Landscape Series #1, 2013 by Nguyen Trinh Thi]]> Archival Practice]]> Geopolitics]]> Ecosystems]]> Environmental Crisis]]>
The land bearing witness to the volatile transitions in our geo-political, cultural, and social systems questions the extent of which unsustainable and environmentally-taxing practices effect the environment. Does a landscape harbour ill-feelings towards events and circumstances that have caused it harm? And if it were to break its silence, what forgotten stories would it reveal? Rather than disregarding the land, Nguyen’s photographs suggest these environments contain a plethora of unspoken histories.

Nguyen’s works are built upon and are often generative of one another. Parallel to this presentation, two of her films, Vietnam the Movie (2015) and Fifth Cinema (2018), will be on view in The Single Screen from 28 May – 9 June and 11 – 23 June respectively. This screening is part of the Centre’s Film Screening Programme: Faces of Histories, 14 May – 17 July 2019.]]>
Ngyuen Trinh Thi ]]> Installation]]> Photography]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Botany]]> Urbanism]]> Ecosystems]]> Archival Practice]]> Pedagogy]]> Jef Geys]]> Asia]]> Botany]]> Urbanism]]> Ecosystems]]> Archival Practice]]> Pedagogy]]> Louise Neo]]> Asia]]> Botany]]> Urbanism]]> Ecosystems]]> Archival Practice]]> Pedagogy]]> Teo Siyang]]> Asia]]> Archival Practice]]> Curatorial Practice]]> Farah Wardani]]> Southeast Asia]]> Knowledge Production]]> Archival Practice]]> Saleh Husein]]> Cultural Production]]> Archival Practice]]> Koh Nguang How]]> Southeast Asia]]> Hugging the Shore Exhibition Guide]]> Archival Practice]]> Materiality]]> Hugging the Shore Exhibition Guide]]> Simryn Gill]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Guide]]> Southeast Asia]]> Archival Practice]]> Migration]]> Identity]]> The Archive as a Subject, a long-term project that positions photographs and other vernacular artefacts at the junction of the private and the public, as well as the personal and the political, raising complex global issues related to concepts of territory, migration, and identity. Looking at the traces of her own family’s history, she aims to explore the friction that is generated when such mundane items are appropriated by institutional narratives, especially when they are framed in different cultural contexts. While in Singapore, she intends to further her research looking specifically at the history of the refugee camp in Sembawang which housed Vietnamese refugees for twenty years.]]> Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen]]> Southeast Asia]]> Archival Practice]]> Singapore Art Archive Project @ Centre for Contemporary Art (SAAP@CCA) encompasses material touching the Singapore art scene from the 1920s until the arrival of the Internet. An entirely material archive with most documentation provided by the artist himself, this project developed as a response to the lack of a national art archive.

His residency at NTU CCA Singapore enabled public access to the archive for an extended period of time with a wealth of material showing extensive regional exchange as well as many international exhibitions in Singapore, debunking the myth of an isolated art scene .The ensuing dialogue and conversation with Koh are key when visiting this collection. Here the role of the artist is the role of cultural memory keeper.]]>
Koh Nguang How]]> Installation]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]>