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Rossella Biscotti will deepen her research interest into colonial structures of power and management at the turn of the 20th century and the way in which these structures are interwoven with contemporary practices of production and distribution.
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Belgium
Netherlands
Germany
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Sourcing oral histories and female accounts, delving into archives, and mapping sites associated with different forms of mining, exploitation, and confinement, Rossella Biscotti will deepen her research interest into colonial structures of power and management at the turn of the 20th century and the way in which these structures are interwoven with contemporary practices of production and distribution. Expanding on a recently produced body of works that explore the physical and aesthetic properties of rubber—notably its resistance and its resemblance to human skin—the artist aims to research its production process on site. She will conduct archival research on colonial trade, botanical imports, and intensive cultivations in preparation for her field trips to rubber and oil palm plantations in the region.
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7 January – 27 March 2020
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Rossella Biscotti
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E D UC AT ION
RESOURCE GUIDE
01/11/2018 TO 03/03/2019
QUADRA
SINGAPORE
JEF GEYS
MEDICINALE
Lantana camara
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�About
NTU CCA Singapore
Notes to
Teachers & Educators
Located at Gillman Barracks, NTU
CCA Singapore is a national research
centre of Nanyang Technological
University, supported by a grant from
the Economic Development Board,
Singapore. The Centre is unique in its
threefold constellation of research &
academic programmes, international
exhibitions and residencies, positioning
itself as a space for critical discourse and
diverse forms of knowledge production.
The Centre focuses on Spaces of the
Curatorial in Singapore, Southeast
Asia, and beyond, as well as engages
in multi-layered research topics.
This Resource Guide is developed to
supplement the Workshop for Teachers
and Educators with a focus on the
exhibitions at NTU CCA Singapore. It
provides an opportunity for educators
to learn how contemporary artists
address issues and concerns of our
times, as well as to explore new
teaching strategies.
CLIMATES. HABITATS.
ENVIRONMENTS. is NTU CCA
Singapore’s overarching research
topic which informs and connects
the Centre’s various activities over
a longer period of time (2017-19).
Changes in the environment influence
weather patterns and these climatic
shifts impact habitats, and vice versa.
Precarious conditions of habitats are
forcing migration of humans and
other species at a critical level. The
consequences of human intervention
are felt on a global scale, affecting
geopolitical, social, and cultural
systems. The Centre intends to discuss
and understand these realities through
art and culture in dialogue with other
fields of knowledge.
Here you will find resources specifically
designed for teachers and students.
The proposed activities are conceived
to be used in a flexible manner:
educators can select suitable activities
and combine them to meet the needs
of their students.
Before bringing your class to NTU
CCA Singapore, it is recommended
that you visit the exhibition, consult
the Exhibition Guide and the Education
Resource Guide, and decide which
aspects of the exhibition are most
relevant to your students. Customised
guided tours for student groups led
by NTU CCA Singapore curators are
also available upon request.
Kelly Reedy, Educator, Art Therapist, Artist
Magdalena Magiera, Curator
Outreach & Education
Ilya Katrinnada Binte Zubaidi, Curatorial
Assistant, Outreach and Education
Nadia Amalina, Young Professional Trainee
�About the Education Programmes
The education programmes promote contemporary art as a form of creative
learning through exhibition tours, talks, and workshops developed by the
Centre’s education team. These accessible and inclusive learning experiences
connect students and teachers with contemporary art and artists to encourage
new ways of looking, thinking, and creating.
Crucial to our programme is the approach “bring your own story,” which
encourages students to connect the exhibitions with their personal experiences
generating new meanings through playful strategies, peer collaborations, and
group discussions.
Who would benefit from working with/consulting the Education Resource Guide?
The Education Resource Guide is conceived for teachers and educators working
in secondary, tertiary, and university educational settings. It can also be a useful
resource for general exhibition visitors as a tool to understand and enjoy contemporary
art. Following the guided questions and activities, visitors are encouraged to enter
the world of the artist(s) and reflect on what they experience in the gallery space.
