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RESEARCH & EDUCATION /
SPACES OF THE CURATORIAL
Research Fellowship Programme
NTU CCA Singapore’s research fellowship programme engages scholars
and researchers connected to the artistic field with the primary aim of
collaborative research across disciplines and various forms of knowledge
production. NTU CCA Singapore hosts visiting scholars and researchers
of various disciplines whose research areas address Singapore in relation
to its position within a wider geography.
Artist Resource Platform
NTU CCA Singapore’s Artist Resource Platform aims to provide local
and visiting curators, researchers and scholars with a point of entry
into the work and practice of local artists, independent art spaces and
NTU CCA Singapore’s Artists-in-Residence. The Platform currently has
audio and visual material from over 90 artists, including interviews and
talks. The Artist Resource Platform is not to be understood as exclusive
or exhaustive as it is in constant development to provide a more
comprehensive point of departure for study on the contemporary art
ecosystem in Singapore.
For full list of artists in the Artist Resource Platform, please visit
www.ntu.ccasingapore.org/research/public-resource-centre.
Visiting Research Fellow, Marc Glöde, independent curator, critic,
film scholar, and previously Assistant Professor, Department of
Architecture, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
New cycle of Artists-in-Residence for 2016
The NTU CCA Singapore’s third cycle of Artists-in-Residence will
commence from April 2016 to April 2017 with 20 artists and collectives
from Singapore, Asia and for the first time Africa and South America.
The studio-based Residencies programme is dedicated to facilitating
knowledge and research for and by established and emerging artists
from Singapore and abroad. It serves as a forum for cultural and
artistic exchange in Southeast Asia, augmented with public events
ranging from open studio sessions, lectures, live performances, and
special projects in The Lab, NTU CCA Singapore’s space for curatorial
experimentation.
SINGAPORE
Kray Chen, Heman Chong, Choy Ka Fai, Loo Zihan, Zul Mahmod, Dennis Tan,
Jason Wee
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Julian “Togar” Abraham (Indonesia), Antariksa (Indonesia), Chris Chong Chan Fui
(Malaysia), Nguyen Phan Thao (Vietnam), Nguyen Uudam (Vietnam), Souilya
Phoumivong (Laos), Arin Runjung (Thailand), Svay Sareth (Cambodia)
WORLDWIDE
siren eun young jung (South Korea), Zac Langdon Pole (New Zealand), Ato Malinda
(Kenya/The Netherlands), Alice Miceli (Brazil), Tamara Weber (United States)
NTU CCA Singapore engages with Spaces of the Curatorial as
its main field of inquiry. Through an exploration of Spaces of
the Curatorial and its potential, the Centre seeks to question
the future of “curating”, a term commonly associated with the
exhibition format. What are the infrastructures and modes of
artistic production in diverse cultural settings and in particular
throughout Southeast Asia now and in the future?
As a response to the shifts in artistic and cultural production
and the emergence of alternative curatorial models, the NTU
CCA Singapore encourages new ways of thinking in its research
and its various programmes. The goal of the Centre is to nurture
talent through artistic and creative experimentation and a
multidisciplinary approach that intertwines its three platforms:
exhibitions, residencies, and research & academic education.
NTU CCA SINGAPORE FELLOWS 2016
Dennis Tan, Moving of Kolek sailboats to NTU CCA Singapore residency studios,
16 February 2016. Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore.
SPACES OF THE
CURATORIAL
Visiting Research Fellow, Yvonne Spielmann, art and media advisor,
and previously Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts
Singapore (Germany)
Academic Programmes
RESIDENCIES
The Research & Education programme aims to expand upon
the Spaces of the Curatorial, providing an open environment
connecting academic research with other forms of knowledge
production.
NTU offers a Master of Art (Research) and a Doctor of Philosophy
through its School of Art, Design and Media (ADM).
EXHIBITIONS
Contribute to NTU CCA Singapore
Under this umbrella, the NTU CCA Singapore aims to connect
research on Spaces of the Curatorial, Curatorial Practice and Public
Space & Critical Spatial Practice engaging in an expanded notion of
curating in connection to the diverse histories and infrastructural
specificities of the region and beyond.
Material Encounters: Workshop by Dinu Bodiciu as part of Interrogative Pattern - Text(ile)
Weave by Regina (Maria) Möller, 16 January 2016. Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore.
The research-oriented MA & PhD programmes will provide students
with the opportunity to pursue independent research in the areas of
curatorial studies, curatorial practice and related fields.
Interrogative Pattern – Text(ile)
Weave by Visiting Professor,
Regina (Maria) Möller (Germany)
The programmes can be pursued in a full-time or part-time basis.
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
Call for application
Doctor of Philosophy in Spaces of the Curatorial,
Curatorial Practice and Public Space & Critical Spatial Practice
“Patterns – cloth and textiles as text in Southeast Asia
– imbedding cultural interrelations and the question of
identities” in times of global sameness, is Regina (Maria)
Möller research focus. In The Lab, Möller’s research stems
from her interest in the headdress of Samsui women,
and will elaborate with time through experimental,
collaborative and participatory forms of research practice,
including workshops, talks and screenings.
Commencement date: 9 January 2017
Application deadline: 30 June 2016
For more information, please visit: www.adm.ntu.edu.sg/programmes
For enquiries, please contact: NTUCCAgraduateprog@ntu.edu.sg
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Your generous contributions support NTU CCA Singapore’s
internationally-acclaimed, research driven exhibitions, residencies
and extensive educational programs that benefit the community
and the region. As a non-profit institution, your support is crucial in
the continuation of our unique programming that enables NTU CCA
Singapore to contribute to the local art scene and the development
of regional and international art infrastructures. Your contribution to
the NTU CCA Singapore will enjoy a 250% tax deduction in 2016.
We believe that what we do here at the NTU CCA Singapore makes
a positive and tangible difference through art and we hope that you
will support us in achieving our aspirations.
For more information on how to donate to NTU CCA Singapore,
visit www.ntu.ccasingapore.org/support.
RESEARCH &
EDUCATION
Installation view: Joan Jonas, They Come to Us without a Word,
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore,
22 January – 3 April 2016. Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore.
RESIDENCIES
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The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
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Joan Jonas (United States)
They Come to Us without a Word
The NTU CCA Singapore is honoured to present They Come
to Us without a Word, video and performance pioneer Joan
Jonas’ first large-scale exhibition in Singapore and Southeast
Asia. They Come to Us without a Word was organised for
the U.S. Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale by the MIT List
Visual Arts Center and co-curated by Paul C. Ha, Director of
the MIT List Visual Arts Center and Ute Meta Bauer, Founding
Director of the NTU CCA Singapore. With this exhibition
Jonas evokes the fragility of nature, using her own poetic
language to address the irreversible impact of human
interference on the environmental equilibrium of our planet.
2016
Charles Lim, SEA STATE 6: capsize, 2015. Single-channel HD digital video,
c.7min. Courtesy of the artist & Future Perfect, Singapore.
Charles Lim (Singapore)
SEA STATE
SEA STATE by artist Charles Lim, commissioned for the
Singapore Pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale and curated
by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, will be proudly presented by
the NTU CCA Singapore. For over a decade, Lim’s ongoing
project SEA STATE examines the biophysical, political and
psychic contours of Singapore through the visible and
invisible lenses of the sea. SEA STATE is an in-depth inquiry
by an artist that scrutinises both man-made systems,
opening new perspectives on our everyday surroundings,
from unseen landscapes and disappearing islands to the
imaginary boundaries of a future landmass. To develop
the Venice presentation, Lim was awarded a nine-month
residency at the NTU CCA Singapore in 2014/2015.
Installation view:
Joan Jonas, They Come to Us without a Word,
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, 22 January – 3 April 2016.
Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore.
The NTU CCA Singapore presents the first solo exhibition by
New Delhi based artist Amar Kanwar. All of Kanwar’s projects
are based on ongoing research that takes a critical look at how
political struggles are presented and represented, and explore
ways in which one can take an open-ended approach towards
archiving these struggles. Can we conceive another way of
telling / seeing? Kanwar, who is recognised for his complex,
contemporary narratives that connect intimate personal spheres
of existence to larger social, political processes, has exhibited
extensively around the world, including at documenta (2002,
2007, and 2013), and at institutions such as the Whitechapel
Gallery, London (2007), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York (2012) and the Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan,
Mumbai (2016).
First held at the Palazzo Franchetti on the occasion of the
Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, the
symposium The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a
structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context
will continue and expand upon the debate with a second
iteration at NTU CCA Singapore during Lim’s exhibition.
The presentation of SEA STATE and the symposium are
generously supported as in Venice by the National Arts
Council Singapore and the Singapore Tourism Board.
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ART DAY OUT!
GILLMAN BARRACKS
19 MARCH 2016
sat
19
Residencies: OPEN
Studios, Blocks 37 & 38 Malan Road, Singapore 109452 & 109441
Located in Gillman Barracks, the NTU CCA Singapore is a national
research centre of Nanyang Technological University and is
supported by a grant from the Economic Development Board,
Singapore. The Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of
exhibitions, residencies, and research & academic education.
