Supernatural]]> 20 Feb 2014, Thu 6:30pm - 9:00pm

The workshop evolves around notions of the boundary event, the between realm, the impasses and the passages, form and formless. During the workshop, the artist will screen a few excerpts of the film Night Passage (2004).

A public programme of Paradise Lost.]]>
Trinh T. Minh-ha]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Workshop by Curator Mercedes Vicente – Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work

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Labour]]> Ways of Seeing]]> 21 Sep 2015, Mon - 22 Sep 2015, Tue 1:00pm - 4:00pm

As part of overarching research theme PLACE.LABOUR.CAPITAL., the 2-day workshop Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work conducted by Curator Mercedes Vicente takes the video and photographic work of New Zealand Darcy Lange (1946-2005) as the starting point for discussions concerning the representation of labour. During the 1970s, Lange developed a socially engaged video practice, with remarkable studies of people at work that draw from documentary traditions as well as conceptual and structuralist videomaking. Lange explored the issue of labour in Britain, New Zealand and Spain. Like Allan Sekula’s adherence to a critical realism in his photographic practice, Lange reintroduced too the social referentially in his photography and videomaking and stressed the “responsibility to keep questioning the nature and power of realism”. With his seminal style of real-time, unedited, without commentary, lengthy observations of workers that came to characterise his Work Studies series (1972-77), Lange aimed to “convey the image of work as work, as an occupation, as an activity, as creativity and as a time consumer”.

Through a selection of videos based on thematic and aesthetic concerns, this workshop will address labour as a theme and examine its representation from its multiple phenomenological, socio-political, art historical and theoretical perspectives. It will consider the representation of labour in Lange’s studies of people at work in its manifold meanings, including work and the human body as an expression of class and identity, and work as a performative gesture and its choreographic dimension. It will address the politics of representation and Lange’s interest in exploring the political and critical potential of video and the relationship between the camera, subject and spectator. In his series Work Studies in Schools (1976-77), the studies of teachers’ performances were extended by the videotaping of the teachers’ and pupils’ reactions to the recordings, becoming an intrinsic part of the document. Subscribing to the Marxist ideals of the democratisation of culture, Lange saw in Work Studies in Schools another way of making documentaries that insisted on this democratic process, speaking of these tapes as “our collective truth”. Seen by the artist as “researches” and “an educational process” and by exposing the process, Lange’s videos become in themselves studies of videotaping as a work activity. Much of Lange’s work is an attempt to redefine the basis of his art activity and its function and social purpose.

To register please RSVP to NTUCCAeducation@ntu.edu.sg

In the framework of Darcy Lange: Hard However, and useful is the small, day-to-day work a workshop by Mercedes Vicente, Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) will give a presentation on archival work in Indonesia at Singapore Art Archive Project space by Koh Nguang How, former NTU CCA Singapore Artist-in-Residence.]]>
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Capitalism]]> Oceans & Seas]]> 28 Sep 2015, Mon 10:00am - 5:00pm
Block 43 Malan Road

Session 1 – Morning
The workshop intends to focus more deeply on Sekula’s critical realism while comparing two slide sequences: “Dismal Science” (1989/92, chapter 8 of Fish Story) and “Reverse Magellan” (2010, part of Ship of Fools). Emphasis will be put on the “specific temporal and pictorial experience” (Sekula in Fish Story, p. 202) that they generate. That will allow for a deeper, comparative understanding of Sekula’s employment of various photographic formats in installation contexts (and in books). As a result, his paradigmatic resistance to the predominant tableau-model in contemporary photography will be addressed via a specific analysis of certain photographs and objects included in Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum (2010-2013).

Session 2 – Afternoon
Screening of Allan Sekula’s A Short Film for Laos (2006) and Tsukiji (2001) (if there is enough time also Gala (2005)), with general discussion on his filmic oeuvre.]]>
Hilde Van Gelder]]> Asia]]>
Artistic Research]]>
Artists-in-Residence Li Ran and Gary Ross Pastrana will conduct a workshop as part of their project Exhibit 101 at The Lab. Li Ran will talk through the process of creating a new work in Singapore while Gary Ross Pastrana will work with participants to conceive a new artwork for his project An ASEAN Exhibition 1.

Part of Art Day Out at Gillman Barracks.]]>
Li Ran]]> Gary Ross Pastrana]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Cultural Heritage]]> Curatorial Practice]]> Institutional Critique]]> Blk 43 Malan Road, The Single Screen

A workshop led by T.K. Sabapathy, NTU CCA Singapore Research Fellow
Organised by NTU CCA Singapore in collaboration with National Gallery Singapore]]>
T.K. Sabapathy]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Design]]> Materiality]]> 16 Jan 2016, Sat 1:00pm - 4:00pm
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road

For a designer, regardless of any particular field of practice, material is the key of expression, which can shape ideas in a multitude of possibilities. The workshop by fashion designer Dinu Bodiciu explores the materiality of a fashion artefact as the stimulus for various stories told from different perspectives.

This workshop is part of the research project Interrogative Pattern – Text(ile) Weave by Regina (Maria) Möller at The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road, 4 December 2015 – 14 February 2016.
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Dinu Bodiciu]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Workshop for Teachers and Educators by art educator Kelly Reedy (Singapore/United States)

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Education]]> 23 Mar 2019, Sat 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
26 Apr 2019, Fri 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM
The Exhibition Hall and Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road

Turning Tides: Identities in Transit

Taking inspiration from the novel Arus Balik (1995) by Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, this workshop will examine how the turning of historical tides form our personal and collective identities. The work of six artists, Ade Darmawan (Indonesia), ila (Singapore), Zac Langdon-Pole (New Zealand/Germany), Shubigi Rao (India/Singapore), Lucy Raven (United States), and Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia) will guide and challenge us on this journey, probing how social, geopolitical, religious, and cultural transitions in this region have influenced our concept of who we are, where we come from, and where we are going.

This workshop is free of charge and suitable for all educational levels. While it is targeted towards teachers and educators, it is open to all. For more information and to register, head to turningtides.peatix.com.]]>
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Nature]]> Supernatural]]> 13 Feb 2016, Sat 1:00pm - 4:00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Selected works are chosen and discussed by artist and filmmaker Park Chan-kyong which engage with topics of the spiritual aspects of nature.

This workshop and screening is part of the Education and Public Programme of Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word.]]>
Park Chan-Kyong]]> Asia]]>
Curatorial Practice]]> Spaces of the Curatorial]]> Materiality]]> 29 Feb 2016, Mon - 4 Mar 2016, Fri 2016 10:00am - 6:00pm
Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road

This week-long workshop on curating by Visiting Professor Regina (Maria) Möller will focus on printed media as an example for “space” for creative and curatorial practices. Through presentations, discussions, readings, and site visits, participants are encouraged to translate their ideas into a visual and spatial format. [Full programme here]

As places are limited, kindly register for the workshop here.
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Regina (Maria) Möller]]> Regina Moller]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Artistic Research]]> 15 Mar 2016, Tue 11:00am - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road

The workshop will use Indonesia as a framework to discuss the issues of diversity in artistic practices in Southeast Asia. As one of the key players in the region, Indonesia with its cultural diversity and political history could provide a site for addressing the questions of global contemporary versus local contemporary. The workshop will examine the writings of Southeast Asian art that have been shaped by a variety of methodologies that are richly interdisciplinary, despite the lack of comparative methodology. The workshop aims to facilitate a conversation to initiate certain avenues of inquiry or even disagreement in investigating possibilities of comparative framework/s for Southeast Asian art.]]>
Yvonne Spielmann]]> Wulan Dirgantoro]]> Southeast Asia]]>