How can the Education Resource Guide be used by educators and general visitors?
These educational activities can be used for pre-gallery, in-gallery, or post-gallery
lessons. Teachers can choose which activities are valuable for their educational
objectives, and are free to add on other related materials of their own. General
visitors can also decide which ideas and content inspire them to further learn
from and enhance their exhibition experience.
What is the goal of the Education Resource Guide?
We want to encourage people to discover and trust their own responses to
contemporary art. We think contemporary art can be meaningful and relevant
for everyone, but we also acknowledge that sometimes an exhibition can be
perceived as intimidating and confusing. Hence, the resources we produce are
conceptualised to build confidence in individual thinking to creatively engage
with contemporary art.
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�Using a Gallery as a Site of Research: a fieldtrip to
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Theme:
CONCEPTUAL ART PRACTICE.
EXPERIMENTAL PEDAGOGY.
ARCHIVAL PRACTICE.
Cross-disciplinary subjects:
educational theory,
botany,
ethnobotany,
urban studies,
environmental studies,
social studies.
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�A brief introduction
Jef Geys (1934–2018) was a Belgian
artist known for his conceptual art
practice and experimentation in
the field of pedagogy. He carved
out a unique path both as an artist
and educator, insisting his daily
life and art were not separate. He
employed a variety of media including film, installation art, painting,
performance-related works,urban
interventions, photography, publishing activities, sculpture and even plants from his garden, yet the interdisciplinary
nature of his practice was never limited in terms of their format. Throughout his
career, he also meticulously documented and preserved all of his artistic endeavors
in a private archive, as well as collected texts and objects from his everyday life.
After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Geys chose to
settle and work in the small provincial village of Balen in the Kempens region
of Belgium. His art production is often based on references to this location,
which he described as the terroir or territory, reflecting the region’s history,
language, social structure and natural environment. There he also taught art in
a state school for almost 30 years. His pedagogical approach, called “positive
aesthetics,” emphasised a focus on the awareness of the world around us as well
as quotidian happenings. It encompassed using his own classroom as the site for
his projects and exhibitions. Yet throughout his life, Geys was also consistently
engaged in broader critical issues important to art, politics, and society at large.
His work has been shown internationally in galleries and museums including, the
Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (2015), WIELS Contemporary
Art Centre, Brussels (2013, 2009), Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (2011),
Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition (2009), Skulptur Projekte Münster
(1997) and the São Paulo Art Biennial (1991). In 2000 he received the Flemish
Culture Prize for Plastic Arts and in 2008 the Plastic Arts Prize of the Province of
Antwerp.
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�NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Jef Geys. Quadra Medicinale Singapore
Geys’s influences can be traced to the Dadaist movement, as well as artists such
as Joseph Beuys and Marcel Duchamp. Social critique was at the heart of their
practices and the belief that anything can be art, if an artist so intends it. Thus
Geys’s conceptual art practice became rich in experimentation, spilling naturally
over into his work as an educator. His deep interest in society and politics led
him to tackle prickly social issues through his art, as in his !Women’s Questions?
written in the early 1960s. Still valid today, these questions were meant to
engage his students at a girls’ school in real life matters. He was also not shy
about taking on the art world itself. In his Colouring Book for Adults (1963–65),
he endeavoured to teach himself how to be an artist, after having just graduated
from art school. The book poked fun at how the art world expects an artist to
produce individual one-off works of genius. Geys’s way of perceiving the world
made him question the hierarchies of control, meaning-making systems, and
the dissemination of knowledge, both inside and outside of the classroom
and art world.
The exhibition at NTU CCA Singapore highlights Geys’s contribution to the 2009
Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition where he represented Belgium. His
work, Quadra Medicinale, brings together many of his long-researched artistic and
conceptual inquiries in the form of a collaborative project, including a manual
serving as a practical guide to foraging in the city and as an archival document.
