Ecology]]> Cultural Heritage]]> 20 Oct 2018, Sat 12:00 PM - 07:00 PM
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road

Avalanche
is an audio-visual environment and installation that documents the life in Hichigh, one of the highest inhabited villages in the Pamirs, a region in Central Asia known as the “roof of the world.” Working from the starting point of the local cosmogony, traditions, and its music, Avalanche is a multiformat work and expanded ethnographic research based on the human ecology and richness of the region. One of the most remote regions of the planet, the Pamirs are as mysterious as fascinating, home of some of the most rich and archaic traditions, considered the nest and origin of most of the monotheistic beliefs, and the perfect site for understanding our spiritual journey as humans. Avalanche is also a study on cinematic time and the human ecology of isolated communities. A meditation about the unstoppable “avalanche” of civilisation, about the elusiveness of time and the dusk of a village and endurance and resilience of its inhabitants and traditions.

Avalanche is a long-term commitment and Singapore’s iteration is developed site-specifically for the Centre and presented as a live-editing and live-soundtrack environment, featuring special collaborations with Phill Niblockand musicians from Singapore.

A public programme of Stagings. Soundings. Readings. Free Jazz II.]]>
Carlos Casas]]> Phill Niblock]]> Brian O’Reilly]]> Asia]]>
Trouble with Harmony, 2021 Commissioned by NTU CCA Singapore]]> Performance]]> Free Jazz III. Sound. Walks.

Activation: Trouble with Harmony by bani haykal in collaboration with  Lee Weng Choy Saturday, 13 March 2021, 3.00 – 6.00pm Online

Two participants from the original programme are back for the 3rd Edition, to collaborate on a project they’re calling, “Trouble with Harmony”. It’s not an attempt to articulate the trouble with harmony. Neither to analyse, for instance, the predominant but problematic discourses about political, cultural or racial harmony in a multifarious society like Singapore. Rather, an invitation to play—to play with. Donna Haraway reminds us that the etymology of “trouble” is the French verb “to stir up”, “to make cloudy” or “to disturb”. Perhaps our role here is to “sit in” and find how these instances of harmonies demand us to think deeply about our present—where we are. Trouble with harmony is a proposition to think about trouble alongside thinking about harmony. Shifting the shapes of our thinking, and our listening. Exploring a polyphony of themes, topics and tropes. But perhaps this is saying both too much and not enough.]]>
Bani Haykal]]> Lee Weng Choy]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]> Embodiment]]> 2 Oct 2018, Tue 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

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

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

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Maggie Segale]]> Cally Spooner]]> Jesper List Thomsen]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]> 4 May 2018, Fri 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road

Derived from the sonic exchanges that will take place throughout the course of the exhibition between Tarek Atoui’s guest hosts—Vivian Wang, Mark Wong, and Yuen Chee Wai—this series of performative situations are conceptualised as an open invitation for other invited performers to use the exhibition space as an experimental platform. Each of the evenings will be the result of an exchange between the performers and the three guest hosts.

A public programme of Tarek Atoui The Ground: From the Land to the Sea.

Part of Art Day Out! x The School Holidays Edition 2018 at Gillman Barracks.

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Dharma]]> Bani Haykal]]> Wu Jun Han]]> Yuen Chee Wai]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]> Friday, 1 June 2018, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road

Derived from the sonic exchanges that will take place throughout the course of the exhibition between Tarek Atoui’s guest hosts—Vivian Wang, Mark Wong, and Yuen Chee Wai—this series of performative situations are conceptualised as an open invitation for other invited performers to use the exhibition space as an experimental platform. Each of the evenings will be the result of an exchange between the performers and the three guest hosts.

A public programme of Tarek Atoui The Ground: From the Land to the Sea

Part of Art Day Out! x The School Holidays Edition 2018 at Gillman Barracks.]]>
Tini Aliman]]> Cheryl Ong]]> The Analog Girl]]> Vivian Wang]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]> Saturday, 23 June 2018, 6.00 – 7.00pm
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road

Derived from the sonic exchanges that will take place throughout the course of the exhibition between Tarek Atoui’s guest hosts—Vivian Wang, Mark Wong, and Yuen Chee Wai—this series of performative situations are conceptualised as an open invitation for other invited performers to use the exhibition space as an experimental platform. Each of the evenings will be the result of an exchange between the performers and the three guest hosts.

A public programme of Tarek Atoui The Ground: From the Land to the Sea.

Part of Art Day Out! x The School Holidays Edition 2018 at Gillman Barracks.]]>
Tini Aliman]]> Dharma]]> Sudarshan Chandra Kumar]]> Cheryl Ong]]> Zai Tang]]> Wu Jun Han]]> Yuen Chee Wai ]]> Southeast Asia]]>
#soundcards, 2021 Commissioned by NTU CCA Singapore]]> Experiential]]>
Friday, 1 January – Friday, 26 March 2021 (every Tuesday and Friday) On Instagram

In this current state where borders are closed and physical gatherings not recommended, social media and emailing have turned into a tool for us to communicate and interface with each other. #soundcards is an attempt to build an exchange of sonic memories and audio time-stamps like a postcard but by utilizing sound instead of visuality as a key medium. Will this interaction using a different sensibility change the way we perceive places and spaces?]]>
Cheryl Ong]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Listening through the Landscape, 2021 Supported by the Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty]]> Ecology]]> Nature]]> Listening Through the Landscape, Christa Donner and Andrew S Yang present short, guided audio walks that explore the nature of time and the ecology of Singapore through trees, soil, and water. Combining narration with environmental sounds collected during the 2020 Circuit Breaker period, Donner and Yang transform everyday spaces into multisensory journeys. Step outside and let’s take a walk. Select a walk from the above list, press “Play” and activate.

You can access this program using your smartphone and headphones, and at your own pace and schedule.

Listening Through the Landscape began while Donner and Yang were inaugural Artists-in-Residence at Yale-NUS College and appears in Free Jazz III. Sound. Walks. with support from Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty.

Narrated by Alexis Chen.]]>
Christa Donner]]> Andrew S Yang]]> Alexis Chen]]> Audio]]> Treecology]]> The Living Machine]]> Grounding]]> Holes]]> Water]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Melting Gallery, 2019, 2021]]> Climate Crisis]]>
Melting Gallery is prepared in collaboration with and composed by Denim Szram, and created during Lelonek’s residency as part of the Culturescapes festival in Basel, Switzerland.]]>
Diana Lelonek]]> Denim Szram]]> Europe]]>
Modernity]]> Performance]]> 18 Dec 2013, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 AM

Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism – A talk by Nikos Papastergiadis (Professor at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne) with a focus on contemporary art as a form of the cosmopolitan imaginary, followed by with a free improvisation of music and movement performance by the Bani Haykal trio. 
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Nikos Papastergiadis]]> Bani Haykal]]> Asia]]> Southeast Asia]]>