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Drawing on the rich cultural heritage and trajectories of the Asia Pacific and beyond, the exhibitions, works of art, and essays in <em>Climates.Habitats.Environments. </em>transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to affirm the role of cultural production in the fight for environmental and social justice.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Published by NTU CCA Singapore and The MIT Press, 2022 <br />Edited by Ute Meta Bauer<br />Design by mono.studio<br />Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH<br />© 2022 the artists, the authors, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Nanyang Technological University <br />ISBN: 978-0-262-04681-7 <br />Distributed by The MIT Press <br />Copies are available for sale at NTU CCA Singapore and through MIT Press S$80/US$60<br /><br />Modeling the curatorial as a method for uniting cultural production and science,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Climates. Habitats. Environments</i>. weaves together image and text to address the global climate crisis. Through exhibitions, artworks, and essays, artists and writers transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on the fight for environmental justice. In doing so, they draw on the rich cultural heritage of the Asia-Pacific, in conversation with international discourse, to demonstrate transdisciplinary solution-seeking.<br /><p><span>Experimental in form as well as in method,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Climates. Habitats. Environments.</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>features an inventive book design by mono.studio that puts word and image on equal footing, offering a multiplicity of media, interpretations, and manifestations of interdisciplinary research. For example, botanist Matthew Hall draws on Ovid's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Metamorphoses</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to discuss human-plant interpenetration; curator and writer Venus Lau considers how spectrality consumes—and is consumed—in animation and film, literature, music, and cuisine; and critical theorist and filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli proposes “Water Sense” as a geontological approach to “the question of our connected and differentiated existence,” informed by the “ancestral catastrophe of colonialism.” Artists excavate the natural and cultural DNA of indigo, lacquer, rattan, and mulberry; works at the intersection of art, design, and architecture explore “The Posthuman City”; an ongoing research project investigates the ecological urgencies of Pacific archipelagos. The works of art, the projects, and the majority of the texts featured in the book were commissioned by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.</span></p>
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Ute Meta Bauer
Anna Lovecchio
Michael Marder
Kong Yin Ying
Marian Pastor Roces
Ravi Agarwal
Donna J. Haraway
Matthew Hall
Nikos Papastergiadis
Donna J. Haraway
David Pledger
Dan Koh
Tan Zi Hao
May Adadol Ingawanij
Michael M. J. Fischer
Venus Lau
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Cynthia Chou
Nina Oeghoede
Philippe Pirotte
Epeli Hau'ofa
Nabil Ahmed
Édouard Glissant
Tania Roy
Alfian Sa'at
Jake Atienza
Kenneth Dean
Faizah Zakaria
Stefanie Hessler
Huang Jui-mao
Anna Källén
Philippa Lovatt
Laura Miotto
Rob Nixon
Khim Ong
Markus Reymann
Dirk Snauwaert
Matariki Williams
Irene Agrivina
Nabil Ahmed
Irwan Ahmett
Tita Salina
Atif Akin
Animali Domestici
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Martha Atienza
Tarek Atoui
Laura Anderson Barbata
Rosella Biscotti
Guigone Camus
Choy Ka Fai
Roko Josefa Cinavilakeba
Sean Connelly
Ade Darmawan
Lucy Davis
Ines Doujak
Jef Geys
Tue Greenfort
Newell Harry
Ho Tzu Nyen
Chia-Wei Hsu
Pierre Huyghe
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Kristy H. A. Kang
Susanne Kriemann
Zac Langdon-Pole
Jae Rhim Lee
Liang Shaoji
PerMagnus Lindborg
Armin Linke
Nicholas Mangan
Alice Miceli
Manish Nai
Nguyễn Trinh Thi
Phi Phi Oanh
Lucy + Jorge Orta
Park Chan-kyong
Sophia Pich
Marjetica Potrč
Shubigi Rao
Lisa Rave
Lucy Raven
Bridget Reweti
Hito Steyerl
Melati Suryodarmo
Tanatchai Bandasak
Sung Tieu
Jegan Vincent de Paul
Wu Mali
Vivian Xu
Yeo Siew Hua
Zarina Muhammad
Edouard Glissant
Anna Kallen
Nguyen Trinh Thi
Marjetica Potrc
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Southeast Asia
Asia
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2022
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<em>A Tumbling Inch</em> revolves around a nostalgic longing for the Lion City.
