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The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) presents The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II, a symposium addressing the multiple notions of “Southeast Asia” and the various issues surrounding its borders, territories, dilemmas and anxieties.
Programme Type
Conference and Symposium
Audience
General
Professional
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Collaboration
Yes
Commissioned Work
No
Education
No
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Symposium: The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II
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Geopolitics
Regionalism
History
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<div class="event_single_dates text__research">Fri 17 Jun 2016, 7:00pm - 9:00pm<br />Sat 18 Jun 2016, 9:30am - 6:00pm</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">National Gallery Singapore and NTU CCA Singapore<br /><br /><p>The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) presents <em>The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context</em>, Part II, a symposium addressing the multiple notions of “Southeast Asia” and the various issues surrounding its borders, territories, dilemmas and anxieties. <span>SEA STATE</span> by artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, commissioned for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56<sup>th</sup> Venice Biennale, explores the biophysical, political and psychic contours of Singapore and served as a point of departure for the symposium. <span>Part I</span> of the symposium took place in Venice, Italy during the opening days of the Biennale, and this second iteration will continue and deepen the discussions on the occasion of <span>SEA STATE</span>’s presentation at NTU CCA Singapore.</p>
<p>Southeast Asia, as a geographical region and conceptual category, is a contested entity shaped by diverse cultures and communities. The possibilities and uncertainties in this region – such as urban development, geopolitical relations, and anxieties surrounding national and regional identities – continue to pose unique social and political challenges.<br /><br /></p>
<p><em>The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context</em>, Part II brings together an array of eminent speakers and respondents to address questions of contemporary art and culture through interdisciplinary approaches – considering bodies of water as cultural-territorial spaces in an exploration of rivers, land reclamation, sea ports, and nomadic communities. The conversations arising from this symposium offers insight into the Southeast Asian consciousness and how it informs the region’s evolving relationship with the wider world.</p>
<p>The symposium is organised by NTU CCA Singapore under its Research & Education programme, which aims to connect research based artistic practices with other forms of knowledge production. As a prelude to the symposium, NTU CCA Singapore will <span>screen films by Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul</span> on 1 and 3 June 2016 to set up a “conversation” between two artist-filmmakers, Apichatpong and Charles Lim Yi Yong.<br /><br /></p>
<p><u>Prelude </u></p>
<p>Screening of films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul<br />Day 1: Wednesday, 1 June 2016, 7.30 – 10.00pm | <em>Cemetery of Splendour</em> (2015)<br />Day 2: Friday, 3 June 2016, 7.30 – 10.00pm | <em>Tropical Malady </em>(2004)</p>
<p>NTU CCA Singapore, <em>The Single Screen</em><br />Block 43 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 109443<br /><br /></p>
<p><span><strong>Symposium programme</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Day 1: National Gallery Singapore, Friday 17 June 2016, 7.00 – 9.00pm<br /></strong></p>
<div>
<div><strong>7.00 – 7.30pm</strong></div>
<div><strong>Registration & refreshments</strong></div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p><strong>7.30 – 7.45pm</strong></p>
</div>
<div>
<p><strong>Welcome address</strong><br /><strong>Paul Tan</strong> (Singapore), Deputy CEO, National Arts Council<br /><strong>Professor Ute Meta Bauer</strong> (Germany/Singapore), Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore, and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)</p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div><strong>7.45 – 9.00pm</strong></div>
<div><strong>Keynote Lecture</strong><br /><strong><em>In a Time of Earthquakes: Contemporary Chinese Artists Shake the World</em></strong><br />by <strong>Professor Aihwa Ong</strong> (Malaysia/United States), Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology and Chair of Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)<br /><span>Respondent: </span><strong>Professor C.J. Wee Wan-ling</strong><span> (Singapore), Division of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU</span></div>
</div>
<p><strong>Day 2: NTU CCA Singapore, </strong><strong>Saturday 18 June 2016, 9.30am – 6.00pm</strong></p>
<div>
<div><strong>9.30 – 10.00am</strong></div>
<div><strong>Registration & refreshments</strong></div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p><strong>10.00 – 10.10am</strong></p>
</div>
<div>
<p><strong>MORNING SESSION</strong><br /><strong>Opening address</strong> by chairperson, <strong>Professor Ute Meta Bauer</strong></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div><strong>10.10 – 11.20am</strong></div>
