Becoming Palm
Becoming Palm is the outcome of a conversation between two friends, artist Simryn Gill and anthropologist Michael Taussig responding to oil palm plantations and “the enormous transformations, human, and ecological, that this crop engenders” (Michael Taussig) in two remote geographical locations, Southeast Asia and South America. Blending text with photographs and archival materials, Gill reflects on the changed landscape of Malaysia, from rubber tree plantations during the British colonial period to the oil palm crops of today. Taussig provides an account of his extensive fieldwork in Colombia and the violent impact of the oil palm industry on local communities. <br /><br />Becoming Palm was launched on Saturday, 29 April 2017 in conjunction with the Singapore Art Book Fair 2017.
Sternberg Press
2017
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English
978-3-95679-260-1
978-981-11-3046-5
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NTU CCA Singapore’s Editorial Partnership with Afterall Journal
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NTU CCA Singapore is pleased to announce that it will join the editorial team of the Afterall journal through a three-year research and publishing partnership between the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the University of the Arts London (UAL).<br /><br />Initiated in 1998 by Afterall, a Research Centre of the UAL and based at Central Saint Martins, Afterall journal focuses on artistic and cultural production in relation to broader theoretical, social, and political contexts from which both emerge. The journal was founded by Charles Esche (Netherlands) curator, writer, current Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and Mark Lewis (Canada/United Kingdom) artist and filmmaker.<br /><br />Afterall journal is widely acknowledged for its in-depth analysis of artistic practices, contextual essays, engagement with exhibition histories and curatorial practices within various geographical constituencies. Through this publishing partnership, NTU CCA Singapore strengthens its mission to connect artistic practice with critical discourse within and beyond Southeast Asia. The Centre will actively contribute to expand Afterall journal cultural conversations and research in a fast-changing region defined by multilayered narratives, discrepant conditions of production across its vast geography, and intertwined cultural histories and experiences transversing national borders. NTU CCA Singapore is committed to support the critical work of scholars, curators, and art critics who are engaging with contemporary art in the region from within the context filling the gaps in the cultural history of the region, providing alternatives to Western-driven narratives, exploring cultural production through theoretical and political frameworks, and embracing new forms of writing.<br /><br />Professor Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Founding Director of NTU CCA Singapore, will serve as co-editor and the Centre’s Publications team will work closely with the editorial teams of Afterall’s journal wider family of institutional partners (academic and non-academic) including Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium, The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. The editorial team will pursue research, propose ideas, and select contributions shaping the content of the journal’s upcoming issues. Such research can feed also into other of Afterall’s publications: One Work, book series, focused on single artistic works and Exhibition Histories, likewise a monograph series offering critical analysis of influential exhibitions of contemporary art.<br /><br />The journal is published twice a year, it benefits from a large distribution with a worldwide subscription management system, and bookstore distribution in Europe and North America managed by The University of Chicago Press. While access to several articles is available online, the journal unpacks and explores its content beyond the print and digital platform through symposia and screenings hosted by important academic and art institutions. As an editorial member, NTU CCA Singapore will play also an active role in various manifestations that engage with the journal’s content contributing to its production and disemination of ideas across and beyond the region.
University of the Arts London
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English
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SouthEastAsia: Spaces of the Curatorial
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This volume focuses on the practice of curating in Southeast Asia, a region experiencing a time of increased global visibility as well as nation and institution building. The political aspiration to map and shape a regional identity through historical writing and cultural planning stumbles upon a multi-layered subject difficult to grasp or define. The diversity of voices in this publication mirrors the complexity of the region itself: its various curatorial spaces, infrastructures, and political systems. The publication includes contributions by Ute Meta Bauer, Zoe Butt, Kevin Chua, Patrick D. Flores, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Tony Godfrey, Yin Ker, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, Seng Yu Jin, Simon Soon, Nora A. Taylor, and David Teh. The publication was launched in several places across the wider region including Singapore, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, and Hong Kong.
Sternberg Press
2016
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English
978-395-67-9260-1
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Theatrical Fields: Critical Strategies in Performance, Film, and Video
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NTU CCA Singapore’s first publication, this reader stages conversations between theatre and visual arts, theoretical discourse and artistic practice juxtaposing artists and theoreticians who share a communal interest in theatricality as a critical strategy to address questions of ideology, gender, power relations. The reader includes writings by Antonin Artaud, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ute Meta Bauer, Bertolt Brecht, Giuliana Bruno, Jacques Derrida, Regis Durand, Josette Féral, Jean-François Lyotard, Eva Meyer, Timothy Murray, Katharina Sykora, and Marina Warner, documentation of the exhibition Theatrical Fields, Bildmuseet, Umea (2013) and NTU CCA Singapore (2014) presenting the works of Judith Barry, Marcel Dzama, Stan Douglas, Marie-Louise Ekman, Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf, Isaac Julien, Joan Jonas, Constanze Ruhm, and Ulrike Ottinger.
König Books
2016
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English
978-981-11-0362-9
978-9-81110-362-9
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