Experiential]]> Technology]]> 19 Mar 2016, Sat 1:00pm - 4:00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Mark Nash will discuss selected works chosen from a period of intense experimentation with the new medium of video art. In their early works Richard Foreman, Terry Fox, and Martha Rosler explore quasi-didactic scenarios similar to those Jonas has employed in works including They Come to Us without a Word. They all share a minimalist aesthetic dictated by the limitations of the technology, in camera edits or rough mixes being the only ways of transition within the standard 30 minute recording tape.

This workshop and screening is part of the Education and Public Programme of Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word.]]>
Mark Nash ]]> North America]]>
Ways of Seeing]]> Technology]]> 22 Apr 2016, Fri 7:30pm - 9:00pm
23 Apr 2016, Sat 1:00pm - 4:00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

When Sheldon Renan and Gene Youngblood at the end of  the 1960s coined the term Expanded Cinema, they were interested in a revision of the cinematic conventions. Addressing specifically questions concerning the spaces of film (the imaginary spaces, the depicted spaces, as well as the architectural environments) made clear what kind of impact the cinematic apparatus had on our ways of watching films. Artists and critics began to critically approach the environment and technology of the filmic experience and ask how this assemblage was influencing our perception and our ways of thinking.

The screening and workshop Expanding Cinematic Spaces by Visiting Research Fellow Marc Glöde will take a closer look at this development – its historic implications as well as its relevance for today. It will combine some outstanding artistic film works with remarkable examples that offered different spatial experiences.
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Marc Glöde]]> Marc Glode]]> Europe]]> North America]]>
Education]]> 7 May 2016, Sat 10:00am - 12:00pm
Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road

This workshop was developed in collaboration with Kelly Reedy, a former lecturer at the National Institute of Education, who specialises in teaching how museums and galleries can be used to enhance student learning through visual arts. The workshop is created to engage educators in contemporary art and artistic practices. Highlighting the educational aspects of the various works presented in SEA STATE, it will allow the teachers to prepare for visits with their school classes.

This workshop is and education and outreach programme of Charles Lim Yi Yong: SEA STATE.]]>
Kelly Reedy ]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Residencies Studio Sessions: Fermentation Madness, Parts I & II: Workshop by Julian Togar Abraham (Indonesia), Artist-in-Residence

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Experiential]]> 14 May 2016, Sat 4:00pm - 6:00pm
28 May 2016, Sat 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Studio #01-02, Block 37 Malan Road

As part of Julian ‘Togar’ Abraham‘s (Indonesia) artist project, he will conduct a two-part workshop inviting participants to experiment with the fermentation process and brew their own alcohol using their chosen combinations of fruit.

In Part 1 of the workshop on 14 May (as part of Art Day Out!), Togar will walk participants through the process of fermentation and its relationship to his pseudo science-based practice that aims to democratise the laboratory and liberate the knowledge of science to a wider society. Whilst in residence at NTU CCA Singapore, Togar is conducting research into the process of fermentation, which is key to his research into diabetes and the conversion of bio-fuel.

Part 2 of the workshop on 28 May will involve the post fermentation, drawing attention to the production process and effect of variables such as temperature, sugar levels and quantity of yeast. Participants will be invited to taste test and take home their own brews.

Please RSVP to NTUCCAResidencies@ntu.edu.sg and bring some fruit that you would like to ferment.]]>
Julian 'Togar' Abraham ]]> Julian Togar Abraham ]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Workshop: The Making of Singapore Pavilion at Venice Biennale with Sophia Loke, Assistant Director, Sector Development, National Arts Council and June Yap, independent curator, and Curator, Singapore Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011 (Singapore)

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Cultural Production]]> Institutional Critique]]> 14 May 2016, Sat 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road

This workshop will give an insight to Singapore’s participation in the Venice Biennale, and to the process involved in selecting and commissioning the project. The speakers will highlight purpose and opportunity, as well as the challenges inherent in such an undertaking. SEA STATE, the most recent commission for Singapore Pavilion in 2015, took place at the new location, Sale d’Armi situated at the Arsenale. Leased for the next nine editions, it will put Singapore’s artists in closer proximity to the other national presentations.

This workshop is an education and outreach programme of Charles Lim Yi Yong: SEA STATE.

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Sophia Loke]]> June Yap]]> Southeast Asia]]> Europe]]>
Education]]> 30 Jul 2016, Sat 10:00am - 1:00pm
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 43 Malan Road


This workshop was developed in collaboration with Kelly Reedy, a former lecturer at the National Institute of Education, who specialises in teaching how museums and galleries can be used to enhance student learning through visual arts. This workshop is created to engage educators in contemporary art and artistic practices. Highlighting the educational aspects of the various works presented in Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest, it will allow the teachers to prepare for visits with their school classes.