<div><strong>Keynote lecture</strong><br /><strong><em>SEA STATE: Charles Lim’s Video-and Photo-graphic Eye</em></strong><br />by <strong>Professor Michael M.J. Fischer</strong> (United States), Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<br />Respondent:<strong> Dr Kristy H.A. Kang</strong> (United States/Singapore), Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design & Media, NTU</div>
</div>
<div>
<p><strong>11.20am – 12.30pm</strong></p>
</div>
<div>
<p><strong>Session 1: <em>The River and its Representations</em></strong><br />Speaker: <strong>Gridthiya Gaweewong</strong> (Thailand), Artistic Director and Curator, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok<br />Respondent: <strong>Dr David Teh</strong> (Australia/Singapore), Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore (NUS)</p>
</div>
<div>
<div><strong>12.30 – 1.30pm</strong></div>
<div><strong>Lunch Break</strong></div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p><strong>1.30 – 1.40pm</strong></p>
</div>
<div>
<p><strong>AFTERNOON SESSION</strong><br /><strong>Opening address</strong> by chairperson, <strong>Dr David Teh</strong></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div><strong>1.40 – 2.50pm</strong></div>
<div><strong>Session 2: <em>The Land and its Reclamations</em></strong><br />Speakers: <strong>Joshua Comaroff</strong> (United States/Singapore), design consultant, Lekker Architects; and <strong>Seth Denizen</strong> (United States), PhD candidate, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley<br />Respondent: <strong>Shabbir Hussain Mustafa</strong> (Singapore), curator, SEA STATE, and Senior Curator, National Gallery Singapore<br /><br /><div>
<div>
<p><strong>2.50 – 4.20pm</strong></p>
</div>
<div>
<p><strong>Session 3: <em>Of Nomads and Sea Ports</em></strong><br />Speakers: <strong>Dr Donna Brunero</strong> (Australia/Singapore), Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, NUS; <strong>Dr Wee Beng Geok</strong> (Singapore), Consultant, Nanyang Business School, NTU; and <strong>Dr Vivienne Wee</strong> (Singapore), independent anthropologist and researcher<br />Respondent: <strong>Dr Imran bin Tajudeen</strong> (Singapore), Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, NUS<br /><br /></p>
<div>
<div><strong>4.20 – 4.40pm</strong></div>
<div><strong>Tea Break</strong></div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p><strong>4.40 – 6.00pm</strong></p>
</div>
<div>
<p><strong>Roundtable Discussion</strong><br />Participants: <strong>Professor Michael M.J. Fischer</strong>, <strong>Charles Lim Yi Yong</strong>, <strong>Shabbir Hussain Mustafa</strong>, and <strong>Professor Aihwa</strong> <strong>Ong</strong>.<br />Moderators: <strong>Professor Ute Meta Bauer</strong> and <strong>Dr David Teh</strong>.<br /><br /><span>The programme is commissioned by the </span><span><a href="http://www.nac.gov.sg/">National Arts Council (NAC)</a></span><span> and supported by the </span><span><a href="http://www.stb.gov.sg/">Singapore Tourism Board (STB)</a></span><span>, with additional support from U.S. Embassy Singapore and </span><span><a href="https://www.nationalgallery.sg/">National Gallery Singapore</a></span><span>.</span></p>
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</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Date
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17 - 18 June 2016
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
Southeast Asia
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Paul Tan
Ute Meta Bauer
Aihwa Ong
C.J. Wee Wan-ling
Michael M.J. Fischer
Kristy H.A. Kang
Gridthiya Gaweewong
David Teh
Joshua Comaroff
Seth Denizen
Shabbir Hussain Mustafa
Donna Brunero
Wee Beng Geok
Vivienne Wee
Imran bin Tajudeen
C. J. Wan-ling Wee
C. J. W.-L. Wee
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First Name
Vivienne
Surname or Business Name
Wee
Years Affiliated
Year range (starting year/ending year) affiliated with NTU CCA Singapore, or leave blank if not applicable.
For date range with year only: YYYY/YYYY, e.g., 2014/2015
For date range with year and month: YYYY-MM/YYYY-MM, e.g., 2014-07/2015-06
2016
Affiliation
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Ethnographica Private Limited, Singapore
Birth Date
1951
Birthplace
Singapore
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Independent anthropologist and researcher
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<span>Dr Vivienne Wee is an anthropologist who has done extensive field research in Singapore and Indonesia, especially the Riau Archipelago. She was previously Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. In 2015, together with Geoffrey Benjamin and Sarah Huang Benjamin, Dr Wee co-founded Ethnographica Private Limited, which is dedicated to ethnographic research on social development, community engagement, heritage conservation, cultural mapping, linguistic doumentation and other related fields.</span>
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Singapore
Public Resource Centre Affiliation
Artist Research Platform
Library
Video Resource Platform
None
None
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Speaker
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Place.Labour.Capital.