The NTU CCA Singapore positions itself as a space for critical
discourse and encourages new ways of thinking about Spaces of
the Curatorial in Southeast Asia and beyond. As a research centre,
it aims to provide visiting researchers and curators a comprehensive
study on the contemporary art ecosystem in Singapore and the
region. The Centre’s dynamic public programme serves to engage
with various audiences through lectures, workshops, open studios,
film screenings and Exhibition (de)Tours.
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Residencies: OPEN offers a rare insight into the often introverted
sphere of the artists’ studio. Through showcasing discussions,
performances, research and works-in-progress, Residencies:
OPEN profiles the diversity of contemporary art practice and
the divergent ways artists conceive artwork with the studio as a
constant space for experimentation and contemplation.
Block 37
Zul Mahmod (Singapore)
Guo-Liang Tan (Singapore)
An Abstract, Speaking: A panel discussion
by Artist-in-Residence Guo-Liang Tan
Saleh Husein (Indonesia)
Block 38
Zac Langdon-Pole (New Zealand)
Dennis Tan (Singapore)
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Since the Centre’s inauguration in October 2013, the NTU CCA
Singapore has presented several high-profile, first-to-launch
exhibitions of leading artists, making it one of the first spaces in
the region to present international exhibitions of such a scale.
The Centre’s residencies programme is dedicated to facilitating the
production of knowledge and research, engaging and connecting
artists, curators and researchers from Singapore, Southeast Asia and
beyond, and across various disciplines. The Centre’s seven studios
support the artistic process in the most direct way – by giving the
time and locale to be fully engaged, and the access to an interesting
and immersive context to further the space for developing ideas.
NTU CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART SINGAPORE
Exhibitions:
Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
sat
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mar
2016
Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages, Part I (2004-2008), Still from Somewhere in May,
colour video with sound, 38mins. Copyright and courtesy of the artist.
1.00 — 4.00 PM
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Amar Kanwar (India)
11.00 AM —7.00 PM
EXHIBITIONS
Workshop and Screening of selected films
by Mark Nash, curator, writer, Visiting
Associate Professor at NTU CCA Singapore
and the School of Art, Design and Media
Nanyang Technological University (United
Kingdom/Singapore)
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
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 Joan 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.
Office & Research Centre:
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Singapore 108934
Residency Studios:
Blocks 37 & 38 Malan Road, Singapore 109452 & 109441
Office
Exhibitions
Email
For updates on exhibitions and programmes, visit
ntu.ccasingapore.org
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Instagram: @ntu_ccasingapore
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For more information on Art Day Out!,
visit the Gillman Barracks website: www.gillmanbarracks.com.
+65 6460 0300
+65 6339 6503
ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
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7.30 — 10.00 PM
2016
Screening of selected films by Mark Nash,
curator, writer, Visiting Associate Professor
at NTU CCA Singapore and the School of Art,
Design and Media Nanyang Technological
University (United Kingdom/Singapore)
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
Lives of Performers by Yvonne Rainer, USA, 1972, 90 min, English
Wind, Joan Jonas, USA, 1968, 5.37 min, Silent
Duet, Joan Jonas, USA, 1968, 4.25 min. English
Lives of Performers, the first feature film by Yvonne Rainer,
the choreographer and co-founder of the Judson Dance
Theater, explores the overlapping and at times, disjunctive
languages of cinema and performance. Developed from a
dance performance choreographed by Rainer, it plays with
generic conventions of melodrama to explore the dilemmas
of women struggling to define themselves in relation to
masculinist scripts.
Wind is a 1968 performance film. Cutting between snowy
fields and a raw seashore, Jonas focuses on a group of
performers moving through a windswept landscape. The
16mm film — silent, black and white, jerky, and sped-up —
evokes early cinema, while its content locates it in the spare
minimalism of the late 1960s.
Duet is a classic early video performance. In this seminal
exploration of the phenomenology of video as a mirror
and as “reality,” Jonas, face-to-face with her own recorded
image, performs a duet with herself.
wed
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mar
2016
Exhibition (de)Tour with Kenneth Dean,
Head of Chinese Studies Department,
National University of Singapore
(United States/Singapore)
PUBLIC
PROGRAMMES
MARCH
2016
7.30 — 9.00 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
Kenneth Dean will confront questions like “What happens in
the afterlife?”, “Do ghosts get bored and lonely?” and “Can
we plan what happens to our spirits when we die?” In the
course of the (de)Tour, Dean will elaborate on how Chinese
religion deals with ghosts through rituals and traditions.
NTU CCA Singapore Artist-in-Residence Zac Langdon-Pole,
8 Pieces, HD single channel digital film, 5 min 17 sec (still), 2015.
Courtesy of the artist.
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10.00 AM — 6.00 PM
2016
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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.
As places are limited, kindly register for the workshop at
NTUCCAEducation@ntu.edu.sg.
Exhibition (de)Tour with John Ascher,
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological
Science, National University of Singapore
(United States/Singapore)
7.30 — 9.00 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
wed
09
mar
7.30 — 9.00 PM
2016
Ascher will explore the mysterious world of bees, from cloakand-dagger cuckoos, night raptors, and origami masons, to
flesh-eating vultures. This talk will introduce a spectacular
range of unfamiliar morphologies and behaviours as well as
bee pollinators and explain how discoveries from research
expeditions reveal their secrets. Specimens of many of these
incredible bees will be available for viewing.
Contextualising Indonesian modern and
contemporary arts: A talk by Visiting Research
Fellow Yvonne Spielmann (Germany)
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
Samsui women migrated from Southern China to Singapore in the
early decades of the twentieth century to toil mainly as construction
workers. They were easily recognised through their distinctive red
headscarves, black tunic and black pants which formed the livery
that they wore to work every day. In the past few decades, these
women have formed the subject of a plethora of social memory
texts, ranging from art, literature, and popular history books to
various media outlets and community exhibitions. This talk presents
the different material forms through which Samsui women have
been remembered and merchandised, and addresses the politics of
remembering and forgetting.
Methods and approaches towards dewesternising discourse about Contemporary
Southeast Asian Arts: A workshop by Visiting
Research Fellow Yvonne Spielmann (Germany)
and Dr Wulan Dirgantoro (Singapore)
Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
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.
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mar
2016
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15
mar
2016
11.00 AM — 5.00 PM
2016
Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
Social Memory Making and the Samsui
Women: Objects, Heritage, Merchandisation:
A talk by Kelvin E.Y. Low, Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology, National University
of Singapore (Singapore)
6.00 — 7.30 PM
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Spaces of the Curatorial – Printed Matter(s):
Workshop by Regina (Maria) Möller, Visiting
Professor, NTU ADM (Germany)
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
Contemporary Indonesian art production is distinctive in its
thematic and formal diversity, a trait that has resulted from the
dynamic processes of colonial and postcolonial structures of
power. Visiting Research Fellow Yvonne Spielmann is interested
in how Indonesian arts of the present have emerged from a
syncretistic mixing of ethnic elements and are strongly imbued
with cultural and religious references. In this talk, Spielmann will
discuss the contexts underlying the development of modern
and contemporary arts in Indonesia, and how Indonesian
art newly interprets traditional techniques and materials and
marries them with Western influences and pop culture.
Heri Dono, A Maestro Affandi (detail), 2009. Courtesy of Dr Melani Setiawan.
In relation to Contextualising Indonesian modern and contemporary arts: A talk by
Visiting Research Fellow Yvonne Spielmann (Germany), 9 March 2016, 7.30 – 9.00pm.
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Kray CHEN (Singapore)
April – August 2016
The work of Kray Chen is re-focusing certain everyday behaviours in society.
By tapping into their absurd and futile characteristics, Chen challenges our ideas of
progress, value and pleasure in contemporary society. It is an intriguing reflection
of social, cultural and political performativity.
SVAY Sareth (Cambodia)
May 2016
The critical and cathartic practice of Sareth Svay is rooted in an autobiography of
war and resistance. By refusing both – historical particularity and voyeurism on
violence – his works traverse present and historical moments, drawing on processes
of survival, adventure, and ideas of power and futility.
Academic Programme
NTU offers a Master of Art (Research) and a Doctor of Philosophy through its
School of Art, Design and Media (ADM). Under this umbrella, the NTU CCA
Singapore aims to connect research on Spaces of the Curatorial in an expanded
notion of curating in connection to the diverse histories and infrastructural
specificities of the region and beyond.
The research-oriented MA & PhD programmes will provide students with the
opportunity to pursue independent research in the areas of curatorial studies,
curatorial practice and related fields.
TAN Pin Pin (Singapore)
May – September 2016
Questions concerning how people became who they are, how Singaporean identity
is/was constructed, or the importance of memory, archives and documentation in the
formation of identity spans through all of award-winning film director Tan Pin Pin’s work.
An Abstract, Speaking – A panel discussion by Artist-in-Residence Guo-Liang Tan
at Art Day Out, 19 March 2016. Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore.
NTU CCA Singapore’s Residencies programme is dedicated to facilitating knowledge
and research for and by established and emerging artists from Singapore and abroad.
It serves as a forum for cultural and artistic exchange in Southeast Asia, augmented
with public events ranging from open studio sessions, lectures, live performances,
and special projects in The Lab, NTU CCA Singapore’s space for curatorial
experimentation.
LOO Zihan (Singapore)
June – September 2016
The performances and films of Loo Zihan strive to reconcile the tension between
the ‘flesh’ of the performing body and the ‘bone’ of the archive. He emphasises the
labour and malleability of memory through various representational strategies that
include performance re-enactments, essay films and data visualisation.