Geys’s use of plants in his art practice stems from his being an avid gardener. For
this project he asked friends and colleagues living in various urban locations
(Villeurbanne, New York, Moscow, Brussels) to map out a one- to two-kilometer
square space, keeping their home or workplace in the center. They were then to
explore this area, looking to find and photograph 12 random street plants (or
weeds) growing there. Next they were to document, classify and research these
plants, seeking out their medicinal and/or other properties. In Venice, Geys
displayed the photographs and research information, as well as prepared a user
manual in the form of the Kempens Informatieblad, a former local newspaper in
Kempens that he took over for the purpose of archiving his own work. One hope
for the outcome of this project was to give homeless people more knowledge
about how to take care of minor ailments through medicinal herbs and make use
of accessible food growing in urban areas.
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�Pre-gallery visit activities:
1. Prior to the gallery visit, discuss the definitions and concepts expressed in
the vocabulary list below.
Archival –
Biotope –
Conceptual art –
Dadaism –
Ethnobotany –
Foraging –
Inventory –
Medicinal –
Pedagogy –
Plant –
Positive Aesthetics –
Territory –
Terroir –
2. What information sources do you use to find out more about something that
interests you? For example, where would you look if you wanted to learn the
botanical names and classification systems of plants or if a plant found growing
on the street is safe to eat?
3. Are you sure that the sources of information you choose are reliable?
Who do you think writes that information?
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�4. How do you usually document the information you want to remember on a
daily basis? Where do you store it? How do you share it?
5. Find a plant at home or in your neighborhood that attracts you. Document it
and try to find out its botanical name and uses. Make a sketch of your plant in the
box below and write down the information you discovered. Name your sources.
Are you sure your documentation is correct? Would you share it with others?
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�CCA Activities:
Jef Geys. Quadra Medicinale Singapore
Activity #1:
Go Foraging and Create a Medicinal Guidebook
(Required materials: educational resource guide, coloured pencils,
a smartphone with recording device and camera)
(* An important note: The activity sheets will not be graded, nor is there only one correct
answer. They are to provide a platform for creative dialogue, debate and continued research
into the suggested topics.)
In Activity #1 explore the exhibition in a small group of 4 to 5 people. Each
person should choose a minor ailment, e.g. cough, cold, earache, stomachache
etc. As a group, go foraging through Geys’s exhibition of documented plants and
try to find the ones that can help you or your group members feel better. Create
a medicinal guidebook noting down all relevant information for each plant as
presented in the artworks, including: common name, family name, and medicinal
uses. Make a detailed sketch of each plant you choose in the spaces provided for
in the educational resource guide.
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�Medicinal Guidebook
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�Medicinal Guidebook
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�Medicinal Guidebook
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�Medicinal Guidebook
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�Activity #2:
Archiving Practice
Go back into the exhibition alone and take pictures on your smartphone of
the work that you enjoyed in the exhibition. Include pictures of your friends
viewing the exhibition as well.
Which photos give us more of an experience of ‘art’? Geys’s artworks themselves
or the visitors looking at the artworks?
How would you define art?
How do you think Geys would define what art is?
What do you think the term ‘archiving practice’ means to Geys?
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�Activity #3:
Positive Aesthetics and Taking Inventory
Art Studio Group Work
(Required materials: smartphone with recording device and camera, paper,
coloured paper, acrylic paint, watercolors, paint brushes, felt-tipped markers,
thumbtacks, string, old plastic containers, buckets, cardboard, newspapers,
bric-a-brac).
Jef Geys was an educator who taught positive aesthetics, an experimental
pedagogical approach that encouraged students to be not only in contact with
works of art, but also to discover the concepts behind them and then find other
applications for these ideas in their own personal art making or daily life. In this
method the classroom becomes a kind of laboratory to be used for exploration
and collaboration, combining innovative art making techniques with real world
happenings in politics, as well as social and environmental issues. Geys also used
his classroom to make his own work, enlisting the help of his students at times.
He included those projects in his long running ‘inventory list’, which he began in
1958 to document all of his works through his personal archive. His aim was to
create a sense of equality between the everyday activities of an artist and what
is considered his art production.
