Journey of a Yellow Man. Selected Materials from the Independent Archive]]> Performance]]> Activism]]> Politics]]> Identity]]> Artistic Research]]> Archival Practice]]> Lee Wen (Singapore) in 2012. For the past six years, the IA captured the zeitgeist of performance art in Singapore and larger (South-)East Asia through artistic collaborations.

This presentation in The Lab is organised into five chapters —“Condition,” “Body,” “Formation / Gestalt,” “Absence,” and “Memory”—that look at the development of performance art as a new medium as well as its political conditions. Journey of a Yellow Man. takes visitors through the archive with photographs, videos, writings, sketchbooks, while simultaneously, introducing the digital archive. As of today, the Centre has digitalised 20,000 files from the IA.

The practice of Lee Wen is motivated by social investigations that use art to interrogate stereotypical perceptions of culture and society. He became famous for his performance series Journey of a Yellow Man (1992—), where he embodied his Chinese descent and its relationship to oppressive systems.

The presentation provides insight into a continuously expanding resource platform that highlights ephemeral moments in the history of performance art in Singapore. The project addresses the importance of providing historically significant source material for researchers and the wider public. The digitalised files will be integrated into NTU CCA Singapore’s Public Resource Platform and will be accessible at the Centre, the Independent Archive, and the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, a collaborative partner of this project.

With IA, a series of public programmes will take place in both The Lab at the NTU CCA Singapore and in the IA. The programme highlights IA as a “living archive” that not only serves as a reference library and archive focusing on time-based and event-specific art, but is also a gathering space that offers dynamic programmes in a vibrant network of artists, musicians, and the public.

Journey of a Yellow Man is curated by Sophie Goltz, Deputy Director, Research and Academic Programmes, NTU CCA Singapore, in collaboration with Lee Wen, artist and Founder, Independent Archive, Singapore, Bruce Quek, Research, Independent Archive, and Kamiliah Bahdar, Public Programmes, Independent Archive. Project Assistant: Ho See Wah, Young Professional Trainee, NTU CCA Singapore. Assistant to Lee Wen: Liu Wen Chao, Library, Independent Archive.

The NTU CCA Digital Resource Platform was initiated in 2016 by Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore, and Professor, NTU ADM Singapore and Lee Wen, in collaboration with Chương-Đài Võ, Researcher, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong. Assistant to the project: Bruce Quek with the support of Samantha Leong Min Yu, Executive, Conferences, Workshops & Archive, NTU CCA Singapore (till May 2018), Corine Chan Li Ling, Executive Archive, NTU CCA Singapore (May to July 2018), and Pooja Paras Mehta (2017), Ho See Wah (2018), Young Professional Trainees, NTU CCA Singapore.]]>
Sophie Goltz]]> Lee Wen]]> Bruce Quek]]> Kamiliah Bahdar]]> Ho See Wah]]> Liu Wen Chao]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Chương-Đài Võ]]> Samantha Leong Min Yu]]> Corine Chan Li Ling]]> Pooja Paras Mehta]]> Chuong-Dai Vo]]> Chuong Dai Vo]]> Photography]]> Multimedia Installation]]> Print]]> Video]]> Sculpture]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Paradise Lost Exhibition Guide]]> Migration]]> Globalisation]]> Paradise Lost Exhibition Guide]]> Trinh T. Minh-ha]]> Zarina Bhimji]]> Fiona Tan]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Guide]]> Asia]]> Theatrical Fields Exhibition Guide]]> Embodiment]]> Experiential]]> Theatre]]> Ritual]]> Theatrical Fields Exhibition Guide]]> Judith Barry]]> Stan Douglas]]> Joan Jonas]]> Isaac Julien]]> Eva Meyer]]> Eran Schaerf]]> Constanze Ruhm]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Anca Rujoiu ]]> Guide]]> Europe]]> Southeast Asia]]> North America]]> Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts Exhibition Guide]]> Theatre]]> Fiction]]> Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts Exhibition Guide]]> Yang Fudong]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Khim Ong ]]> Guide]]> Asia]]> Hugging the Shore Exhibition Guide]]> Archival Practice]]> Materiality]]> Hugging the Shore Exhibition Guide]]> Simryn Gill]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Guide]]> Southeast Asia]]> Fish Story, to be continued Exhibition Guide]]> Geopolitics]]> Oceans & Seas]]> Fish Story, to be continued Exhibition Guide]]> Allan Sekula]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Guide]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> North America]]> Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions Exhibition Guide]]> Coexistence]]> Posthumanism]]> Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions Exhibition Guide]]> Tomás Saraceno]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Guide]]> Southeast Asia]]> Politics]]> Geopolitics]]> History]]>
Speaker: Dr Itty Abraham (United States/Singapore), Professor and Head, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore]]>
Itty Abraham]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Archival Practice]]> Education]]> Dirk Snauwaert]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Nina Geys]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Climate Crisis]]> Ecology]]> Sustainability]]> NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and the New Museum are pleased to announce participants and collaborators for the second edition of the NTU CCA Ideas Fest, IdeasCity Singapore, guest-curated by IdeasCity, taking place in Singapore and across Southeast Asia from February 15 to 22, 2020.

