Lim Sokchanlina
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Ang Song Nian
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During the residency, Ang Song Nian will continue his ongoing investigation into human interventions on the urban landscape by focusing on plant nurseries and the potted plants industry in Singapore. This research unfolds in the wake of a residency at Bangkok University Gallery that culminated with the work <i>As They Grow Older and Wiser</i> (2016). Ang was fascinated by the legal loopholes that allowed for a massive transplanting of rare and exotic trees from the region of Chiang Mai to the fast-changing city of Bangkok for decorative purposes. Framed against Singapore’s nation-building narratives, the artist is interested in the manipulation of nature through state-driven initiatives and policies of environmental control, greening, and city-branding. Such endeavours include the Tree Planting campaign of 1963 and the government’s subsequent initiatives directed to fabricate a new understanding of nature and obliterate the country’s past of clearing forests to make way for plantation economy.
2 May – 30 August 2019
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Carolina Caycedo
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Understanding water as a living entity, a public resource, and a human right, Carolina Caycedo’s project <em>Be Dammed</em> (2012-ongoing) investigates the environmental and social effects caused by human intervention on water flows. During her residency, the artist will expand her research in a two-pronged direction by inquiring on the current state of traditional fishing practices and communities in Singapore and on the country’s integrated water supply strategy known as Four National Taps (FNT). On one hand, she will research the impact of coastal and economic developments on traditional fishermen’s lifestyle in the past two decades, taking into consideration related processes of resistance and/or adaptation to change and dispossession. On the other hand, she will probe the history of rivers and reservoirs and the FNT water management plan implemented by the Public Utilities Board in order to question the internationally acclaimed “holistic approach” of this strategy. <br /><br />This residency was cancelled due to personal circumstances.
27 January – 27 March 2020
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Diana Lelonek
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Research Interests: Landfill ecologies Post-consumer waste Ecological engagement Interspecies encounters Post-human and eco-feminist studies Diana Lelonek examines the complex interdependency between growing trends of overproduction and natural ecosystems. Since 2016, she has been gathering waste-derived specimens under the aegis of The Center for Living Things, a long-term artistic project shaped as an independent grassroots research institute. Classified in collaboration with botanists and other natural scientists, The Center for Living Things' collection includes discarded commodities and objects that, upon disposal, become part of the natural environment for a number of living organisms. Extending this fascination for how the ecosystems of landfills turn into fertile habitats and are reclaimed by non-human organisms, for her research in Singapore, Lelonek will focus on the offshore landfill Pulau Semakau and its own specific ecosystem. Together with the Liaison (Artistic Research), the artist will explore post-waste environments and the waste-derived specimens that come to life within those contexts. The Liaison should preferably have a strong interest in environmental issues, anthropocene studies, and/or botany. Research Liaison: Denise Lim Through photography, painting and three-dimensional explorations influenced by her background in architecture, Denise Lim examines narratives inherent to the human condition. Central to her research interests are circular design and co-creation with nature in the age of the Anthropocene.<br /><br />The residency of Diana Lelonek was scheduled for October – December 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak rendered international travel impossible. In order to continue to support artistic research and foster collaborations beyond borders, the NTU CCA Residencies Programme initiated Residencies Rewired, a project that trailblazes new pathways to collaboration.
1 December 2020 – 28 February 2021
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Susanne Kriemann
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Interested in chemical processes caused by human interference in nature, the practice of Susanne Kriemann unfolds slowly across extended periods of time. Splitting her residency into two parts, the first of which took place last August, the artist is conducting field research on the presence of (micro)plastics in the intertidal mangrove habitats of Singapore and the Riau Archipelago. Since the 1950s, plastic has become the chief material of industrial mass production due to its lightweight, durability, and low production costs. With a decomposition time of about 500 years, all plastic items ever produced are still extant on the planet. Through most disposal systems, they enter the oceans where ultraviolet light, heat, wind, and waves progressively reduce them to “mermaid tears”, pellet-shaped particles with a diameter of approximately five millimetres. Kriemann recently participated in a residency in Colombo, Sri Lanka to investigate similar habitats and will spend this final month re-examining and consolidating the gathered materials.
