Ways of Seeing]]> Labour]]> Darcy Lange]]> Oceania]]> Identity]]> Cultural Heritage]]> Migration]]> Capitalism]]> Labour]]> Priyageetha Dia]]> Southeast Asia]]> Indonesia Calling, 1946]]> Decolonialism]]> Labour]]> History]]> Vladimir Seput]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> Oceania]]> Europe]]> Diaspora]]> Displacement]]> Geopolitics]]> Globalisation]]> Identity]]> Labour]]> Migration]]> Yeo Siew Hua]]> Film]]> Sound]]> Southeast Asia]]> Labour]]> Botany]]> Artistic Research]]>

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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 politicians and celebrities. In turn, Coburn legally named one of the Garden’s hybrids “Richard Roe,” a name used in American and British case law when the actual name of a person cannot be given. This session will start at NTU CCA Singapore, where Coburn will introduce his orchid hybrid and elaborate on the conventions of naming, then conclude at Toh Garden with a tour led by Zhuo Hongyi.

A public programme of Stagings. Soundings. Readings. Free Jazz II.]]>
Tyler Coburn]]> Zhuo Hongyi]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Oceans & Seas]]> Globalisation]]> Labour]]>
On the occasion of Allan Sekula’s exhibition, Fish Story, to be continued, NTU CCA Singapore presents an international symposium that will mark a concluding point to the show and will highlight the continued relevance of Allan Sekula’s work and writings on the theme of globalisation and capitalism. The symposium will bring together art professionals who have collaborated with Allan Sekula across the years, as well as different researchers and artists who share a set of common interests with his work.The programme will focus on key themes underlying Allan Sekula’s practice including questions of critical realism in contemporary art, representation of labour as well as the vast topic of the sea.

Part 2: The Sea as Contested Territory Speakers: Chung Chee Kit, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa and Charles Lim

Roundtable Discussions Moderated by Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu]]>
Chung Chee Kit]]> Shabbir Hussain Mustafa]]> Charles Lim]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Video]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> North America]]>
Oceans & Seas]]> Globalisation]]> Labour]]>
In this presentation, Tim Bunnell examines the ‘forgotten place’ of the Liverpool’s Malay Club and the historical social networks that it anchored. The Malay Club was established in 1963 hosting seafarers from Southeast Asia. Drawing upon material from a recently completed book manuscript, From World City to the World in One City: Liverpool through Malay Lives, Bunnell traces the Malay maritime geographies, over a period of more than half a century. It began in an era prior to the use of shipping containers, the new international division of labour and economic globalisation that formed the backdrop of Allan Sekula’s work.]]>
Tim Bunnell]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Labour]]> Urbanism]]> Cultural Production]]>
In response to NTU CCA Singapore’s overarching research framework, PLACE.LABOUR.CAPITAL, the Indian filmmaker, curator and pedagogue, Madhusree Dutta will introduce the remarkable Project Cinema City: Research Art and Documentary Practices (2008 – 2012). This expansive project addressed the intertwined relation between cinema and city in a place that produces cinema on an industrial scale, namely Bombay/Mumbai. A multidisciplinary research project that has been presented in various contexts from Berlin International Film Festival to the National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai), Project Cinema City explored the production strategies, labour structure, viewing conventions and materiality of cinema highlighting the inseparable relation between cinema and city. The lecture will include a screening of Dhananjay Kulkarni “Chandragupt” (2009) directed by Rrivu Laha (India), a film that explores the character portrayal of a nocturnal citizen with a Bollywood aspiration.

“The work of the Cinema City group may be seen as a Situationist move, no longer in the context of Paris in the 1950s and 1960s, but of Bombay in the 1990s and in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Like the Situationists, the Cinema City group is not concerned with art as comment on the city but as a product of the city, a lens into urban life and re-situating its already existing visual elements.” (Arjun Appadurai, social-cultural anthropologist).]]>
Madhusree Dutta]]> Video]]> Asia]]>
Performance]]> Cultural Production]]> Capitalism]]> Labour]]> Institutional Critique]]>
This talk by Curator-in-Residence, Hendrik Folkerts takes the Stedelijk Museum’s performance programme since 2010 as a point of departure. How does museum architecture, scale and monumentality affect the display of contemporary performance practice? And in what ways can we address questions of capital and economy – relating to the presentation, acquisition and conservation of performance work?]]>
Hendrik Folkerts]]> Video]]> Europe]]>
Materiality]]> Labour]]>
Join NTU CCA Singapore Curator-in-Residence Erin Gleeson and Artist-in-Residence Luke Willis Thompson, winner of New Zealand’s acclaimed “Walters Prize” in 2014, as they tackle issues around the histories of objects and its nature in this dynamically led discussion. Gleeson will introduce the practice of late Cambodian artist Svay Ken (1933-2008) and the significance of his paintings. Thompson will present recent projects on looking at the vexed nature of objects and their memorialisation.]]>
Erin Gleeson]]> Luke Willis Thompson]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>