Building upon the NTU CCA Singapore’s research theme Climates. Habitats. Environments. and IdeasCity’s exploration of the role of art and culture beyond the walls of the museum, IdeasCity Singapore’s residency and public program will examine the urgency of solidarity structures in negating climate change and its impact on Southeast Asia and communities worldwide.

Twenty practitioners have been selected from an international open call for the residency program at the NTU CCA Singapore to develop independent research at the intersection of art and ecology. Throughout the residency, participants will engage in workshops and lectures presented by local artists, practitioners, and community leaders, including Heman ChongLynette ChuaDrama BoxCharles LimZarina Muhammad, and Post-Museum, along with organizations such as New NaratifThe ProjectorSingapore Community Radiosoft/WALLS/studs, and The Substation.

Residency Fellows include: Francisco Brown (United States), Jane Chang Mi (United States), Kar-men Cheng (Singapore), Lingying Chong (Singapore), Chloe C. Chotrani (Philippines/Singapore), Calvin Chua (Singapore), Fataah T. Dihaan (United States), ila (Singapore), Heider Ismail (Singapore), Lily Kwong (United States), Clarissa Ai Ling Lee (Malaysia), Michelle Lai (Singapore), Kwan Q Li (Hong Kong), Angela Mayrina (Indonesia/United Kingdom), John Kenneth Paranada (Philippines/United Kingdom), Patricia Sayuri (Japan/Brazil), Pen Sereypagna (Cambodia), Shahmen Suku (Singapore/Australia), Ruby Thiagarajan (Singapore), Dat Vu (Vietnam), Nikan Wasinondh (Bow) (Thailand) and Jason Wee (Singapore). For more information please visit: http://www.ideas-city.org.

On February 22, 2020 at NTU CCA Singapore, IdeasCity Singapore will present and broadcast a series of dialogues between local and international artists and community leaders on topics including food sovereignty (Angela Dimayuga and Emeka Ogboh), underground archives (Heman Chong and Monica Narula of Raqs Media Collective), image and power (Ho Rui An and Shumon Basar), ecofeminism (Marwa Arsanios), and traces of migration (Kunlé Adeyemi, Eleena Jamil, Bouchra Khalili and Alfian Sa’at). A sequence of debate circles will examine the roles of solidarity and speculation in addressing climate injustice, featuring interdisciplinary perspectives from speakers such as Becca D’Bus, Kirsten Han, Prasoon Kumar and Zarina Muhammad.

Workshops and conversations facilitated by Bakudapan Food Study Group and a presentation of new VR work by artist Rindon Johnson will invite select audiences to engage directly with artists envisioning pathways to equitable and sustainable futures. The programme will also feature screenings, showings, and remarks by performance artist ila and Digital Minister of Taiwan, Audrey Tang.

