Residencies Insights: Conversations with Erin Gleeson and Luke Willis Thompson, Where’s beauty going to be when things get better? Memorialisation and the traumatic object

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Materiality]]> Identity]]> 3 Dec 2014, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm

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]]> Southeast Asia]]> Oceania]]>
NTU CCA Residencies Exhibition: Erika Tan, Halimah-the-Empire-Exhibition-weaver-who-died-whilst-performing-her-craft

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Materiality]]> History]]> Labour]]> Tuesday, 14 July - Sunday, 2 August 2015
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road

Unfolding over a period of three weeks is a special project by London based, Singaporean Artist-in-Residence, Erika Tan. Focusing on the forgotten historical figure of Halimah the Malay weaver, Tan will revive her through a series of footnotes and instigate a process of collective labour towards the understanding that history is an effort built by many.

Halimah lived and worked with 19 other Malayans in the 1924 British Empire Exhibition in London, essentially engaged not only in the production of woven material but also in the reproduction of her position as a colonial subject. This project seeks to liberate Halimah from her textual existence and re-insert her into a contemporary dialogue around nation, art and value – or place, labour, capital. The Lab will be used in a triad of layers – as an exhibition space, a film studio and the site of a live “broadcast” debate with debaters, Meiyi Chan, Annabel Tan, Loh An Lin, Abigail Wong, Sara Ng and Geetha Creffield. They will be joined by filmmakers Lor Huiyun and Jolinna Ang.

Erika Tan’s practice is primarily research-led with a leaning towards the moving image, referencing distributed media in the form of cinema, gallery-based works, internet and digital practices.

The debate will take place on Saturday, 25 July 2015, 3pm – 4.30pm and will be filmed live. 

Open during exhibition hours

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Erika Tan]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Materiality]]> 11 Nov 2015, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Non-transmittable form? Thoughts on the impossibility to show what might need to be shown today. 

It is a contemporary given that cultures are replete with forms that have been transmitted from elsewhere. Most discourse on global art either assumes that this transmission has been easy and neutral, or fraught and based on power relations. Whether the problem of transmission is articulated or not, it is commonly taken for granted that exhibitions are functioning transmission machines. But what about form that simply does not transfer? Or does not transfer simply?]]>
Ruth Noack]]> Europe]]>
Design]]> Materiality]]> 16 Jan 2016, Sat 1:00pm - 4:00pm
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road

For a designer, regardless of any particular field of practice, material is the key of expression, which can shape ideas in a multitude of possibilities. The workshop by fashion designer Dinu Bodiciu explores the materiality of a fashion artefact as the stimulus for various stories told from different perspectives.

This workshop is part of the research project Interrogative Pattern – Text(ile) Weave by Regina (Maria) Möller at The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road, 4 December 2015 – 14 February 2016.
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Dinu Bodiciu]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Curatorial Practice]]> Spaces of the Curatorial]]> Materiality]]> 29 Feb 2016, Mon - 4 Mar 2016, Fri 2016 10:00am - 6:00pm
Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road

This week-long workshop on curating by Visiting Professor Regina (Maria) Möller will focus on printed media as an example for “space” for creative and curatorial practices. Through presentations, discussions, readings, and site visits, participants are encouraged to translate their ideas into a visual and spatial format. [Full programme here]

As places are limited, kindly register for the workshop here.
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Regina (Maria) Möller]]> Regina Moller]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Materiality]]> Cultural Production]]> Tradition]]> 9 Mar 2016, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Contemporary Indonesian art production is distinctive in its thematic and formal diversity, a trait that has resulted from the dynamic processes of colonial and postcolonial structures of power. Visiting Research Fellow Yvonne Spielmann is interested in how Indonesian arts of the present have emerged from a syncretistic mixing of ethnic elements and are strongly imbued with cultural and religious references. In this talk, Spielmann will discuss the contexts underlying the development of modern and contemporary arts in Indonesia, and how Indonesian art newly interprets traditional techniques and materials and marries them with Western influences and pop culture.]]>
Yvonne Spielmann]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Residencie Studio Sessions: A reading by Artist-in-Residence, Zac Langdon-Pole (New Zealand)

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Animals]]> Mythology]]> Materiality]]> 15 Apr 2016, Fri 7:30pm - 9:00pm
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road

Zac Langdon-Pole’s projects often take their point of departure in social structures of representation and organisation in order to question how and for whom such structures are posed. His current research relates specifically to the regions of Southeast Asia and the South West Pacific, and is centered on the mythology and historical cultural exchange of the so-called ‘birds of paradise’ from Papua New Guinea. His interest lies in how within procedures of cultural exchange the loss of, or transposing and translating of information can itself be a process of formation. Two ideas that are currently helping to inform his research are Walter Benjamin’s notion of ‘the wish image’ that stands at the intersection of materialism and mythology and Peter Mason’s explanation of the process of ‘exotification’, in his book Infelicities. This is the idea that the exotic is not something that exists prior to its ‘discovery’ but rather is formed in the very act of discovery itself.]]>
Zac Langdon-Pole]]> Southeast Asia]]> Oceania]]>
Materiality]]> Modernity]]> 13 Jul 2016, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Studio #01-06, Block 38 Malan Road

Duto Hardono’s practice traverses the two-dimensionality of collages and drawings to the dynamic incorporation of readymade materials such as old musical instruments, records and cassette tapes in his installations and performances. This studio session will offer a glimpse into Hardono’s inquiries into the impact that societal changes have had on popular culture, music and literature in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

Often drawing reference from popular culture, conceptual art and anti-art movements, Hardono’s works are peppered with touches of dark humour and irony in its aim to examine the relationship and paradoxes between humans and time through sound. Hardono has participated in numerous international solo and group exhibitions including: Biennale Jogja XII Equator #2: Not A Dead End, Jogja National Museum, Indonesia (2013) and The 9th Shanghai Biennale: Reactivation, Bandung Pavilion for Intercity Pavilion, China (2012).]]>
Duto Hardono]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]> Materiality]]> Sustainability]]> 14 Jan 2017, Sat 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM
The Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road

2.00 – 3.00pm Talk by indieguerillas

Come hear from the artists on their practice and sharing on the performance Datang Untuk Kembali.

3.30 – 5.00pm Workshop by Lulu Lutfi Labibi

This workshop is based on the idea of “upcycling” by transforming the traditional into the “current”, and by-products of the fashion industry into new materials or better products. Lulu Lutfi Labibi will demonstrate the creation process behind his “Celana Paman” collection, launched in 2011, in which he deconstructed oversized men’s pants and made them into dresses of various styles. In this workshop, participants will be asked to bring unused or unwanted clothings and be introduced to various technique for transforming them into ready-to-wear drapes.
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indieguerillas]]> Lulu Lutfi Labibi]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Materiality]]> Public Sphere]]> 2 Aug 2017, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Studio #01-05, Block 38 Malan Road

Transforming the studio into a time capsule of his own artistic practice, Miguel Andrade Valdez will present a selection of documentation materials related to his past and ongoing projects. Retracing the development of his practice and working methodologies within the socio-political contexts of Peru and Mexico, the artist will discuss his deep-seated interest in materiality, sculpture, space, and vernacular construction techniques as well as the role of monuments in our understanding of the public space. For this session, he will also present the documentation and leftover materials of an early performance he reenacted in the studio during the residency. The event will take place in the artist’s studio.]]>
Miguel Andrade Valdez]]> South America]]>