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Conference: The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) Panel II: Mid-Century Modern: Forms and Spaces in Cities Chairperson: Dr Roger Nelson (Australia/Singapore), curator, National Gallery Singapore and Postdoctoral Fellow, NTU CCA Singapore…

Panel II: Mid-century Modern: Forms and Spaces in Cities Chairperson: Roger Nelson (Australia/Cambodia), independent curator and PhD candidate, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 10.00am Welcome address by Professor Ute Meta…

This seminar takes two approaches on notions on place. The first will look at this through the work of Artist-in-Residence, Hamra Abbas whose past work has engaged with different facets of iconographic architecture. Simon Soon will share his research…

This volume focuses on the practice of curating in Southeast Asia, a region experiencing a time of increased global visibility as well as nation and institution building. The political aspiration to map and shape a regional identity through…

The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore kicks off the three-part NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2016/17 CITIES FOR PEOPLE with the conference The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia).The conference extends what is presented spatially in the exhibition…

Simon Soon will be comparing the architecture and landscape of Nanyang University (1955-1980) and Chinese University of Hong Kong (1963-present), two Chinese-language institutions of higher learning in former British colonies. He is interested in…

Simon Soon is a Senior Lecturer in the Visual Art Department, Culture Centre, University of Malaya, Malaysia.