Performance]]> A Passage to Dreamworld is a public programme held in conjunction with Passages, an exhibition of the second cycle of SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian artists in the European Union. Featuring artists Priyageetha Dia (Singapore), Ngoc Nau (Vietnam) and Saroot Supasuthivech (Thailand) and their artworks Sap SonicVirtual Reverie: Echoes of a Forgotten Utopia and Spirit-forward in G Major, the exhibition is a culmination of their residencies in Europe.]]> Priyageetha Dia]]> Ngoc Nau]]> Nguyen Hong Ngoc]]> Saroot Supasuthivech]]> Video]]> Audio]]> Southeast Asia]]> Ritual]]> Performance]]> Artistic Research]]> Wrapping up our On AiR series for Cycle 10, we visit Artist-in-Residence Irfan Kasban in his residency studio that he affectionately calls ���� �� �����������.
He shares about the feelings of burnout that led him to his current inquiry into performance as ritual healing, and ponders upon the potential of his studio as a welcoming space that alleviates the pressures of daily life for its visitors. Irfan also opens up about the different community programmes he’s hosted such as ������� ������ and ���� ����� ���� ����.]]>
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Race]]> Performance]]> Artistic Research]]>
Find out more about Shahmen and the research he has been undertaking at https://ntu.ccasingapore.org/residency/shahmen-suku/]]>
Shahmen Suku]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Architecture]]> History]]> Artistic Research]]>
For more information on Anthony, check out https://ntu.ccasingapore.org/residency/anthony-chin/]]>
Anthony Chin]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Identity]]> Artistic Research]]> Yanyun Chen]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Labour]]> Materiality]]> Capitalism]]> Ben Loong]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Identity]]> Race]]> Artistic Research]]>
Find out how he is furthering his ongoing research into the tropes and evolving definitions of Malayness through an investigation into the diverse interpretations of the Singaporean-Malay slang word "world". Zulkhairi also shares about the archival materials that serve as sources of inspiration as well as how the residency has spurred him to experiment with new materials while affording him the space to have stimulating conversations.

For more information on Zulkhairi, check out: https://ntu.ccasingapore.org/residency/zulkhairi-zulkiflee/]]>
Zulkhairi Zulkiflee]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Indonesia Calling, 1946]]> Decolonialism]]> Labour]]> History]]> Vladimir Seput]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Oceania]]> Europe]]> Institutional Critique]]> Cultural Production]]>

The Making of an Institution – Reason to Exist: The Director’s Review. Instituting Otherwise, talk by Maria Hlavajova (Slovakia/Netherlands), Curator-in-Residence
22 March 2017

Drawing upon the practice of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht (Netherlands), Curator-in-Residence Maria Hlavajova discusses the notion of “instituting otherwise”. Dedicated to thinking aboutwith, and through art at the intersection of research and social action, she addresses the long-term strategies of BAK aimed to collectively confront the urgencies that define our contemporary. 

Residencies Insights: Against Efficiency, lecture by Anthony Huberman (Switzerland/United States), Curator-in-Residence
31 Jan 2018 

In this talk, Curator-in-Residence Anthony Huberman reflects upon the criteria of efficiency and fast-paced consumption that inform most of contemporary art production and proposes institutional approaches that favour small scale, slowing-down and, perhaps, even inefficiency, in order to complicate an understanding of the world where only efficiency and productivity are rewarded.

Residencies Insights: On the Necessity of Transforming One’s Practice, curator talk by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (Slovenia/France), Curator-in-Residence
27 Feb 2019 

In the context of her latest project, Contour Biennale 9: Coltan as Cotton (2019), Curator-in-Residence Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez discusses the necessity to slow down one’s way of working and being, to imagine new ecologies of care as a continuous practice of support, and to open up institutional borders to render them more palpable, audible, sentient, soft, porous and, most of all, decolonial and anti-patriarchal. 

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Maria Hlavajova]]> Anthony Huberman]]> Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez]]> Video]]> Europe]]>
Public Sphere]]> Cultural Production]]>

Creatif Compleks – Artist talk by Michael Lee (Singapore), Artist-in-Residence
17 March 2018

Unravelling a series of intersecting reflections on the function of the artist’s studio within the arts ecology of a city, Michael Lee presents Creatif Compleks, a project developed during the residency for The Vitrine, the Centre’s smallest Space of the Curatorial. Through a diagrammatic reconfiguration of a hypothetical studio, the work takes a speculative leap into the utopian and the absurd, rendering visible the physical, psychological, and social factors layered in the most private and intimate environment of creative making.

On Museums Made by Artists, Artist talk by Tun Win Aung (Myanmar)
30 July 2019

In this talk, artist Tun Win Aung highlights the challenges related to envisioning a contemporary art institution in the context of Myanmar. As he speaks about the creation of transient museums through collaborative processes and continuous conversations with local artists, Tun Win Aung recalls on his friendship and multiple artistic partnerships with the late Phyoe Kyi, a former Artist-in-Residence, focusing on the conception and development of The Museum Project.

Residencies Insights: Models of Organisation. Images as Comrades, Film screening and discussion with Irina Botea Bucan and Jon Dean (Romania and United Kingdom), Artists-in-Residence
10 December 2019

Previous Artists-in-Residence, Irina Botea Bucan and Jon Dean, present past films and discuss their collaborative practice. Examining the formation of cultural spaces, the duo draws attention to the cumulative energies and community engagement that lie at the core of their long-term comparative research on the history, usage, and imagination of community centres as spaces for collective authorship of culture.

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Michael Lee]]> Tun Win Aung]]> Irina Botea Bucan]]> Jon Dean]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>