This workshop is an education programme of Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest.

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Kelly Reedy]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Cultural Production]]> 8 Oct 2016, Sat 12:00pm - 8:00pm
9 Oct 2016, Sun 12:00pm - 8:00pm
15 Oct 2016, Sat 12:00pm - 8:00pm
16 Oct 2016, Sun 12:00pm - 8:00pm
The Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road

In recent years, artists have begun working extensively with the moving image. The variety of forms (videos, installations, film screenings, etc.) and spaces in which these works are presented (galleries, museums, art fairs, etc.) have also become increasingly varied.

Against the background of this development, these workshops seek to unfold the history and challenges of this new genre from the 1960s to the present day. Focusing on case studies of specific artists, exhibitions, and critical texts, participants will also discuss the development of the global art market and its influence and impact on art and exhibition practices, and what role moving images play in this context.

As part of Workshop One, participants will visit the exhibition Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest, which experiments with moving images in space.

Objective and Learning Outcome
Through selected readings, discussions, and hands-on exercises of film analyses, participants will explore questions concerning the presentation of films in different contexts and spatial environments. These activities will delve into the depth and unfold different approaches in this increasing influential presence of moving images in the artistic field.

Workshop Requirements
These workshops are open to Graduate and Undergraduate students as well as members of public interested in film and art.

Workshop One

Saturday, 8 October 2016, 12.00 – 8.00pm
• Short introduction to the workshop by Dr Marc Glöde
• Short introduction by each participant (field of studies / interests / relation to and interest in film)
• Introduction to the historical developments in experimental film which includes watching and discussing a selection of films that have been produced between 1920 and 1975
• Discuss the seen films in relation to Peter Wollen’s essay, “The Two Avant-Gardes“ (1975)

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 12.00 – 8.00pm
• Visit to the exhibition Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest
• In depth experience of the show followed by a discussion on the dynamics of curating film against the background of the material seen on the first day
• Discussion with a focus on Mary Ann Doane’s article, “The Location of The Image” (2009) and Alexander Horvath’s statement, “The Market vs. the Museum” (2005)

Workshop Two

Saturday, 15 October 2016, 12.00 – 8.00pm
• Short introduction to the workshop by Dr Marc Glöde
• Short introduction by each participant (field of studies / interests / relation to and interest in film)
• A historical overview on the development of film experiments from early cinema to present
• Discussion on the developments in curatorial practice related to film
• Reading and discussion on Mark Nash’s “Between cinema and a hard place” (2006)

Sunday, 16 October 2016, 12.00 – 8.00pm
• Discussion on the development of artist films from the 1970s onward
• Continuation of the discussion on the recent history of experimenting films and film installations (e.g. the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark, who initially trained as an architect)
• Understanding the idea of the “expanded cinema” and the so called “post-medium condition”

Due to limited space, registration for the workshops is compulsory. Participants can register for one workshop or both.

Deadline for registration: Monday, 3 October 2016 at NTUCCAresearch@ntu.edu.sg

Participants will be contacted by email and will be given texts for readings before commencement of workshops.]]>
Marc Glöde]]> Marc Glode]]> Asia]]> Europe]]>
Fiction]]> Knowledge Production]]> Cultural Production]]> 6 Dec 2016, Tue 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
The Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road

Film criticism and filmmaking have been unfolded onto one another since the inception of cinema, their respective practices complementing, supporting, questioning and also opposing one another in modes that have been fundamental for defining their fields. The consolidation of cinema in the context of contemporary art has called for the need to find and invent the appropriate conceptual tools to respond to artworks, installations and screenings that stand across film and art.

Aimed both at those who are specifically devoted to thinking moving-image based works as well as at those who are interested in investigating specific areas of art writing, this workshop will address these considerations and investigate such topics as:

How to write about moving-image based works that stand in-between art and cinema? How to attend to the material, temporal and discursive specificities of these works while taking into consideration the various fields of expertise of potential readers? How to write about a medium that is so much embedded within its own language, codes and methods? How to consider a tradition that is unique at the same time that it engages in close dialogue with other artistic forms of experimentation? How to approach, react to, critically analyse films and videos through writing? What are the traditions, canonical figures, histories of writing on the relation between film and art?