During your visit to Quadra Medicinale Singapore, what underlying concepts did
you discover in Geys’s work? Think about alternative meaning making systems
and the concept of dissemination of knowledge. Geys uses his art to question
these systems, but do you think he also invents new systems of meaning making
and knowledge sharing through his conceptual art practice?
Can you make an original artwork or write a text building upon Geys’s ideas
about categorizing plants for medicinal purposes? Remember to use your own
life experiences in creating the artwork.
You may choose to work in a group or on your own. Feel free to use any of the
mixed media materials available to express your concept. At the end of the art
studio session, each participant will document and share something about
their artwork.
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�Post-visit Ideas!
Each teacher must decide how to best continue to use the enriching and thoughtprovoking gallery visits to enhance their students’ cross-disciplinary learning
experience. The following are a few ideas that could be developed by the
students in post-visit lessons or projects.
– Follow Jef Geys’s directions for his Quadra Medicinale Singapore project and do
a survey documenting the plants growing on the street within 1 to 2 kilometers
of your home or school. Create a poster or installation using your research
findings to share with your classmates.
– Start a small medicinal garden in pots in your school or at home. Learn how to
tend these plants and use them for minor ailments or as teas. Make an archival
journal of your experience as a gardener, documenting both the successes and
failures.
– Visit the NTU Community Herb Garden or the Ethnobotany Garden in the
Botanical Gardens and do some cross-cultural research. Compare the use of
medicinal plants for healing in Western and traditional Asian societies. Where
can you obtain these types of medicines today? Interview medical practitioners
or pharmacists who promote medicinal plants in their work.
– Look at the packaging of things you buy. Geys made seed package paintings,
highlighting discrepancies in what you are led to expect and what you get in
reality. Can you do this with other products besides seed packets? Create an
exhibition using this theme.
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�*Pre-gallery visit activities:
Archive – A place or collection
containing records, documents, or
other materials of historical interest
Biotope – (Environmental Science)
ecology a small area, such as the
bark of a tree, that supports its own
distinctive community
Conceptual art – art in which
emphasis is placed on the means and
processes of producing art and on the
ideas conveyed rather than on the
production of art objects
Dadaism – a revolt by certain
20th-century painters and writers in
France, Germany, and Switzerland
against smugness in traditional art
and Western society; their works,
illustrating absurdity through
paintings of purposeless machines
and collages of discarded materials,
expressed their cynicism about
conventional ideas of form and their
rejection of traditional concepts
of beauty
Ethnobotany – the scientific study
of the traditional knowledge and
customs of a people concerning
plants and their medical, religious,
and other uses
Foraging – obtain (food or provisions)
by searching
Inventory – a detailed, itemized list,
report, or record of things in one’s
possession, especially a periodic survey
of all goods or materials in stock
Medicinal – of, relating to, or having
the properties of medicine
Pedagogy – the principles, practice
or profession of teaching
Plant – a living organism of the
kind exemplified by trees, shrubs,
herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses,
typically growing in a permanent
site, absorbing water and inorganic
substances through its roots, and
synthesizing nutrients in its leaves
by photosynthesis using the green
Positive Aesthetics – an experimental
pedagogical approach used by
Geys’s with his students promoting
the contact with works of art, the
discovery of their underlying
concepts, and the search for
applications for these ideas in their
own personal art making or daily life.
Territory – an area of land; a region
Terroir – Jef Geys uses this term
in conjunction with the notions of
biotope or territory, for him meaning
his entire surroundings, human,
and non-human, reflecting a region’s
history, language, social structure
and natural environment
Suggested definitions taken from
http://freedictionary.com
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�Education Programmes
Saturday, 1 December 2018 |
10.00am – 12.30pm
Friday, 11 January 2019 | 3.00 – 5.30pm
Saturday, 15 December 2018| 3.00 – 5.30pm
Various locations around
Gillman Barracks
(Meeting point: Block 43 Malan Road)
Workshop fee: $15
The Seminar Room and The Exhibition
Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
Registration required via Peatix:
foragingatgillmanbarracks.peatix.com
Workshop for Teachers and Educators
by artist and educator Kelly Reedy
(United States/Singapore)
Workshop: Foraging at Gillman
Barracks with urban farmer
and nature educator Alexius Yeo
(Singapore)
Belgium-born artist Jef Geys’s multidisciplinary conceptual art practice
and his experiments in the field of
pedagogy underpin this environmentally
focused workshop. Through interacting
with the exhibition Quadra Medicinale
Singapore, participants will explore the
Join this interactive walk in search
of edible plants around NTU CCA
Singapore and discover the rich edible
resources growing around us. Learn
how to find edible plants to add to
your next home-made salad and be
surprised by the many grasses that
are commonly used in traditional
medicine.
