In Conversation: The Cities Move On with Dr Marc Glöde, Visiting Scholar, NTU ADM/CCA Singapore; and Dr David Teh, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore

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Architecture]]> Urbanism]]> Technology]]> Public Sphere]]> 18 Nov 2016, Fri 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road

The relation between architecture, urbanism, and the moving image has been always very close. While architects used filmic images continuously to critically reflect and promote their ideas, filmmakers have always experimented with forms that altered our ways of thinking and experiencing architecture or city environments. Dr David Teh and Dr Marc Glöde will reflect on the role of digital video in the wider sense of public spheres, the articulation of non-official histories and the public space, as well as discuss video as a vehicle of both “global” electronic enculturation, and of a modernity.

This Conversation is part of the public programme of Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice.

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David Teh]]> Marc Glöde]]> Marc Glode]]> Asia]]>
The Making of an Institution — Communication and Mediation, Part II –SPATIAL IDENTITY: Lectures by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad (Iran/United Kingdom), Wilfried Kuehn (Germany), and Laura Miotto (Italy/Singapore)

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Design]]> Curatorial Practice]]> Identity]]> Public Sphere]]> 18 Mar 2017, Sat 10:00 AM - 01:30 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad’s practice spans from neighbourhood plans and public spaces to recipes, games and objects. His approach to design draws on play theories and strategies of defamiliarisation as contextual research tools that actively engage different publics in design processes.

His presentation will focus on Hello Stranger (2016), a critical game designed with and for staff members at the Victoria & Albert’s Museum of Childhood, London, United Kingdom. Estrangement devices were created to induce “question-making” as a tool to recalibrate the overfamiliar and sense the museum anew in order to critically reflect upon the experiences it offers and the qualities it values.

In this lecture, Wilfried Kuehn will address the concept of “Curatorial Design”, an expression coined by the Kuehn himself. He will explore the role of space and architecture in artistic and curatorial practices through several case studies of exhibition displays and institutional projects he developed, including the exhibition design for Documenta11.

Laura Miotto will address site-specific spatial narratives focusing on her work for the Malay Heritage Centre in Singapore. Located in the historical precinct of Kampong Glam and re-opened to the public in 2012, the Centre undergone three years of interpretative planning that repositioned the institution in the cultural ecosystem of Singapore. Miotto will unpack site-specific strategies to regenerate connections with the many identities associated to this significant place, looking at the intersection between architecture, site, and narratives.

This lecture is part of the public programme of The Making of an Institution.]]>
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad]]> Wilfried Kuehn]]> Laura Miotto]]> Southeast Asia]]> Middle East]]> Europe]]>
Public Art]]> Public Sphere]]> Identity]]> Cultural Heritage]]>
Friday, 18 October 2019, Venue: The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

9.00am Introduction by Sophie Goltz (Germany/Singapore), Deputy Director, Research & Academic Programmes, NTU CCA Singapore, and Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU

9.15am A Railroad Switch in Time: South Eveleigh Case Study, Presentation by Daniel Mudie Cunningham (Australia), Director, Programs, Carriageworks]]>
Daniel Mudie Cunningham]]> Video]]> Oceania]]>
Public Sphere]]> Public Art]]> Indigenous Knowledge]]>
Saturday, 19 October 2019, 9.00am – 1.00pm Venue: The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

10.15am Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Presentation by Richard Bell (Australia), artist]]>
Richard Bell]]> Video]]> Oceania]]>
Public Sphere]]> Public Art]]> Feminism]]>
Friday, 18 October 2019, Venue: The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

10.15am Action Sheroes, Heroes, Theyroes. Resonate #NeverAskForIt, Presentation by Jasmeen Patheja (India), Founder, Blank Noise]]>
Jasmeen Patheja]]> Video]]>
Public Art]]> Public Sphere]]> Alan Oei ]]> Southeast Asia]]> Empathic Voices, 2021 Commissioned by NTU CCA Singapore]]> Materiality]]> Public Sphere]]> Labour]]> Free Jazz III. Sound. Walks.

Singapore’s Dragon Kiln is one of the few remaining brick-built kilns in Asia. When there is no firing, it is left empty and unused. seah’s aim is to investigate the materiality of clay by re-purposing the dragon kiln as a sound recording space, revisiting the historical site and exploring its acoustics by activating the space with vocal experimentation. With the human voice as its main focus, this project embeds vocal emotional expressions of the prosodic features of speech, as well as vocalisations with no linguistic content – hums, sobs, laughter, wailing, and gibbering. With the involvement of the migrant worker community, which has been restricted the most during the pandemic, the kiln no longer feels hollow, being filled instead with a spirit of collectivism. The spectral and uncanny qualities of place are amplified through voice and sound manipulation of fired clay objects.]]>
anGie seah]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Public Sphere]]> Public Art]]> Performance]]>
Thursday, 17 October 2019

6:30pm Anybody Anywhere – Lecture by Ashley Thompson (United Kingdom), Hiram W. Woodward Chair of Southeast Asian Art, SOAS University of London]]>
Ashley Thompson]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Public Sphere]]> Postcolonialism]]> place with regards to (Buddhist) subjectivity and Cambodian diasporic affect. The presentation will focus on artistic performances by Amy Lee Sanford and Anida Yoeu Ali which comment on, intervene in, and shape public space in contemporary Cambodia. In the context of the symposium, these practices can be taken to probe the haunting place of arts precincts established in Phnom Penh over the course of the colonial and independence periods, their destruction and/or commodification.

Part of the Art, Urban Change, and the Public Sphere: Public Art Education Summit from 17 - 19 October 2019.]]>
Ashley Thompson]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Public Art]]> Public Sphere]]> Urbanism]]> Sustainability]]>
Friday, 18 October 2019, Venue: The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

12.00pm Art, Public Space, and Urban Development Roundtable Discussion with Kok Heng Leun (Singapore), Artistic Director, Drama Box; Alecia Neo (Singapore), artist and co- founder, Brack; Alan Oei (Singapore), Artistic Director, The Substation, moderated by Limin Hee (Singapore), Director, Research, Centre for Liveable Cities]]>
Kok Heng Leun]]> Alan Oei]]> Limin Hee ]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>