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Performance: A Tumbling Inch by Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina
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Archipelagic State
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Oceans & Seas
Globalisation
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<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.
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2019-06-11
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Irwan Ahmett
Tita Salina
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Southeast Asia
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Residencies Studio Sessions: The Flame of the Pacific – Artist Talk by Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Residencies Studio Sessions: The Flame of the Pacific – Artist Talk by Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett
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28 Mar 2018, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM <br /><br />In 2014, Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett initiated Ring of Fire, a 10-year long research project that addresses manifold forms of vulnerability. Ring of Fire explores the intricate network of human-made collisions occurring in the eponymous geographical area that runs around the Pacific Ocean, from New Zealand to Chile stretching across Southeast Asia—one of the deadliest places on earth due to plate movements and volcanic eruptions. Fascinated by how subterranean tectonic clashes find uncanny counterparts in the political turmoil above the ground, the artists will discuss the scope of Ring of Fire and reflect on how their work engage with humanitarian crisis, environmental disasters, and the darkest histories in the Southeast Asian region. They will also talk about the research initiated during their residency which, inspired by a historical moment of friction between Indonesia and Malaysia in 1965, tackles sabotage practices and haze threats. <br />
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2018-03-28
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Tita Salina
Irwan Ahmett
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Southeast Asia
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Environmental Crisis
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Join artist Tita Salina for a walk-through of <em>The Ring of Fire</em>.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Artist's Tour: The Ring of Fire (2014 - Ongoing)
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<div>Saturday, 13 April 2019, 3.00 – 4.00pm<br /> </div>
<div>Join <strong>Tita Salina </strong>for a walk-through <em>The Ring of Fire</em>. 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.</div>
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2019-04-13
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Tita Salina
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Southeast Asia
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Oceans & Seas
Environmental Crisis
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In 2014, Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett initiated Ring of Fire, a 10-year long research project that addresses manifold forms of vulnerability. Fascinated by how subterranean tectonic clashes find uncanny counterparts in the political turmoil above the ground, the artists will discuss the scope of Ring of Fire and reflect on how their work engage with humanitarian crisis, environmental disasters, and the darkest histories in the Southeast Asian region.
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Residencies Studio Sessions: The Flame of the Pacific, Artist Talk by Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett (Indonesia), Artists-in-Residence
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<div class="event_single_dates text__residencies">28 Mar 2018, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">Block 38 Malan Road, #01-05</div>
<br />In 2014, <b>Tita Salina</b> and <b>Irwan Ahmett</b> initiated <i>Ring of Fire</i>, a 10-year long research project that addresses manifold forms of vulnerability. <i>Ring of Fire</i> explores the intricate network of human-made collisions occurring in the eponymous geographical area that runs around the Pacific Ocean, from New Zealand to Chile stretching across Southeast Asia—one of the deadliest places on earth due to plate movements and volcanic eruptions. Fascinated by how subterranean tectonic clashes find uncanny counterparts in the political turmoil above the ground, the artists will discuss the scope of Ring of Fire and reflect on how their work engage with humanitarian crisis, environmental disasters, and the darkest histories in the Southeast Asian region. They will also talk about the research initiated during their residency which, inspired by a historical moment of friction between Indonesia and Malaysia in 1965, tackles sabotage practices and haze threats. <br /><br />The talk will take place in the artists’ studio.
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2018-03-28
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Tita Salina
Irwan Ahmett
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Asia
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South America
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Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina
The Ring of Fire
2014 - ongoing
13 April
11 June 2019
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
�My city is sinking, my country is burning,
I don’t want to spend my time in a white cube.
Irwan Ahmett
Singapore, 28 March 2018
�The Ring of Fire (2014 – ongoing)
The Ring of Fire (2014 – ongoing)
THE RING OF FIRE (2014 – ongoing)
IRWAN AHMETT & TITA SALINA
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 artist inquiry.
An artist duo based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Irwan Ahmett
(b. 1975) and Tita Salina (b. 1977) 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.