CURATORS-IN-RESIDENCE
Corinne DISERENS (France)
Current
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Guo-Liang TAN (Singapore)
January – April 2016
Absence and abstraction are key questions that weave through all of Guo-Liang Tan’s
works, which spans from painting, to writing, and film. With this practice he aims to
negotiate the dynamics between the phenomenological and psychological as well
as the tensions between material and language.
Zul MAHMOD (Singapore)
February – April 2016
Coming from a classical training in sculpture, Mahmod’s work has expanded over the
last years and developed towards sculpted sound and live sound performances. His
work investigates aural architectures and how we respond to them.
Dennis TAN (Singapore)
February – April 2016
Working with found objects like heritage boats from the Southeast Asian region,
the artistic practice of Dennis Tan combines strains of conceptual art with questions
that aim towards an ecological and environmental discourse.
April 2016
Corinne Diserens is guest curator for the Taipei Biennial 2016 and currently serves as
Director of the erg, higher art and research academy in Brussels, Belgium. She has previously
curated notable exhibitions for artists Dieter Roth, Lygia Clark, and Marcel Broodthaers,
among others.
Pelin TAN (Turkey)
April 2016
Pelin Tan is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Mardin Artuklu University and
Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
A sociologist and art historian, Tan is involved in research-based artistic and architectural
projects that focus on the condition of labour, urban conflict and territorial politics.
Maria LIND (Sweden)
May 2016
Maria Lind is Artistic Director of the Gwangju Biennale 2016 and Director of Tensta
Konsthall, Stockholm. The former director of the graduate program at the Center
for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Lind is interested in exploring the formats and
methodologies connected with the contemporary art institution.
For full list of Artists and Curators-in-Residence, please visit
www.ntu.ccasingapore.org/residencies.
Zac LANGDON-POLE (New Zealand)
March – April 2016
Zac Langdon-Pole’s work straddles cross-cultural experience and with it he
examines the often overlooked, lyrical relationships between broader socio-cultural
processes, objects, images and individual people.
Haegue YANG (South Korea/Germany)
March – April 2016
Yang is known for her spatial installations that can involve performativity or language,
as well as condensed sonic and light components, that challenge our relation to
everyday objects and environments. Yang participated in dOCUMENTA 13, the Taipei
Biennale and represented Korea at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Julian “Togar” ABRAHAM (Indonesia)
April – June 2016
Oscillating between the position of an artist, musician and pseudo scientist, the work
of Togar – often expressed in complex algorithms – challenge the experiences in
how art, the environment, science and technology relate to one another and our
understanding of these usually distinct fields.
Residencies Highlights
Residencies: OPEN x Art Day Out!
Saturday, 14 May 2016, 2.00–7.00pm
Studios, Blocks 37 & 38 Malan Road
Residencies: OPEN offers a rare insight into the often-introverted sphere of the
artists’ studio.
Block 37, Studio #01-02
Block 37, Studio #01-03
Block 38, Studio#01-06
Block 38, Studio #01-07
Julian ‘Togar’ Abraham (Indonesia)
Kray Chen (Singapore)
Svay Sareth (Cambodia)
Tan Pin Pin (Singapore)
CALL FOR APPLICATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Spaces of the Curatorial, Curatorial Practice and Art in
Public Space & Critical Spatial Practice
Commencement date: 9 January 2017
Application deadline: 30 June 2016
For more information, please visit: www.adm.ntu.edu.sg/programmes
For enquiries, please contact: NTUCCAgraduateprog@ntu.edu.sg
Artist Resource Platform
RESEARCH & EDUCATION /
SPACES OF THE CURATORIAL
Research Fellowship Programme
NTU CCA Singapore’s research fellowship programme engages scholars and
researchers connected to the artistic field with the primary aim of collaborative
research across disciplines and various forms of knowledge production. NTU CCA
Singapore hosts visiting scholars and researchers of various disciplines whose
research areas address Singapore in relation to its position within a wider geography.
CURRENT VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW
APRIL–
JUNE 2016
Dr Marc GLÖDE (Germany)
Visiting Research Fellow, independent curator, critic, film scholar, and previously
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich
CURRENT VISITING FACULTY
NTU CCA Singapore’s Artist Resource Platform aims to provide local and visiting
curators, researchers and scholars with a point of entry into the work and practice
of local artists, independent art spaces and NTU CCA Singapore’s Artists-inResidence. The Platform currently has audio and visual material from over 90
artists, including interviews and talks.
For full list of artists in the Artist Resource Platform, please visit
www.ntu.ccasingapore.org/research/public-resource-centre.
Regina (Maria) MÖLLER (Germany)
Visiting Professor, artist, author, and previously Professor at Trondheim Academy of
Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (KiT/ NTNU)
Dr Mark NASH (United Kingdom)
Visiting Associate Professor, independent curator, writer, and former Professor and Head of
Department, Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art London (UK)
Research & Education Highlights
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road
Four Practices: Artist Resource Platform
Haegue Yang (South Korea/Germany)
Zac Langdon-Pole (New Zealand)
Zul Mahmod (Singapore)
Dennis Tan (Singapore)
6 – 12 April
13 – 19 April
20 – 26 April
27 April – 3 May
Unfolding over four weeks, the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
presents Four Practices, a display of resource material of current Artists-in-Residence.
Showcasing publications, audio and visual documentation, Four Practices provides an
entry point in understanding the artists’ diverse body of works and the complexity of
their practices.
Artist Resource Platform: activate!
10 May – 26 June 2016
Following Four Practices, the project Artist Resource Platform: activate! will be
presented in The Lab. Artist Resource Platform: activate! proposes different ways of
engagement with an archive through an unpacking of the artists boxes. Artists within
the Artist Resource Platform are given a platform to provide a deeper insight into
their artistic processes, allowing the audience different points of access and a more
holistic view of artistic production and research.
Courtesy of Regina (Maria) Möller.
Multi-layered Garments
The Vitrine, Block 43 Malan Road
On display in The Vitrine at NTU CCA Singapore are garments which are based on
the Samsui headscarf. These works have been created by participants of the Multilayered Garments workshop conducted by Galina Mihaleva, Assistant Professor at
NTU School of Art, Design & Media (ADM) where she teaches technology, art and
fashion.
The workshop took place at The Lab in February 2016 in the context of the research
project Interrogative Pattern – Text(ile) Weave by Regina (Maria) Möller, Visiting
Professor at NTU ADM in collaboration with NTU CCA Singapore.
Charles Lim Yi Yong, SEA STATE 2: as evil disappears
(Sajahat Buoy), 2014. Encrusted navigational buoy, diameter 1.6m x 5.1m.
Courtesy of the artist.
RESIDENCIES
EXHIBITIONS
RESIDENCIES
RESEARCH &
EDUCATION
�EXHIBITIONS
Incomplete Urbanism
29 October 2016 — 22 January 2017
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
For full listing of public programmes, please visit: www.ntu.ccasingapore.org
Incomplete Urbanism is an exhibition that serves as a laboratory of ideas, exploring
the indeterminacy and changeability of urban living. Borrowing its title from
eminent Singaporean architect William S.W. Lim’s book Incomplete Urbanism:
A Critical Urban Strategy for Emerging Economies (2011/2012), this project has
multiple components. Taking Lim’s practice and the initiatives of the Asian Urban
Lab as a point of departure, Incomplete Urbanism presents various researches
into the spatial and cultural aspects of city life. Set against historical narratives, this
exhibition seeks to create a dynamic space engaging urban issues, addressing how
urbanity is engineered, claimed / disclaimed, sensed and sensitised; and proposes
and discusses ways for imagining future habitats.
Charles Lim Yi Yong: SEA STATE
30 April — 10 July 2016
SEA STATE by artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, commissioned for the Singapore Pavilion for
the 56th Venice Biennale and curated by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, will be presented
at the NTU CCA Singapore from 30 April to 10 July 2016. For over a decade, Lim’s
ongoing project SEA STATE examines the biophysical, political and psychic contours
of Singapore through the visible and invisible lenses of the sea. SEA STATE is an
in-depth inquiry by an artist that scrutinises both man-made systems, opening
new perspectives on our everyday surroundings, from unseen landscapes and
disappearing islands to the imaginary boundaries of a future landmass.
To develop the Venice presentation, Lim was awarded a nine-month residency at the
NTU CCA Singapore in 2014/2015. In addition to the works exhibited at the Singapore
Pavilion, the exhibition in Singapore will be extended by the photographic series
inside\outside (2005), part of SEA STATE 1, and Lim’s short film all the lines flow out
which received a Special Mention at the 68th Venice Film Festival in 2011, making Lim
the first Singaporean to be honoured at the festival.
The presentation of SEA STATE and the symposium The Geopolitical and the
Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part II held
at NTU CCA Singapore are generously supported by the Ministry of Culture, Community
& Youth, National Arts Council Singapore and the Singapore Tourism Board.
Supported by:
Held in:
Amar Kanwar
30 July — 09 October 2016
The Research & Education programme aims to expand upon
the Spaces of the Curatorial, providing an open environment
connecting academic research with other forms of knowledge
production.
Contribute to NTU CCA Singapore
Illustration from Public Space in Urban Asia (2013) by William S.W. Lim.
