Curatorial Practice]]> 17 Jan 2014, Fri 4:00pm - 6:00pm

The forum will focus on commissioned projects by artists engaging with the archives. Each curatorial presentation will provide a close overview of the production process.

A public programme of Paradise Lost.]]>
Ann Demeester]]> Mustafa Shabbir Hussain ]]> Shabbir Hussain Mustafa]]> Asia]]>
Curatorial Practice]]> 24 Jan 2014, Fri 7:30pm - 9:00pm

The first curatorial tour of exhibition is an opportunity for the audience to engage directly with the curator of the show in conversation with the established writer and art critic, Lee Weng Choy.

A public programme of Paradise Lost.]]>
Ute Meta Bauer]]> Lee Weng Choy]]> Asia]]>
Spaces of the Curatorial]]> Apolonija Šušteršič]]> Apolonija Sustersic]]> Jesko Fezer]]> Southeast Asia]]> Cultural Production]]> 14 Feb 2014, Fri 7:30pm - 9:00pm

This tour will focus on aspects of exhibition construction, installation and the display of each work. Ho Tzu Nyen will explore the exhibition in the light of his artistic practice and engagement with moving image and cinema productions.

A public programme of Paradise Lost.]]>
Ho Tzu Nyen]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Fiction]]> History]]> 15 Feb 2014, Sat 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Taking Trinh T. Minh-ha’s reflections on the nature and process of storytelling as a starting point, the reading group addresses the (assumed) boundaries between truth and fact, story and history and how these boundaries are challenged by the works in Paradise Lost. The reading group juxtaposed Trinh T. Min-ha’s text Grandma’s Story with an excerpt from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino that emphasizes the elusive nature of storytelling itself.

A public programme of Paradise Lost.]]>
Anca Rujoiu]]> Asia]]>
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]]>
Identity]]> Displacement]]> Diaspora]]> 21 Feb 2014, Fri 7:30pm - 9:00pm

This talk will contextualise Trinh T. Minh-ha’s installation Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989) within the larger picture of her own work and film practice.

Surname Viet Given Name Nam addresses notions of identity, popular memory and culture. While docusing on aspects of Vietnamese reality as seen through the lives and history of women's resistance in Vietnam and in the U.S., it raises questions on the politics of interviewing and documenting. A theoretically and formally complex work, Surname Viet Given Name Nam explores the difficulty of translation, and themes of dislocation and exile, critiquing both traditional society and life since the war. Jusxtaposing archival footage, proverbs, and poetry, voice-over narratives, and written text, the film festures interviews with five Vietnamese women. It becomes clear throughout the film that these interviews are restaged and the women portrayed are actually amatuer actresses living in the U.S. Taking a hybrid form, the film articulates the complex diversity of the lives and roles of Vietnamese women within culture, and confronts the essentialising Western paradigms. It challenges the traditions of documentary filmmaking through complex interconnections of sound and image, rejection of a single, omniscient voice and undermining of the authority of the camera itself.

A public programme of Paradise Lost.]]>
Trinh T. Minh-ha]]> Southeast Asia]]> North America]]>
Displacement]]> Migration]]> 28 Feb 2014, Fri 7:30pm - 9:00pm

David Teh will introduce Paradise Lost with reference to the genre and histories of the artist-made moving image in the Southeast Asian context. The presentation is structured around three moving-image works from this region whose distinct strategies were explored in relation to the video installations presented in the exhibition.

A public programme of Paradise Lost.]]>
David Teh]]> Asia]]>
Displacement]]> 8 Mar 2014, Sat 3:00pm - 5:00pm

In collaboration with BooksActually, NTU CCA Singapore will organize a special book presentation focused on the series Balik Kampung 2A: People and Places / Balik Kampung 2B: Contemplations. Edited by Verena Tay, the collection brings together commissioned texts by a series of authors who address their experience of living in different parts of Singapore.The book presentation situates itself as a counterpoint in the context of Paradise Lost. It will produce a shift from reflections of homeland as perceived from afar to engagement with an immediate environment through Balik Kampung stories.

A public programme of Paradise Lost.]]>
Verena Tay]]> BooksActually]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Materiality]]> Fiction]]> Design]]> Regina (Maria) Möller]]> Regina Moller]]> Europe]]>