Since 2014, the Indonesian duo have 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.
Fueled 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.
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, Japan (2018); Ujazdowski Castle Centre
for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland (2017); ST PAUL
St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (2016); Biennale
Jogja, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2015) amongst other
international venues.
Ahmett and Salina were Artists-in-Residence at
NTU CCA Singapore in March 2018.
�The Ring of Fire (2014 – ongoing)
The Ring of Fire (2014 – ongoing)
1. GOTONG ROYONG, 2019
acrylic, marker, approx. 1.5 x 2.5 m
An Indonesian notion and a fixture of national
identity with no equivalents in other languages,
gotong royong denotes a common-cause principle:
more than mutual aid, it is rather a communal
attitude that generates actions aimed at a shared
goal; a collaborative praxis premised on mutual
trust that is geared towards the benefit of the
community. Visualised as a hand-drawn diagram,
the mural painting positions gotong royong at the
heart of the artists’ practice, while at the same time
it traces and deconstructs its ideological uses and its
recent exploitation for political branding purposes.
2. ZIARAH UTARA
(PILGRIMAGE TO THE NORTH)
2018 - ongoing
vinyl, 2.5 x 5.4 m
9 8 7 6 5
Since 2018, Ahmett and Salina conduct explorative
walks on the north coast of Jakarta, a densely
populated area with some of the world’s most
polluted canals and rivers. Due to land subsidence
and increased sea level, the area has sunk four
meters over the past three decades and is now
increasingly exposed to floods that seriously
threaten local communities, fishing farms and
ports, boatyards, markets, and warehouses. The
map shows the route followed by the artists as they
observe and document appalling accumulations of
waste and extreme living conditions.
�The Ring of Fire (2014 – ongoing)
The Ring of Fire (2014 – ongoing)
A
AIR BALL, 2014
video, 5 min 41 sec
1103 SUNSETS, 2014
video, 5 min
MISSING PAIR, 2014
video, 1 min 56 sec
The contaminated area
created by the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear disaster
of March 2011 is turned
into a field of artistic
intervention. Venturing
into the hazardous exclusion
zone around the power
plant, the artists perform
a series of paradoxical
and playful actions, such as
the futile search for a lost
shoe (Missing Pair), that
address the irreversible
consequences of the nuclear
accident. In Air Ball, a
sample of air collected
from the radiation zone is
snowballed all the way to
Tokyo. Growing larger and
larger along the way, the
volatile ball becomes the
engine for a participatory
performance in the
public space. 1103 Sunsets
is a collective clean-up
performed in a nursing
home in the city of Okuma,
Fukushima Prefecture,
hastily abandoned after the
radiation leaks. The artists
cleaned and restored one
room to its original state
before the accident. At the
time the project was made,
1,103 sunsets had elapsed
since the disaster.
B
SALTING THE SEA, 2015
video, 9 min 17 sec
LONGEVITY, 2015
video, 6 min 50 sec
Forced away from their
country by faltering
economy and crumbled
infrastructures, 237,670
Indonesian migrants were
reported as working in
Taiwan as of 2015. Yet, the
dream to change one’s
fortune can be frustrated by
unfair treatment and brutal
working conditions the
result of which can prove to
be fatal. Salting the Sea and
Longevity revolve around
two different cases of
murder committed by
Indonesian migrant workers
in Taiwan as a reaction to
cruel mistreatment suffered
at the workplace. The
complex and excruciating
consequences of economic
migrations sorely emerge in
these two performances
where the artists collect
prayers and tears from the
families of the convicted
workers.
D
E
INSEPARABLE FLAKES
2016
video, 4 min
MENGUSAP NURANI
(STROKING THE
CONSCIENCE) 2017
video, 3 min 28 sec
C
A LAND OF MILK AND
HONEY, 2016
video, 6 min 13 sec
RESTITUTION OF 1755
2018
slideshow, sound
180°, 2016
video, 2 min
Ratified in 1755 against a
backdrop of political
intrigues, The Treaty of
Giyanti (1755) is the birth
certificate of the kingdom
of Yogyakarta. It resulted
from the Dutch East
India Company’s shrewd
involvement in local feudal
disputes and it became
source of long-lasting
agrarian conflicts.