11 July – 16 August 2018
5 March – 24 March 2019
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Tiffany Chung
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Tiffany Chung's research explores the notion of “colonialism as civilising mission”, predominantly in the sphere of public works that the British carried out in Singapore, in comparison with the policy that underlay the construction of Indochina by French imperialism during its colonial rule in the neighbouring region. These comparative studies examined the connections between imperialism and modernity, the continuities of late-colonialism and the process of nation building – whether it is the construction of a national history or its national land development. <br /><br />Chung looked into the local Vietnamese Refugee Camps as well as the National Archives of Singapore and the National Museum Archives of Singapore.
7 July – 3 September 2014
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<p class="event_single_title">Exhibition (de)Tour: The ‘Crime’ of Haze: The Politics of Land, Nature and Human Rights with Dr Helena Varkkey (Malaysia)</p>
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<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">12 Aug 2016, Fri 7:30pm - 9:00pm</div>
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<br />The Southeast Asian region has been experiencing increasingly frequent events of transboundary haze for several decades. Much of this haze originates from Indonesia, mainly caused by fires related to traditional and commercial agricultural activities. While these activities have been credited for fuelling rapid development in Indonesia and the larger region, human and non-human communities around Southeast Asia have had to suffer its ill effects. This talk explores the concept of such pollution as a crime, both in terms of human and environmental rights. It also touches on the intricacies of local and regional politics that have permitted this ‘crime’ to continue unabated. <br /><br />This Exhibition (de)Tour is part of the public programme of <i>Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest.</i>
2016-08-12
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Participatory Project: World Cafe: Air, Land, and Water by Marjetica Potrč, part of CITIES FOR PEOPLE NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2016/17
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<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">17 Jan 2017, Tue 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">Behind Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<br />Adopting the World Cafe methodology (an effective format for large group dialogue), the workshop will bring together a diverse group of people including grassroots communities, environmental activists, and other social interest groups, who are engaged with environmental and sustainability issues. In this workshop, participants will hold presentations and discussions on topics of urgency relating to air and water. Participants are asked not only to consider the current state of matters, but more importantly, to project solutions and desires for the next 30 years, from the bottom-up perspective: What can we do ourselves to change the human and environmental conditions of air, land, and water – essential elements and finite natural resources that Singapore residents live with every day but rarely ask questions about. The workshop begins with small group presentations and conversations with each group focusing on one elected topic, after which participants rotate and move to another topic. <br /><br />The final aim of the workshop will be for the participants to come up with proposals/manifestos for the future and present them to invited representatives from relevant state agencies. Through this workshop, Marjetica Potrč lays a special focus on participation and agency. Individual empowerment, problem-solving-tools, and long-term strategies are key in her approach. <br />
2017-01-17
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Residencies Studio Sessions: Artist Talk by Alice Miceli (Brazil), Artist-in-Residence
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<div class="event_single_dates text__residencies">16 Aug 2017, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM</div>
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In this talk, Artist-in-Residence Alice Miceli will discuss her research on landscapes inscribed with human-induced traumas and how former theatres of war raise issues of visibility, accessibility, and memory. Focusing on two of her major projects— <i>Chernobyl Project</i> (2007–2011), which revolves around the exclusion zone generated by the infamous nuclear disaster and <i>In Depth (landmines)</i> (2014–ongoing), a photographic inquiry into landscapes contaminated with unexplored landmines—Miceli will unravel the multiple methodologies, from archival research and investigative travels to formal experimentation, which frame the traces of trauma in the context of her practice.
2017-08-16
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Workshop: Nothing Remains the Same, and All at Once by Mary Bernadette Lee (Singapore)
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<span>3 Mar 2018, Sat 10:30 AM - 05:00 PM<br /></span>External venue and The Seminar Room<br /><br />In this full-day workshop, participants will be introduced to the process of art making, from research and conceptualisation to execution. Developed for participants 14 years and above, the day will consist of a trip to the beach to collect plastic waste and organic debris like shells washed ashore to create artworks out of these found materials during the second part of the workshop. Using <i>The Oceanic</i> as an entry point to raise awareness on the dire health of our oceans and the islands most affected, participants will learn how to engage with questions of climate change, as well as its impacts. <br /><br />Designed for families and participants aged 14 and up. <br /><br />A public and education programme of <em>The Oceanic</em>.
2018-03-03
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