Trinh T. Min-ha. Films.
Online Film Programme: Speaking/Thinking Nearby]]>
Ritual]]> Mythology]]> Performance]]>
Holzfeind is interested in architectural and social utopias that create an alternative living. She documents the shamanistic rituals of the Japanese improvisation/noise duo IRO, Toshio and Shizuko Orimo, in what they call “Punk Kagura”—in reference to Kagura, a ritual dance tradition and music for the gods. Holzfeind uses a visual language that adapts their mystical rituals: breaks in image; the colour and narrative corresponding with the soundscape; the modernist architecture of Takamasa Yosizaka; and the surrounding nature in which the duo performs a choreography for healing our damaged planet. The urgency is underlined in the title the time is now.]]>
Heidrun Holzfeind]]> Ella Raidel]]> Video]]> Asia]]>
Fiction]]> Identity]]> Marc Glöde]]> Marc Glode]]> Ella Raidel]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> 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]]> Session 4: Reverberations—Spatialising the Temporal, the Sonic, and the Pictorial]]> Curatorial Practice]]> Artistic Research]]> Cultural Production]]>
Speakers:
Larys Frogier (France/China), Director, Rockbund Art Museum
Iris Dressler (Germany), Co-Director, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart

Respondent:
Dr Karin Oen (United States/Singapore), Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

Reverberation: the prolonging of a sound, a continuing effect. Taking the exhibition Trinh T. Minh-ha. Films. as its starting point, this panel session discusses the spatio-temporal resonances of Trinh’s cinematic works when curated in an exhibition setting. The panel also explores collaborative curatorial practices, expanding into the realms of research, programming, and production, and how the Trans-Institutional Partnership among NTU CCA Singapore, Rockbund Art Museum, Würtembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts enables ongoing reverberations of support for an artist’s work across borders and time while allowing for distinction and differentiation based on each organisation’s context and approach.]]>
Ute Meta Bauer]]> Larys Frogier]]> Iris Dressler]]> Karin Oen]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Session 3: Performing the Documents]]> Artistic Research]]> Cultural Production]]> Knowledge Production]]>
Speakers:
Dr Philippa Lovatt (Scotland), Lecturer, Film Studies and Co-Director, Centre for Screen Studies, University of St Andrews
Rosalia Namsai Engchuan (Germany/Thailand), anthropologist and filmmaker

Respondent:
Silke Schmickl (Germany/Hong Kong), Curator

This panel attempts to define documents and performativity in filmmaking in terms of its methods, artistic processes and cultural political significance. To perform the documents means to take action to reveal their inner logic of cultural representation. Through the consideration of documents in relation to poetics, participation and activism it shows the way how colonial truth and knowledge are being constructed and how diasporic histories are experienced. Films become not only cultural-political texts, but also visual and acoustic apparatuses in making aware one’s origins and destinies.]]>
Ella Raidel]]> Philippa Lovatt]]> Rosalia Namsai Engchuan]]> Silke Schmickl]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Session 2: Filmic Interferences]]> Cultural Production]]> Knowledge Production]]> Fiction]]>
Speakers:
Tan Pin Pin (Singapore), film director
Nguyên Trinh Thi (Vietnam), artist and filmmaker

Respondent:
Dr David Teh (Australia/Singapore), Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore

Filmic Interferences is a panel that will highlight the aspect of filmmaking from the perspective of contemporary filmmakers. It will address the changing role of categories like “documentary” and the increasing interferences that challenge these ideas. The presentations will take a closer look at the impact of forms and strategies from experimental film and discuss the impact on other filmic discourses such as visual anthropology, feminism or intercultural cinema. By taking the films of Trinh T. Minh-ha as a resonating point, the panel will investigate how these debates have created a development that has changed how we think through the filmic medium, how we think about film, and about filmic representation. Apart from aspects that are very closely related to the ideas of fact, fiction and narration, another focus will be directed towards the general frames of perception and discussion of film.]]>
Marc Glöde]]> Marc Glode]]> Tan Pin Pin]]> Nguyên Trinh Thi]]> Nguyen Trinh Thi]]> David Teh]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Politics]]> History]]> Topography]]>
NTU CCA Singapore are pleased to present a talk and selected screenings of work by NTU CCA Singapore Artists-in-Residence Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor. Vatamanu & Tudor’s artistic practice spans diverse media including film, photography, painting, performance, and site-specific projects. Through their works, they confront the traumatic legacy of Communism in their native Romania and Eastern Europe, while wrestling with the ongoing challenge of how to process history. As part of their residency at NTU CCA Singapore so far they have taken a look at the surrounding environment of both the natural jungle-like environment and various constructions happening in Gillman Barracks to explore various social dynamics. Their work has been included in numerous international exhibitions including (selection): Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul, 2012; Blind Spots, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, 2009; 5th Berlin Biennial, 52nd Venice Biennial, Romanian Pavilion, Venice, 2007. They have had solo exhibition at Extra City, Antwerp and the Graphisches Kabinett, Secession, Vienna, among others. Vatamanu and Tudor live and work in Bucharest.

After their talk, a conversation between the artists will be led by NTU CCA Singapore Curator, Exhibitions Anca Rujoiu.]]>
Mona Vatamanu]]> Florin Tudor]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Europe]]>
Fiction]]> Cultural Production]]> Knowledge Production]]> Session 1: Speaking Nearby
Chaired by Dr Erika Balsom (Canada/United Kingdom), Reader, Film Studies, King’s College London (KCL)

Speakers:
Prof Chris Berry (United Kingdom), Professor, Film Studies, KCL
Dr Nicolas Helm-Grovas (Spain/United Kingdom), Lecturer, Film Studies Education, KCL

Respondent:
Dr Daniel Mann (Israel/United Kingdom), Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, KCL


This session will explore historical and contextual approaches to films and writings of Trinh T. Minh-ha, putting her work into dialogue with questions of intercultural cinema, the critique of documentary naturalism, and the relationship between film theory and film practice. In particular, speakers will think through how notions of “speaking nearby” and “speaking about” may serve as a lens through which to open broader considerations of the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of Trinh’s cross-disciplinary work.]]>
Erik Balsom]]> Chris Berry]]> Nicolas Helm-Grovas]]> Daniel Mann]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Cultural Production]]> Institutional Critique]]>
Edited by David Teh and David Morris, Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992–98 is published by Afterall Books in association with Asia Art Archive and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, United States. The publication is the first comprehensive survey on a series of festivals known as Chiang Mai Social Installation, emerging amidst a regional constellation of artists’ initiatives and independent spaces. The book presents extensive photographic documentation alongside a multivocal account by its participants and commissioned writers.]]>
David Teh]]> David Morris]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>