Courtesy of William S.W. Lim and The Press Room.
Exhibition Highlights
Exhibition Highlights
Symposium: The Geopolitical and the Biophysical:
a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia
in context, Part II
Friday, 17 June 2016, 7.00 — 9.00 PM
National Gallery Singapore, Auditorium, 1 St. Andrew’s Road
Saturday, 18 June 2016, 9.30 AM — 6.00 PM
NTU CCA Singapore, The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
Southeast Asia as a geographical region and conceptual category, is a contested
entity. The possibilities and uncertainties in this region continue to pose unique social
and political challenges. Conceived in extension to SEA STATE, The Geopolitical and
the Biophysical: a structured conversation on Art and Southeast Asia in context, Part
II will attempt to address the multiple notions of the “Southeast Asia” and the various
issues surrounding its border, territories, dilemmas and anxieties.
Summit: The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia)
Thursday, 24 — Saturday, 26 November 2016
On the occasion of Incomplete Urbanism, NTU CCA Singapore will organise a
three-day summit titled The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia), extending what
is presented spatially in the exhibition. This summit provides a public platform for
cross dialogue and exchange between urban researchers, cultural producers, artists
and architects to, as William S.W. Lim says, “imagine the unimaginable”.
Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages, Part I (2004-2008), video still from Somewhere in May.
Courtesy of the artist.
NTU CCA Singapore engages with Spaces of the Curatorial as
its main field of inquiry. Through an exploration of Spaces of
the Curatorial and its potential, the Centre seeks to question
the future of “curating”, a term commonly associated with the
exhibition format. What are the infrastructures and modes of
artistic production in diverse cultural settings and in particular
throughout Southeast Asia now and in the future?
As a response to the shifts in artistic and cultural production
and the emergence of alternative curatorial models, the NTU
CCA Singapore encourages new ways of thinking in its research
and its various programmes. The goal of the Centre is to nurture
talent through artistic and creative experimentation and a
multidisciplinary approach that intertwines its three platforms:
exhibitions, residencies, and research & academic education.
Charles Lim Yi Yong, SEA STATE 6: capsize (2015), digital film still. Courtesy of the artist.
The NTU CCA Singapore presents the first solo exhibition in Southeast Asia of New
Delhi based artist Amar Kanwar. All of Kanwar’s projects are based on ongoing
research that takes a critical look at how political struggles are presented and
represented, and explore ways in which one can take an open-ended approach
towards archiving these struggles. Can we conceive another way of telling / seeing?
Kanwar, who is recognised for his complex, contemporary narratives that connect
intimate personal spheres of existence to larger social, political processes, has
exhibited extensively around the world, including at documenta (2002, 2007, and
2013), and at institutions such as the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2007), Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2012), No Country: Contemporary Art for South
and Southeast Asia part of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative at NTU CCA
Singapore (2014) and the Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai (2016).
SPACES OF THE
CURATORIAL
Your generous contributions support NTU CCA Singapore’s
internationally-acclaimed, research driven exhibitions, residencies
and extensive educational programmes that benefit the community
and the region. As a non-profit institution, your support is crucial in
the continuation of our unique programming that enables NTU CCA
Singapore to contribute to the local art scene and the development
of regional and international art infrastructures. Your contribution
to the NTU CCA Singapore matters, and if you are a taxpayer to
Singapore, your donation will enjoy a 250% deduction in 2016.
We believe that what we do here at the NTU CCA Singapore makes
a positive and tangible difference through art and we hope that you
will support us in achieving our aspirations.
For more information on how to donate to NTU CCA Singapore,
visit www.ntu.ccasingapore.org/support.
Located in Gillman Barracks, the NTU CCA Singapore is a national
research centre of Nanyang Technological University and is
supported by a grant from the Economic Development Board,
Singapore. The Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of
exhibitions, residencies, and research & academic education.
The NTU CCA Singapore positions itself as a space for critical
discourse and encourages new ways of thinking about Spaces of
the Curatorial in Southeast Asia and beyond. As a research centre,
it aims to provide visiting researchers and curators a comprehensive
study on the contemporary art ecosystem in Singapore and the
region. The Centre’s dynamic public programme serves to engage
with various audiences through lectures, workshops, open studios,
film screenings and Exhibition (de)Tours.
Since the Centre’s inauguration in October 2013, the NTU CCA
Singapore has presented several high-profile, first-to-launch
exhibitions of leading artists, making it one of the first spaces in
the region to present international exhibitions of such a scale.
The Centre’s residencies programme is dedicated to facilitating the
production of knowledge and research, engaging and connecting
artists, curators and researchers from Singapore, Southeast Asia and
beyond, and across various disciplines. The Centre’s seven studios
support the artistic process in the most direct way – by giving the
time and locale to be fully engaged, and the access to an interesting
and immersive context to further the space for developing ideas.
NTU CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART SINGAPORE
Exhibitions:
Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
Office & Research Centre:
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Singapore 108934
Residency Studios:
Blocks 37 & 38 Malan Road, Singapore 109452 & 109441
Office
Exhibitions
Email
+65 6460 0300
+65 6339 6503
ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
Free return shuttle bus from NTU ADM to NTU CCA Singapore on
Wednesdays and Fridays.
6.30pm: NTU ADM —> 6.40pm: NTU Admin Building (Fridays only)
—> NTU CCA Singapore
9.30pm: NTU CCA Singapore —> NTU ADM
For updates on exhibitions and programmes, visit
ntu.ccasingapore.org
facebook.com/ntu.ccasingapore
Instagram: @ntu_ccasingapore
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Artist Resource Platform: activate! II
Friday, 27 May, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road
Residencies: Studio Sessions
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Saturday, 28 May, 2.00 – 4.00pm
Studio #01-02, Block 37 Malan Road
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Screening of films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand),
01 artist and filmmaker. Selected and introduced by David
& Teh (Singapore) Assistant Professor, Department of English
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Language and Literature, National University of Singapore
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Wednesday, 1 June, 7.30 – 10.00pm
Friday, 3 June, 7.30 – 10.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
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Exhibition (de)Tour: Charles Darwin’s Sexy Barnacles by Dr
08 John van Wyhe (United Kingdom/Singapore), Senior Lecturer,
Department of Biological Sciences, Department of History, and
Fellow ofTembusu College, National University of Singapore
Wednesday, 8 June, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
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Friday, 10 June, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road
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PUBLIC
PROGRAMMES
Artist Resource Platform: activate! III
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Symposium: The Geopolitical and the Biophysical: a structured
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& Friday, 17 June, 7.00 – 9.00pm
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APRIL–
JUNE 2016
National Gallery Singapore, Auditorium, 1 St. Andrew’s Road
Saturday, 18 June, 9.30am – 6.00pm
NTU CCA Singapore, The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
Exhibition (de)Tour with Toh Hun Ping, artist and
sat
24 Robert Zhao Renhui, artist. Moderated by Khim Ong,
Curator, Exhibitions, NTU CCA Singapore (Singapore)
Friday, 24 June, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
sat
Workshop for Children
25 Gillman Barracks Art Day Out! x Children’s Season
july
Saturday, 25 June, 2.00 – 7.00pm
Gillman Barracks
For information about Art Day Out!, visit www.gillmanbarracks.com.
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Exhibition (de)Tour with Professor Lui Pao Chuen,
08 Adviser, National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s
Office. Moderated by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, curator,
SEA STATE (Singapore)
Friday, 8 July, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
For full details of the public programmes, visit
www.ntu.ccasingapore.org/events.
Image credit: Courtesy of Dennis Tan,
NTU CCA Singapore Artist-in-Residence
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Curator as X: The in between moments
Lecture and Screening by Li Zhenhua (China/
Switzerland), Curator, Film Sector, Art Basel
Hong Kong, in conversation with Dr Marc Glöde
(Germany), Visiting Research Fellow and film scholar
Friday, 1 April, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
Residencies: Insights
06 Screening of Video Trilogy (2004-2006) by Haegue
Yang (South Korea/Germany), Artist-in-Residence
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Wednesday, 6 April, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
WAS THERE SUCH A THING AS SOUTH-EAST ASIAN
08 CONCEPTUAL ART?
Talk by Tony Godfrey (United Kingdom/
The Philippines), Visiting Research Fellow
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Friday, 8 April 2016, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
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Residencies: Insights
13 Talk by Corinne Diserens (France/Switzerland/Belgium),
Curator-in-Residence and guest curator, Taipei Biennial 2016
Wednesday, 13 April, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
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15
Residencies: Studio Sessions
A reading by Zac Langdon-Pole (New Zealand),
Artist-in-Residence
Friday, 15 April, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road
fri
Expanding Filmic Spaces – Modifications in the
22 Perception of Filmic Spatiality
& Screening and Workshop of selected films by
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Dr Marc Glöde, Visiting Research Fellow
Friday, 22 April, 7.30 – 9.00pm
Saturday, 23 April, 1.00 – 4.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
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Contemporary Art Magazines: A Critical Writing
Reading Group
apr
Mondays, 25 April, 30 May and 27 June, 7.00 – 8.30pm
Office & Research Centre, Block 6 Lock Road
For more information and RSVP, please contact
NTUCCAeducation@ntu.edu.sg
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Behind the Scenes of SEA STATE with Charles Lim
Yi Yong, artist; Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, curator;
and Yap Seok Hui, technical manager (Singapore)
Wednesday, 27 April, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Single Screen and The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
Icon-I-City
Talk by Dr Marc Glöde, Visiting Research Fellow
Wednesday, 4 May, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
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Exhibition (de)Tour: One Belt, One Road: Critical Accounts fri
by Jegan Vincent de Paul (Canada/Singapore), researcher 06
and PhD candidate, NTU CCA Singapore and NTU ADM
Friday, 6 May, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
Workshop for Teachers and Educators led by Kelly
Reedy (United States/Singapore), artist and educator
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Saturday, 7 May, 10.00am – 12.00pm
Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road
To RSVP, please email NTUCCAeducation@ntu.edu.sg
IT IS DIFFICULT
Talk by Alfredo Jaar (Chile), artist, architect and filmmaker
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Wednesday, 11 May, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
NTU CCA Singapore at Art Day Out!
