SEA AiR Cycle 2: Artist Spotlight - Priyageetha Dia (Singapore)
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Media Conference: SEA - AiR Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian Artists in the EU Cycle 2
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A Passage to Dreamworld: A Performative Journey presented by Priyageetha Dia (Singapore), Ngoc Nau (Vietnam) and Saroot Supasuthivech (Thailand)
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<em>A Passage to Dreamworld</em><span> is a public programme held in conjunction with </span><em>Passages</em><span>, an exhibition of the second cycle of SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian artists in the European Union. Featuring artists </span>Priyageetha Dia (Singapore), Ngoc Nau (Vietnam) and Saroot Supasuthivech (Thailand) and their artworks <em>Sap Sonic</em>, <em>Virtual Reverie: Echoes of a Forgotten Utopia</em> and <em>Spirit-forward in G Major</em><span>, the exhibition is a culmination of their residencies in Europe.</span>
20 January 2024
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Performance: A Passage to Dreamworld
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<p><strong><em>A Passage to Dreamworld </em></strong> <br />20 January 2024, 4.00 – 5.30pm<br />Blk 38 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks<br />Singapore 109441</p>
<p>This public programme will start punctually at 4.00pm. Please arrive at least 10min before time to secure a space. Admittance will be on a first-come-first-served basis. </p>
<p><strong><em>A Passage to Dreamworld</em></strong> is a public programme held in conjunction with <strong><em>Passages</em></strong>, an exhibition of the second cycle of SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian artists in the European Union. Featuring artists <strong>Priyageetha Dia</strong> (Singapore), <strong>Ngoc Nau</strong> (Vietnam) and <strong>Saroot Supasuthivech</strong> (Thailand) and their artworks <strong><em>Sap Sonic</em></strong>, <strong><em>Virtual Reverie: Echoes of a Forgotten Utopia</em></strong> and <strong><em>Spirit-forward in G Major</em></strong>, the exhibition is a culmination of their residencies in Europe.<br /><br /><em><span>As an extension of the exhibition, </span>A Passage to Dreamworld<span> takes audiences through a performative journey into a liminal realm where reality and imagination intertwine. In creating a space where creative impulses take place, fresh perceptions can be formed to give way to new possibilities. </span><br /><br /></em>Priyageetha Dia will perform a reading from her work <em>Sonified Vision</em>, which looks into the sonification of visual material, accompanied with a live-mixing of sound samples from <em>Sap Sonic</em>. Ngoc Nau presents a two-channel projection drawn from additional footage alongside <em>Virtual Reverie: Echoes of a Forgotten Utopia</em>, and a sound performance on traditional Vietnamese instruments against a mix of soundtracks by her collaborator Dustin Ngo, a Vietnamese sound producer and instrumentalist. Saroot Supasuthivech’s video <em>The Ritual of Life and Music</em> shows the process of a Thai Buddhist monk making holy water and chanting the prayer Ratana Sutta, a sacred verse addressing the contemplation of the Triple Gem: Buddha, Dharma (the teachings), and Sangha (the monastic Buddhist community); followed by a live performance of <em>Sai Samon</em>, a Thai song featured in <em>Spirit-forward in G Major</em>, on the <em>khlui</em> (a Thai flute), by Thai musician Udom Kiattivikrai. </p>
<p>In view of the public programme that is held within the exhibition spaces, <em>Passages</em> will not be on view while the programme is ongoing.<br /><br /><strong>Singapore Art Week 2024 Late Night programme: <em>SPIRIT WORLD</em></strong><span> </span><br /><span>From 7.00pm till late </span><br /><span>Blk 38 Malan Road, #01-05, Singapore 109441</span><br /><br /><span>Responding to sounds from artist Priyageetha Dia’s </span><em>Sap Sonic</em><span>, DJs DIA.HRD (the artist herself), FATIMAH, C2AC and ALEEZON will perform a live mix evolving into free play as an activation of the exhibition space.</span><br /><br /><span>19:00 DIA.HRD</span><br /><span>20:00 FATIMAH</span><br /><span>21:00 ALEEZON</span><br /><span>22:00 C2AC</span><br /><br /><span>SPIRIT WORLD is a space for everyone, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, or background. This includes respecting personal space and boundaries. Discriminatory behaviour will not be tolerated.</span></p>
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20 January 2024
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<p><strong>NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore</strong> presents the second-cycle exhibition of <strong>SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian Artists in the European Union (SEA AiR)</strong>, a programme developed by NTU CCA Singapore and funded by the European Union. Titled <strong><em>Passages</em></strong>, this exhibition features new works by artists <strong>Priyageetha Dia</strong> (Singapore), <strong>Ngoc Nau</strong> (Vietnam) and <strong>Saroot Supasuthivech</strong> (Thailand), inspired by their three-month-long residencies in Europe. </p>
