Animals]]> Coexistence]]> Tomás Saraceno]]> Tomas Saraceno]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Public Art]]> Urbanism]]> Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd]]> NTU CCA Singapore]]> Dan Graham]]> Zulkifle Mahmod]]> Tomás Saraceno]]> Yinka Shonibare]]> Digital Tour Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Culture City. Culture Scape. Public Art Trail at Mapletree Business City II]]> Public Art]]> Urbanism]]> Our upcoming guided tour is an excellent way to get inspired and unwind in the company of art. Enjoy a well-deserved cup of coffee and snack while we walk you through the artworks nestled in the lush compounds of Mapletree Business City II (MBC II).

Themed Culture City. Culture Scape., this public art project, commissioned by Mapletree and curated by NTU CCA Singapore comprises works by internationally renowned artists Dan Graham (United States), Zulkifle Mahmod (Singapore), Tomás Saraceno (Argentina/Germany), and Yinka Shonibare (Nigeria/United Kingdom). Inspired by the idea of expanded sculptural environments, the artworks explore the interplay between landscape, architecture, and the broader social and economic environments they are placed in. More than being monumental or site-specific, each work alters or permeates its local context to invite visitors to a broader, richer engagement.

For more information about our tours, please visit: www.mapletreearts.sg

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Dan Graham]]> Zulkifle Mahmod ]]> Tomás Saraceno]]> Yinka Shonibare ]]> Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Animals]]> Nature]]> 24 Oct 2015, Sat 4:00pm - 6:00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

This panel will be an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of Tomás Saraceno’s new production, Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions and how it situates in his wider investigations of the spider webs. Participants include: Tomás Saraceno, artist; Peter Jäger, arachnologist and Elizabeth A. Povinelli, critical theorist and filmmaker.

Moderated by Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, Anca Rujoiu, Curator, Exhibitions, Magdalena Magiera, Curator, Outreach & Education.

This panel discussion is a public programme of Tomás Saraceno: Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions.]]>
Tomás Saraceno]]> Tomas Saraceno]]> Peter Jäger]]> Peter Jager]]> Elizabeth A. Povinelli]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Brian O'Reilly]]> Asia]]>
Urbanism]]> Public Art]]> Published by NTU CCA Singapore, 2021
Edited by Ute Meta Bauer, Sophie Goltz, and Khim Ong
Design by Studio Vanessa Ban
© 2021 by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

ISBN: 978-981-14-4377-0
Distributed by NUS Press (Asia Pacific and the Americas) 
Copies are available for sale at NTU CCA Singapore and through NUS Press
S$28

Works of art presented in public spaces are increasingly viewed from the perspective of place-making, a holistic approach that engages the diverse functions of a location and its wider context. As a practice, place-making integrates urban planning, landscape architecture, and cultural management.

Culture City. Culture Scape. documents a major public art commission for a newly designed business park in Singapore, Mapletree Business City II, featuring works by international and local artists Dan Graham, Tomás Saraceno, Yinka Shonibare CBE, and Zul Mahmod, which draw upon regional histories and urban politics.

The curators’ conversations with the artists and with Edmund Cheng, Chairman of Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd, as well as reflective essays on the development process and the potential of art in public spaces, lend context on the multiple points of view that must be reconciled to create meaningful public spaces and explore the role art can play in public education and social corporate investment.

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Ute Meta Bauer]]> Edmund Cheng]]> Sophie Goltz]]> Khim Ong]]> Tomás Saraceno]]> Yinka Shonibare CBE]]> Dan Graham]]> Zul Mahmod]]> Tomas Saraceno]]> Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd]]> NUS Press Pte Ltd]]> Studio Vanessa Ban]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Coexistence]]> Animals]]> Tomás Saraceno]]> Tomas Saraceno]]> Southeast Asia]]> Europe]]> Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions Exhibition Guide]]> Coexistence]]> Posthumanism]]> Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions Exhibition Guide]]> Tomás Saraceno]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Guide]]> Southeast Asia]]> Culture City. Culture Scape. Art, Urban Change, and the Public Sphere]]> Public Sphere]]> Urbanism]]> Geopolitics]]> Culture City. Culture Scape. is a public art education programme launched in 2017. A first of its kind in Singapore, the programme features a series of newly commissioned public art works by Dan Graham, Zulkifle Mahmod, Tomás Saraceno and Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA), nestled at Mapletree Business City II, and aims to bring the arts closer to the communities.

