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Deepening a long-standing involvement with the migrant experience, prominently manifested in the feature film A Land Imagined (2018), Yeo Siew Hua will use the residency to address the subject with the tools of cartography and music-making. Thinking…

13 Jan 2017, Fri 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM Moving beyond the idea of a “Smart City”, the Singapore government has recently spearheaded the “Smart Nation” initiative that aims to create a data-driven network that can enhance citizens’ lives and foster…

6 Apr 2014, Sun 2:00 - 4:00 pmAttention has been given to everything but the event. Conditions, such as planning, theory, negotiation, framework, lead to the definition of context while intended results become an afterthought. To highlight this…

30 Nov 2016, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road Within the context of the exhibition Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice, Artist-in-Residence UuDam Tran Nguyen will present Waltz of the Machine…

Deeply enmeshed with the political complexities of the Bengal region, the artistic practice of Munem Wasif addresses the aftermaths of colonialism, issues of environmental exploitation, and the social repercussions of divisive border policing in the…

A Tumbling Inch is a performative action by Jakarta-based artists Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina, which crystallised in the hydrospheric spatiality between Batam, the Indonesian island closest to Singapore, and the undulating maritime borders between…

On 28 March 2018, Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina concluded their residency at NTU CCA Singapore with the lecture Name Laundering during which Ahmett made the solemn pledge (sumpah) not to return to Singapore, an oath that holds true until today. A…

Referencing the works of Zarina Bhimji and Trinh T. Minh-ha in the exhibition Paradise Lost, Dr Stefano Harney investigates the renewed power of postcolonial critique today. By returning to the great thinkers of the “colonial situation” and its…

13 Nov 2015, Fri 7:30pm - 9:00pm The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road Although globalisation exists for over a century, the term “global” was only used prevalently in cultural debates in the 1990s. Within the art world, globalisation bears…