<p>As part of the SEA AiR programme, Dia had undertaken her residency at <strong>Jan van Eyck Academie</strong> (Netherlands), Nau at <strong>Rupert</strong> (Lithuania) and Supasuthivech at<strong> Künstlerhaus Bethanien</strong><span> </span>(Germany) through the summer. Bringing back their experiences from diverse contexts in the EU to Singapore for this exhibition,<span> </span><em>Passages</em><span> </span>speaks of the artists’ journeys across geographical and cultural boundaries from one continent to another; the cultural exchanges that take place during this time; and the continuous development of ideas as they return to their home countries to create new works for the exhibition.<br /><br /><em><span>Employing new media technologies to aid their storytelling, each artist creates speculative narratives that traverse time and space, shifting between the past and present. While distinct in their artistic research and practices, their works evoke memories and explore meanings in liminal spaces, reverberating in their journey from one passage to the next.</span><br /><br /></em><strong>Priyageetha Dia’s</strong><span> </span>research interest lies in the plantations of Southeast Asia and their colonial histories, including those of migrant labour and structures of production and power. She explores gaps in historical records that are not only text-based, but also non-textual ones such as photographs, artefacts and oral interviews. Her four-channel sound installation<span> </span><strong><em>Sap Sonic</em></strong><span> </span>is a sonification of images from the photo album of the Sumatra Caoutchouc Company, a rubber planting company, from the archives of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Beyond their visual representations, the images bear witness to the power dynamics between the coloniser and its labourers as well as the hierarchy between nature and machine. Reframing this landscape from a visual to a sonic one,<span> </span><em>Sap Sonic<span> </span></em>serves as an aural gateway to the plantations as it delves into the lived yet unspoken lives of those who work on and inhabit the plantations, both human and nonhuman. Accompanying the work,<span> </span><em>Sap Script</em><span> </span>is a text installation in white latex paint, referencing rubber sap, on a black, obsidian-like background. Its typeface echoes the slender and linear structure of rubber trees, distorted to resemble the waveform of sound waves. Through the intangible, unseen nature of sound, Sap Sonic probes aspects of the visual world; expanding the agentive possibilities of the uncounted and the underheard.<br /><br /><span>Upon her arrival in Vilnius, Lithuania, for her residency, </span><strong>Ngoc Nau</strong><span> was drawn to Soviet-era architectural elements in the city, such as the Soviet brutalist architecture of the Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports. She also became intrigued with the iconic image of a Lenin statue being removed, with its legs severed, from the city centre square in 1991. This imagery became a point of departure for her exploration into multifaceted aspects of post-Soviet realities in her own country. Portraying contemporary life amidst the remnants of socialist architecture and monuments using 3D animation and visual effects, Nau’s video installation, </span><strong><em>Virtual Reverie: Echoes of a Forgotten Utopia</em></strong><span>, demonstrates the transformative power of technology in reshaping our perceptions of reality. Central to the work is a constructed representation of the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Palace of Culture and Labour in Hanoi, Vietnam, that serves as a stage for five hip-hop dancers embarking on a symbolic journey. As they interact with elements drawn from historical references in Vietnam and Lithuania, the dancers bridge the gap between historical artifacts and contemporary experiences. Echoing the ebb and flow of ideologies, their passage brings about new meanings when past memories evolve in the face of shifting landscapes.<br /><br /><strong>Saroot Supasuthivech’s</strong> multimedia installation,<strong><em> Spirit-forward in G Major</em></strong>, charts the transformative journey experienced by Thai expatriates in Germany, told through a metaphoric cycle of life, death and rebirth. The work’s narrative unfolds in four parts. “New Beginnings” uses therapeutic dialogues to depict the initial migrant experience. “A Surreal Interlude”, based on interviews conducted with Thai monks and nuns in Berlin, transports viewers into a realm of magic and mortality inspired by Grimm’s fairy tales. The third segment focuses on a Thai music score <em>Sai Samon</em>, the oldest documented. Finally, “A Glimpse Beyond” dives into a poetic meditation on death and the afterlife, told from the viewpoint of the deceased. This poignant culmination is an exploration into a liminal reality between the familiar and the surreal, encapsulating the interplay of tradition, adaptation and preservation within an evolving cultural landscape.</span></p>
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<p><em>Passages </em>will be held through Singapore Art Week 2024, with a public programme taking place on 20 January 2024. Details of the public programme can be found<span> </span>here. </p>
<p>SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian Artists in the European Union<em> </em>is made possible thanks to a generous grant of the European Union. </p>
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<p><strong><span>Dates</span><br />Opening reception: </strong><br />28 November 2023, 5–8pm<br />Refreshments will be served</p>
