The Making of an Institution — Reason to Exist: The Director’s Review. Talk by Farah Wardani (Indonesia/Singapore), Assistant Director, Resource Centre, National Gallery Singapore and former Director of the Indonesian Visual Art Archive, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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Archival Practice]]> Institutional Critique]]> 15 Mar 2017, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

As with many other practitioners in the Indonesian art scene, in the early stages of her career Farah Wardani took on the role of a multi-tasker working as writer, curator, teacher, art organiser, and translator. The lack of institutional infrastructure forces one to become a jack-of-all-trades, creating an “ecosystem” of collaborations and synergies where everyone can become an active contributor. In this unique environment, Wardani focused her interest on a key problem: the scarcity of documents and archives of Indonesian art and of art in general. This major gap became the driving force behind the establishment of Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) in 2007, an institution she continues to be involved with after joining the Resource Centre at the National Gallery Singapore in 2015. Wardani will expand on her engagement with the archive and its crucial role for art institutions today.

This talk is part of the public programme of The Making of an Institution.]]>
Farah Wardani]]> Southeast Asia]]>
The Sovereign Forest in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik/Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur]]> Archival Practice]]> Indigenous Knowledge]]> Geopolitics]]> Capitalism]]> Ecology]]> Labour]]> Politics]]> The Sovereign Forest initiates a creative response to the understanding of crime, politics, human rights and ecology. The validity of poetry as evidence in a trial, the discourse on seeing, and the determination of self, all come together as a constellation of films, texts, books, photographs, objects, seeds and processes.

The Sovereign Forest is produced with the support of Samadrusti, Odisha, India; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom; Public Press, New Delhi, India; and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany.

The exhibition at NTU CCA Singapore and its public programmes are curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Khim Ong, and Magdalena Magiera, in collaboration with Amar Kanwar, Sudhir Pattnaik and Sherna Dastur.

The Sovereign Forest is produced with the support of Samadrusti, Odisha, India; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom; Public Press, New Delhi, India; and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany.]]>
Ute Meta Bauer]]> Khim Ong]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Amar Kanwar]]> Sudhir Pattnaik]]> Sherna Dastur]]> Multimedia Installation]]> Object]]> Sound]]> Asia]]>
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Artist Resource Platform: activate! I features Siddharta Perez, Assistant Curator at the NUS Museum. As part of her engagement with NTU CCA Singapore’s Artist Resource Platform, Perez initiates a sharing session titled Unfinished Business. The session focuses on generating discursive tangents in artistic and critical practices in Manila through the art space, archive exhibitions, and the common space. She will speak of working relationships with artists from the Artist Resource Platform and curatorial work as a mode of gathering and synthesis. Unfinished Business will host consequent focus groups that discusses resource platforms and the archive.]]>
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Artist Resource Platform: activate! II features Selene Yap, Programme Manager for Visual Arts at The Substation. Yap will engage with artist Susie Wong to foreground her artistic practice and position in the local art scene. Wong’s practice has been described as autobiographical, and the self-determined nature of her works calls into question contingencies of operating systems in the state of artistic production in Singapore – what are the implications for what is made visible and valued? In this session, Yap will converse with artist Loo Zihan on the nature of archives as cultural tools that enable/disable or include/exclude by means of collection and documentation – what are the traditional positions and normalising effects of the power of collection and display?]]>
Selena Yap]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Archival Practice]]> Fiction]]> Ways of Seeing]]> 24 Jun 2014, Tue 6:30pm - 9:00pm

British-born artists Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar of The Otolith Group speak about their films, installations and performances. They discuss their frequent reworking of archival and contemporary images and the way in which it straddles the border between truth and fiction, complicating divisions between poetry, history, the real, and the imagined. 

This is a public programme of No Country: Contemporary for South and Southeast Asia.]]>
The Otolith Group]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]>
Archival Practice]]> Southeast Asia]]> Archival Practice]]> Education]]> Dirk Snauwaert]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Nina Geys]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Archival Practice]]> Bruce Quek]]> Southeast Asia]]> Archival Practice]]> Chương-Đài Võ]]> Chuong-Dai Vo]]> Chuong Dai Vo]]> Southeast Asia]]> Archival Practice]]> Artistic Research]]> History]]> Debbie Ding]]> Southeast Asia]]>