themes of foraging in urban environments, research the medicinal uses of
local plants, and discover surprising
ways to archive an artist’s practice.
Kelly Reedy (United States/Singapore)
has worked in Singapore for over 18 years
as an artist and educator, holding an MA
in Education, Hunter College, and an
MA in Art Therapy, LASALLE College of
the Arts. She has exhibited her artworks
internationally on Paris, Chicago, and
Berlin, as well a locally at Jendela Visual
Arts Space, Esplanade, Singapore Tyler
Print Institute, and Alliance Française.
Reedy has developed educational resources
for the National Gallery Singapore and
trained teachers at the National Institute
of Education, specialising in visual arts
education in museums and galleries. Reedy
is a long-term collaborator for NTU CCA
Singapore’s workshop for teachers.
Alexius Yeo (Singapore) is the Director of
Carbon InQ, a local company that teaches
agriculture-based experiential learning
programmes at schools and firms. He is also
Founder of Project 33, a family-initiated
farming movement uniting neighbourhoods
through community farming, cooking,
educational activities, as well as the practice
of “sharing first” that involves sharing a
portion of what one grows and owns with
the community.
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�Saturday, 16 February 2019 | 2.00 – 4.30pm
The Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Rd
Saturday, 2 March 2019 | 10.00am – 1.00pm
Meeting point: Block 43 Malan Road
Registration required via Peatix:
womensquestions.peatix.com
Registration required via Peatix:
wondersofnature.peatix.com
Workshop: !Women’s Questions?
a facilitated discussion by ground-up
initiative Crit Talk
Workshop: Weeds, Wildflowers, and
the Wonders of Nature by Nature
Society (Singapore)
!Women’s Questions? (1965) was a list of
handwritten questions that artist and
educator Jef Geys made for, and with,
the students he taught. For Geys, his
artistic life was often integrated with
his work—instead of teaching the history
of classical art, Geys preferred to engage
his students in discussions about the position of women in society. Taking inspiration from !Women’s Questions?, this
facilitated discussion hopes to provide
a safe and critical space for participants
to share their perspectives, personal
encounters or observations on issues
related to women in contemporary
Singapore, and to create new “Women’s
Questions” that take on relevance today.
Nature reserves and parks are often
thought of as places to seek out
beautiful and interesting plants. It
may surprise us that fascinating and
useful plants can actually be found all
around us – many people call them
weeds. In this workshop, participants
will look for “weeds,” see where they
grow, and identify them. We will search
for information on their ecology,
their broader distributions, and their
various uses. Come prepared to spend
a day learning about amazing plants
that we see (and more often than not,
overlook) every day. We may discover
that our neighbourhoods are richer and
more beautiful than they already are.
Crit Talk (Singapore) provides open,
critical, and participative spaces for young
Singaporeans to discuss their unique
experiences and topics participants feel
important to address but are taboo or too
controversial for a mainstream setting.
Crit Talk is the brainchild of Sya Taha and
Saiful Anuar. Sya writes about the media
representation of Muslim women through
race, disability and other intersectionalities,
and is currently pursuing her PhD in
National University of Singapore, while
Saiful is a consultant on diversity and
inclusion issues, and conducts designthinking training.
