Questioning Museums: Art Institutions in Singapore Book Launch and Welcome Reception]]> Institutional Critique]]> Questioning Museums: Art Institutions in Singapore critically examines the ways in which shifting social, political, and cultural histories are both produced and made visible through the island-state’s institutional structures, collecting strategies, and modes of exhibition making. Working together in teams, the inaugural class of students from Nanyang Technological University’s Masters of Arts in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices (MSCP), a programme designed to prepare graduates for professional positions in the highly complex and diverse museum landscape of Southeast Asia, anchor their collective exploration through four in-depth interviews with leading figures of Singapore’s ever-evolving museum field: Kwa Chong Guan, Peter Lee, Angelita Teo, and Kennie Ting.

Please join us for a celebratory book launch with honoured guests, a roundtable conversation with recent graduates, and a welcome reception for the incoming class of MSCP students!]]>
Kwa Chong Guan]]> Peter Lee]]> Angelita Teo]]> Kennie Ting]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Afterall Journal Issue 46 and Exhibitions Histories Book]]> Knowledge Production]]> 13 Oct 2018, Sat 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is hosting the launch of the Afterall journal issue 46, Autumn/Winter 2018 as well as the latest publication in the Afterall Exhibition Histories series, Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992–98 with the presence of the editors on Saturday, 13 October 2018.

As part of the three-year research and publishing partnership between the Nanyang Technological University and the University of the Arts London started in 2017, issue 46 was conceived in Singapore in a collective effort by the editorial team (Ute Meta Bauer, Ana Bilbao, Charles Esche, Anders Kreuger, David Morris, Anca Rujoiu, and Charles Stankievech). This issue traverses different geographies and contexts, from Southeast Asia to the Americas with a focus on artistic practices that take a clear position against the long-lasting endurance of oppressive systems, be it racial, patriarchal or colonial. The performative body of work of Singaporean artist Lee Wen and his explorations on identity and representation are unpacked in two essays by Alice Ming Wai Jim, Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art Histories, Canada, and Võ H`ông Chu’o’ng-Đài, Researcher at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong. Yin Ker, Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, discusses the internal complexities of the Burmese contemporary art scene in one of this issue’s contextual essays.

The discussion on issue 46 will be preceded by a presentation of Afterall’s history by its Co-founder, Charles Esche, Director of Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands. Celebrating 20 years of activity this year, 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.

Edited by David Teh and David Morris, Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992–98 is published by Afterall Books in association with Asia Art Archive and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, United States. The publication is the first comprehensive survey on a series of festivals known as Chiang Mai Social Installation, emerging amidst a regional constellation of artists’ initiatives and independent spaces. The book presents extensive photographic documentation alongside a multivocal account by its participants and commissioned writers.

SCHEDULE

2.00pm
Introduction by Ute Meta Bauer

2.15 – 3.00pm
20 Years of Afterall, presentation by Charles Esche

3.00 – 4.00pm
Launch of the Afterall issue 46 introduced by editors: Ute Meta Bauer, Ana Bilbao, Charles Esche, Anders Kreuger, David Morris, Anca Rujoiu, and Charles Stankievech

4.15 – 5.00pm
Launch of the publication Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992–98, AfterallExhibition Histories, introduced by the book’s editors: David Teh and David Morris

5.00 – 5.30pm
Performative Reading by Peter Daniel Sipeli
*Kindly note that 1angrynative also planned on doing a reading, but due to unforeseen circumstances, will not be able to join.

Part of Stagings. Soundings. Readings. Free Jazz II.

