On this episode of "On AiR", we feature Trevor Yeung (Hong Kong), an artist and grower whose practice revolves around plants and local planting systems. We spoke to him at the end of his three month-long residency at NTU CCA Singapore where he…
This week, "On AiR" features Artist-in-Residence Rossella Biscotti (Italy/Belgium/Netherlands) who walks us through her textile pieces “Dismembered Rafflesia” and “Seeds” during an intimate look inside her studio. During her residency at NTU CCA…
2 Mar 2019, Sat 04:00 PM - 06:30 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan RoadFilmmaker Inge Godelaine (Belgium) will introduce her films and be available for Q&A.
Margaret Tait, Garden Pieces, 1998, 11 min 30 sec
Filmmaker-poet Margaret Tait’s last…
26 Feb 2019, Tue 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
“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”).…
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…
12 Jan 2019, Sat 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM
NTU CCA Singapore and NTU Community Herb Garden
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…
16 Oct 2018, Tue 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Foyer, Block 43 Malan Road
Tyler Coburn 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…
14 Oct 2018, Sun 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM
NTU CCA Singapore & Toh Garden, 11 Lor Pasu
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…
25 Aug 2018, Sat 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
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…
