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]]>
Activism]]> Special Issue for Roslisham Ismail aka Ise
Published by Teratak Nuromar with support from NTU CCA Singapore and A+ Works of Art, 2021
Edited by Nur Hanim Mohamed Khairuddin and Anca Rujoiu
Design by Yan
© 2021 Teratak Nuromar, NTU CCA Singapore, and A+ Works of Art

ISBN: 978-983-43887-6-8
S$22

This special issue of sentAp! dedicated to the late and cherished artist Roslisham Ismail aka Ise (b. Khota Bahru, 1972–2019) is published on the occasion of his solo project Campur, Tolak, Kali, Bahagi, Sama Dengan (Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Equals).  Co-founded in 2005 by curator Nur Hanim Mohammed Khairuddin and Ise, sentAp! fostered for ten years writing about contemporary art in Malaysia and the region. Informed by the social nature of Ise’s artistic process, his penchant for connectivity and exchanges, this special issue embraces the dialogic form. In-depth interviews conducted by writer Tan Zi Hao with curators Ark Fongsmut, Russell Storer, and Khairuddin, a hybrid exchange by curator Anca Rujoiu with different members of ruangrupa close to the artist provide context, reflections, and intimate insights on Ise’s work. Full reproduction of the works Operation Bangkok (2014) and Comic Drawings (2018–20), exhibition documentation, and a related essay capture at length the artist’s much-contemplated solo project, completed posthumously.

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NTU CCA Singapore]]> A+ Works of Art]]> Roslisham Ismail aka Ise]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Ark Fongsmut]]> Syed Omar Husain]]> Nur Hanim Mohamed Khairuddin]]> M. Hijaz Mohammad]]> ruangrupa]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Russell Storer]]> Tan Zi Hao]]> Publication]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Topography]]> Urbanism]]>
Contributors include: Laura Anderson Barbata, Jiat-Hwee Chang, Thanavi Chotpradit, Calvin Chua, Yvonne P. Doderer, Chomchon Fusinpaiboon, indieguerillas, Marc Glöde, Sacha Kagan, Lulu Lutfi Labibi, Magdalena Magiera, Laura Miotto, Marjetica Potrč, Pen Sereypagna, Shirley Surya, Sissel Tolaas, Etienne Turpin and Nashin Mahtani, John Wagner, H. Koon Wee, Woon Tien Wei, and Ari Wulu. Foreword by Nikos Papastergiadis. Afterword by William S. W. Lim.]]>
Roger Nelson]]> World Scientific Publishing]]> Laura Anderson Barbata]]> Jiat-Hwee Chang]]> Thanavi Chotpradit]]> Calvin Chua]]> Chomchon Fusinpaiboon]]> Marc Glöde]]> indieguerillas]]> Sacha Kagan]]> Lulu Lutfi Labibi]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Laura Miotto]]> Marjetica Potrč]]> Pen Sereypagna]]> Nashin Mahtani]]> John Wagner]]> H. Koon Wee]]> Ari Wulu]]> William S. W. Lim]]> Chang Jiat Hwee]]> Marjetica Potrc]]> Marc Glode]]> H55]]> Publication]]> Asia]]>
History]]>
Phan’s interventions in the book interweave different narratives that sit at the border between realism and fantasy. Reflecting upon the problematic agrarian reforms in post-war Vietnam that led to the redistribution of land and collective farming, Phan’s drawings depict children in the foreground as protagonists of an imagined commune where play or state of inertia become tools of defiance and escape. Juxtaposing seventeenth-century travel literature with contemporary images, Phan’s works produce a palimpsest of Vietnam’s history with layers of voices from the present and the past.