The Nature Society (Singapore) (NSS) has
been an active member of Singapore civil
society for over 60 years. It functions as
an activity, advocacy, and outreach group,
while delivering the scientific data needed
to monitor the state of local wildlife to
manage, protect, and promote it. NSS works
with the conviction that a Singapore with
thriving nature is a better Singapore for
people and for wildlife.
Unless otherwise stated, all
programmes are free. For updates
please visit ntu.ccasingapore.org.
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�Join Ntu Cca Singapore’s Guided School Tours
These guided tours provide opportunities for discussions on art, honing
observation skills and interpretive thinking for both students and teachers.
The tours are led by NTU CCA Singapore’s curators who will provide insights
into the exhibition, and share their experience of working with the artists.
All tours are free of charge.
To arrange a day and time for the tours suited to your schedule,
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Exhibition Hours
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Open on Public Holidays (except on
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Extended hours 23 – 27 January 2019:
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Education Resource
Collateral and other print or digital materials aimed at educators, or developed for education purposes. Examples include education resource guide, activity cards, postcards, etc.
Short Description
Trees of Life — Knowledge in Material Education Resource Guide
Education Resource Type
Resource Guide
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
Dublin Core
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Jef Geys Quadra Medicinale Singapore Education Resource Guide
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An account of the resource
Jef Geys Quadra Medicinale Singapore Education Resource Guide
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2018-12-01
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NTU CCA Singapore
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General
Subject
The topic of the resource
Botany
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Exhibition Resource
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Short Description
Jef Geys, Kempens Informatieblad – Venetië, 2009
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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<span>Jef Geys, </span><i><span lang="nl-be">Kempens Informatieblad – Venetië</span></i><span lang="nl-be">, 2009</span>
Description
An account of the resource
<span>Jef Geys, </span><i><span lang="nl-be">Kempens Informatieblad – Venetië</span></i><span lang="nl-be">, 2009</span>
Date
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2018-12-01
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Jef Geys
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Guide
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Europe
Subject
The topic of the resource
Botany
Access Rights
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Only available onsite. Please contact ntuccaresearch@ntu.edu.sg to make an appointment.
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A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Examples include symposia and conferences, public talks and performances, tours, workshops, open studios.
Short Description
In this workshop, artist Xu Tan invites local practitioners engaged in the social practice of urban farming to share with participants how to grow, what to plant, and why. The workshop takes a hands-on approach, allowing participants to handle samplings of plants, seeds, and soil.
Programme Type
Workshop
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Place.Labour.Capital.
Audience
General
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
Collaboration
No
Commissioned Work
No
Education
No
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Workshop: Keyword Laboratory: "Socio-botanic" by Xu Tan, part of CITIES FOR PEOPLE NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2016/17
Description
An account of the resource
<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">18 Jan 2017, Wed 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">Studio #01-01, Block 37 Malan Road</div>
<br />“Urban farming is a social practice that has associations with contemporary life on many levels, relating fundamentally to environment, capitalism, global consumerist lifestyles, and to the production of knowledge and technology for human sustenance.” — Xu Tan <br /><br />In this workshop, artist Xu Tan invites local practitioners engaged in the social practice of urban farming to share with participants how to grow, what to plant, and why. The workshop takes a hands-on approach, allowing participants to handle samplings of plants, seeds, and soil. Through these interactions between practitioners and public participants, the workshop provides a platform for knowledge exchange on a sociopolitical and an aesthetic level. <br /><br />A collection of six videos of interviews by Xu with urban farmers in China and Singapore, the latter filmed during his residency period at the NTU CCA Singapore, will also be on view. These videos are part of his ongoing research into the social practice of botany/farming.
Date
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2017-01-18
Contributor
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Xu Tan
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Asia
Southeast Asia
Subject
The topic of the resource
Sustainability
Botany
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Programmes
Programme
A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Examples include symposia and conferences, public talks and performances, tours, workshops, open studios.
Short Description
Leading rattan expert Dr John Dransfield will talk about unsustainable harvesting, the expansion of the oil-palm industry, the possibilities of smallholder cultivation, and what it means for the future of rattan furniture and the handicraft industries.
