<i>Loose Leaves. Process, materials, sounds from Listen to my words</i> by Dana Awartani
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By disclosing rarely-seen preparatory drawings, sketches, and embroidery tests from the artist’s archive, <i>Loose Leaves</i> offers an intimate foray into the process of making <i>Listen to my words</i> (2018). An immersive installation by Dana Awartani, <i>Listen to my words<i> combines hand-embroidered silk panels and recordings of Arabic poems recited by modern-day Saudi women to confront issues of silencing, invisibility, and gendered divisions of space deeply entrenched in the cultural fabric of the Middle East. <br /><br />Drawn from the significant but scarcely documented tradition of female poets in the Arab world from the pre-Islamic era to the 12th century, the poems selected by the artist express feelings of love, yearning, and pride. They relay modes of awareness, stances of resistance, and acts of empowerment often centred on the female body. <br /><br />The distinct visual language articulated by the geometric patterns—bearers of sacred values in Islamic culture—references the ornamental motifs found on <i>jali</i> (or <i>mashrabiya</i>), lattice screens used in traditional Islamic architecture to control the circulation of air and light as well as to shield women from the male gaze. <br /><br />Presented alongside the original audio recording, <i>Loose Leaves</i> layers a selection of preparatory studies in the enclosed space of The Vitrine to provide a glimpse of the subtle negotiations that inform Awartani’s creative journey across different techniques and materials. </i></i>
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Arin Rungjang
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Arin Rungjang is an artist. His practice is deeply intertwined with Southeast Asian histories, symbols, and memories.
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Hamra Abbas
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Hamra Abbas has a versatile artistic practice that straddles a wide range of media, from paper collage and painting to ephemeral soft plasticine sculpture and video. Her works often take a humorous look towards widely accepted traditions, appropriating culturally loaded imagery and religious iconography and transforming them into new works that are experienced in space and time. <br /><br />Abbas takes various cultural references and recontextualises them using appropriated artistic techniques. For her residency she is learning the courtly Chinese painting style of Gongbi and conducting portrait studies of her various interactions of people in the lively inner city suburb of Little India in Singapore.
4 May 2015 – 5 June 2015
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Jompet Kuswidananto
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Jompet Kuswidananto has long been interested in matters related to the spaces in between the binary oppositions within society. In his previous series, the intersections of past and present, tradition and modernity, magical and mechanical, memory and projections of the future formed the dominant narrative in the presentation of his work. While in residence Kuswidananto will continue to research how voices are valued, performed and spectated, in Indonesia and beyond.
7 December 2015 – 5 February 2016
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Saleh Husein
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Everything begins from small steps. That was the first thing that came through History of Merchant, a solo exhibition of Husein’s work in 2012. A small-intimate approach to his family journeys, from Hadramaut, in Middle East to South East in Indonesia. By collecting, archiving, and listening to the elders stories, the work started to build a strong foundation that led him to one project and then another project. Since that, he started to further seek and question Arabic descendants in Indonesia. The ideas go across the border between art, politics, economy, and also science. What did they do? Why are they doing that? How do they live and adapt? How they see themselves now? As Arabic-Indonesian or Indonesian-Arabic? These questions about identity, adaptation, survival, daily life culture, and also originality are evoked. While doing research for that project, Husein found stories about the transition, from Hyderabad to Singapore. These descendants were supposed to go directly to Indonesia through the Malaya Peninsula but stopped and stayed in Singapore for two years due to the critical situation that happen between British and the Dutch thus it has been said, to have developed a new community. This is the point of entry into Husein’s research for the NTU CCA Residencies Programme. The topic is simplified into three aspects: Identity, Transition, and Journeys. By using those as the main core Husein will explore the story of Arabic society in Singapore, seeking artefact and archives through the stories from the citizens.
4 January – 1 April 2016
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Contextualising Indonesian modern and contemporary arts: A talk by Visiting Research Fellow Yvonne Spielmann (Germany)
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<div class="event_single_dates text__research">9 Mar 2016, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm</div>
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<br />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.
