Artistic Research]]> The Geocultural]]> David Peace]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> The Geocultural]]> University of the Arts London]]> The Geocultural]]> Antariksa]]> Southeast Asia]]> The Geocultural]]> Martha Atienza]]> Southeast Asia]]> The Geocultural]]>
Initiated in 1998 by Afterall, a Research Centre of the UAL and based at Central Saint Martins, Afterall journal focuses on artistic and cultural production in relation to broader theoretical, social, and political contexts from which both emerge. The journal was founded by Charles Esche (Netherlands) curator, writer, current Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and Mark Lewis (Canada/United Kingdom) artist and filmmaker.

Afterall journal is widely acknowledged for its in-depth analysis of artistic practices, contextual essays, engagement with exhibition histories and curatorial practices within various geographical constituencies. Through this publishing partnership, NTU CCA Singapore strengthens its mission to connect artistic practice with critical discourse within and beyond Southeast Asia. The Centre will actively contribute to expand Afterall journal cultural conversations and research in a fast-changing region defined by multilayered narratives, discrepant conditions of production across its vast geography, and intertwined cultural histories and experiences transversing national borders. NTU CCA Singapore is committed to support the critical work of scholars, curators, and art critics who are engaging with contemporary art in the region from within the context filling the gaps in the cultural history of the region, providing alternatives to Western-driven narratives, exploring cultural production through theoretical and political frameworks, and embracing new forms of writing.

Professor Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Founding Director of NTU CCA Singapore, will serve as co-editor and the Centre’s Publications team will work closely with the editorial teams of Afterall’s journal wider family of institutional partners (academic and non-academic) including Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium, The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. The editorial team will pursue research, propose ideas, and select contributions shaping the content of the journal’s upcoming issues. Such research can feed also into other of Afterall’s publications: One Work, book series, focused on single artistic works and Exhibition Histories, likewise a monograph series offering critical analysis of influential exhibitions of contemporary art.

The journal is published twice a year, it benefits from a large distribution with a worldwide subscription management system, and bookstore distribution in Europe and North America managed by The University of Chicago Press. While access to several articles is available online, the journal unpacks and explores its content beyond the print and digital platform through symposia and screenings hosted by important academic and art institutions. As an editorial member, NTU CCA Singapore will play also an active role in various manifestations that engage with the journal’s content contributing to its production and disemination of ideas across and beyond the region.]]>
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Identity]]> Cultural Heritage]]> The Geocultural]]> 21 Jun 2014, Sat 3:00pm - 5:30pm

A forum featuring The Otolith Group, Marian Pastor Roces, T. K. Sabapathy and June Yap.

The idea of “country” powerfully embodies notions of identity, belonging, community and genealogy. When viewers engage global contemporary art, there is often the reflex to locate the artist by ethnicity and geography. Today, many artists seem burdened, perhaps unduly, to represent their place in the world. An individual artist may always speak from a place, but must he or she always speak about it? While the title of the exhibition, No Country may appear as if to negate country and nation, the aim of the forum is not to make declarations but rather to raise questions for discussion and dialogue.

A public programme of No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia.]]>
The Otolith Group]]> Marian Pastor Roces]]> T. K. Sabapathy]]> June Yap]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]>
Curatorial Practice]]> Cultural Heritage]]> The Geocultural]]> 11 Jul 2014, Fri 7:30pm - 9:00pm

The title of No Country draws from the opening line of a poem by William Butler Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium” (1928), which was adapted into a contemporary thriller by Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (2005), and presented in filmic form by the Coen Brothers (2007). No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia appropriates the historical, geographic and intertextual traversal of Irish poem, American novel and film to an exhibition on Asia, and in so doing references the traces and overlaps in the exchanges and adaptations that are characteristic of the histories and cultures of the South and Southeast Asia. While appearing as if a negation of country and nation, No Country rather gestures to an exploration of the problematic nature of the cartography of nation and culture. In this talk, No Country curator June Yap and Zoe Butt from Sàn Art, explore curatorial strategies in negotiating contemporary mappings and representations of Asia today.

This curators' talk is a public programme of No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia.]]>
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Identity]]> The Geocultural]]> History]]> 18 Jul 2014, Fri 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Ahmad Mashadi will give a tour of No Country and offer his interpretations of the exhibition’s art works and themes, and the exhibition in terms of larger historical and geographical contexts. The tour will take place in the CCA exhibition space.

