Artistic Research]]> Cultural Production]]> Wednesday, 11 January 2023, 6:00 pm - 7.30 pm
Block 37 Malan Road, Seminar Room

In this joint talk, artists Hoo Fan Chon, Citra Sasmita, and Vuth Lyno unravel an almost year-long journey from overseas residencies—at HIAP (Finland), WIELS (Belgium), and Villa Arson (France), respectively—to the development of their research and creation of new works.

This talk is part of the exhibition, Hoo Fan Chon, Citra Sasmita, and Vuth Lyno: New Works, that concludes the first cycle of SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian Artists in the European Union. As participating artists in the inaugural cycle of SEA AiR, Hoo Fan Chon (Malaysia), Citra Sasmita (Indonesia), and Vuth Lyno (Cambodia) have each been awarded a three-month-long residency at an art institution in Europe as well as funding for the creation of artworks. Stemming out of a year-long engagement, Hoo Fan Chon, Citra Sasmita, Vuth Lyno: New Works is the outcome of a multifaceted process made of journeys and institutional collaborations, fieldwork and encounters, research and artmaking. Find out more about the exhibition here.

SEA AiR is a new programme that aims to foster artistic exchange between Southeast Asia and the European Union, with Singapore as its hub. Developed by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore), the project is funded by the European Union and it offers emerging Southeast Asian artists a long-term engagement comprising a three-month residency in a EU country and the opportunity to create new works, inspired by the residency experience, that will be presented to the public in Singapore in a group exhibition curated by NTU CCA Singapore.

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Hoo Fan Chon]]> Citra Sasmita]]> Vuth Lyno]]> Southeast Asia]]> Europe]]>
Cultural Production]]> The Drawing Room]]> Southeast Asia]]> Artistic Research]]> Cultural Production]]> Hilmi Johandi]]> Ian Woo]]> Transcript]]> Southeast Asia]]> Fiction]]> Cultural Production]]> Sonny Liew]]> Southeast Asia]]> Cultural Production]]> Lei Yuan Bin]]> Southeast Asia]]> Cultural Production]]> Cultural Heritage]]> Michael J.K. Walsh]]> Michael Walsh]]> Europe]]> Asia]]> Cultural Production]]> Jef Cornelis]]> Europe]]> Ways of Seeing]]> Cultural Production]]> Technology]]> Artist-in-Residence Chua Chye Teck speaks to Dr Anna Lovecchio, Assistant Director, Programmes, in our fourth episode of AiRCAST. Follow Chye Teck's stream of consciousness as he tells us about his journey with the medium of photography and his enduring fascination for fleeting forms and makeshift compositions. In recent years, Chye Teck is developing a more experimental attitude towards the image-making process creating works that respond to the specificity of a site, rather than to a subject matter, and reverberate with emotional vibrations. He has also become involved in several collaborations with other artists and he is cultivating a new fascination for cellphone images and the creative potential of readily available, off-the-shelf digital technologies.

Contributor: Chua Chye Teck 
Conducted by: Anna Lovecchio 
Programme Manager: Kristine Tan 
Sound Engineer: Ashwin Menon (The Music Parlour)
Intro & Outro Music: Tini Aliman
Cover Image & Design: Arabelle Zhuang, Kristine Tan
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Chua Chye Teck]]> Anna Lovecchio]]> Kristine Tan]]> Ashwin Menon]]> Tini Aliman]]> Arabelle Zhuang]]> Podcast]]> https://www.buzzsprout.com/1845756/10394357-aircast-4-chua-chye-teck]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Artistic Research]]> Institutional Critique]]> Cultural Production]]> In our third episode, we open up this platform for the first time to a guest interviewer. We invited artist and filmmaker Kent Chan to pick the brain of our Artist-in-Residence Yeo Siew Hua. Beyond being both filmmakers and artists, Siew Hua and Kent have been occasional collaborators in the past and, most importantly, they are also long-time friends. Hear them speak candidly about the intertwined cycles of art-making and fund-raising, the blurred line between cinema and visual arts, as well as the philosophical underpinnings and the importance of collaboration in Siew Hua’s practice.  

The practice of Yeo Siew Hua (b. 1985, Singapore) spans film directing and screenwriting. His films probe the darkest side of contemporary society through narratives layered with mysterious atmospheres, inscrutable characters, and mythological references, all steeped in arresting visuals and sounds. His last feature film A Land Imagined (2018) harnessed recognition around the world receiving the Golden Leopard at the 71st Locarno Film Festival and the Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Music Score Awards at the 56th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. 

After A Land Imagined, Siew Hua has created a number of short films, one of which, An Invocation to the Earth (2020), commissioned by the Singapore International Film Festival and TBA21, was co-produced with NTU CCA Singapore. An Invocation to the Earth can be viewed online at www.stage.tba21.org. During the residency, Siew Hua has been completing his next major production titled The Once and Future, an expanded cinema project which will premiere at the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2022. In 2021, he received the Young Artist Award, Singapore’s highest award for young arts practitioners.

Kent Chan (b. 1984, Singapore) is an artist, curator, and filmmaker currently based in Amsterdam. His practice weaves encounters between art, fiction, and cinema with a particular interest in the tropical imagination, colonialism, and the relation between heat and art. He has held solo presentations at Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands (2020-21), National University Singapore Museum (2019-21) and SCCA-Ljubljana, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Slovenia (2017). He was Artist-in-Residence at Jan van Eyck Academie (2019-20) and at NTU CCA Singapore (2017-2018). 

Contributors: Yeo Siew Hua, Kent Chan 
Conducted by: Anna Lovecchio 
Programme Manager: Kristine Tan 
Sound Engineer: Ashwin Menon (The Music Parlour)
Intro & Outro Music: Tini Aliman 
Cover Image & Design: Arabelle Zhuang, Kristine Tan

Credits:
06:42: Audio excerpt from Yeo Siew Hua, A Land Imagined, 2018. Courtesy the artist.
11:46: Audio excerpt from Yeo Siew Hua, The Obs: A Singapore Story, 2014. Courtesy the artist.
22:55: Audio excerpt from Yeo Siew Hua, The Once and Future, 2022. Courtesy the artist.
40:49: Audio excerpt from Yeo Siew Hua, The Lover, The Excess, The Ascetic and the Fool, 2021. Courtesy the artist.

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Yeo Siew Hua]]> Kent Chan]]> Anna Lovecchio]]> Kristine Tan]]> Ashwin Menon]]> Tini Aliman]]> Arabelle Zhuang]]> Podcast]]> https://www.buzzsprout.com/1845756/10373860-aircast-3-yeo-siew-hua]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Artistic Research]]> Cultural Production]]> In our third episode, we open up this platform for the first time to a guest interviewer. We invited artist and filmmaker Kent Chan to pick the brain of our Artist-in-Residence Yeo Siew Hua. Beyond being both filmmakers and artists, Siew Hua and Kent have been occasional collaborators in the past and, most importantly, they are also long-time friends. Hear them speak candidly about the intertwined cycles of art-making and fund-raising, the blurred line between cinema and visual arts, as well as the philosophical underpinnings and the importance of collaboration in Siew Hua’s practice.  ]]> Yeo Siew Hua]]> Kent Chan]]> Transcript]]>