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Vivienne Wee
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Cultural Heritage
History
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Vivienne Wee
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Southeast Asia
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Short Description
In this session, Dr Vivienne Wee speaks about sea nomads — the Orang Laut community in the Riau region; Dr Donna Brunero speaks about histories of port city communities; and Dr Wee Beng Geok speaks about maritime commerce and industry.
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Place.Labour.Capital.
Programme Type
Talk and Lecture
Audience
General
Location
Onsite (CCA)
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Online
Onsite (CCA)
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Yes
Commissioned Work
No
Education
No
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Symposium: The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: A Structured Conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in Context, Part II <br />Session 3 – Of Nomads and Sea Ports
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Sat 18 Jun 2016, 2.50 - 4.20 pm<br />Blk 43 Malan Road, The Single Screen<br /><br />The total land area of Southeast Asia is almost evenly divided between countries which are part of continental Asia, and countries that are made of archipelagoes such as The Philippines and Indonesia. But beyond the lands of continents and islands, the sea is also one of the most important geophysical reality of the region. In this session, Dr Vivienne Wee speaks about sea nomads — the Orang Laut community in the Riau region; Dr Donna Brunero speaks about histories of port city communities; and Dr Wee Beng Geok speaks about maritime commerce and industry.<br /><br />Respondent: Dr Imran bin Tajudeen
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016-06-18
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Donna Brunero
Wee Beng Geok
Vivienne Wee
Imran bin Tajudeen
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Southeast Asia
Subject
The topic of the resource
Oceans & Seas
Regionalism
History
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02 OF 08
The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II
A symposium conceived and organised by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore on the occasion of Charles Lim Yi Yong : SEA STATE
The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA
Singapore) presents The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured
conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II, a symposium
addressing the multiple notions of “Southeast Asia” and the various
issues surrounding its borders, territories, dilemmas and anxieties.
SEA STATE by artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, commissioned for the
Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, explores the
biophysical, political and psychic contours of Singapore and serves
as a point of departure for the symposium.
Part I of the symposium took place in Venice, Italy during the
Commissioned by:
ABOU
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Supported by:
Held in:
opening days of the Biennale, and this second iteration will continue
and deepen the discussions on the occasion of SEA STATE’s
presentation at NTU CCA Singapore.
The symposium is organised by NTU CCA Singapore under its Research
& Education programme, which aims to connect research based artistic
practices with other forms of knowledge production.
The programme is commissioned by the National Arts Council (NAC) and
supported by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), with additional support
from U.S. Embassy Singapore and National Gallery Singapore.
Symposium supporter:
Symposium venue partner:
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03 OF 08
The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II
A symposium conceived and organised by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore on the occasion of Charles Lim Yi Yong : SEA STATE
Southeast Asia, as a geographical region and conceptual
category, is a contested entity shaped by diverse cultures
and communities. The possibilities and uncertainties in
this region – such as urban development, geopolitical
relations, and anxieties surrounding national and
regional identities – continue to pose unique social and
political challenges.
ABOU
T THE
The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation
on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II brings together an
array of eminent speakers and respondents to address
questions of contemporary art and culture through
interdisciplinary approaches – considering bodies of
water as cultural-territorial spaces in an exploration of
rivers, land reclamation, sea ports, and nomadic
communities. The conversations arising from this
symposium offer insight into the Southeast Asian
consciousness and how it informs the region’s evolving
relationship with the wider world.
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Auditorium, National Gallery Singapore
1 St Andrew’s Road, S178957
Screening of films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Day 1: Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Day 2: Friday, 3 June 2016
This selection of films by the award-winning Thai artist and filmmaker
Apichatpong Weerasethakul serves as a prelude to the symposium.
The screening of these films set up a “conversation” between two
artist-filmmakers, Apichatpong and Charles Lim Yi Yong, whose films
both explore tropical sensibilities.
SCHEDULE:
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
7.30 – 10.00pm
Cemetery of Splendour (2015)
122 mins
Friday, 3 June 2016
7.30 – 10.00pm
Tropical Malady (2004)
118 mins
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tropical Malady (2004), film still.
Courtesy of Kick the Machine Films.