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Ute Meta Bauer]]> Ana Bilbao]]> Charles Esche]]> Anders Kreuger]]> David Morris]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Peter Daniel Sipeli]]> Charles Stankievech]]> David Teh]]> Asia]]> Europe]]>
Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary (MIT Press, 2017)
Introduction by author, Dr David Teh, and conversation with Dr May Adadol Ingawanij and Dr Roger Nelson]]>
Artistic Research]]> Knowledge Production]]> The Seminar Room, Blk 43 Malan Rd, Gillman Barracks

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in Thailand has achieved considerable international recognition. While many Thai artists have shed identification with their nation, "Thainess" remains an interpretive crutch for understanding their work. In the first scholarly book on the subject since 1992, Dr David Teh examines the competing claims to contemporaneity staked in Thailand, and on behalf of Thai art elsewhere, against a backdrop of sustained political and economic turmoil.

Part of Symposium: Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows of History]]>
David Teh]]> May Adadol Ingawanij]]> Roger Nelson]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Theatrical Fields: Critical Strategies in Performance, Film, and Video ]]> Theatre]]> Performance]]> 24 Sep 2016, Sat 7:00pm - 10:00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Introduction by editors: Ute Meta Bauer, NTU CCA Founding Director and Anca Rujoiu, NTU CCA Singapore Manager, Publication

Followed by screening of Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia, Ulrike Ottinger, Germany 1989, 165mins. Coproduction with Popular-Film GmbH, Leinfelden in cooperation with ZDF, Mainz, and LaSept, Paris.

A limited amount of publications will be available for sale.


NTU CCA Singapore is pleased to launch its very first publication Theatrical Fields Critical Strategies in Performance, Film, and Video. The reader is published by NTU CCA Singapore, König Books, London, and Bildmuseet, Umeå. Edited by Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu with the editorial project under the management of Leah Whitman-Salkin, the publication has been elegantly designed by Sam de Groot.

Based on an exhibition of the same name, Theatrical Fields presents seminal texts and newly commissioned essays that explore theatricality as a critical strategy in performance, film, and video. The reader stages conversations between theatre and visual arts, theoretical discourse and artistic practice juxtaposing artists and theoreticians from different generations and backgrounds who share a communal interest in the theatricality as a methodology to address questions of ideology, gender, power relations.

The reader includes seminal texts from Antonin Artaud, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ute Meta Bauer, Bertolt Brecht, Jacques Derrida, Regis Durand, Josette Féral, Jean-François Lyotard; commissioned essays from Giuliana Bruno, Eva Meyer, Timothy Murray, Katharina Sykora, Marina Warner, documentation of the exhibition Theatrical Fields curated by Ute Meta Bauer with Anca Rujoiu at Bildmuseet, Umea (2013) and itinerated at NTU CCA Singapore (2014) in a different configuration, excerpts of conversations between artists and curators. Artists involved in the project include: Judith Barry, Marcel Dzama, Stan Douglas, Marie-Louise Ekman, Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf, Isaac Julien, Joan Jonas, Constanze Ruhm, Ulrike Ottinger.

The launch of the reader is accompanied by a screening of the German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia, This epic adventure film traces a fantastical encounter between two worlds on a Trans-Siberian railway addressing the complexities of cross-cultural encounters. Combining linear and nonlinear narrative, Johanna d’Arc of Mongo­lia illustrates Ottinger’s appropriation of theatrical strategies in the cinematic, such as eccentric costumes, lush mise-en-scènes, exaggerated acting.]]>
Ute Meta Bauer]]> Ulrike Ottinger]]> Anca Rujoiu]]> Antonin Artaud]]> Mikhail Bakhtin]]> Bertolt Brecht]]> Jacques Derrida]]> Régis Durand]]> Regis Durand]]> Josette Féral]]> Josette Feral]]> Jean-François Lyotard]]> Jean-Francois Lyotard]]> Giuliana Bruno]]> Eva Meyer]]> Timothy Murray]]> Katharina Sykora]]> Marina Warner]]> Judith Barry]]> Marcel Dzama]]> Stan Douglas]]> Marie-Louise Ekman]]> Eran Schaerf]]> Isaac Julien]]> Joan Jonas]]> Constanze Ruhm]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> North America]]>