The artist started the project Voyages de Rhodes in 2014 and the drawings were first exhibited in a solo exhibition Poetic Amnesia (2017) curated by Zoe Butt at The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

In the process of assembling the drawings back into the codex form, the project Voyages de Rhodes turned into artist’s book, whereby the book format is an artistic medium and subject of investigation. Voyages de Rhodes highlights that a book remains inherently open-ended despite its strive for completeness, and is prone to processes of erasure, ongoing interpretation, and new associations.]]>
mono.studio]]> Thảo Nguyên Phan]]> Thao Nguyen Phan]]> Publication]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Institutional Critique]]> Geopolitics]]> Urbanism]]>
The title of the book refers to the framework employed at NTU CCA Singapore in its first cycle of activities, from 2013 to March 2017, which took Singapore, the world’s second-largest trading port and the economic epicentre of Southeast Asia, as a point of departure to investigate the notion of place, the intersection between locality and the global, labour, and flows of capital.

Unfolding across four broad sections of “The Making of an Institution,” “The Geopolitical and the Biophysical,” “Incidental Scripts,” and “Incomplete Urbanism,” this publication reads as an exhibition. Drawing connections across disciplines and merging theory with practice, Place.Labour.Capital. weaves together a constellation of different bodies of materials from essays, poetry, and fiction to artworks and documentation of the Centre’s past exhibitions.

Richly illustrated, the publication brings together the voices of more than 80 contributors, from former Research Fellows such as Tony Godfrey (Philippines), Regina (Maria) Möller (Germany), T. K. Sabapathy (Singapore), Yvonne Spielmann (Germany), to former Artists-in-Residence including Tiffany Chung (Vietnam/United States), Amanda Heng (Singapore), Shooshie Sulaiman (Malaysia), Lee Wen (Singapore), and Yee I-Lann (Malaysia). Other contributions include those from the Centre’s exhibitions and public programmes such as artists, academics, and curators including Amar Kanwar (India), Lee Weng Choy (Malaysia), David Teh (Australia/Singapore), and June Yap (Singapore).

This extensive publication “reminds us that institution building remains enormously significant as a means of opening up new spaces, claims, communities, dialogues, publics, and trajectories for critical artistic practice.” (Felicity D. Scott, Associate Professor Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York)

“Drawing together stories, voices, and thinking by leading artists and academics, Place.Labour.Capital. traces the invention of a remarkable model of an institution. The publication is an inspiration and a valuable tool to anyone trying to find ways of building releveant arts institutions for the future.” (Sally Tallant, Director, Liverpool Biennial)

Place.Labour.Capital. takes a reflective look the art institution, and serves as a means to review the parameters of its own position in the present globalised art world and knowledge-production economies.

The visual concept of the book was conceived by renowned Singapore design firm H55.]]>
Mousse Publishing]]> H55]]> Koh Nguang How]]> Paul Tan]]> Eugene Tan]]> T. K. Sabapathy]]> Khim Ong]]> Fareed Armaly]]> Jesko Fezer]]> Julian "Togar" Abraham]]> Post-Museum]]> Kray Chen]]> Vera Mey]]> Amanda Heng]]> Yan Jun]]> Lee Wen]]> Marc Glöde]]> Jeremy Sharma]]> Heman Chong]]> Shooshie Sulaiman]]> Mona Vătămanu]]> Florin Tudor]]> Hilde Van Gelder]]> UuDam Tran Nguyen]]> James Jack]]> Jegan Vincent de Paul]]> Dennis Tan]]> Erika Tan]]> Regina (Maria) Möller]]> Hamra Abbas]]> Mercedes Vicente]]> Bo Wang]]> Ho Rui An]]> Stefano Harney]]> Arjuna Neuman]]> Bani Haykal]]> Tiffany Chung]]> Amar Kanwar]]> Helena Varkkey]]> Nikos Papastergiadis]]> Saleh Husein]]> Sam Durant]]> June Yap]]> Roslisham "Ise" Ismail]]> Shubigi Rao]]> Guo-Liang Tan]]> Tamara Weber]]> Loo Zihan]]> Zac Langdon-Pole]]> Trinh T. Minh-ha]]> Jompet Kuswidananto]]> Otty Widasari]]> Yvonne Spielmann]]> Mark Nash]]> Arin Rungjang]]> Filipa Ramos]]> Yason Banal]]> Kenneth Dean]]> Yee I-Lann]]> Alex Mawimbi]]> anGie seah]]> Alexandra Murray-Leslie]]> Andrew Johnston]]> Zulkifle Mahmod]]> Newell Harry]]> Jason Wee]]> Anocha Suwichakornpong]]> Shirley Surya]]> Sissel Tolaas]]> Tan Pin Pin]]> SHIMURAbros]]> Etienne Turpin]]> Li Ran]]> Gary-Ross Pastrana]]> Yvonne P. Doderer]]> Matthew Mazzotta]]> Art Labor]]> Xu Tan]]> Weixin Chong]]> Pratchaya Phinthong]]> Marc Glode]]> Mona Vatamanu]]> Regina Moller]]> Publication]]> Asia]]>
Animals]]> Coexistence]]> Select Books]]> The Press Room]]> Les Presses du Réel]]> Elizabeth A. Povinelli]]> Brian Massumi]]> Publication]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Becoming Palm was launched on Saturday, 29 April 2017 in conjunction with the Singapore Art Book Fair 2017.]]>
Simryn Gill]]> Michael Taussig]]> ruttens-wille]]> Publication]]> Southeast Asia]]>
The Geocultural]]>
Initiated in 1998 by Afterall, a Research Centre of the UAL and based at Central Saint Martins, Afterall journal focuses on artistic and cultural production in relation to broader theoretical, social, and political contexts from which both emerge. The journal was founded by Charles Esche (Netherlands) curator, writer, current Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and Mark Lewis (Canada/United Kingdom) artist and filmmaker.