These topics will be considered and discussed through a combination of readings, discussions, practical advices and writing exercises.
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Filipa Ramos]]> Europe]]>
Sustainability]]> 13 Jan 2017, Fri - 22 Jan 2017, Sun
Various locations

The Harvesting serves as an overarching platform for knowledge exchange on food, facilitating a debate concentrated on the Singapore domestic sphere. Over two Sundays during CITIES FOR PEOPLE, the project will catalyse discussions examining the larger socio-political conditions surrounding personal control of the food system, as well as looking at how locally grown food and small-scale and urban agriculture can be an agent for self-expression and assertion.

Part of the project initiates a small urban farm outside of NTU CCA Singapore’s Research Centre and Office in Gillman Barracks, where it serves as the hosting ground for a series of workshops and events. The workshops, conducted by local urban farming groups, will impart practical knowledge and skills useful for anyone interested in setting up an alternative, personal food source within a compact urban space, and outside of mainstream provisions. Parallel to the workshops are screenings of international films related to urban agriculture. These films present a more varied and metropolitan perspective on the relationship between food and personal politics, and the struggle towards complete food sovereignty that is currently ongoing in many parts of the world.

At its culmination, The Harvesting will host an outdoor farmers’ market featuring organic produce from independent urban agriculture practitioners and farmers in Singapore. This market will serve as a celebration of independent food sources, grown in respectful and sustainable manner, highlighting the autonomy of its makers as a powerful tool for the reiteration and marking of small sovereign units within the larger networked, multipolar urban context.

The Harvesting programme schedule

Registration for all workshops is required.

Sunday, 15 January 2017
Outside Block 6 Lock Road

2.30 – 3.30pm Workshop: Farming: Basics of Organic Growing by Edible Garden City Learn how to grow your own food organically as well as other knowledge about planting such as soil fertility, watering, and pest management. Participants will also be propagating plant cutting that they can bring home and nurture a pot of their own creation. 

4.30 – 6.00pm Workshop: Composting Made Easy by Michelle Lai, TANAH Learn the basics to making good, rich compost for your garden, using resources from around the neighborhood.  

7.00 – 8.30pm Screening: Growing Cities: A film about urban farming in America, Dan Susman, United States, 2013, 97 min A documentary film that examines the role of urban farming in America and asks how much power it has to revitalize our cities and change the way we eat.

Sunday, 22 January 2017

9.30 – 10.30am Workshop:Urban Foraging by Michelle Lai, TANAH Various locations at Gillman Barracks. Meeting point at Block 6 Lock Road. Go on a trail around Gillman Barracks, identifying local plants, as well as explore their culinary and other functional uses. 

11.00am – 5.00pm Sunday Market at Gillman Barracks Along Malan Road A Sunday market of all sorts of barang-barang (wares). Expect street eats, creative arts, fresh produce, and nothing but good vibes!

2.00 – 5.00pm Workshop: Pixel Walk by Foodscape Collective and Victoria Marshall Various locations at Gillman Barracks. Meeting point at Block 6 Lock Road. The pixel is the basic unit of data that makes up a satellite image. Our physical pixel allows us to be in much closer proximity than what satellites can provide and gives us a different imaginary of what mapping could be. It offers a more intimate encounter with the pixel as a tool, giving physical form to the invisible data. It makes satellite imagery more approachable and allows it to be sensed emotionally. In this workshop, participants will make a pixel by hand and take it for a “walk”. In Pixel Walk, participants will be taken around Gillman Barracks. Each will be given a white string to make their personal pixel which they will then take for a walk and document in pictures. A particular area of interest will be mapped for participants’ interaction along the way. Photographs participants take will be pinned to a map of Gillman Barracks revealing a positionality as seen from the lens of a different kind of pixel. ]]>
Edible Garden City]]> Michelle Lai]]> Foodscape Collective]]> Victoria Marshall]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]> Materiality]]> Sustainability]]> 14 Jan 2017, Sat 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM
The Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road

2.00 – 3.00pm Talk by indieguerillas

Come hear from the artists on their practice and sharing on the performance Datang Untuk Kembali.

3.30 – 5.00pm Workshop by Lulu Lutfi Labibi

This workshop is based on the idea of “upcycling” by transforming the traditional into the “current”, and by-products of the fashion industry into new materials or better products. Lulu Lutfi Labibi will demonstrate the creation process behind his “Celana Paman” collection, launched in 2011, in which he deconstructed oversized men’s pants and made them into dresses of various styles. In this workshop, participants will be asked to bring unused or unwanted clothings and be introduced to various technique for transforming them into ready-to-wear drapes.
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indieguerillas]]> Lulu Lutfi Labibi]]> Southeast Asia]]>