This version of a previous
work titled Restitution of
1755 (2015), features the
reproduction of the treaty
accompanied by a sound
piece. The agreement
is turned into a pangkur
(poem), sung by a nine-year
-old blind boy with the
addition of two final verses
warning the ruler not to
oppress the peaceful life
of his subjects.
Part of the artists’
continuous investigation of
the living conditions and
broken bonds suffered by
undocumented Indonesian
migrant workers, Inseparable
Flakes unfolds from the case
of six migrant fishermen in
Taiwan, sentenced to jail for
murder, that was previously
addressed in Salting the Sea
(2015). Here, the artists
make a fragile sheet of paper
out of discarded skin flakes
shed by the children of one
fisherman and furtively
deliver the letter in prison
to their father. Both realised
in New Zealand, A Land of
Milk and Honey and 180 °
address the predicament of
Pacifika people displaced by
the rise of sea level and the
discrimination they suffer
when forced to resettle in
urban contexts.
Traces of war histories are
hidden in the caves of
Okinawa, Japan, which were
used as bunkers, hospitals,
and shelters towards the end
of WWII, at the same time
of the Japanese occupation
in Indonesia. A small stone
taken from the caves is
subject to the act of rubbing,
an intimate ritual gesture
that will extend over the
years slowly altering its
colour and shape. The stone
will be exhibited in sacred
caves across the Pacific
region and, eventually, it
will be returned to its
original place.
F
TONG HWA – THE
FLOWER CURRENCY
2017
video 6 min 48 sec
ARUS BALIK, 2017
video, 3 min 55 sec
On occasion of Kim II-sung’s
state visit to Indonesia in
1965, Sukarno named a
violet orchid after the North
Korean leader, a symbolic
gesture meant to consolidate
the political alliance between
the two countries. In Tong
Hwa - The Flower Currency,
Ahmett and Salina overwrite
this historical episode of
floral diplomacy with the
current predicament of
Indonesian workers in South
Korea injured from lack of
safety on the workplace. Arus
Balik is part of the artist’s
ongoing investigation of
the major development
project for the north
coast of Jakarta. Due to
unregulated urbanisation
and underground water
extraction, the low-lying
capital of Indonesia is slowly
sinking and has become
increasing vulnerable to
floods. The development
plan entails the eviction of
coastal residents and
threatens the livelihood
of a large population
of fishermen.
G
FAITH IN PAIN, 2018
video, 1 min 58 sec
A Vietnamese refugee in
Japan ended his life by
setting himself on fire. Torn
by conflicting emotions, the
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man’s death notes reveal
a deep sense of frustration
after failed attempts to
improve his living
conditions in a foreign
country. In the performance,
Ahmett burns his own
hands by pointing at the
words of a poem composed
out of the man’s last words.
H
BERIBU BUDAK
(A HOMOGRAPH WORD
WITH TWO MEANINGS:
SLAVE MOTHER AND
THOUSANDS OF
SLAVES), 2018
booklet, sound
A fan-shaped artificial island
in southern Japan, Dejima
was the only post open to
foreign traders during the
country’s isolationist period
(1603-1868) and it was used
as a trading post by the
Dutch from 1641 until 1853.
Looking at the paintings of
Kawahara Keiga (17861860) and the diaries of the
Opperhoofden (Chiefs of the
Dutch East India Company),
Ahmett and Salina unearth
the existence of slaves
deported to the island from
the Indonesian archipelago
and the role they played in
the enclave’s everyday life.
I
NAME LAUNDERING
2018-19
video, 1 hr 21 min
Taking issue with border
enforcement measures
produced under colonial,
nationalistic, and capitalistic
regimes, Name Laundering
illustrates alternative
strategies to enter
Singapore. Performed for
the first time during the
artists’ residency at the
Centre in 2018, the lecture
ended with Ahmett’s sumpah
(solemn pledge) not to
return to Singapore as a
consequence of troubling
situations he personally
experienced at the
immigration checkpoint.
The version shown here was
performed at the Yamaguchi
Center for Arts and Media,
Japan, in January 2019.