<p><strong>Public programme:</strong><br />20 January 2023, 4-5.30pm</p>
<p><strong>Opening Hours</strong>:<br />1 December 2023 – 14 January 2024: Friday – Sunday, 1–7pm<br />Closed on 24, 25, 31 December 2023 and 1 January 2024<br /><br />Singapore Art Week<br />19 – 28 January 2024: Monday – Sunday, 1–7pm<br />Late nights on 20 and 27 January 2024: Saturday, 1–9pm</p>
<p><strong><span>Location:</span></strong><br />NTU CCA Singapore Residencies Studios<br />Block 38 Malan Road<br />Gillman Barracks<br />Singapore 109441</p>
28 November 2023 - 28 January 2024
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<div class="type-subtitle highlight-yellow"><b>17 April - 14 July 2023<br />Artist-in-Residence at Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht)</b></div>
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<p><em>“To be given this opportunity to further my research and artistic practice at Jan van Eyck Academie is an incredible one. Being part of the SEA AiR residency in the EU will allow me to explore the potential for a deeper and broader comprehension beyond the Southeast Asian landscape and into the corners and crossings that ties its relation to the Netherlands. To be able to witness, engage in and respond to an interdisciplinary environment with the possibility to gather with other peers and cultural workers, access resources and facilities, and share knowledge is what I am really looking forward to.”<br /><br /></em>Priyageetha Dia is an arts practitioner who experiments with time-based media, 3D animation and game engine software. Her practice addresses the transnational migration of ethnic communities and the intersections of the colonial production with land, labour and capital in Southeast Asia through speculative methods and counter-narratives. She has been invited to participate in several exhibitions including the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2022); Attention Seeker, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Australia (2022); An Exercise of Meaning in a Glitch Season, National Gallery Singapore (2020); 2219: Futures Imagined, ArtScience Museum Singapore (2019). She was a recipient of the IMPART Art Award in 2019.</p>
<p>The migratory movements of her ancestral lineage from Southern India to Malaysia, and later to Singapore, sparked Priyageetha’s deep-seated engagement in South Asian diasporic histories, the labour relations that underlie plantation agriculture in Malaya and the vast terrain of colonial narratives. Interweaving these research threads in her multimedia practice, her works figure alternative histories that empower subaltern forms of existence. </p>
<p>During her residency at Jan Van Eyck Academie, the artist is interested in delving deeper into the emergence and expansion of agro-industrial plantation projects, the dispossession and displacement of lands and communities in Southeast Asia, and their relation to The Netherlands through archival research. Moreover, the residency will provide her with a supportive environment to articulate critical viewpoints and counter-narratives through her ongoing and self-led experiments with computer-generated imagery (CGI), animation technologies and game engine software while also allowing her to gain an understanding of issues related to contemporary transnational interactions within Southeast Asia and Europe.</p>
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17 April - 14 July 2023
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Residencies OPEN: Priyageetha Dia, Fazleen Karlan and Hilmi Johandi (all Singapore)
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Sat 20 August 2022, 1:00 - 7:00 pm<br />Block 37 Malan Road Gillman Barracks<br /><br />Come by the studios to meet our Artists-in-Residence Priyageetha Dia, Fazleen Karlan, and Hilmi Johandi (all Singapore) for a special insight into their art-making process! This session of Residencies OPEN will allow you to encounter works-in-progress, browse archival materials, and encounter the heterogeneity of research references that feed these artists’ imagination. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to talk to the artists in person!<br /><br /><p><strong>PRIYAGEETHA DIA</strong></p>
<p>Open Studio<br />Saturday, 20 August, 1:00 – 7:00pm<br />Block 37 Malan Road, #01-02</p>
<p>Studio Tour with the Artist<br />3:00 – 3:30pm <br />no registration required<br /><br />As the latest development of her ongoing enquiry into plantation histories in Malaya during the 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> century,<strong> Priyageetha Dia</strong>has turned to game engine software as a way to dig deeper into the questions and narratives uncovered during her research. For this Residencies OPEN, visitors can encounter the ways in which Priyageetha is exploring and experimenting with new systems and modes of thinking. From research materials to design drafts, her work-in-progress reflect two concurrent streams of research: the human and environmental exploitation inscribed in the history of Malayan plantations and the ethical implications of game engine software. Mirroring archival footage with a speculative ethno-futurist world, her work arises questions on: What does it mean to work with AI? How can an artist employ a game as a platform of representation? Can game engine software be used to return agency to the marginalised?<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>HILMI JOHANDI</strong></p>