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The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II
A symposium conceived and organised by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore on the occasion of Charles Lim Yi Yong : SEA STATE
DAY 1: FRIDAY, 17 JUNE 2016
DAY 2: SATURDAY, 18 JUNE 2016
7.00pm
Registration & refreshments
9.30am
Registration & refreshments
7.30pm
Welcome addresses
Paul Tan
Deputy CEO, National Arts Council
Professor Ute Meta Bauer
10.00am
Opening address by morning
session chairperson
Professor Ute Meta Bauer
7.45 – 9.00pm
Keynote Lecture
Professor Aihwa Ong
10.10am
Keynote Lecture
Professor Michael M.J. Fischer
In a Time of Earthquakes: Contemporary Chinese Artists Shake the World
The rise of China as an economic and a political power has reshaped the global
order. At a recent policy forum in Tokyo, Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large, Bilahari
Kausikan, spoke about how Southeast Asian countries must be able to stand up to
and get along with China at the same time. Indeed, any appreciation of the
geopolitical situation of the region has to consider the presence of Asia’s largest
nation and economy. In her keynote lecture, Professor Aihwa Ong speaks about how
the emergence of Chinese contemporary art is also reshaping a global cultural order,
and discusses the ramifications for Southeast Asian artists and their societies.
SEA STATE: Charles Lim’s Video- and Photo-graphic Eye
In his keynote lecture, Professor Michael M.J. Fischer attempts to read
Charles Lim Yi Yong’s SEA STATE as an anthropologist, and to think
about the visibility, visualisation and visions of Singapore, and how these
imaginings are layered in the past, erased in the present, and sketched
ahead for the future.
Respondent:
Dr Kristy H.A. Kang
Respondent:
Professor C.J. Wee Wan-ling
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11.20am
Session 1 – The River and its
Representations
Speaker: Gridthiya Gaweewong
Respondent: Dr David Teh
How do the arts engage the region or regional themes? How have
cultural workers looked at geography as a means to explore ideas about
local specificity as well as regional commonality? The Mekong River has
been a source of inspiration for many artists and curators, including
acclaimed Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. His first
solo exhibition, Primitive, was largely shot in the border town, Nabua,
where the Mekong divides Thailand and Laos, as well as his film Mekong
Hotel which screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Gridthiya
Gaweewong will discuss the Mekong River in Apichatpong’s body of
works, as well as her curatorial project Mekong Laboratory.
12.30pm
Opening address by afternoon
session chairperson
Dr David Teh
1.40pm
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Lunch Break
1.30pm
Session 2 – The Land and its
Reclamations
Speakers: Joshua Comaroff and
Seth Denizen
Respondent: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa
If the sea has long been a preoccupation of Singapore artist Charles Lim
Yi Yong, so has the reclamation of land from the sea. Since Singapore’s
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independence in 1965, the island-city-state has grown over a quarter of its area
through land reclamation on its outer lying islands and coasts. These
circumstances may make Singapore unique in Southeast Asia, but in what ways
does this demonstration of the technocratic state’s mastery over nature
represent or misrepresent a shared aspiration of modernity in the region? In this
session, Joshua Comaroff and Seth Denizen offer their perspectives on the
larger implications of land reclamation.
2.50pm
Session 3 – Of Nomads and Sea Ports
Speakers: Dr Donna Brunero, Dr Wee Beng Geok
and Dr Vivienne Wee
Respondent: Dr Imran bin Tajudeen
The total land area of Southeast Asia is almost evenly divided between countries
which are part of continental Asia, and countries that are made of archipelagoes such
as The Philippines and Indonesia. But beyond the lands of continents and islands, the
sea is also one of the most important geophysical reality of the region. In this session,
Dr Vivienne Wee examines the sea nomads — the Orang Laut community in the Riau
region; Dr Donna Brunero speaks about histories of port city communities; and Dr
Wee Beng Geok will talk about maritime commerce and industry.
4.20pm
4.40 – 6.00pm
Tea Break
Roundtable discussion
Participants:
Professor Michael M.J. Fischer, Charles Lim Yi Yong,
Shabbir Hussain Mustafa and Professor Aihwa Ong
Moderators:
Professor Ute Meta Bauer and Dr David Teh
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Professor Aihwa Ong is Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology
and Southeast Asian Studies, Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair
in Anthropology and Chair of Asian Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Her research interests include
governance and citizenship, Asian cities, cosmopolitan science
and contemporary Asian art. Professor Ong has authored the
publications Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory
Women in Malaysia (1987); Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural
Logics of Transnationality (1999); Buddha is Hiding: Refugees,
Citizenship, the New America (2003) and Neoliberalism as
Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (2006).
Among the publications she co-edited are Global Assemblages:
Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems
(2005); Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar (2008); Asian
Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate (2010) and Worlding
Cities: Asian Experiments with the Art of Being Global (2011).