J
HARVEST FROM
ATLANTIS
2019
video, 17 min 25 sec
Endemic to the Jakarta Bay,
green mussels are a cheap
source of protein available
to the lower class.
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Today, their ecosystem is
jeopardised by uncontrolled
house waste pollution as well
as by the privatisation and
development of the coastal
line. In collaboration with
local farmers who still
practice communal life and
traditional cultivation
techniques, Ahmett and
Salina “planted” underwater
a makeshift wooden tree to
grow mussels. Overlapping
two environmental threats
—deforestation and marine
pollution—, Harvest from
Atlantis expresses both hope
and concern for the future.
K
The last plinth is left empty
to announce A Tumbling
Inch , a performative action
that will take place on 11
June 2019 in Batam, the
Indonesian island closest to
the Singaporean border.
The performance will be
broadcast live at the Centre.
3. THE RING OF FIRE: A TIMELINE
mixed media, 2.8 x 6.3 m
The timeline visualises the first five years
of Ahmett and Salina’s decade- long project,
The Ring of Fire. Reminiscing a premodern
consciousness when the passing of time was
punctuated by natural events—eruptions,
floods, earthquakes, draughts—rather than
by abstract and standardised reckoning
systems, the timeline is crowned with the
indication of environmental and political
events that spurred, or otherwise framed,
the artists’ work. Below, it aggregates a
selection of material traces of the artists’
impermanent set of performances and
interventions along the Pacific Rim.
4. TITA SALINA
1001ST ISLAND – THE MOST
SUSTAINABLE ISLAND IN THE
ARCHIPELAGO, 2015
video, 14 min 11 sec
Since 2014, Jakarta Bay has become the
theatre of a colossal development project
which includes the construction of
The Giant Sea Wall and several artificial
islands. The title of the work references
Kepulauan Seribu (Thousand Islands), a
string of hundreds of islands stretching
offshore from Jakarta. Together with
fishermen from Muara Angke, a coastal
settlement endangered by the development,
Salina creates an artificial island made with
marine debris plaguing the Bay.
IRWAN AHMETT
HISTORY SERIES, 2014 – 18
Pitting official narrative against lived
experience and collective memory, History
Series is an ongoing series of performances
conducted by Irwan Ahmett since 2014.
Each act is staged on pivotal dates and
engages with unresolved episodes of
Indonesian post-colonial history. Objects
and traces from the performances are
displayed on the shelves alongside the video
documentation.
5. GRAFFITI ON HISTORY, 2014
Typewritten manuscript on washi paper,
29.7 x 21 cm
The 1960s was a period of deep uncertainty,
ghastly ideological battles, and momentous
political shifts across Southeast Asia. Ahmett
addresses the foundational act of the darkest
moment in Indonesian contemporary
history by certifying the existence of
Supersemar (Order of Eleventh March),
Sukarno’s order that invested Suharto with
unrestrained power after the killings of
1965-66. On the basis of that document, the
original of which can no longer be found,
Suharto overthrew Sukarno and established
his three-decade regime.
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6. SPATIAL HISTORY, 2015
video, 26 min 33 sec
8. PERMANENT SHADOW, 2017
video, 42 min 6 sec
The dematerialisation of art and the shift
to textual practices emerged in the EuroAmerican scene in the 1960s. At the
same time, a fateful transition of power
occurred in Indonesia with Supersemar
(1966), a decree that has since disappeared.
Employing ephemerality as a strategy to
counteract official narratives and the
distortion of historical truths, at the end of
the lecture, Ahmett unveils The Non-Existent
Monument of Supersemar, an artistic
statement typewritten on thermal paper.
Treachery of G30S/PKI is a 1984 featurelength film about the events leading to the 30
September Movement coup, commissioned
by the New Order government. Aired on
television on 30 September every year, the
propaganda film was also a mandatory
viewing for students. In this performance,
Ahmett “materialises” the long shadow of a
propagandistic tool that forcibly impressed a
distorted version of history onto the minds
of the population.
