Decolonialism]]> Postcolonialism]]> ZULKHAIRI ZULKIFLEE
WORLD

Lecture performance

Saturday, 12 August, 2.00 – 2.30pm
Sunday, 13 August, 2.00 – 2.30pm
Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03

In this lecture performance, Zulkhairi Zulkiflee unpacks the nuances of Singaporean-Malay slang ‘world’. The colloquial use of ‘world,’ as employed in the Singaporean context, mainly refers to insubstantial claims that tend towards self-aggrandizement. By subjecting this colloquial parlance to creative examination, the artistic navigates the semantic scope of the term and traces out a multiplicity of obscured knowledge trajectories. Employing primary sources, social media, and insights from postcolonial theories, the lecture performance acts as a creative intellectual endeavour that glides through disciplinary boundaries, different structures of signification, the particular and the universal to connect local contexts with broader global frameworks.

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Zulkhairi Zulkiflee]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Politics]]> Performance]]> Block 38 Malan Road #01-05

As part of the Acts of Life Public Programme, Jimenez and Roscher will deliver an interventionist lecture-performance against a projected backdrop of metaphorical swans, butterflies and elephants. Jimenez and Roscher’s is an artistic collaboration borne out of the Acts of Life critical research residency. Combining their respective interests in risk models and urban futures, they borrow from the theoretical metaphor of the black swan to describe different modes of governance. Taking the symbol of the black swan as a point of departure, Jimenez and Roscher go on to develop their own semiotic terminology of urban risk attitudes. While they characterize Singapore’s resilient (to the point of obsessive) mode of governance as an example of the black swan model, they use the term ‘black elephant’ as a juxtaposed description for Manila, that in their minds reflects a resistant model of governance in which predictable systemic risks go unheeded by government agencies. Extrapolating from the black swan and the black elephant, Jimenez and Roscher then propose a third symbol, the ‘white butterfly’, as emblematic of the potential for mobile shifts of agency within subjectivities facing threats of complex collapse.

A public programme of Acts of Life.]]>
Jayson C. Jimenez]]> Ida Roscher]]> Southeast Asia]]>
History]]> Artistic Research]]> Cultural Heritage]]> 17 Dec 2019, Tue 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
 
In the present times when hypotheses are easily turned into “facts” within SNS (social networking services), more layered understandings of the notions of truth arise from a creative use of historical archives and the reproduction of past events. Unfolding through interdisciplinary collaborations with specialists from various fields, Hikaru Fujii’s works address compelling contemporary issues through extensive fieldwork and in-depth research on cultures and histories specific to a certain country, or region. His aesthetic strategy breathes new meanings into significant recent or historical events ultimately triggering a critical perception of the current state of society. In this lecture performance, Fujii will expand upon his methodologies of re-enactment as a practice of political resistance and discuss how his work enlace the multiple terrains of archaeology, anthropology, history, and art.]]>
Hikaru Fujii ]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]>
Mythology]]> Indigenous Knowledge]]> Ritual]]> History]]>
A public programme of Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows of History.]]>
Zarina Muhammad]]> Stefania Rossetti]]> Vivian Wang]]> Eric Lee]]> Tini Aliman]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]> 11 Mar 2017, Sat 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

We all have songs that we love despite knowing better. When it comes to the seductive illusions of music and film, what, if any, are the rules of attraction?

As an artist whose practice focuses on the everyday and popular culture, Song-Ming Ang’s lecture performance, presented for the first time in Singapore, explores the seductive qualities of music. From cover versions to guilty pleasures and propaganda pop, Ang provides keen observations and cheeky confessions on how we succumb to the artifice of music, film and art.]]>
Song-Ming Ang ]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Lecture Performance: DASH by Ho Rui An, Artist-in-Residence, NTU CCA Singapore

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Urbanism]]> Technology]]> 25 Jan 2017, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road

DASH
begins with footage of an accident captured from a dashcam. Bearing witness to the crashes and collisions that occur within spaces of transit, the vast accumulation of such footage on the Internet can be said to constitute a contemporary index of the accident. Reflecting specifically on the view from the dashcam that captures the mobile subject’s forward rush into the horizon as it escapes a scene of accident, the lecture considers the modes of legibility that enable the accident—or crisis—to appear as such within a risk-managed and financially hedged era. Of special interest is the logic of “horizon scanning” that undergirds the foresight programmes of the Singapore government. As a crucial node along the electronic circuits of global finance as well as the sweaty regional routes crossed by disenfranchised migrant labour, Singapore is held up within the lecture as a privileged site to attend to the disturbances or “weak signals” that crop up on the horizon, from which a fantastic speculative economy—one populated by the likes of “black swans” and “dragon kings”—is produced to affirm some narratives while extinguishing others.

This Lecture Performance is a public programme of Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice.]]>
Ho Rui An ]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Curatorial Practice]]> 16 Dec 2015, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Red Baron, Block 45 Malan Road

Visiting Research Fellow and British art historian Tony Godfrey will read from Tuesday in the Tropics, his illustrated weekly letter which he emails to curators and friends. These letters sometimes reflective, sometimes descriptive, sometimes personal were written over the course of the year.
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Tony Godfrey]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Experiential]]> Embodiment]]> 7 Nov 2015, Sat 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Studio #01-07, Block 38 Malan Road

During her residency, Singapore artist Weixin Chong is exploring perspectives and portrayals of tropicality in a Singaporean context, from projections of exoticism and escape to the post-colonial self-conscious gaze of the tropical being, to how the natural growth of wildlife represents ‘undevelopment’.

For her current project, Chong is calling for participants to take part in a dictation event within the Gillman Barracks “jungle”. Chong will read aloud a text in which participants will be asked to transcribe from her dictation. These texts will be translated by the artist into an artwork. After the dictation, guests are invited to a read in the artist’s studio.

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Weixin Chong]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Experiential]]> Performance]]> 19 Aug 2015, Wed 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Block 37 Malan Road, Studio #01-02

In August, we welcome Artist-in-Residence, Yan Jun who will expand on his Living Room Tour project during his residency. As a musician of electronic music, he always felt disappointed with sound system environments and venues in China. To face the reality of society, economy and culture, he creates nomadic sound environments of his own. Yan will invite musicians, artists and people with or without any “talent” to join with to create a platform in which “music should sound on its social pedestal”.]]>
Yan Jun]]> Asia]]>