Responding to the context of climate crisis, in which artists, activists, and scholars around the world are working today, IdeasCity Singapore will include a series of programmes across Southeast Asia in collaboration with The Forest Curriculum and Nomina Nuda (Los Baños, Philippines), Malaysia Design Archive (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), House of Natural Fiber (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), The Land (Chiang Mai, Thailand),  Sàn Art (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (Boston, United States).

Facilitated by IdeasCity and workshopped at NTU CCA Singapore with an advisory council of Singaporean community members whose work exemplifies equitable practices, a community agreement was developed that details best practices for achieving an accountable, sustainable, and authentic collaboration in Singapore.

Programme on 22 February 2020 
10.00am
Start and Finish by Ute Meta Bauer and Vere van Gool
10.15am
Dialogues by Shumon Basar and Ho Rui An on capitalism and the extreme self
11.00am
Lecture by Kirsten Han on emergent medias and speech
11.20am
Film screening by ila
12.00pm
Presentation by Heman Chong on archives as commons
12.15pm
Lecture Screening by Marwa Arsanios on ecofeminism and community
1.00pm
Presentation by Monica Narula on submarine horizons
1.30pm
Performance by Radha “Midnight Masala”
1.55pm
Hologram lecture by Audrey Tang
2.00pm
Conversation between Becca D’Bus and Fellows on solidarity with nature
3.00pm
Discussion by Shumon Basar, Heman Chong, Vere van Gool, Charles Lim, and Zarina Muhammad on sovereignty and indigenous contexts
4.00pm
Lecture by Emeka Ogboh on food diasporas
4.15pm
Reading by Alfian Sa’at on the poetics of migration
4.30pm
Presentations by House of Natural Fiber and the Land Foundation on strategies for combatting climate change
5.00pm
Video Presentation by Angela Dimayuga on culture and cookbooks
5.10pm
Discussion by Ute Meta Bauer, Vanessa Ho, and Prasoon Kumar on trust networks and sustainability
6.00pm
Kitchen Mapping Workshop by Bakudapan Food Study Group
6.30pm
VR Demo by Rindon Johnson on speculative futures
7.00pm
Roundtable by Fellows
7.45pm
Live Music by Bani Haykal
8.00pm
Lecture Screenings by Kunlé Adeyemi, Eleena Jamil, and Bouchra Khalili on the poetics of migration
10.00pm
Start and Finish by Ute Meta Bauer and Vere van Gool

NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2020 is guest-curated by IdeasCity, New Museum, New York.

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Heman Chong]]> Lynette Chua]]> Drama Box]]> Charles Lim]]> Zarina Muhammad]]> Post-Museum]]> New Naratif]]> The Projector]]> Singapore Community Radio]]> soft/WALLS/studs]]> The Substation]]> Francisco Brown]]> Jane Chang Mi]]> Kar-men Cheng]]> Lingying Chong]]> Chloe C. Chotrani]]> Calvin Chua]]> Fataah T. Dihaan]]> ila]]> Heider Ismail]]> Lily Kwong]]> Clarissa Ai Ling Lee]]> Michelle Lai]]> Kwan Q Li]]> Angela Mayrina]]> John Kenneth Paranada]]> Patricia Sayuri]]> Pen Sereypagna]]> Shahmen]]> Ruby Thiagarajan]]> Dat Vu ]]> Suku]]> Nikan Wasinondh]]> Jason Wee]]> Ho Rui An]]> Shumon Basar]]> Angela Dimayuga]]> Emeka Ogboh]]> Monica Narula]]> Marwa Arsanios]]> Kunlé Adeyemi]]> Eleena Jamil]]> Bouchra Khalili]]> Alfian Sa’at]]> Becca D’Bus]]> Kirsten Han]]> Prasoon Kumar ]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Ideas City]]> Vere Van Gool]]> Bani Haykal]]> Rindon Johnson]]> Bakudapan Food Study Group]]> Vanessa Ho]]> House of Natural Fiber]]> Land Foundation]]> Audrey Tang]]> Radha]]> Southeast Asia]]>