Labour]]> Politics]]> Feminism]]> Zhang Nuanxin]]> Asia]]> Politics]]> History]]> Identity]]> Želimir Žilnik]]> Zelimir Zilnik]]> South America]]> Asia]]> Africa]]> Identity]]> History]]> Politics]]> Yee I-Lann]]> Curating]]> Photography]]> Southeast Asia]]> Identity]]> History]]> Politics]]> Yee I-Lann]]> Southeast Asia]]> Identity]]> History]]> Politics]]> Keywords Lab: Socio-botany. First initiated in 2012, the work consisted of investigations and interviews with disparate voices and inhabitants around the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China on their views on urbanisation in China.

By bringing Keywords Lab: Socio-botany into the context of Singapore, Xu hopes to understand Singapore’s view on the complexities that govern our relationship with the natural and built environments that we live in. Proposed points of entry are through local discussions on the history of plants, criteria in urban construction and development, citizen participation in public tree planting programmes and lastly, conditions of food production.]]>
Xu Tan]]> Video]]> Asia]]>
Identity]]> History]]> Politics]]> Xu Tan]]> Asia]]> Fiction]]> Politics]]> 5 Sep 2020, Sat 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
The Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road

How can we personalise the political? What is the role of storytelling in our understanding of current events? Narrative writing can distill headlines and issues to individual experience, and remind us of our personal stake in a world of multitudes. In this creative writing workshop, participants will draw from the global sociocultural landscape to create fictions that illuminate the stories of individuals in the context of wider events. Activities will include guided writing exercises and critical feedback sessions to deepen our understanding of character, form, tension, and resolution.]]>
Balli Kaur Jaswal]]> South America]]> Asia]]> Africa]]>
Politics]]> Modernity]]> Wong Ping]]> Asia]]> Politics]]> Labour]]> Capitalism]]> 13 Jan 2017, Fri 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Spearheaded by the Singapore government, the “Smart Nation” initiative aims at creating a data-driven network that will enhance citizens’ lives and foster stronger communities by promoting participatory democracy and civic engagement. How does this project reflect the unstable and heterogeneous demographics of a global city? How will this attempt at participatory democracy account for the transient but sizable population of low-wage workers whose data are often missing or withheld?

Aaron Maniam and Stephanie Chok will address these questions from their respective points of view in a conversation organized and moderated by Artist-in-Residence Ho Rui An.]]>
Aaron Maniam]]> Stephanie Chok]]> Ho Rui An ]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Capitalism]]> Politics]]> Globalisation]]>
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 stronger communities. However, in invoking the “nation”, the Smart Nation risks forsaking the unstable and heterogeneous demographics of the global city with a sizeable transient population. This includes the almost one million low-wage workers whose lives are made vulnerable by the excesses of transnational capitalism and whose data are often missing, falsified or withheld. If among the vaunted merits of the Smart Nation is its ability to enable the people to “speak”, what are the conditions that govern the legibility of speech as such? How does one decide what counts as data and what counts as noise?

Aaron Maniam and Stephanie Chok will address these questions from their respective points of view in a conversation organized and moderated by Artist-in-Residence Ho Rui An.]]>
Stephanie Chok]]> Aaron Maniam]]> Ho Rui An]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>