Gillman Barracks, 14 May 2016
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Residencies: OPEN as part of Art Day Out!
2.00 – 8.00pm | Studios, Blocks 37 & 38 Malan Road
Workshop: The Making of Singapore Pavilion at Venice
Biennale with Sophia Loke, Assistant Director, Sector
Development (Visual Arts), National Arts Council and
June Yap, independent curator and Curator, Singapore
Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, 2011 (Singapore)
1.00 – 4.00pm | Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road
Residencies: Studio Sessions
Fermentation Madness, Part I: Workshop by Julian
‘Togar’ Abraham (Indonesia), Artist-in-Residence
4.00 – 6.00pm | Studio #01-02, Block 37 Malan Road
For information about Art Day Out!, visit www.gillmanbarracks.com.
Artist Resource Platform: activate! I
Wednesday, 18 May, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road
Residencies: Insights
Talk by Maria Lind (Sweden), Curator-in-Residence
and Artistic Director, Gwangju Biennale 2016
Tuesday, 24 May, 7.30 – 9.00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
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For full details of the public programmes, visit
www.ntu.ccasingapore.org/events.
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Q U A R T E R LY P R O G R A M M E « A 3 po s ter »
1. A6 flyer/cover
2. Backcover/pocket
3. Unfold
letter fold
4. Unfold
5. A3 poster
A3 Poster folded down to A6 — creating a letter fold flyer with a pocket on the backside
to insert the monthly pubilc programme or other A6 material, such as event postcards, etc.
�Q U A R T E R LY P R O G R A M M E « A 3 po s ter »
�148,5 cm
FOLD SPECIFICATIONS
SHOWN ON POSTER SIDE
102,5 cm
74,25 cm
74,25 cm
100 cm
Due to the letter fold (displacement of paper) the two panels on the right
are reduced in width by 2.5 cm /5cm
105 cm
105 cm
�“ I f a cri m e continues to occur
re g ardless of the enor m ous e v idence a v ailable
then is the cri m e in v isible or
the e v idence in v isible or are both
v isible but not seen ? ”
Amar Kanwar
A m a r K a n w a r , A Love Story (2010), digital film still.
Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
A m ar K anwar
T h e S o v e r e i g n F o r e st
I n collaboration with
S udhir P attnaik / S a m adrusti and S herna D astur
3 0 J ul y – 9 O ctober 2 0 1 6
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
Amar Kanwar has been filming the industrial interventions that have
reshaped and permanently destroyed parts of Odisha’s landscape — a
battleground on issues of development and displacement since the
1990s. The resulting conflicts between local communities, the govern
ment, and corporations over the use of agricultural lands, forests, rivers
and minerals, have led to an ongoing regime of violence that is un
predictable and often invisible. A long-term commitment of Kanwar, The
Sovereign Forest initiates a creative response to the understanding of crime,
politics, human rights and ecology. The validity of poetry as evidence in
a trial, the discourse on seeing, and the determination of self, all come
together as a constellation of films, texts, books, photographs, objects,
seeds and processes.
C urators :
U te Meta B auer ,
Founding Director
Deputy Director, Exhibitions, Residencies
& Public Programmes
Ma g dalena Ma g iera , Curator, Outreach & Education
K hi m O n g ,
S pecial P roject
T h e H a z e : AN IN Q U IR Y
1 2 A u g ust – 2 5 S epte m ber 2 0 1 6
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road
The current air pollution crisis affecting Southeast Asia is called the haze.
This special research project at The Lab by a trans-disciplinary group is
open to an interested public audience. It will explore Kanwar’s working
methods, the potential of artistic language and the act of collaboration
to understand and engage in a situation of trans-local relevance.
PUBLIC
P R O G R A MM E S
A m a r K a n w a r , The Scene of Crime (2011). Installation view of
The Sovereign Forest, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany (2012).
Photo credit: Henrik Stromberg. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.
Photo credit: Amar Kanwar. Image courtesy of the artist.
N T U C entre for
C onte m porar y
A rt S in g apore
Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
T E L +65 6339 6503
TOURS
R esidencies S tudios
Exhibition tours led by NTU CCA Singapore’s curators
every first Friday of the month, 7.00pm, Block 43 Malan Road
Blocks 37 & 38 Malan Road,
Singapore 109452 & 109441
ntu.ccasingapore.org
ntu.ccasingapore
@ntu_ccasingapore
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Singapore 108934
T E L +65 6460 0300�
E m ail ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
Free Admission to exhibitions and
public programmes
L ocated at
O ffice & R esearch C entre
For regular school tours, please contact
ntuccaeducation@ntu.edu.sg
J U LY —
SEPTEMBER
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E xhibitions
Held every Wednesday and Friday evenings.
�EXHIBITIONS
Since the Centre’s inauguration in October 2013, it has featured
several high profile, first-to-launch exhibitions of leading artists,
making it one of the first spaces in the region to install international
presentations of such scale. NTU CCA Singapore’s curatorial programme embraces diverse artistic production in all its diverse media
with a commitment to critical debates in and through visual culture.
The exhibition takes as its core Lim’s latest collaborative model, the Asian
Urban Lab, from which key ideas are extended and responded to by several
who had been commissioned for the exhibition, including smell researcher
and artist Sissel Tolaas, film scholar and curator Dr Marc Glöde, researcher
and curator Shirley Surya, research scientist and curator Dr Etienne Turpin.
Throughout the duration of the exhibition, “activators” from a variety of disci
plines will intervene into the space and respond or interact with key ideas,
changing the fixed format of an exhibition into a participatory “living city-lab”.
S U MM I T
current
A m ar K anwar
T h e S o v e r e i g n F o r e st
I n collaboration with
S udhir P attnaik / S a m adrusti and S herna D astur
3 0 J ul y – 9 O ctober 2 0 1 6
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
Details overleaf
UPCOMING
Incomplete Urbanism:
a tt e m p ts o f c r i t i c a l
spatial practice
2 9 O ctober 2 0 1 6 – 1 5 J anuar y 2 0 1 7
This open-ended exhibition serves as a laboratory of ideas, exploring the
indeterminacy and changeability of urban living. Borrowing its title from em
inent Singaporean architect William S.W. Lim’s book Incomplete Urbanism: A
Critical Urban Strategy for Emerging Economies (2011/2012), this project has
multiple components. Taking Lim’s practice and the initiatives of the Asian
Urban Lab as a point of departure, Incomplete Urbanism presents various
researches into the spatial, cultural and social aspects of city life. Set against
historical narratives, this exhibition seeks to create a dynamic space engaging
urban issues, addressing how urbanity is engineered, claimed / disclaimed,
sensed and sensitised; and proposes and discusses ways of imagining future
habitats.
RESEARCH &
EDUCATION
T h e I m p o ss i b i l i ty o f M a p p i n g
( U r b a n As i a )
The Artist Resource Research Platform contains visual material and audio recordings of talks from over 90 local artists, NTU CCA Singapore’s
Artists-in-Residence and independent art spaces. This archive provides
local and visiting curators, scholars and writers, as well as an interested
public, a point of entry to contemporary artistic practice.
R esearch F ellowship P ro g ra m m e
The Centre is hosting scholars and researchers engaged in the artistic field,
fostering scholarship and inquiries across disciplines that relate to the Centre’s
topics and thematic clusters.
The Centre’s residencies programme is dedicated to facilitate
the production of knowledge and research, engaging and connecting artists, curators and researchers from Singapore,
Southeast Asia and beyond, and across various disciplines. Its
seven studios support the artistic process in the most direct
way – by giving the time and locale to be fully engaged, and the
access to an interesting and immersive context to further the
space for developing ideas.
1 4 , 2 4 – 2 6 N o v e m ber 2 0 1 6
Organised on the occasion of Incomplete Urbanism, the summit The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) extends what is presented spatially, and pro
vides a public platform for cross dialogue and exchange between urban re
searchers, cultural producers, artists and architects. Responding to William S.W
Lim’s “imagining the unimaginable”, the keynote lecture will be by Leon van
Shaik, Innovative Professor of Architecture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Tech
nology (RMIT), Australia. Speakers include Jeremy Chia, researcher at Asian
Urban Lab and AA Asia; Dr Lilian Chee, Assistant Professor, National Univer
sity of Singapore; Dr Marc Glöde, Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore; Professor Nikos Papastergiadis, Professor, University of
Melbourne, Australia; Dr Etienne Turpin, Research Scientist, Urban Risk Lab,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States.