<p>Open Studio<br />Saturday, 20 August, 1:00 – 7:00 pm<br />Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03</p>
<p>Studio Tour with the Artist<br />4:00 – 4:30pm <br />no registration required<br /><br />For the past five months, <strong>Hilmi Johandi</strong> has transformed his studio into a sanctuary for alternative patterns of thought outside of the usual routines and rituals that define his practice. Visitors will step into a mind map of sprawling ideas, key words, and visual inspirations that come from old films, tourism postcards, and photographs depicting a long-gone Singapore. Next to this explorative mind map, this open studio session also shows how Hilmi’s experiments with form and modes of spectatorship have led him towards stop-motion video expanding his image-making process beyond painting.<br /><strong><br />FAZLEEN KARLAN</strong></p>
<p>Open Studio<br />Saturday, 20 August, 1:00 – 7:00 pm<br />Block 37 Malan Road, #01-01</p>
<p>Studio Tour with the Artist<br />5:00 – 5:30pm<br />no registration required</p>
<p>For this Residencies OPEN, the sediments of <strong>Fazleen Karlan</strong>’s experimentations with archaeological processes come alive in the studio. Expanding her inquiry into archaeology as a speculative framework and a mode of re-imagination, during the residency Fazleen has researched the appearance of archaeology in mainstream films and other media and she has conducted a number of workshops for the public to explore concepts of ‘artefact’ and ‘relic’. Her studio presentation will also feature the work-in-progress for <em>Obat Batu</em>(in Malay, literally, ‘medicinal rocks’), a collaborative video animation about traditional medicinal items. These medicinal objects and their uses, which are not archived as often as their western medical equivalents, are cast in a speculative narrative wherein native flora and fauna play a significant role.</p>
2022-08-20
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Artist-in-Residence
4 April 2022 - 31 August 2022
NTU CCA Singapore
2022-06-10
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Residencies AiRCAST Episode #7: Priyageetha Dia
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<span>Starting off the second season of AiRCAST, we hand over the microphone to curator and writer </span><b>Anca Rujoiu</b><span> to interview our Artist-in-Residence </span><b>Priyageetha Dia</b><span>. Priyageetha and Anca are fresh out of a year-long collaboration that culminated in </span><em>Forget Me, Forget Me Not</em><span> (2022), Priyageetha’s solo exhibition curated by Anca which opened last May. In this conversation they share about the background research, interests, and aesthetic strategies behind the new body of work presented in the exhibition. They will also expand upon the significance of colonial histories and marginalised communities, agency and empowerment, as well as media and materials in Priyageetha’s practice.</span><br /><br /><span>Spanning moving image, sculpture, as well as performance and installation, the practice of Priyageetha Dia (b. 1992, Singapore) addresses identity politics by questioning dominant narratives, material histories, and socio-spatial relations. In the past few years, she has been experimenting with world-making gestures that rehash stories of repression and envision alternative futures. Her works have been included in several group exhibitions including </span><em>Attention Seeker</em><span>, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Australia (2022);</span><em><span> </span>An Exercise of Meaning in a Glitch Season</em><span>, National Gallery Singapore (2020); </span><em>2219: Futures Imagined</em><span>, ArtScience Museum Singapore (2019).</span><br /><br /><span>Anca Rujoiu is a Romanian curator and editor who has been living and working in Singapore since 2013. Taking an artist-centred approach, she is committed to artistic practices beyond the West and to what falls through the cracks within its borders. She was a member of the founding team of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, as Curator of Exhibitions (2013–15) and Head of Publications (2016–18) and she has curated numerous exhibitions, public programs, and publishing projects. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate at Monash University with a research focused on institution building, artists-led institutions, and transnational exchanges.</span><br /><br /><span>Contributors: Priyageetha Dia, Anca Rujoiu</span><br /><span>Editor: Anna Lovecchio</span><br /><span>Programme Manager: Nadia Amalina</span><br /><span>Sound Engineer: Ashwin Menon</span><br /><span>Intro & Outro Music: Yuen Chee Wai</span><br /><span>Cover Image & Design: Arabelle Zhuang, Kristine Tan</span><br /><br /><span>CREDITS</span><br /><span>03’03”: Audio excerpt from </span><em>WE.REMAIN.IN.MULTIPLE.MOTIONS_MALAYA</em><span>, 2022. Courtesy the artist.</span><br /><span>17’17”: Audio excerpt from </span><em>WE.REMAIN.IN.MULTIPLE.MOTIONS_MALAYA</em><span>, 2022. Courtesy the artist.</span><br /><span>19’10”: Audio excerpt from </span><em>WE.REMAIN.IN.MULTIPLE.MOTIONS_MALAYA</em><span>, 2022. Courtesy the artist.</span><br /><span>32’07”: Audio excerpt from </span><em>WE.REMAIN.IN.MULTIPLE.MOTIONS_MALAYA</em><span>, 2022. Courtesy the artist.</span>
2022-06-09
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Priyageetha Dia
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