Afterall journal is widely acknowledged for its in-depth analysis of artistic practices, contextual essays, engagement with exhibition histories and curatorial practices within various geographical constituencies. Through this publishing partnership, NTU CCA Singapore strengthens its mission to connect artistic practice with critical discourse within and beyond Southeast Asia. The Centre will actively contribute to expand Afterall journal cultural conversations and research in a fast-changing region defined by multilayered narratives, discrepant conditions of production across its vast geography, and intertwined cultural histories and experiences transversing national borders. NTU CCA Singapore is committed to support the critical work of scholars, curators, and art critics who are engaging with contemporary art in the region from within the context filling the gaps in the cultural history of the region, providing alternatives to Western-driven narratives, exploring cultural production through theoretical and political frameworks, and embracing new forms of writing.

Professor Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Founding Director of NTU CCA Singapore, will serve as co-editor and the Centre’s Publications team will work closely with the editorial teams of Afterall’s journal wider family of institutional partners (academic and non-academic) including Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium, The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. The editorial team will pursue research, propose ideas, and select contributions shaping the content of the journal’s upcoming issues. Such research can feed also into other of Afterall’s publications: One Work, book series, focused on single artistic works and Exhibition Histories, likewise a monograph series offering critical analysis of influential exhibitions of contemporary art.

The journal is published twice a year, it benefits from a large distribution with a worldwide subscription management system, and bookstore distribution in Europe and North America managed by The University of Chicago Press. While access to several articles is available online, the journal unpacks and explores its content beyond the print and digital platform through symposia and screenings hosted by important academic and art institutions. As an editorial member, NTU CCA Singapore will play also an active role in various manifestations that engage with the journal’s content contributing to its production and disemination of ideas across and beyond the region.]]>
University of the Arts London]]> Publication]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> North America]]>
Spaces of the Curatorial]]> Sternberg Press]]> Brigitte Oetker]]> Lee Weng Choy]]> Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy at the Federation of German Industries]]> Surface]]> Zoe Butt]]> Kevin Chua]]> Patrick D. Flores]]> Gridthiya Gaweewong]]> Tony Godfrey]]> Yin Ker]]> Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez]]> Seng Yu Jin]]> Simon Soon]]> Nora A. Taylor]]> David Teh]]> Publication]]> Southeast Asia]]> Theatre]]> König Books]]> Bildmuseet]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Sam de Groot]]> Antonin Artaud]]> Mikhail Bakhtin]]> Bertolt Brecht]]> Giuliana Bruno]]> Jacques Derrida]]> Regis Durand]]> Josette Féral]]> Jean-Francois Lyotard]]> Eva Meyer]]> Timothy Murray]]> Katharina Sykora]]> Marina Warner]]> Publication]]> Southeast Asia]]>