Programme Type
Talk and Lecture
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
Collaboration
No
Commissioned Work
No
Education
No
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
Audience
General
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Lecture: The Ethnobotanic Story of Rattan by Dr John Dransfield (United Kingdom), ethnobotanist and Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Description
An account of the resource
<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">25 Aug 2018, Sat 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<br />With over 600 species, rattan is astonishingly diverse with its main centre of distribution in Southeast Asia and the Malay Archipelago. Uses of the plants range from medicine to cigarette papers, from basket weaving to cane furniture. Leading rattan expert Dr John Dransfield will talk about unsustainable harvesting, the expansion of the oil-palm industry, the possibilities of smallholder cultivation, and what it means for the future of rattan furniture and the handicraft industries.<br /><br />A public programme of <em>Trees of Life – Knowledge in Material</em>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2018-08-25
Contributor
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John Dransfield
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Southeast Asia
Subject
The topic of the resource
Nature
Botany
Sustainability
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Short Description
This session will start at NTU CCA Singapore, where Coburn will introduce his orchid hybrid and elaborate on the conventions of naming, then conclude at Toh Garden with a tour led by Zhuo Hongyi.
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Collaboration
No
Commissioned Work
No
Education
No
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
Programme Type
Talk and Lecture
Tour
Audience
General
Programme Series
Behind the Scenes
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Behind the Scenes: artist Tyler Coburn and Zhuo Hongyi, Project Manager, Toh Garden
Description
An account of the resource
<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">14 Oct 2018, Sun 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">NTU CCA Singapore & Toh Garden, 11 Lor Pasu</div>
<br />During his 2017 residency at NTU CCA Singapore, Tyler Coburn developed a relationship with Singapore’s Toh Garden, which cultivates many orchid hybrids named after politicians and celebrities. In turn, Coburn legally named one of the Garden’s hybrids “Richard Roe,” a name used in American and British case law when the actual name of a person cannot be given. This session will start at NTU CCA Singapore, where Coburn will introduce his orchid hybrid and elaborate on the conventions of naming, then conclude at Toh Garden with a tour led by Zhuo Hongyi.<br /><br /><span>A public programme of </span><em>Stagings. Soundings. Readings. Free Jazz II.</em>
Date
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2018-10-14
Contributor
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Tyler Coburn
Zhuo Hongyi
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Southeast Asia
Subject
The topic of the resource
Botany
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Short Description
<b>Tyler Coburn</b> will read from his forthcoming book, a fictional memoir of the legal person “Richard Roe” that accompanies his orchid hybrid of the same name.
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
Collaboration
No
Commissioned Work
No
Education
No
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
Programme Type
Reading Group
Audience
General
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Reading: Richard Roe by artist Tyler Coburn
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An account of the resource
<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">16 Oct 2018, Tue 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">Foyer, Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<b><br />Tyler Coburn</b> will read from his forthcoming book, a fictional memoir of the legal person “Richard Roe” that accompanies his orchid hybrid of the same name. This text, a hybrid of an essay and stand-up comedy, describes a world populated by legal fictions that creep around the margins of selfhood—and increasingly dictate the terms of economic and political process. Coburn will read the first chapter of this book, which discusses everything from the ancient trials of objects to recent arguments for the legal personhood of rivers and other elements of the natural world.<br /><br /><span>A public programme of </span><em>Stagings. Soundings. Readings. Free Jazz II.</em>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2018-10-16
Contributor
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Tyler Coburn
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Asia
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fiction
Botany
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Ng Kim Chuan founded the Garden in 2009, together with a small group of volunteers consisting of staff, students, and members of the public, to serve as a charitable resource of medicinal herbs for the poor and the needy. Ng will give a tour of the Garden, with the assistance of Lee Jin Long, NTU student, and share his knowledge and work surrounding these medicinal herbs, especially as alternative treatments for cancer and chronic illnesses.
