Residencies Insights: History is a Story: Thoughts about Media as Art – Lecture by Barbara London
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LECTURES Residencies Insights: History is a Story: Thoughts about Media as Art, lecture by Barbara London (United States), Curator-in-Residence 14 Mar 2018, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road <br /><br />In this lecture, Barbara London examines how video monitors and installations challenged the white cube. Back in the 1970s, art museums operated with object-oriented categories. Meanwhile Land Art, with its spatial site specificity, Performance Art, with its abstract notions of duration, and electronic music, with its manipulation of the electronic signal, all challenged existing conventions by propelling contemporary art beyond the limitations of the gallery’s four walls. Looking at video’s relationship to performance, theater, feminism, and politics, London will discuss the factors that facilitated museums’ support of video in its dynamic early years while also addressing one of the most pressing questions in the field today: As memory and technologies fade away, are media acquisitions destined to become conceptual works?
2018-03-14
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English
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Yee I-Lann
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Yee I-Lann’s practice speculates on issues of culture, power and the role of historical memory in our social experience via allusion to historical, popular and everyday references often through the medium of photography. Linking historical artistic methodologies such as batik with contemporary content such as recent histories, she experiments by blurring the boundaries between official record and subjective histories. Her current research focus is on folkloric female spirit ghost stories, specifically the Pontianak, versions of which are found throughout South East Asia. The Pontianak is commonly described as a vengeful woman who died in childbirth, is a seductress of innocent victims and resides in the banana tree. Singapore based Cathay-Keris and Shaw Brothers were amongst the earliest producers of cinematic versions of Pontianak stories spawning one of the most pervasive characters in regional cinema. I-Lann will be attempting to unpack the riddle of the Pontianak and will be watching a lot of horror films.
27 April – 3 July 2015
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Wu Mali
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Understanding art making as a form of social critique, in 2016 Wu Mali embarked on a long-term project titled <i>Cijin’s Tongue</i>. Set up with the support of the National Sun Yat-sen University in the kitchen of a former military dormitory in Cijin District (Taiwan), <i>Cijin’s Tongue</i> is a multicultural lab for social innovation. Over the last century, what used to be a fishermen’s village turned into a container port and tourist destination gathering a diverse community of inhabitants hailing from China and Southeast Asia. Focusing on the quotidian act of food consumption, Wu utilises cooking, eating, tasting, and sharing as heuristic tools to examine processes of social change brought about by colonialism, the Cold War, and globalisation. During the residency, she plans to broaden the scope of her research by exploring analogous patterns of change in the specific context of Singapore researching local food economies and practices of food consumption.
2 July – 28 September 2018
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Việt Lê
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Over the past five years, Việt Lê has been collecting film footage as well as sociological, historical, and archival materials for his experimental film trilogy <i>Sonic Spiritualties</i>. Interweaving the artist’s interest in popular culture and diaspora studies, the trilogy explores the impact of economic and environmental turbulences on music and various forms of spirituality in Southeast Asia. By framing situations where Buddhism meets pop music and violent displacement is translated into songs, the trilogy envisages sonic environments that challenge the borders of traditional and experimental music, the sacred and the mundane, the sublime and the banal. Halfway between documentary and music video, this hybrid production re-envisages the relationship between music and spiritual practices by working across dance, art history, ethnomusicology, and anthropology. Lê’s residency is dedicated to pursuing follow-up research and post-production editing for the final stages of this project.
7 May – 5 Jul 2018
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Tara McDowell
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Tara McDowell’s research interests include exhibition histories, contemporary curating, art institutions, feminist and queer spaces of sociability and production, alternative archives and forms of documentation, and historical and contemporary models. <br /><br />While in residency at NTU CCA Singapore, McDowell aims to connect with local artists, curators, and educators to gain an awareness of the Singaporean arts communities. She is especially keen to understand how curatorial education is being developed by institutions in Singapore, what the particular needs and desires are of participants in these conversations and how connections might be made with the Curatorial PhD programme she founded in Melbourne, Australia. She will conduct research on experimental education and artistic labour, two areas of her research interests and present a public lecture in progress on the latter topic, titled <i>Is the Post-Occupational Condition the New Post-Medium Condition?</i>
20 March – 26 March 2015
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Syafiatudina
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Syafiatudina will discuss the practice of organizing spaces with few initiatives, collectives, institutions which are related to arts and culture in Singapore. Furthermore, she wants to investigate on how a space for critical engagement can be established in Singapore where owning a place is consider to be a luxury.
22 October – 4 November 2015
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Stefanie Hessler
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In the context of her research project related to TBA21–Academy, during the residency Hessler aims to develop new collaborations in preparation for the next edition of <em>The Current Convening</em> to be held at NTU CCA Singapore in January 2018.
4 August – 11 August 2017
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Souliya Phoumivong
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During his residency, Phoumivong will continue to experiment with stop-motion animation, working on a project entitled <i>The Emotion</i>. The 10-minute video installation, produced using locally sourced clay, is an experiment in time and texture. The work is part of the artist’s ongoing investigation into alternative forms of artistic creation, which inform his practice as an artist and educator and are especially significant in Laos, a country where visual art is focused mostly on painting.
6 February – 28 April 2017
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Sam Durant
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Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism. Sam Durant looked at the Bandung 1955 Conference and it’s subsequent non-aligned movement.
6 July 2014 – 28 August 2014
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Ruth Noack
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As part of her time in Singapore she presented the lecture “Non-transmittable form? Thoughts on the impossibility to show what might need to be shown today” which she described as “It is a contemporary given that cultures are replete with forms that have been transmitted from elsewhere. Most discourse on global art either assumes that this transmission has been easy and neutral, or fraught and based on power relations. Whether the problem of transmission is articulated or not, it is commonly taken for granted that exhibitions are functioning transmission machines. But what about form that simply does not transfer? Or does not transfer simply?” <br /><br />Noack also spent time in Singapore further understanding different institutional structures.
9 November – 13 November 2015
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