Conceived as a research presentation at NTU CCA Singapore’s The Lab, Art, Urban Change, and the Public Sphere engages with the making of the Public Art Trail at Mapletree Business City II in the context of Privately-Owned Public Spaces (POPS) together with other artistic and urban developments in Singapore. The works of the Public Art Trail by international renowned artists Dan Graham, Zulkifle Mahmod, Tomás Saraceno and Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA)are animated through augmented reality in a unique spatial setting. The presentation reflects on emerging discourses such as Future Asian Spaces or Art in the Public Sphere and situates the interconnectedness of cultural politics, urban developments and economic conditions in today’s Singapore. A same-titled Public Art Education Summit in October will reflect on the socio-poltical changes and challenges of Art in the Public Sphere with a focus on community engagement, social (corporate) responsibility, and new artistic approaches in an ever-expanding urban setting.

Contributors include: Lewis Biggs, Chairman, Institute for Public Art; Lilian Chee, Associate Professor & Deputy Head (academic), Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore; Connie Chester, Head of Research and Communication, Studio Tomás Saraceno; Heman Chong, artist; Speak Cryptic, artist; Priyageetha Dia, artist; Eileen Goh, Assistant Manager, Art-In-Transit; Jeremy Hiah, artist and founder, Your Mother gallery; Ruth Hogan, Studio Manager; Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA)Kevin Hsiu, Assistant Director, Liveable Cities; Eileen Lee, Manager, Corporate Communications, Mapletree Investments; Vincent Lee, Principal Architectural Assistant, Art-In-Transit; Samantha Lo/SKL0, artist; Zulkifle Mahmod, artist; Khim Ong, independent curator; Seelan Palay, artist and founder, Coda Culture; Aurel von Richthofen, Senior Researcher, Singapore-ETH Centre SEC; Regina de Rozario, PhD candidate, NTU ADM; Peter Schoppert, Managing Director, National University of Singapore Press; Mustafa Shabbir, Senior Curator, National Gallery Singapore; Angela Tan, Assistant Director, Sector Development (Visual Arts), National Arts Council; Isaiah Tan, 3D Modeler; Ludovica Tomarchio, Research Assistant, Singapore-ETH Centre SEC; Ian Woo, artist; Robert Zhao, artist; Epigram Books; Lisson Gallery; DCA Architects,; Shma Company Limited,; Shimizu Corporation; and among others.]]>
Dan Graham]]> Zulkifle Mahmod]]> Tomás Saraceno]]> Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA)]]> Lewis Biggs]]> Lilian Chee]]> Connie Chester]]> Heman Chong]]> Speak Cryptic]]> Priyageetha Dia]]> Eileen Goh]]> Jeremy Hiah]]> Ruth Hogan]]> Kevin Hsiu]]> Eileen Lee]]> Vincent Lee]]> Samantha Lo/SKL0]]> Khim Ong]]> Seelan Palay]]> Aurel von Richthofen]]> Regina de Rozario]]> Peter Schoppert]]> Mustafa Shabbir]]> Angela Tan]]> Isaiah Tan]]> Ludovica Tomarchio]]> Ian Woo]]> Robert Zhao]]> Epigram Books]]> Lisson Gallery]]> DCA Architects]]> Shma Company Limited]]> Shimizu Corporation]]> Multimedia Installation]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions]]> Posthumanism]]> Sustainability]]> Coexistence]]> Biodiversity]]> Ecology]]> Technology]]>
Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions at NTU CCA Singapore is a new production by Tomás Saraceno commissioned by the centre that brings his long-term research on spider webs into the realm of sound. The artist uses spider webs as musical instruments embodying the incredible structural properties of the spider’s silk, but also the spider’s sophisticated mode of communication through vibrations.

Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions is a pioneering investigation by Saraceno and his studio in Berlin that involves a range of collaborators from various universities and disciplines. The exhibition space is turned into an interactive sound and visual installation, a process-driven laboratory for experimentation that pushes the boundaries of interspecies communication.

As an extension of the exhibition, a dedicated website (www.arachnidorchestra.org) will operate as a research platform and playful hypertext of musical tuning.]]>
Tomás Saraceno]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Astonishing Secrets of Spiders - Human Wisdom is Way Behind]]> Multimedia Installation]]> Sound]]> Southeast Asia]]>