Programme Type
Tour
Programme Series
Exhibition (de)Tour
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Collaboration
No
Commissioned Work
No
Education
No
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
Audience
General
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Exhibition (de)Tour: Medicinal Herbs by Ng Kim Chuan (Singapore), gardener, NTU Community Herb Garden; with introduction of Quadra Medicinale Singapore by Khim Ong (Singapore), Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes, NTU CCA Singapore
Description
An account of the resource
<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">12 Jan 2019, Sat 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">NTU CCA Singapore and NTU Community Herb Garden</div>
<br />Programme will start at NTU CCA Singapore, Block 43 Malan Road and end at NTU Community Herb Garden, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue near Jalan Bahar Gate. One-way transportation from NTU CCA Singapore to NTU is provided. <br /><br />In conceptualising <i>Quadra Medicinale</i> (2009), Jef Geys asked local collaborators to identify plants that grew on the street, and to research their potential medicinal or beneficial properties. The NTU Community Herb Garden is dedicated to the cultivation of such plants and is home to more than 300 species of tropical plants and herbs with medicinal properties. Ng Kim Chuan founded the Garden in 2009, together with a small group of volunteers consisting of staff, students, and members of the public, to serve as a charitable resource of medicinal herbs for the poor and the needy. Ng will give a tour of the Garden, with the assistance of Lee Jin Long, NTU student, and share his knowledge and work surrounding these medicinal herbs, especially as alternative treatments for cancer and chronic illnesses. <br /><br />A public programme of <em>Jef Geys Quadra Medicinale Singapore</em>.
Date
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2019-01-12
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Ng Kim Chuan
Khim Ong
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Asia
Subject
The topic of the resource
Botany
Nature
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Programme
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Short Description
In this talk, Marcus Ng delves into the natural and cultural histories of some of these plants and look at their usages, which range from the mundane to the magical.
Programme Type
Talk and Lecture
Programme Series
Exhibition (de)Tour
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
Collaboration
No
Commissioned Work
No
Education
No
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
Audience
General
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Exhibition (de)Tour: SuperNature: Finding Magic and Meaning in the Natural History Drawings from the William Farquhar Collection by writer and curator Marcus Ng
Description
An account of the resource
Ethnobotany—the study and use of plants in human culture—has long been practised in Southeast Asia. In the early 1800s, William Farquhar, the first British Resident and Commandant of colonial Singapore commissioned a collection of 477 watercolours—a testament to the knowledge, application, and reverence people had about plants in the 19th century. In this talk, Marcus Ng delves into the natural and cultural histories of some of these plants and look at their usages, which range from the mundane to the magical.<br /><br />A public programme of Jef Geys <em>Quadra Medicinale Singapore</em>.
Date
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2019-02-19
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Marcus Ng
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Southeast Asia
Subject
The topic of the resource
Botany
History
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Short Description
This talk will explore different aspects of weeds – what they are, their place in the human psyche, their fascinating life histories – and their inextricable link to human existence.
Programme Type
Talk and Lecture
Programme Series
Exhibition (de)Tour
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
Collaboration
No
Commissioned Work
No
Related Countries
Singapore
Education
No
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
Audience
General
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Exhibition (de)Tour: The Wonders of Weeds by Dr Shawn Kaihekulani Yamauchi Lum, botanist, Senior Lecturer, Asian School of the Environment, NTU, and President of Nature Society, Singapore
Description
An account of the resource
<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">26 Feb 2019, Tue 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<br />“Weeds” are not a group of related plants (like “orchids” or “gingers” or “palms”), nor are they plants with shared physical characteristics (like “trees” or “shrubs”). Although weeds defy easy definition, their name suggests something unwanted or out of place. Many, however, are quite beautiful and merit closer examination and appreciation. This talk will explore different aspects of weeds – what they are, their place in the human psyche, their fascinating life histories – and their inextricable link to human existence.<br /><br /><span>A public programme of Jef Geys </span><em>Quadra Medicinale Singapore. </em>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2019-02-26
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Shawn Kaihekulani Yamauchi Lum
Shawn Lum
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Southeast Asia
Subject
The topic of the resource
Nature
Botany