Illustration from Public
Space in Urban Asia (2013)
by William S.W. Lim. Courtesy
of WIlliam S.W.Lim and
The Press Room.
C all for application :
Master of Arts (Research) and PhD, deadline: 15 November 2016.
For more information: www.adm.ntu.edu.sg/programmes.
Visitin g F acult y
PUBLIC RESOURCE CENTRE
RESIDENCIES
(Germany), Visiting Scholar
Independent curator, critic, film scholar, and previously Assistant Professor,
Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
D r Mark N A S H (United Kingdom), Visiting Associate Professor
Independent curator, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Film, Media and
Cultural Studies, Birkbeck University of London, and former Professor and
Head of Department, Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art
London, United Kingdom
R e g ina ( Maria ) M Ö L L E R (Germany), Visiting Professor
Artist, author, and previously Professor at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (KiT/NTNU), Norway
DR MARC GLÖDE
C U R R E N T F ellows
D r E tienne T U R P I N (Canada/Indonesia)
Research Scientist, Urban Risk Lab, School of Architecture & Planning,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
S issel T O L A A S (Norway/Germany)
Smell Researcher, artist and founder of SMELL RE_searchLab Berlin, Germany
A rtists - in - R esidence
K ra y C H E N (Singapore)�
A pril – A u g ust 2 0 1 6
Challenging contemporary ideas of progress and value, Chen offers an intrigu
ing reflection of the futility and absurdity of certain everyday behaviours.
T A N P in P in (Singapore)�
Ma y – S epte m ber 2 0 1 6
The work of the award-winning film director questions the construction of Sin
gaporean identity and the importance of memory, documentation and archives.
L O O Z ihan (Singapore)�
J une – S epte m ber 2 0 1 6
Using various representational strategies, Loo strives to reconcile the tension
between the ‘flesh’ of the performing body and the ‘bone’ of the archive.
D uto H A R D O N O (Indonesia)�
J une – A u g ust 2 0 1 6
Working with a range of media, Hardono is inspired by various sources,
such as pop culture, conceptual art and anti-art movement.
X U T an (China)�
J une – A u g ust 2 0 1 6
Xu’s ongoing project investigates the social climate and values of contem
porary China through a high-tech analysis of individuals’ vocabulary.
B o W A N G (China/United States)�
A u g ust – S epte m ber 2 0 1 6
Wang is interested in notions of space in politics and uses sand as a meta
phorical and investigative tool to trace its role in the state’s development.
A ntariksa (Indonesia)�
A u g ust – S epte m ber 2 0 1 6
Antariksa is a founding member of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogya
karta whose research aims to introduce an alternate global perspective on
trans-Asian art collectivism.
SPACES OF THE CURATORIAL
The Centre seeks to question the future of “curating”, a term
commonly associated with the exhibition format. What are the
infrastructures and modes of presenting and discussing artistic
production in diverse cultural settings and in particular throughout Southeast Asia’s vastly changing societies?
NTU CCA Singapore’s current exhibition spaces, designed by artist
and curator Fareed Armaly, respond to this curatorial framework
to unfold different juxtaposed formats.
T h e E x h i b i t i o n H a l l is the main space of curatorial engagement.
T h e L a b serves as a platform presenting research-in-progress.
T h e S i n g l e S c r e e n features moving image, film programmes
and presentations.
T h e V i t r i n e is a window display for spontaneous encounters
between objects and a transient viewer.
T h e S e m i n a r R o o m is dedicated to education and workshops to
directly engage with audiences.
A tokena M A L I N D A (Kenya/The Netherlands)� A u g ust – O ctober 2 0 1 6
Working across a diverse range of media, Malinda’s inquiry into the
hybridity of African identity contests notions of authenticity, gender and
sexuality.
H O R ui A n (Singapore)�
S epte m ber – D ece m ber 2 0 1 6
Ho is an artist and writer who investigates into images; their sites of
emergence, transmission and disappearance within contemporary visual
culture.
H e m an C H O N G (Singapore)� S epte m ber 2 0 1 6 – F ebruar y 2 0 1 7
As an artist, curator and writer, Chong examines philosophies and meth
ods of individuals/communities, adapting his research into installations,
situations or texts.
J ason W E E (Singapore)�
S epte m ber 2 0 1 6 – J anuar y 2 0 1 7
Founder of artist space Grey Projects, Wee’s visual and written work
favours polyphony over singularity, in particular ideas in architectures
and idealism.
C urators and
W riters - in - R esidence
Martin G E R M A N N (Germany/Belgium)�
A u g ust 2 0 1 6
Germann is Senior Curator at S.M.A.K., the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ghent, Belgium and regular contributor to exhibition catalogues and maga
zines.
A nne S Z E F E R K A R L S E N (Norway)�
S epte m ber 2 0 1 6
Szefer Karlsen is a curator, writer, editor and current Associate Professor
for MA Curatorial Practice, Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway.
GILLMAN BARRAC K S
4 t h ANNIVER S AR Y CELEBRA T ION S
R E S I D E N C I E S : OPEN
Saturday, 24 September 2016, 2.00 – 7.00pm
Residencies Studios, Blocks 37 & 38 Malan Road
T H E N T U C entre for
C onte m porar y A rt S in g apore
Located in Gillman Barracks, the NTU Centre for Contemporary
Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) is a national research centre of Nanyang Technological University and is supported by a
grant from the Economic Development Board, Singapore. The
Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of exhibitions ,
residencies , research and acade m ic education , engaging in knowledge production and dissemination. The NTU CCA
Singapore positions itself as a space for critical discourse and
encourages new ways of thinking about Spaces of the Curatorial in Southeast Asia and beyond. The Centre’s dynamic public
programmes serve to engage with various audiences through
lectures, workshops, open studios, film screenings and Exhibition (de)Tours. As a research centre, it aims to provide visiting
researchers and curators a comprehensive study on the contemporary art ecosystem in Singapore and the region.
o present international exhibitions of such a scale.
CONTRIBUTE TO
NTU CCA SINGAPORE
and taxpayers to Singapore enjoy a 250% tax deduction in 2016.
Visit ntu.ccasingapore.org/support for more information
NTU CCA SINGAPORE &
N T U A D M S H A R E D P ro g ra m m e
2015—2016
A cade m ic P ro g ra m m e
Under NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media (ADM’s) Master of A rt
( R esearch ) and D octor of P hilosoph y programmes, NTU CCA
Singapore offers a stream in Spaces of the Curatorial. The research-oriented
MA & PhD programmes will provide students with the opportunity to pursue
independent research in the new ADM research areas of Museum Studies and
Curatorial Practice and Art in Public Space & Critical Spatial Practice.
Artist Resource Platform: activate! III at The Lab with Melanie Pocock, Assistant
Curator, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, and Michael Lee, artist, 10 June 2016.
Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore.
P L A C E . L A B O U R . C A P I T A L . is an open-ended research and curatorial programme spanning over two years addressing how labour,
routes of migration, and flows of global capital impact upon various scales. This framework intertwines exhibitions, residencies,
research & education and takes Singapore t he world’s second
—
largest trading post and an economic epicentre of Southeast Asia
—
a s a ‘locale’ and point of departure.”
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSIT Y
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CURRENT EXHIBITION
INCOMPLETE URBANISM: AT TEMPTS
OF CRITICAL SPATIAL PRACTICE
Interior of People’s Park Complex, 1973.
Designed by Design Partnership (succeeded by DP Architects).
Courtesy DP Architects.
29 OCTOBER 2016 – 29 JANUARY 2017
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
On the occasion of the upcoming 85th birthday of eminent
Singaporean architect and thinker William S. W. Lim, the Centre
presents Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial
Practice, an open-ended exhibition that serves as a laboratory of
ideas, exploring the indeterminacy and changeability of urban
living. Borrowing its title from Lim’s book Incomplete Urbanism:
A Critical Urban Strategy for Emerging Economies, 2012, this
multifaceted project takes his practice and the initiatives of the
Asian Urban Lab that Lim started with colleagues in 2003, as a
point of departure. It presents various researches into the spatial,
cultural and social aspects of city life according to the publications
Lim was involved with.
Acknowledging Lim’s contributions as a prolifi c urban theorist
and catalyst of ideas, whose vision asks that we reconsider the
traditions of Asian architecture for the “contemporary vernacular”,
Incomplete Urbanism is a direct response to his critical ideas –
a space is generated to encourage participation and agency.
Lim’s key ideas will be explored by commissioned projects
from several contributors, including D R M A R C G L Ö D E (Germany/
Singapore), film curator, Visiting Scholar, School of Art, Design and
Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; S H I R L E Y
S U R Y A (Indonesia/Hong Kong), Associate Curator for Design and
Architecture, M+, Hong Kong and NTU CCA Singapore Visiting
Research Fellows; D R E T I E N N E T U R P I N (Canada/Indonesia),
Research Associate, Urban Risk Lab, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, United States; and S I S S E L T O L A A S (Norway/
Germany), smell researcher and artist.
Incomplete Urbanism seeks to present a dynamic space to
engage urban issues, through discussions, debates, a programme
on classic Singapore fi lms, workshops and other collective efforts.
