that underpin a diasporic identity haunted by the spectres of French colonialism in Vietnam and Cold War military violence during the American-Vietnam wars. In this talk, the artist discusses recent projects — <em>Memory Dispute</em> (2017), <em>Coral Sea As Rolling Thunder</em> (2017), <em>Remote Viewing</em> (2017) and <em>Loveless</em>(2019) — which variously employ text, performance, installation, moving image, and sound to convey a sense of dislocation while offering deliberate interventions into canonical readings of history.</p>
<p><strong>Behind the Scenes: On Alfonso Ossorio’s <em>Angry Christ</em> mural by artists Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho </strong></p>
<p>1 December 2018</p>
<p>In this talk, collaborating artists Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho present their research on the Filipino-American modernist painter, Alfonso Ossorio (1916–1990), focusing on his 1950 mural, <em>Angry Christ</em>. For the artists, this mural, located in the province of Negros Occidental, the “sugar bowl of the Philippines”, is a “multivalent cipher”. When it is decoded, spectres of sixteenth century Spanish colonial violence — from the accorded name “Negros” to enforced religious, economic, and environmental functions — and the ghosts of indigenous people who were displaced or exterminated materialise. Lien and Camacho question whether the <em>Angry Christ</em> can be “radically reprogrammed” from the specific and highly privileged subjectivity of Ossorio, its maker, and the Ossorio family’s sugar dynasty, its commissioning patron.</p>
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4 April - 27 September 2020
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Isaac Julien
Mark Nash
Stefano Harney
Škart
Bojana Piškur
Timothy Murray
Zarina Muhammad
Stefania Rossett
Vivian Wang
Eric Lee
Tini Aliman
Brigitte van der Sande
Ade Darmawan
Shubigi Rao
Melati Suryodarmo
Philippe Pirotte
Tita Salina
Irwan Ahmett
Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka’uta
Cynthia Chou
June Yap
Sung Tieu
Amy Lien
Enzo Camacho
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Southeast Asia
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Geopolitics
Decolonialism
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/showcase/7098739">Alignments from the Archive video collection</a>
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In Conversation Part II: Living with the Sea
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/487079631">https://vimeo.com/487079631</a>
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487079631
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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In Conversation Part II: Living with the Sea
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25 May 2019, Sat 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM <br /><br />The second session of a two-part conversation, this panel discussion will focus on the history of the straits, historical maps, and the geography of maritime Southeast Asia. This involves an approach to Southeast Asia through underlying indigenous patterns, which will necessarily stretch the limits of ingrained westernised cultural visions and mental habits. The participants will discuss complexities of heritage, notions of belonging, and strategies of mapping. Rather than a static given, the Straits will be considered as an environment with an incipient psychology, invoking a transpiring age-old knowledge of the region, but also as a habitat that continues to profoundly influence our existence.
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2019-25-05
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Mirwan Andan
Nirkan Arsuka
Zac Langdon-Pole
ila
Juria Toromae
Philippe Pirotte
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Geopolitics
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Politics
Postcolonialism
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Video
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English
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Southeast Asia
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Screening and conversation: Kiri Dalena and Lucy Raven, moderated by Philippe Pirotte
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/487075022">https://vimeo.com/487075022</a>
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487075022
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Screening and conversation: Kiri Dalena and Lucy Raven, moderated by Philippe Pirotte
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14 May 2019, Tue 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM <br /><br />Screenings by Filipino human-right activist, artist, and filmmaker Kiri Dalena and by American artist Lucy Raven will be followed by a conversation with both artists. Based on the true story of the drowning of a young activist, Dalena’s film From The Dark Depths (2017) opens with a beautiful and surreal sequence underwater in which a woman dances slowly brandishing a red flag. Around her, many red flags are planted in the seabed. This hypnotic and captivating dream is shuttered by sequences with authentic 16mm, analog and digital video footage from the artist’s own archive with documentation of political unrest spanning for two decades, and an ominous long-track of a police car at night prompting the citizens to respect the curfew—a gloomy reminder of a lost freedom. Lucy Raven will screen materials connected to a new film-in-progress, alongside several recent short videos.
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2019-05-14
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Kiri Dalena
Lucy Raven
Philippe Pirotte
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Oceans & Seas
Postcolonialism
Politics
Identity
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Video
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English
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Southeast Asia
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This panel discussion focuses on the Indonesian epic Arus Balik (1995) by revolutionary writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/422720194">https://vimeo.com/422720194</a>
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422720194
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01:58:13
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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In Conversation Part I: <em>Arus Balik</em> with artists Ade Darmawan, Shubigi Rao, and Melati Suryodarmo, Moderated by curator Philippe Pirotte
Subject
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Postcolonialism
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This panel discussion focuses on the Indonesian epic Arus Balik (1995) – loosely translated to mean “turn of the tide” – by revolutionary writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, which served as the starting point for the eponymous exhibition Arus Balik – from below the wind to above the wind and back again (2019). Three of the participating artists – Ade Darmawan, Shubigi Rao, and Melati Suryodarmo – join exhibition curator Philippe Pirotte in a discussion on Pramoedya’s body of work, its influence and legacy, as well as notions of censorship and the forbidden book.
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2019-03-23
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Ade Darmawan
Shubigi Rao
Melati Suryodarmo
Philippe Pirotte
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Southeast Asia