Professor Ong has given numerous lectures internationally and
she has been invited to the World Economic Forum. Her
forthcoming book draws on research in Biopolis, Singapore:
Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life (Duke University
Press, 2016).
Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology
and Chair of Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
(Malaysia/United States)
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Professor Michael M.J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor
in the Humanities, Professor of Anthropology and Science and
Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT); Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine
at the Harvard Medical School; and a Principal Investigator at the
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
International Design Center. He was the inaugural Ngee Ann
Kongsi Visiting Professor at Tembusu College, National
University of Singapore (NUS). Professor Fischer is the author of
“Ethnography for Aging Societies: Dignity, Cultural Genres, and
Singapore’s Imagined Futures”, American Ethnologist (April 2015)
and articles on Singapore’s life science initiative (Biopolis). He
has also authored three books on Iran, and three on social
theory including Anthropology as Cultural Critique (with George
Marcus, 1996), Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological
Voice (2003), and Anthropological Futures (2009). In the arts, he
has authored pieces with psychiatrist-print-maker Eric Avery,
painter Parviz Yashar, and most recently a catalogue essay with
artists Entang Wiharso and Sally Smart.
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of
Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, MIT
(United States)
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Professor Ute Meta Bauer is the Founding Director of the NTU
Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore)
and a Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media,
Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Prior to this, she was
Dean of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, London
(2012-2013); Associate Professor in the Department of
Architecture and Founding Director of the MIT Program in Art,
Culture and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), Cambridge (2005-2012). She also served as
Founding Director of the Office for Contemporary Art (OCA),
Oslo (2002-2005); was Artistic Director of the 3rd Berlin
Biennale for Contemporary Art (2004), and was co-curator of
Documenta11 (2001/2002). Most recently in 2015, she
co-curated with MIT List Centre for Visual Art Director Paul Ha
the U.S. Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale presenting
eminent artist Joan Jonas, the exhibition was honoured with a
Special Mention for best National Pavilion..
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Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore and
Professor, School of Art, Design & Media, NTU
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Dr David Teh is a writer, curator, art advisor, and researcher
based at the National University of Singapore (NUS), specialising
in Southeast Asian contemporary art. Before moving to
Singapore, he worked as an independent curator and critic in
Bangkok (2005-2009), and has since realised projects in
Germany, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Dr Teh’s writings
have appeared in Third Text, Afterall, LEAP Magazine, Art Asia
Pacific, artforum.com and The Bangkok Post. His new book on
Thai contemporary art will be published in 2017 by MIT Press.
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language
and Literature, NUS
(Australia/Singapore)
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Located in Gillman Barracks, the 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
exhibitions, residencies, research and academic education. The
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. As a national
research centre, it aims to provide visiting researchers and
curators a comprehensive study on the contemporary art
ecosystem in Singapore and the Southeast Asian region. The
Centre’s dynamic public programme serves to engage with
various audiences through lectures, workshops, open studios,
Office & Research Centre
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10
Singapore 108934
Exhibitions
Block 43 Malan Road
Singapore 109443
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Residencies Studios
Block 37 & 38 Malan Road
Singapore 109452 & 109441
Office
+65 6460 0300
Exhibitions +65 6339 6503
Email
ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
film screenings and Exhibition (de)Tours.
Since the Centre’s inauguration in October 2013, the NTU CCA
Singapore has presented several high-profile, first-to-launch
exhibitions of leading artists, making it one of the first spaces in the
region to present international exhibitions of such a scale. The
Centre’s residencies programme is dedicated to facilitating the
production of knowledge and research, engaging and connecting
artists, curators and researchers from Singapore, Southeast Asia and
beyond, and across various disciplines. The Centre’s seven studios
support the artistic process in the most direct way – by giving the
time and locale to be fully engaged, and the access to an interesting
and immersive context to further the space for developing ideas.
Symposium Organisation Team
Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director
Cheong Kah Kit, Manager, Research
Samantha Leong, Executive, Conference, Workshops & Archive
For updates on exhibitions and programmes, visit
www.ntu.ccasingapore.org
www.facebook.com/ntu.ccasingapore
Instagram: @ntu_ccasingapore
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Dr Vivienne Wee is an anthropologist who has done extensive
field research in Singapore and Indonesia, especially the Riau
Archipelago. She was previously Associate Professor at the City
University of Hong Kong and also at the Chinese University of
Hong Kong. In 2015, together with Geoffrey Benjamin and Sarah
Benjamin, Dr Wee co-founded Ethnographica Private Limited,
which is dedicated to ethnographic research on social
development, community engagement, heritage conservation,
cultural mapping, linguistic documentation and other
related fields.