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KHIM ONG,
EXHIBITION DESIGN
L A U R A M I O T T O , Associate Professor, School of Art,
Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
CONFERENCE
14, 25 – 26 NOVEMBER 2016
PROJECTS, WORKSHOPS, ACTIVITIES
13 – 22 JANUARY 2017
NTU CENTRE FOR
CONTEMPORARY
ART SINGAPORE
SUMMIT
19 – 21 JANUARY 2017
Wednesday and Friday evenings.
For updates, please visit ntu.ccasingapore.org/events.
EXHIBITIONS
TOURS
Sissel Tolaas, SmellScape Singapore 2016 is supported
by International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
A Parallel Project of Singapore Biennale 2016
Exhibition tours led by NTU CCA Singapore’s curators
every first Friday of the month, 7.00pm.
RESIDENCIES STUDIOS
Blocks 37 and 38 Malan Road,
Singapore 109452 and 109441
Media Supporters:
For booking of school and group tours, please contact
ntuccaeducation@ntu.edu.sg
RESEARCH CENTRE AND OFFICE
CITIES FOR PEOPLE NTU CCA IDEAS FEST 2016/2017
In partnership with:
ntu.ccasingapore.org
ntu.ccasingapore
@ntu_ccasingapore
Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
T E L +65 6339 6503
Supported by Gillman Barracks
Programme Offi ce
Additional funding by:
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Singapore 108934
T E L +65 6460 0300
E M A I L ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
Free admission to exhibitions and
public programmes
OCTOBER —
DECEMBER
Printed in October 2016
SUPPORTED BY
LOCATED AT
PUBLIC
PROGRAMMES
�EXHIBITIONS
CONFERENCE
Since the Centre’s inauguration in October 2013, it has featured
leading artists for the first time in Southeast Asia, making it one of
the spaces in the region to present exhibitions of international scale.
NTU CCA Singapore’s curatorial programme embraces artistic production in all its diverse media with a commitment to critical debates in and through visual culture.
14, 25 – 26 NOVEMBER 2016
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF
MAPPING (URBAN ASIA)
KEYNOTE LECTURE IN HONOUR OF WILLIAM S. W. LIM:
Contesting Modernity in Asia: reaching towards a Non-West
Modernist Past; reflections on the thinking of William Lim
14 NOVEMBER 2016
RESIDENCIES
The Centre’s Residencies Programme is dedicated to facilitate
the production of knowledge and research by engaging and
connecting artists, curators, and researchers of various disciplines from around the world. Its seven studios support the artistic process in the most direct way: they provide artists with
the time and locale to pursue their research-based practice and
grant them access to an interesting and immersive context to
further the development of new ideas.
CURRENT
URA Function Hall, Level 5, The URA Centre, 45 Maxwell Road
By Professor Leon van Schaik (South Africa/Australia), Innovation Professor of
Architecture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia.
INCOMPLETE URBANISM: AT TEMPTS
OF CRITICAL SPATIAL PRACTICE
CONFERENCE
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
29 OCTOBER 2016 – 29 JANUARY 2017
25 – 26 NOVEMBER 2016
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
Details Overleaf
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
Imagining the Unimaginable, panel conceived and chaired by William
S. W. Lim (Singapore). Mid-Century Modern: Forms and Spaces in Cities extends the debate to the wider Southeast Asian region and is
chaired by Roger Nelson (Australia/Cambodia), independent curator.
H O R U I A N (Singapore)�
SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2016
An artist, writer, and researcher, Ho investigates images and their sites of emergence, transmission and disappearance within contemporary visual culture.
H E M A N C H O N G (Singapore)� S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 6 – F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 7
Being an artist but also a writer, Chong interrogates the multiple roles of
written and visual narratives in our everyday life, making works that sit at the
intersection between image, text, and performance.
J A S O N W E E (Singapore)�
SEPTEMBER 2016 – JANUARY 2017
Founder of the artist-run space Grey Projects, Wee’s research explores issues
related to architecture, idealism, and unexplored futures creating a polyphonic interpretation of specific histories and places.
A R I N R U N G J A N G (Thailand)�
OCTOBER – NOVEMBER 2016
The practice of Arin is deeply intertwined with Southeast Asian histories,
memories, and migration and reflects on the way in which social and
political transformations shape individual lives.
T A M A R A W E B E R (United States)�
OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2016
New York-based artist Weber works with film, photography, and performance experimenting possible collaborations between architecture,
writing, and visual arts.
U U D A M T R A N N G U Y E N (Vietnam)� N O V E M B E R – D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 6
Focusing on the role and impact of human progress on rural and urban spaces,
Nguyen’s interdisciplinary practice reflects on contemporary life in Vietnam.
UPCOMING
THE MAKING OF AN INSTITUTION
11 FE B RUARY – 7 M AY 2017
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
Three years since the official inauguration of the NTU CCA Singapore, the
Centre reflects on its recent past in the format of a “public report”. While
conventionally such format is an official written narrative, the Centre’s report will take shape in its exhibition spaces through the language of the
performative, the discursive and the archival. This processual self-evaluation will culminate in a publication gathering the voices of all artists, curators, researchers, and academics who have contributed to the making of
the institution.
PROJECTS, WORKSHOPS AND ACTIVITIES
13 – 22 JANUARY 2017
Gillman Barracks, various locations
Titled CITIES FOR PEOPLE, this pilot edition comprises a wide diversity
of events. Artists, architects, designers bring to life some of the ideas
through collaborative experiences. Issues of sustainability, food, biodiversity, energy and water resources will be addressed in various parts
of the Gillman Barracks arts precinct.
SUMMIT
19 – 21 JANUARY 2017
Gillman Barracks, various locations
A summit will take a broader look at spatial practices on the social,
cultural, and political constructions of space.
RESEARCH AND
EDUCATION
PUBLIC RESOURCE CENTRE
The Artists Resource Platform contains visual material and audio recordings of talks from over 90 Singapore based artists, NTU CCA Singapore’s
Artists-in-Residence and independent art spaces in Singapore. This archive provides local and visiting curators, scholars and writers, as well as
an interested public, a point of entry to contemporary artistic practice.
NEW RELEASES
PUBLICATIONS
COLL ABORATIONS
READER
THEATRICAL FIELDS:
CRITICAL STRATEGIES IN
PERFORMANCE, FILM, AND VIDEO
RELEASE SEPTEMBER 2016
PUBLISHERS
Umeå
NTU CCA Singapore, König Books, London, and Bildmuseet,
Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu
EDITORS
AUDIO PUB LIC ATION
C ALL FOR APPLIC ATIONS
NTU CCA SINGAPORE AND
NTU ADM SHARED ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
Under NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media’s (ADM) M A S T E R O F A R T
( R E S E A R C H ) and D O C T O R O F P H I L O S O P H Y programmes, NTU CCA
Singapore offers a stream in Spaces of the Curatorial. Deadline: 15 November
2016. For more information: www.adm.ntu.edu.sg/programmes.
TOMÁS SARACENO:
ARACHNID ORCHESTRA. JAM SESSIONS
SOUNDCLOUD RELEASE 28 OCTOBER 2016
PUBLISHER
NTU CCA Singapore
EDITORS
Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu
READER
SouthEastAsia:
SPACES OF THE CURATORIAL
JAHRESRING 63
ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECT
RELEASE 20 NOVEMBER 2016
THE HAZE: AN INQUIRY
E D I T O R S Ute Meta Bauer and Brigitte Oetker
Lee Weng Choy. Edited on behalf of the Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy at the Federation of
German Industries, in collaboration with NTU CCA Singapore.
This research project inspired by Amar Kanwar’s The Sovereign Forest
references Amar’s artistic approach and brought together people from
different disciplines in a focus group that takes the haze situation in
Southeast Asia as the main topic for investigation. These include a research scientist, theatre director, community leader, writer, tech consultant, co-founder of a hackerspace, activist, designer and curator, geographer, architect, and postgraduate student.
PUBLISHER
Sternberg Press
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT
Theatrical Fields: Critical Strategies in
Performance, Film, and Video, published by
NTU CCA Singapore, König Books, London, and
Bildmuseet, Umeå.
TBA21-ACADEMY
THE CURRENT CONVENING #2
13 – 16 DECEMBER 2016
Fort Kochi, Kerala, India
The Current is a three-year exploratory fellowship programme, which
aims to engage with issues of climate change and its impact on the
oceans. The Current consists of research expeditions and convenings
that are led by two Expedition Leaders: Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia, Director and Chief Curator, The Mistake Room. Following the first
Convening held in Kingston, Jamaica in March 2016, the second Convening will take place during the opening days of the Kochi-Muziris
Biennale 2016. This multi format gathering is dedicated to the oceans,
with a focus on issues such as ancestral knowledge and contemporary
science, ethics of exploration, legal frameworks, processes of image
and knowledge-making, sonic oceans, storytelling, the oceans as resource and habitat.
S H I M U R A B R O S (Japan/Germany)� N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 6 – J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 7
Drawing from their interest in the exchange between light and matter,
the Berlin-based duo create works that incorporate elements of new
media sculpture, installation, and avant-garde filmmaking.
S I R E N J U N G (South Korea)�
DECEMBER 2016 – FEBRUARY 2017
In the last seven years, Jung has focused her research on gender relations in Yeongsung Gukgeuk, the Korean traditional opera popular in the
1940s, questioning its binary genre system.
