Climate Crisis]]> Cultural Production]]> Edited by Ute Meta Bauer
Design by mono.studio
Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH
© 2022 the artists, the authors, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Nanyang Technological University 
ISBN: 978-0-262-04681-7 
Distributed by The MIT Press 
Copies are available for sale at NTU CCA Singapore and through MIT Press S$80/US$60

Modeling the curatorial as a method for uniting cultural production and science, Climates. Habitats. Environments. 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.

Experimental in form as well as in method, Climates. Habitats. Environments. 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 Metamorphoses 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.

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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]]> ila]]> inhabitants]]> The Institute of Critical Zoologists]]> 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]]> mono.studio]]> Publication]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]>
Body]]> Identity]]> Oceans & Seas]]> Cultural Heritage]]> Performance]]>
ila will expand on the works she has developed for the exhibition "Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again.", which directly address matters of provenance and heritage. The artist reflects on what it means to live on an island, and explores the collective memory of living in close relationship with the sea and its manifold stories. She will also discuss how she uses her body as a space of confrontation and negotiation, and how her performance work explores issues about gender, identity, and historical narratives.]]>
ila]]> Khim Ong]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Geopolitics]]> History]]> Politics]]> Postcolonialism]]>
The second session of a two-part conversation, this panel discussion will focus on the history of the straits, historical maps, and the geography of maritime Southeast Asia. This involves an approach to Southeast Asia through underlying indigenous patterns, which will necessarily stretch the limits of ingrained westernised cultural visions and mental habits. The participants will discuss complexities of heritage, notions of belonging, and strategies of mapping. Rather than a static given, the Straits will be considered as an environment with an incipient psychology, invoking a transpiring age-old knowledge of the region, but also as a habitat that continues to profoundly influence our existence.]]>
Mirwan Andan]]> Nirkan Arsuka]]> Zac Langdon-Pole]]> ila]]> Juria Toromae]]> Philippe Pirotte]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]>
An improvised set by Artist-in-Residence, Bani Haykal and collaborators ila and Tim O’Dwyer.]]>
Bani Haykal]]> Tim O'Dwyer]]> ila]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Artistic Research]]>
Featuring Artists-in-Residence:

Kin Chui (Singapore), ila (Singapore), Sim Chi Yin (Singapore/United Kingdom), Marvin Tang (Singapore), Boedi Widjaja (Indonesia/Singapore), and Green Zeng (Singapore).

Also joining Residencies OPEN is Beatrice Glow (United States) thanks to a new partnership between the Centre and the Yale-NUS College Artist-in-Residence Programme. For more info, refer to https://artsandhumanities.yale-nus.edu.sg/artists-in-residence/about/.]]>
Kin Chui]]> Sim Chi Yin]]> Marvin Tang]]> Boedi Widjaja]]> Green Zeng]]> Beatrice Glow]]> ila]]> Southeast Asia]]>

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.]]>
ila]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Climate Crisis]]> Sustainability]]>
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.]]>
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 Suku ]]> Ruby Thiagarajan]]> Dat Vu]]> Nikan Wasinondh (Bow) ]]> Jason Wee]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Oceans & Seas]]> 25 May 2019, Sat 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

The second session of a two-part conversation, this panel discussion will focus on the history of the straits, historical maps, and the geography of maritime Southeast Asia. This involves an approach to Southeast Asia through underlying indigenous patterns, which will necessarily stretch the limits of ingrained westernised cultural visions and mental habits. The participants will discuss complexities of heritage, notions of belonging, and strategies of mapping. Rather than a static given, the Straits will be considered as an environment with an incipient psychology, invoking a transpiring age-old knowledge of the region, but also as a habitat that continues to profoundly influence our existence.

A public programme of Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again.]]>
ila]]> Mirwan Andan]]> Nirwan Ahmad Arsuka]]> Zac Langdon-Pole]]> Imran bin Tajudeen]]> Juria Toramae]]> Philippe Pirotte]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Oceans & Seas]]> Body]]> 16 Apr 2019, Tue 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

The artist will expand on the works she has developed for the exhibition, which directly address matters of provenance and heritage. ila reflects on what it means to live on an island, and explores the collective memory of living in close relationship with the sea and its manifold stories. She will also discuss how she uses her body as a space of confrontation and negotiation, and how her performance work explores issues about gender, identity, and historical narratives.

A public programme of Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again.]]>
ila]]> Khim Ong]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Decolonialism]]> Identity]]> 6 Apr 2019, Sat 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM
The Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road

Where is the Nusantara? Who is the Nusantara? What do we align ourselves with in the past and what futures will we create together?

This workshop, a follow-up to a previously ran workshop held last year, Siapa Dia Wanita Nusantara (Who is the Nusantara Woman?), aims to create conversations around the idea of the “Nusantara”, an arguably dated and oftentimes unclear regional construct that has resurfaced every now and then with regards to recent waves of conversations around decolonisation of the Malay archipelago. Centering around themes of intersecting identities, belonging, and speculative histories, this workshop invites anyone who feel that they can benefit from, by sharing about their own stories and experiences, the explorations of their personal oral histories, through spoken word and a collective imagining of the past and future.]]>
ila]]> nor]]> Nurshafitri Ya’akob ]]> Southeast Asia]]>