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Charles Lim Yi Yong: SEA STATE
Exhibition: 30 April – 10 July 2016
Charles Lim Yi Yong:
SEA STATE, NTU Centre
for Contemporary Art
Singapore, installation
view. Courtesy of NTU
CCA Singapore.
SEA STATE by artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, commissioned for the
Singapore Pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale and curated by
Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, examines Singapore's vexed
relationship with the sea. SEA STATE at NTU CCA Singapore is
the first significant gathering of the various critically acclaimed
components of the project since it started in 2005, and the
Centre’s first major exhibition of a Singaporean artist.
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Dr Wee Beng Geok is a consultant of the Nanyang Business
School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) where she
was Associate Professor from 1999 to 2014. In 2000, she set
up the Asian Business Case Centre at the Nanyang Business
School, and was its Director until 2014. Dr Wee has written and
published many business case studies and several casebooks,
including a series of case studies on the maritime industries in
Singapore. Her career in Singapore’s corporate sector spanned
two decades of which more than half were in the maritime
sector. Dr Wee's current research interests include the history
of maritime businesses and industries in Singapore.
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Professor C.J. Wee Wan-ling is a Professor of English at the
School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Nanyang
Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was a Fellow
at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore
and has held visiting fellowships at – among other institutions
– the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, United
States and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences
and the Humanities, Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
Professor Wee is the author of Culture, Empire, and the
Question of Being Modern (2003) and The Asian Modern:
Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore (2007). He is also a
co-editor of the anthology Contesting Performance: Global
Sites of Research (2010). Professor Wee is a member of the
editorial board of the journal Modern Asian Studies.
Consultant, Nanyang Business School, NTU
(Singapore)
Division of English, School of Humanities
and Social Sciences, NTU
(Singapore)
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Charles Lim Yi Yong presented SEA STATE for the Singapore
Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and at NTU Centre for
Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore). In 2002, he
participated in Documenta11 in Kassel, Germany as a member
of the net-art collective tsunamii.net. A former professional
and Olympic sailor, Lim’s practice stems from an intimate,
bodily engagement with the natural world, mediated and
informed by field research and experimentation, performance,
drawing, photography and video. His moving image works
have been screened in international film festivals at Rotterdam,
Tribeca and Edinburgh. Lim’s short film all the lines flow out
premiered at the 68th Venice Film Festival in 2011 and received
a Special Mention, making him the first Singaporean to be
honoured at the festival. Recent iterations of SEA STATE have
been exhibited at Manifesta 7 (2008), the Institut d’Art
Contemporain Villeurbanne, France (2013) and at biennales in
Shanghai (2008), Singapore (2011) and Osaka (2013). Various
stages of the project have been presented at all of Singapore’s
major institutions, including the National Museum of
Singapore, National Library (NLB), Singapore Art Museum (SAM)
and National University of Singapore Museum (NUS Museum).
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Shabbir Hussain Mustafa curated SEA STATE for the Singapore
Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and at NTU Centre for
Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore). He is
Senior Curator at the National Gallery Singapore, where he
researches art from Singapore and Southeast Asia. Mustafa was
formerly a curator at the National University of Singapore
Museum (NUS Museum) from 2007 – 2013, where his approach
centred on deploying archival texts as ploys in engaging
different modes of thinking and writing. His numerous
curatorial projects have ranged across Southeast Asia, including
the critically acclaimed The Sufi and The Bearded Man (2010)
and Camping and Tramping through The Colonial Archive: The
Museum in Malaya (2011). Mustafa co-conceived the
experimental project space prep room | things that may or may
not happen. Most recently, he curated In Search of Raffles’
Light | An Art Project with Charles Lim (2013), a three-year
collaboration with the artist that tracked the immaterial,
mundane and irreconcilable traces surrounding Singapore’s
fractured relationship with the sea. Mustafa has written
extensively about methodological considerations for the
rethinking of curatorial practice in Singapore and is a member
of the International Association of Art Critics, Singapore.
Artist, SEA STATE
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Curator, SEA STATE, and Senior Curator,
National Gallery Singapore
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Dr Imran bin Tajudeen is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Architecture at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His
research interests include place histories and the processes,
underlying motivations and assumptions through which notions of
heritage have been constituted, and how they are narrated in
contemporary reconstructions and representations. Dr Imran has
been engaged in a number of urban history and heritage
documentation projects, among which the most recent is as the
main consultant for the recovery and documentation of the
historic graves at Jalan Kubor, Kampung Gelam with Nusantara
Consultancy. His doctoral dissertation (NUS, 2009) on the
architecture and urban histories of Southeast Asian cities won the
ICAS Book Prize for Best PhD (Social Sciences) in April 2011. Dr
Imran was postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT)’s Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden,
The Netherlands.
