Early Works (Rani Radovi), and Black Film (Cri Film)]]> Politics]]> Displacement]]> 19 - 31 May 2020
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Two early films of Želimir Žilnik are presented as part of the Non-Aligned exhibition which took place at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore from 4 April - 21 June 2020.

1. Early Works (Rani Radovi), Želimir Žilnik, 1969
35 mm transferred to digital file, b&w, sound, 58 min

Winner of the Golden Berlin Bear Award at the 19th Berlin International Film Festival, Early Works (Ravi Radovi) recounts the story of youths who took part in the student demonstrations of June 1968 in Belgrade. Three young men and a girl, Yugoslava, set out to defy the petit-bourgeois routine of everyday life. Wanting to change the world and inspired by the writings of the young Karl Marx, they go to the country to persuade the peasants to fight for emancipation. They eventually get arrested. Frustrated at the failed revolution, the three young men decided to kill Yugoslava. They shoot her, cover her with party flag and burn her body. The smoke rising into the sky is the only thing that remains of the intended revolution.

2. Black Film (Cri Film), Želimir Žilnik, 1971
16 mm transferred to digital file, b&w, sound, 14 min

The film chronicles Žilnik picking up a group of homeless men from the streets of Novi Sad and taking them to his home. Žilnik carries along a film camera to witness his efforts to "solve the problem of the homeless," while the group of homeless men enjoy themselves in his house. He speaks to social workers, members of the general public, and even engages with the policemen. However, they turn a blind eye to the "problem" at hand.

A public programme of Non-Aligned.
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The Sovereign Forest led by NTU CCA Singapore curators]]> Ecology]]> Politics]]> 5 Aug 2016, Fri 7:00pm - 7:30pm
2 Sep 2016, Fri 7:00pm - 7:30pm
7 Oct 2016, Fri 7:00pm - 7:30pm
The Exhibition Hall

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. The tours are a public programme of Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest.
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Politics]]> Modernity]]> May Fung]]> Asia]]> Politics]]> Modernity]]> Wong Ping]]> Asia]]> Politics]]> Performance]]> Block 38 Malan Road #01-05

As part of the Acts of Life Public Programme, Jimenez and Roscher will deliver an interventionist lecture-performance against a projected backdrop of metaphorical swans, butterflies and elephants. Jimenez and Roscher’s is an artistic collaboration borne out of the Acts of Life critical research residency. Combining their respective interests in risk models and urban futures, they borrow from the theoretical metaphor of the black swan to describe different modes of governance. Taking the symbol of the black swan as a point of departure, Jimenez and Roscher go on to develop their own semiotic terminology of urban risk attitudes. While they characterize Singapore’s resilient (to the point of obsessive) mode of governance as an example of the black swan model, they use the term ‘black elephant’ as a juxtaposed description for Manila, that in their minds reflects a resistant model of governance in which predictable systemic risks go unheeded by government agencies. Extrapolating from the black swan and the black elephant, Jimenez and Roscher then propose a third symbol, the ‘white butterfly’, as emblematic of the potential for mobile shifts of agency within subjectivities facing threats of complex collapse.

A public programme of Acts of Life.]]>
Jayson C. Jimenez]]> Ida Roscher]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Politics]]> Performance]]> Center for Political Beauty]]> Centre for Political Beauty]]> Europe]]> Politics]]> Performance]]> Bread and Puppet Theater]]> North America]]> Politics]]> Ecology]]> Bodies of Power/Power for Bodies]]> Southeast Asia]]> Politics]]> Jonas Staal ]]> Europe]]> Activism]]> Politics]]> Shahidul Alam]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> North America]]>