7. AUTOPSY OF HISTORY, 2016
video, 44 min 18 sec
Challenging the propagandistic account of
the purges of 1965-66, which resulted with
the establishment of Suharto’s New Order,
the performance Autopsy of History took
place for an invited audience and without
publicity. The artist performs a postmortem examination of vegetables, fruits,
and flowers picked from mass grave sites
and serves them to the audience without
revealing their provenance.
9. CONSTELLATION OF
VIOLENCE, 2018
video, 1 hr 21 min
The assassination of six Indonesia Army
generals on the night between 30 September
and 1 October 1965 unleashed mass purges
and political persecutions leading to the rise
of Suharto. As of today, the official account
of the event is challenged by the historians.
In Constellation of Violence, Ahmett injects
blood in the star alignments that were
glowing over Jakarta that night to signal the
urgency to illuminate its political
circumstances.
NTU CCA SINGAPORE STAFF
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School of Art, Design and Professor, School of Art, Design, and Media, NTU
EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES
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Dr Anna Lovecchio, Curator, Residencies
Magdalena Magiera, Curator, Outreach & Education
Ana Sophie Salazar, Assistant Curator, Exhibitions
Seet Yun Teng, Curatorial Assistant, Residencies
Ilya Katrinnada Binte Zubaidi, Curatorial Assistant, Outreach & Education
Frankie Fang, Assistant Manager, Production
Isrudy Shaik, Senior Executive, Production
Amelia Loh, Young Professional Trainee, Outreach & Education
Lee Hon Choo, Young Professional Trainee, Residencies
Jonathan Liu, Young Professional Trainee, Production
Rani Shah Lawson, Intern, Exhibitions
RESEARCH & EDUCATION
Sophie Goltz, Deputy Director, Research & Academic Programmes,
and Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU
Dr Pallavi Narayan, Manager, Research Publications & Public Resource Platform
Soh Kay Min, Executive, Conference, Workshops & Archive
OPERATIONS & STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT
Peter Lin, Deputy Director, Operations & Strategic Development
Jasmaine Cheong, Assistant Director, Operations & HR
Joyce Lee, Manager, Finance
Perla Espiel, Special Project Assistant
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Fok Jing Yi, Young Professional Trainee, Communications
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EXHIBITION COLOPHON
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)
A research-intensive public university, NTU has 33,000 undergraduate and
postgraduate students in the colleges of Engineering, Business, Science, and
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and its Graduate College. NTU’s campus is
frequently listed among the top 15 most beautiful university campuses in the world
and has 57 Green Mark-certified (equivalent to LEED-certified) buildings. Besides
its 200-ha lush green, residential campus in western Singapore, NTU has a second
campus in the heart of Novena, Singapore’s medical district.
Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina
The Ring of Fire (2014 – ongoing)
The Lab, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
13 April – 11 June 2019
MEMBERS
Linda de Mello, Director, Sector Development, NAC
Professor Kwok Kian Woon, Associate Provost (Student Life), President’s Office, NTU
Cindy Koh, Director, Consumer, Economic Development Board
Mike Samson, Managing Director and Regional Head ASEAN Leveraged
and Structured Solutions, Standard Chartered Bank
Professor Dorrit Vibeke Sorensen, Chair, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU
Michael Tay, Group Managing Director, The Hour Glass Limited
Dr June Yap, Director, Curatorial, Programmes and Publications, Singapore Art Museum
NTU CCA SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
CHAIR
Professor Nikos Papastergiadis, Director, Research Unit in Public Cultures, and Professor,
School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne, Australia
MEMBERS
Doryun Chong, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, M+, Hong Kong
Catherine David, Deputy Director in charge of Research and Globalisation,
MNAM/CCI, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The late Okwui Enwezor, curator and writer, Munich, Germany
Professor Patrick Flores, Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines
and Curator Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines
Ranjit Hoskote, cultural theorist and independent curator, Mumbai, India
Professor Ashley Thompson, Hiram W. Woodward Chair of Southeast Asian Art,
SOAS University of London, United Kingdom
Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
NTU CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART SINGAPORE
Located in Gillman Barracks, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
(NTU CCA Singapore) is a national research centre of Nanyang Technological
University and is supported by a grant from the Economic Development Board,
Singapore. The Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of RESEARCH
AND ACADEMIC EDUCATION, EXHIBITIONS, and RESIDENCIES, engaging
in knowledge production and dissemination. NTU CCA Singapore positions itself
as a space for critical discourse and encourages new ways of thinking about Spaces
of the Curatorial in Southeast Asia and beyond. The Centre’s dynamic public
programmes serve to engage with various audiences through lectures, workshops,
open studios, film screenings, Exhibition (de)Tours, and Stagings. As a research
centre, it aims to provide visiting researchers and curators a comprehensive study
on the contemporary art ecosystem in Singapore and the region
Curated by:
Dr Anna Lovecchio, Curator, Residencies
Curatorial Assistance:
Seet Yun Teng, Curatorial Assistant, Residencies
Lee Hon Choo, Young Professional Trainee, Residencies
Exhibition Production:
Frankie Fang, Assistant Manager, Production
Isrudy Shaik, Senior Executive, Production
Jonathan Liu, Young Professional Trainee, Production
IMAGE CAPTIONS
Cover—Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina, Harvest from
Atlantis, photograph of performance, Jakarta, 2019.