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Dr Kristy H.A. Kang is a media artist and scholar whose work
explores narratives of place and geographies of cultural memory.
She is Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and
Associate Director of the Spatial Analysis Lab (SLAB) at the
University of Southern California’s (USC) Sol Price School of Public
Policy in Los Angeles, United States. In Singapore and the United
States, Dr Kang collaborates with urban planners and policy
specialists on ways to visualise overlooked spaces, histories and
people. She is a founding member of the Labyrinth Project
research initiative on interactive narrative and digital scholarship
at USC where she has served as researcher, project director, and
designer on a range of collaborative projects. These works have
been presented internationally at venues including the Getty
Center, The ZKM Center for Art and Media, Museum of Art at Seoul
National University, The Jewish Museum, Berlin, and received
several awards including the Jury Award for New Forms at the
Sundance Online Film Festival.
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture,
School of Design and Environment, NUS
(Singapore)
Media artist and Assistant Professor,
School of Art, Design & Media, NTU
(United States/Singapore)
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Seth Denizen is a landscape architect trained in evolutionary
ecology and is currently completing a PhD in Geography at the
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). His doctoral
research is currently investigating the vertical geopolitics of
urban soil in Mexico City, where he is working with geologists
and systems ecologists to characterise the material
complexities and political forces that shape the distribution of
geological risk in Distrito Federal’s urban periphery. In 2014 he
was the recipient of a SEED-fund grant supporting his research
“Mapping the Microbiome of Hong Kong”, which is an ongoing
collaboration between the Faculty of Architecture and the
Faculty of Science at the University of Hong Kong to investigate
the genetic diversity of transportation infrastructure. In 2013,
Denizen took 1st prize in an international information design
competition: OUT OF BALANCE – CRITIQUE OF THE PRESENT
by ARCH+ Journal for Architecture and Urban Design and the
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.
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Gridthiya Gaweewong is currently a Curator and Artistic
Director of the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok. She is
co-founder and director of Project 304, a non-profit art space
based in Bangkok, focusing on multidisciplinary and
cross-cultural contemporary art projects by local and
international artists. Gridthiya has curated numerous
exhibitions and films festival including the Bangkok
Experimental Film Festival (1997-2007), Under Construction
(2002), Politics of Fun (2005), Saigon Open City (2006-7),
Short Film Festival from Southeast Asia (2009), Between
Utopia and Dystopia (2011) and Primitive (2011).
She is the curator of Serenity of the Madness, a restrospective
exhibition of Apichatpong Weerasethakul that will open
in July 2016 at the Mai Iam Contemporary Art Museum
(MICAM), Chiangmai.
PhD candidate, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley
(United States)
Artistic Director and Curator, Jim Thompson Art Center
(Thailand)
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Dr Donna Brunero is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of
History at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her
research and teaching focuses include the British empire in Asia,
colonial port cities of Asia, maritime history, heritage, and the
Chinese Maritime Customs Service. Amongst the publications Dr
Brunero has authored are Britain’s Imperial Cornerstone in China:
The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949 (2006) and
“To capture a vanishing era: the development of the Maze
Collection of Chinese Junk Models, 1929–1948”, Journal for
Maritime Research (April 2015). She was the recipient of Faculty
of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Awards in
AY2015-16 and AY2014-15.
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Joshua Comaroff is an academic geographer and designer at
Lekker Architects. He studied literature and creative writing at
Amherst College before joining the Master of Architecture and
Master of Landscape Architecture programmes at Harvard
University Graduate School of Design. Comaroff’s doctoral
research focused upon the subject of haunted landscapes and
urban memory in Singapore. In recent years, he has written
about architecture, urbanism, and politics, with an Asian focus,
and is the co-author (with Ong Ker-Shing) of Horror In
Architecture (2013). In addition to practice, Comaroff teaches at
the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
Senior Lecturer, Department of History,
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, NUS
(Australia/Singapore)
Design consultant, Lekker Architects
(United States/Singapore)
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Screening of films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
NTU CCA Singapore, The Single Screen
Day 2: Saturday, 18 June 2016
NTU CCA Singapore, The Single Screen
Block 43 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks, S109443
Block 43 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks, S109443
SCHEDULE:
SCHEDULE:
Day 1: Wednesday, 1 June 2016
7.30 – 10.00pm
9.30am
Registration & refreshments
Day 2: Friday, 3 June 2016
7.30 – 10.00pm
10.00am
Opening address – morning session
10.10am
Keynote Lecture
The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured
conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II
Day 1: Friday, 17 June 2016
National Gallery Singapore, Auditorium
11.20am
Session 1
12.30pm
Lunch Break
1.30pm
Opening address – afternoon session
1.40pm
Session 2
1 St Andrew’s Road, S178957
2.50pm
Session 3
4.20pm
Tea Break
4.40 – 6.00pm
Roundtable discussion
SCHEDULE:
7.00pm
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Welcome addresses
7.45 – 9.00pm
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Registration & refreshments
7.30pm
Keynote Lecture
Free Admission. Refreshments will be served.