A public programme of No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia.]]>
Ahmad Mashadi]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]>
Materiality]]> The Geocultural]]> I Never Ask For It mission is a call to end victim blame by building testimonies of clothing. Survivors of violence, i.e. women across varying degrees of such acts, are invited to bring a garment they wore when they experience sexual violence. The garment is a memory, witness, and voice to an experience of sexual assault. Blank Noise is working towards 2023, where 10,000 garments will stand united at sites of public significance. This project or mission is an invitation to collaborate and also and inquiry to respond to: How do we recognise sexual violence in an environment of normalised fear, warnings and victim blame? How do we spark conversation in a climate of denial? How do we work to bring a story to spotlight? How do we make meaning, intervention, resistance in a climate where women's bodies and identities are controlled by the state and patriarchy? How do we collaborate? How do we co-create? What is personal and collective healing? What is local and universal? Who does the practice speak to? Who is witness? How do we shift from community consciousness? These are questions, and thes questions are works in progress.

Part of Art, Urban Change, and the Public Sphere: Public Art Education Summit, 17 - 19 October 2019]]>
Jasmeen Patheja]]> Asia]]>
Politics]]> The Geocultural]]> Technology]]>
Choreographer and artist Cally Spooner shares her fascination with language, politics, and philosophy and how societies’ orders and regimes are reflected in her work. She will elaborate on how subjectivity and its bodies are shaped by technological and performative conditions, where language undergoes damage. Together with her collaborators Maggie Segale and Jesper List Thomsen, they will discuss OFFSHORE, a philosophy school for embodied knowledge, its diverse aspects, forms, and the concept of the laboratory. Moderated by Magdalena Magiera, Curator, Outreach & Education, NTU CCA Singapore BIOGRAPHIES Maggie Segale (United States) is a dancer, artist, and teacher with a focus on performing and interdisciplinary, collaborative work. She graduated from the Juilliard School, where she received multiple awards and fellowships including the 2014 Entrepreneurship Fellowship for her writing on self-image and dance. Segale works with Helen Simoneau Danse, Bryan Arias, and artist Cally Spooner, having collaborated with A24 Films, Center for Innovation in the Arts, Roya Carreras in the upcoming Pussy Riot music video, composer Zubin Hensler, and Matilda Sakamoto. Segale choreographed the opera Role of Reason at the Interarts Festival 2018, and was an Artist-in-Residence at the New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble (2016). Cally Spooner’s (United Kingdom/Greece) spatialisations are continuously evolving in accordance to temporal contexts to render society’s orders and social regimes visible. Her projects look at “language-making” and alternative compositions of communication and movement in today’s context, where speech and attention are automated, the body is hired technology, and subjectivity and communication are consistently outsourced. Addressing the damage chrono-normativity can cause, she works with duration and rehearsals as alternative spaces. Appropriating and referencing genres such as the musical, the novel, or the radio play, Spooner builds a new sonic, literary, and living language to trigger public reaction towards the rapidly changing digital communication and how our understanding of the world changes along. Spooner’s work has been widely exhibited since 2008. Recent solo shows include Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2018); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017); New Museum, New York (2016); and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016). Recent group shows include Serpentine Gallery, London (2017) and the Geneva Moving Image Biennial (2016–17). Upcoming shows include Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2018); Swiss Institute, New York (2018); and Art Institute Chicago (2019). Spooner’s book Scripts was published by Slimvolume in 2016, and her novel Collapsing In Parts was published by Mousse in 2012. Jesper List Thomsen (Denmark/United Kingdom/Greece) is an artist and writer. Recent exhibitions and performances include Hollis and Money, ICA, London and Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart; Speak Through You, Hot Wheels Projects, Athens; A Social Body Event, Serpentine Gallery, London; Micro-Composition, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam; The body, the body, the tongue, Reading International; Hand and Mind, Grand Union, Birmingham; The boys the girls and the political, Lisson Gallery, London; and One Hour Exhibition, South London Gallery, London. A book-length collection of his texts will be published in Autumn 2018 by Juan de la Cosa (John of the Thing). He is also a part of the artist collective Am Nuden Da.

Magdalena Magiera (Germany/Singapore) is Curator, Outreach & Education at NTU CCA Singapore. She was an independent curator, Managing Editor of frieze d/e, and currently Editor of mono.kultur, a quarterly interview magazine. She co-curated Based in Berlin (2011) as well as exhibitions for The Building and SPLACE in Berlin. Magiera was Project Manager of The Maybe Education and Other Programs at dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel (2012) and UNITEDNATIONSPLAZA, Berlin (2006–08). Prior to joining NTU CCA Singapore, she worked for e-flux exhibitions and public programmes in New York City.


A public programme of Stagings. Soundings. Readings. Free Jazz II.]]>
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