2016-03-09
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Exhibition (de)Tour with Kenneth Dean, Head of Chinese Studies Department, National University of Singapore (United States/Singapore)
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<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">30 Mar 2016, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<br />Kenneth Dean will confront questions like “What happens in the afterlife?” “Do ghosts get bored and lonely?” and “Can we plan what happens to our spirits when we die?” In the course of the <i>(de)Tour</i>, Dean will elaborate on how Chinese religion deals with ghosts through rituals and traditions. <br /><br />This Exhibition (de)Tour is part of the Education and Public Programme of Joan Jonas: <i>They Come to Us without a Word</i>.
2016-03-30
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Talk and Workshop: Transcommunality: Collaboration Beyond Borders by Laura Anderson Barbara and the Brooklyn Jumbies, part of CITIES FOR PEOPLE NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2016/17
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<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">17 Jan 2017, Tue 12:00 PM - 04:30 PM</div>
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<br />12.30 – 1.30pm Talk: <b><i>Transcommunality: Collaboration Beyond Borders by Laura Anderson Barbata</i></b> <br /><br />For over 20 years, transdisciplinary artist Laura Anderson Barbata has worked on long-term, participatory art initiatives in many parts of the world (Venezuela, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Norway and Brooklyn, New York) that merge art practice with social action. <i>Transcommunality</i> presents the artist’s work with the Brooklyn Jumbies—an African diasporic stilt dancing performance group—with stilt-dancing communities from Mexico, the West Indies and Brooklyn and master artisans from Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, and the United States. <br /><br />Laura Anderson Barbata and the Brooklyn Jumbies have worked together for over 10 years in Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Jamaica and New York creating public presentations for Carnival and performance ¨interventions¨ that combine social commentary, dance, music, sculpture, and costuming. <i>Transcommunality</i> highlights the vitality of the moko jumbie stilt walking tradition and demonstrates the possibility of using this storied art form as a platform for social contemporary performance, group participation and protest. The project combines community participation in construction, development, and presentation of the work. <br /><br />2.00 – 4.30pm Workshop: <b><i>Transcommunality: Collaboration Beyond Borders</i></b> by Laura Anderson Barbata and the Brooklyn Jumbies <br /><br />In this workshop, the participants (individual or groups) share about their practices and traditions, while Anderson Barbara and the Brooklyn Jumbies present the history of stilt dancing in Mexico, West Africa, and the Caribbean. The session will focus on the exchange of history, traditions, and knowledge through images, talking, and demonstration. This workshop is open to anyone interested in dance, performance, and movement. <br /><br />
2017-01-17
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The Making of an Institution – Artistic Research. Talk and screening by siren eun young jung (South Korea), Artist-in-Residence
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<div class="event_single_dates text__residencies">22 Feb 2017, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<br />What is artistic research? Which are the material and immaterial aspects that constitute contemporary art practices? Within the context of The Making of an Institution, Artist-in-Residence siren eun young jung addresses the process of artistic research that lies behind her long-term project on Yeosung Gukgeuk, a form of Korean theatre featuring only female actors that flourished between the 1940s and the 1960s. Over almost a decade, jung has produced a multiplicity of works around this subject challenging the interpretation of tradition and gender politics in contemporary Korean society. The artist will introduce the screening of <i>Act of Affect (2013) and I am not going to sing</i> (2015), positioning <i>Yeosung Gukgeuk</i> at the intersection between issues of affect, gender structures, and performativity. <br /><br />This talk is part of the public programme of <i>The Making of an Institution.</i>
2017-02-22
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<p class="event_single_title">Symposium: <i>Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows of History</i></p>
Session II: <em>Ghosts and Spectres</em><br />Lecture: “Contested Modernity and the Image of History in East Asia” by Hyunjin Kim, curator, writer, and researcher
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<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">28 Oct 2017, Sat 02:30 - 03:15 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<br />The lecture addresses Asia as a region in-between becoming and unravelling. Referencing images of resistance and spirituality, Hyunjin Kim will discuss works that observe, and excavate unarticulated modern and contemporary realities that pervade the (East) Asian region today. Part of the lecture proposes ways to rethink the radicality of tradition as an "ungovernable" apparatus, in contrast to the brutal adaptation of Western modernisation and to the rise of nationalism. The following examination looks at the discourse of "Asianism," engaging with Sun Ge's idea of "Homecoming" and Takeuchi Yoshimi's notion of <em>zengzha</em>. Understanding the region as a space of anomalous events, the speaker will demonstrate how the complicated historical relations and hegemonic struggles endemic to the region can accelerate the production of discourse.
2017-10-28
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