For the full programme, please visit: www.ntu.ccasingapore.org. For further
information and to RSVP, please contact NTUCCAresearch@ntu.edu.sg.
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The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) presents <i>The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II</i>, a symposium addressing the multiple notions of “Southeast Asia” and the various issues surrounding its borders, territories, dilemmas and anxieties. SEA STATE by artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, commissioned for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, explores the biophysical, political and psychic contours of Singapore and served as a point of departure for the symposium. Part I of the symposium took place in Venice, Italy during the opening days of the Biennale, and this second iteration will continue and deepen the discussions on the occasion of SEA STATE’s presentation at NTU CCA Singapore.<br /><br />Southeast Asia, as a geographical region and conceptual category, is a contested entity shaped by diverse cultures and communities. The possibilities and uncertainties in this region – such as urban development, geopolitical relations, and anxieties surrounding national and regional identities – continue to pose unique social and political challenges.<br /><br /><i>The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II</i> brings together an array of eminent speakers and respondents to address questions of contemporary art and culture through interdisciplinary approaches – considering bodies of water as cultural-territorial spaces in an exploration of rivers, land reclamation, sea ports, and nomadic communities. The conversations arising from this symposium offers insight into the Southeast Asian consciousness and how it informs the region’s evolving relationship with the wider world.<br /><br />The symposium is organised by NTU CCA Singapore under its Research & Education programme, which aims to connect research based artistic practices with other forms of knowledge production. As a prelude to the symposium, NTU CCA Singapore will screen films by Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul on 1 and 3 June 2016 to set up a “conversation” between two artist-filmmakers, Apichatpong and Charles Lim Yi Yong.
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Aihwa Ong
Michael M.J. Fischer
Donna Brunero
Joshua Comaroff
Seth Denizen
Gridthiya Gaweewong
Imran bin Tajudeen
Kristy H.A. Kang
Charles Lim
Shabbir Hussain Mustafa
Dr Wee Beng Geok
Professor C.J. Wee Wan-ling
Vivienne Wee
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The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) presents <i>The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II</i>, a symposium addressing the multiple notions of “Southeast Asia” and the various issues surrounding its borders, territories, dilemmas and anxieties. SEA STATE by artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, commissioned for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, explores the biophysical, political and psychic contours of Singapore and served as a point of departure for the symposium. Part I of the symposium took place in Venice, Italy during the opening days of the Biennale, and this second iteration will continue and deepen the discussions on the occasion of SEA STATE’s presentation at NTU CCA Singapore.<br /><br />Southeast Asia, as a geographical region and conceptual category, is a contested entity shaped by diverse cultures and communities. The possibilities and uncertainties in this region – such as urban development, geopolitical relations, and anxieties surrounding national and regional identities – continue to pose unique social and political challenges.<br /><br /><i>The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II</i> brings together an array of eminent speakers and respondents to address questions of contemporary art and culture through interdisciplinary approaches – considering bodies of water as cultural-territorial spaces in an exploration of rivers, land reclamation, sea ports, and nomadic communities. The conversations arising from this symposium offers insight into the Southeast Asian consciousness and how it informs the region’s evolving relationship with the wider world.<br /><br />The symposium is organised by NTU CCA Singapore under its Research & Education programme, which aims to connect research based artistic practices with other forms of knowledge production. As a prelude to the symposium, NTU CCA Singapore will screen films by Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul on 1 and 3 June 2016 to set up a “conversation” between two artist-filmmakers, Apichatpong and Charles Lim Yi Yong.
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2016-06-17/2016-06-18
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Aihwa Ong
Michael M.J. Fischer
Donna Brunero
Joshua Comaroff
Seth Denizen
Gridthiya Gaweewong
Imran bin Tajudeen
Kristy H.A. Kang
Charles Lim
Shabbir Hussain Mustafa
Dr Wee Beng Geok
Professor C.J. Wee Wan-ling
Vivienne Wee
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Poster
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Southeast Asia