Inside cover—Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina, Autopsy of
History, photograph of performance, Berlin, 2017.
Flap—Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina, Arus Balik,
photograph of performance, Jakarta, 2017.
All images courtesy the artists.
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Tita Salina
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This research is part of Ring of Fire (2014-ongoing), a long-term project focused on natural disasters and geopolitical collisions named after the vast geographical area that runs from New Zealand to Chile stretching across Southeast Asia.
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Departing from a specific historical episode, the artists will explore the contemporary currency of gestures of sabotage in the context of the geopolitical frictions between Indonesia and Singapore. This research is part of <i>Ring of Fire</i> (2014-ongoing), a long-term project focused on natural disasters and geopolitical collisions named after the vast geographical area that runs from New Zealand to Chile stretching across Southeast Asia. By framing uncanny relationships between tectonic instability and political unrest, the pair seek to address conditions of vulnerability as well as the tensions related to environment, social justice, freedom of expression, and human rights among Southeast Asian countries.
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1 March – 29 March 2018
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Irwan Ahmett
Tita Salina
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Irwan
Tita
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Ahmett
Salina
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2018
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Working together since 2010, Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina are an artist duo from Jakarta, Indonesia. Their tactical interventionist approach is developed in response to their experience of living in Jakarta, a megacity of 15 million people fraught with political power struggles. In their practice, they frequently translate social issues into events that unfold spontaneously in the public sphere as a form of “urban play,” generating critical alternatives to complicated issues. Their work has been exhibited at ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (2016); Biennale Jogja, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2015); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2014); and Singapore Biennale (2013).
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Artist-in-Residence
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Tita Salina
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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
A name given to the resource
The Lab
Exhibition
Curated group or solo shows that happen over a period of time, usually a few months, supported by auxiliary programmes. Examples include exhibition hall presentations, lab presentations, vitrine presentations, curated film programmes, and festivals.
Short Description
The Ring of Fire (2014–ongoing) brings together for the first time the most significant works realised by Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina since the inception of the project.
Exhibition Mode
Research Presentation
Show Type
Individual Artist (solo show)
Thematic Presentation (group show)
Individual Artist
Exhibition Space
The Lab
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
Exhibition Start Date
2019-04-13
Exhibition End Date
2019-06-11
Collaboration
No
Commissioned Work
No
Related Countries
Indonesia
New Zealand
Taiwan
South Korea
Japan
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Place.Labour.Capital.
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
A name given to the resource
<i>The Ring of Fire (2014 – ongoing)</i> by Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina
Subject
The topic of the resource
Geopolitics
Migration
Politics
Activism
Description
An account of the resource
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 <b>Irwan Ahmett</b> and <b>Tita Salina</b>, this geologically unstable territory demarcates a field of artist inquiry. <br /><br />Since 2014, the Indonesian duo have 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. <i>The Ring of Fire (2014–ongoing)</i> brings together for the first time the most significant works realised by the artists, either together or individually, since the inception of the project.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Irwan Ahmett
Tita Salina
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Asia
Oceania
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
Video
Print
Object
Installation