Curatorial Practice]]> Institutional Critique]]> Marian Pastor Roces]]> Asia]]> Institutional Critique]]> 26 Oct 2014, Sun 11:00am - 1:00pm

Mark Nash will be in conversation with Isaac Julien addressing the artist’s work in Theatrical Fields, but also more recent productions such as Playtime. A screening of Playtime will follow the conversation.

A public programme of Theatrical Fields: Critical Strategies in performance, film and video.]]>
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The Making of an Institution led by NTU CCA Singapore curators]]> Institutional Critique]]> 3 Mar 2017, Fri 07:00 PM - 07:30 PM
11 Mar 2017, Sat 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
11 Mar 2017, Sat 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM
7 Apr 2017, Fri 07:00 PM - 07:30 PM
29 Apr 2017, Sat 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
29 Apr 2017, Sat 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM
30 Apr 2017, Sun 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
5 May 2017, Fri 07:00 PM - 07:30 PM
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road

Tours of on-going exhibitions led by NTU CCA Singapore curators are held every first Friday of the month. To register, email NTUCCAeducation@ntu.edu.sg.

A public programme of The Making of an Institution.
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Materiality]]> Institutional Critique]]> Lee Chor Lin]]> Southeast Asia]]> Institutional Critique]]> Judy Freya Sibayan]]> 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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Theatre]]> Institutional Critique]]> Isaac Julien]]> Mark Nash]]> Southeast Asia]]> Europe]]> Geopolitics]]> Institutional Critique]]> This discussion aims to address ideas, ideals, and principles of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) that are relevant today and can be applied to the field of art and culture. The Belgrade-based collective Škart will present their artistic project related to the topic with a specific focus on the context of Singapore, while Bojana Piškur will talk about her long-term curatorial research on NAM’s politics in terms of exhibition-making, networking, and cultural exchange. ]]> Bojana Piškur]]> Bojana Piskur]]> Škart ]]> Skart]]> Europe]]> Southeast Asia]]> Institutional Critique]]> Cultural Production]]>

The Making of an Institution – Reason to Exist: The Director’s Review. Instituting Otherwise, talk by Maria Hlavajova (Slovakia/Netherlands), Curator-in-Residence
22 March 2017

Drawing upon the practice of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht (Netherlands), Curator-in-Residence Maria Hlavajova discusses the notion of “instituting otherwise”. Dedicated to thinking aboutwith, and through art at the intersection of research and social action, she addresses the long-term strategies of BAK aimed to collectively confront the urgencies that define our contemporary. 

Residencies Insights: Against Efficiency, lecture by Anthony Huberman (Switzerland/United States), Curator-in-Residence
31 Jan 2018 

In this talk, Curator-in-Residence Anthony Huberman reflects upon the criteria of efficiency and fast-paced consumption that inform most of contemporary art production and proposes institutional approaches that favour small scale, slowing-down and, perhaps, even inefficiency, in order to complicate an understanding of the world where only efficiency and productivity are rewarded.

Residencies Insights: On the Necessity of Transforming One’s Practice, curator talk by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (Slovenia/France), Curator-in-Residence
27 Feb 2019 

In the context of her latest project, Contour Biennale 9: Coltan as Cotton (2019), Curator-in-Residence Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez discusses the necessity to slow down one’s way of working and being, to imagine new ecologies of care as a continuous practice of support, and to open up institutional borders to render them more palpable, audible, sentient, soft, porous and, most of all, decolonial and anti-patriarchal. 

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Institutional Critique]]> Rafi Abdullah]]> Southeast Asia]]>