C U R AT O R S A N D W RI T E R S -I N-RE S I D E N C E
B I N N A C H O I (South Korea/Netherlands)�
OCTOBER 2016
Based in Utrecht and Amsterdam, Binna Choi is Director of Casco –
Office for Art, Design and Theory. She has recently curated the 11th
Gwangju Biennale The Eighth Climate (What does art do?).
D R H I L D E G U N D A M A N S H A U S E R (Austria)�
NOVEMBER 2016
Art historian, curator, and writer, Amanshauser is Director of the Salzburg
International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria.
M E C H T I L D W I D R I C H (Austria/United States)�
NOVEMBER 2016
Author of Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art
(2014), the scholar and curator, Widrich is Assistant Professor, Art History,
Theory and Criticism at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States.
M A R T I N G E R M A N N (Germany/Belgium)�
DECEMBER 2016
Since 2012, Martin Germann is Senior Curator at Stedelijk Museum voor
Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgium.
THE LIBRARY OF UNREAD BOOKS
BY H E M A N C H O N G A N D RE N É E S TA A L
SEPTEMBER 2016 – FEBRUARY 2017
Every Friday, 12.00pm – 12.00am, Studio #01-07, Block 38 Malan Road
G I L L M A N B A R R A C K S A R T D AY O U T
SATURDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2016
RESIDENCIES OPEN
2.00 – 7.00pm, Residencies Studios, Blocks 37 and 38 Malan Road
CURATOR-LED EXHIBITION TOURS
3.00pm and 5.00pm, The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
THE NTU CENTRE FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART SINGAPORE
Located in Gillman Barracks, the NTU Centre for Contemporary
Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) is a national research centre of Nanyang Technological University and is supported by a
grant from the Economic Development Board, Singapore. The
Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of E X H I B I T I O N S ,
R E S I D E N C I E S , R E S E A R C H A N D A C A D E M I C E D U C A T I O N , engaging in knowledge production and dissemination. The NTU CCA
Singapore positions itself as a space for critical discourse and
encourages new ways of thinking about Spaces of the Curatorial in Southeast Asia and beyond. The Centre’s dynamic public
programmes serve to engage with various audiences through
lectures, workshops, open studios, film screenings and Exhibition (de)Tours. As a research centre, it aims to provide visiting
researchers and curators a comprehensive study on the contemporary art ecosystem in Singapore and the region.
NTU CCA SINGAPORE
ONLINE BENEFIT AUCTION
IN COLL ABORATION WITH PADDLE8 (PADDLE8.COM)
10 – 14 DECEMBER 2016
NTU CCA Singapore will be organising its first online benefit auction
with auctioneer Paddle8 from 10 – 14 December 2016 that will feature
works of art donated by respected local and international artists who
have collaborated with the Centre’s residencies or exhibitions programmes since it opened in October 2013. For more information on
the artists and online benefit auction, please contact:
N O R J U M A I Y A H , Assistant Director, Communications and Development
E M A I L norj@ntu.edu.sg T E L +65 6460 0310
2015—2016
P L A C E . L A B O U R . C A P I T A L . is an open-ended research and curatorial programme spanning over two years addressing how
labour, routes of migration, and flows of global capital impact
upon various scales. This framework intertwines exhibitions,
residencies, research & education and takes Singapore the
—
world’s second largest trading post and an economic epicentre of Southeast Asia — a s a ‘locale’ and point of departure.
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSIT Y
�
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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EX H IBI T IO N
THE MAKING OF AN INSTITUTION
1 1 FEB R U A R Y – 7 M A Y 2 0 1 7
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
The role of a contemporary art institution is not limited to the pre
sentation of art: it feeds off and nurtures the cultural ecosystem it
belongs to through a complex series of actions that often reside in
the realm of the immaterial.
Established in 2013, the NTU CCA Singapore embodies the complexity of a contemporary art institution in times of knowledge economy and global art. The Centre’s inaugural programme Free Jazz
addressed the foundational question “What can this institution be?”
through improvisation and free play. Three years later, new questions
are to be raised: What is the role of the NTU CCA Singapore within the
local, regional, and global cultural landscape? How does such an
institution contribute to knowledge production? What are the criteria
to evaluate its achievements, impact, and outreach? Appropriating
the format and language of a “public report”, the Centre revisits its
own process of institutional building. It looks back into its recent past
in order to shape its near future. While the format of a public report
is conventionally employed to deliver an official written narrative, the
Centre’s report will unfold in the exhibition space through the languages of the performative, the discursive, and the archival. The project engages the Centre’s three main pillars — Exhibitions, Residencies,
Research and Academic Education — bringing to a close the overarching curatorial narrative Place.Labour.Capital that has framed its
activities since 2013.
The Making of an Institution is divided into four main sections that
borrow from the structure of a public report: Reason to Exist: The
Directors’ Review; Ownership, Development, and Aspirations; Artistic
Research; Communication and Mediation. These sections capture
different moments in the development of the institution connecting
artistic projects and discursive manifestations in a seamless display.
Challenging the format of an exhibition, The Making of an Institution
creates a communal space where projects and works developed by
Artists-, Curators-in-Residence, and Research Fellows coexist with ongoing series of talks, screenings, performances, and workshops.
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and T H A O - N G U Y E N P H A N ; H A M R A A BB A S , K R A Y C H E N ,
JAMES JACK, ATO MALINDA, ARIN RUNGJANG,
S H I M U R A B R O S , A N O C H A S U W I C H A K O R N PO N G , M O N A
V A T A M A N U and F L O R I N T U DO R , BO W A N G , T A M A R A
W EBE R , J A S O N W EE , O T T Y W ID A S A R I , and L OO Z I H A N ;
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For updates, please visit ntu.ccasingapore.org/events.
N T U C e ntr e f o r
C o nt e m p o rary
A rt S i n g a p o r e
TOURS
E x h i b i t i o ns
Exhibition tours led by NTU CCA Singapore’s curators
every first Friday of the month, 7.00pm.
Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
T E L +65 6339 6503
R e s i d e nc i e s S tu d i o s
For booking of school and group tours, please contact
ntuccaeducation@ntu.edu.sg
Blocks 37 and 38 Malan Road,
Singapore 109452 and 109441
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Singapore 108934
T E L +65 6460 0300�
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ntu.ccasingapore.org
ntu.ccasingapore
@ntu_ccasingapore
Free admission to exhibitions and
public programmes
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JANUARY —
MARCH
Printed in January 2017
PUBLIC
P R OG R A M M E S
indieguerillas and LULU LUTFI LABIBI (Indonesia, participants CITIES
FOR PEOPLE), Petruk Jadi Supermodel (Petruk Becomes Supermodel),
2015. Photo: Eandaru Kusumaatmadja and Raditya Bramantya.
�EX H IBI T IO N S
PROJECTS,
W O R K S H OP S ,
EVENTS
R E S IDE N C IE S
Since the Centre’s inauguration in October 2013, it has featured
leading artists for the first time in Southeast Asia, making it one of
the spaces in the region to present exhibitions of international scale.
NTU CCA Singapore’s curatorial programme embraces artistic production in all its diverse media with a commitment to critical debates in and through visual culture.
13 – 22 JANUARY 2017
The Centre’s Residencies Programme is dedicated to facilitate
the production of knowledge and research by engaging and
connecting artists, curators, and researchers of various disciplines from around the world. Its seven studios support the artistic process in the most direct way: they provide artists with
the time and locale to pursue their research-based practice and
grant them access to an interesting and immersive context to
further the development of new ideas.
INCOMPLETE URBANISM: AT TEMPTS
OF CRITICAL SPATIAL PRACTICE
2 9 O C T OBE R 2 0 1 6 – 2 9 J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 7
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice is an openended exhibition that serves as a laboratory of ideas, exploring the indeterminacy and changeability of urban living. Borrowing its title from eminent
Singaporean architect William S. W. Lim’s book Incomplete Urbanism: A
Critical Urban Strategy for Emerging Economies (2012) this multifaceted
project takes Lim’s practice and the initiatives of the Asian Urban Lab that
he started with colleagues in 2003, as a point of departure and presents
various researches into the spatial, cultural, and social aspects of city life.
THE MAKING OF
AN INSTITUTION
1 1 FEB R U A R Y – 7 M A Y 2 0 1 7
The Exhibition Hall,
Block 43 Malan Road
Details overleaf
PUBLIC SUMMIT
19 – 21 JANUARY 2017
C I T I E S F O R P E O P L E is the pilot edition of the annual NTU CCA Ideas Fest,
catalysing critical exchange of ideas and
to encourage thinking “out of the box”. This Ideas Fest links artistic and academic communities with grassroots initiatives, expanding artistic interventions, and engaging contemporary issues such as air, water, food, environment, and social interaction.
Coinciding with Singapore Art Week 2017, CITIES FOR PEOPLE comprises performances, public installations, participatory projects, urban farming, public dialogues, and workshops. It cumulates in a summit that brings
together architects, theorists, researchers, curators, and community groups
to discuss and exchange ideas about urbanism, environment, modes of
exchange, critical spatial practices, and projections of a future city.
CITIES FOR PEOPLE, borrowed from Singapore architect W I L L I A M S .
W . L I M ’s 1990 book with the same title, expands on some of the ideas Lim
developed in relation to tropical environments and recycling, as well as his
call for a humanistic architecture. Organised on the occasion of the exhibition Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice, this event
is an invitation to share and engage in cooperative projects and collective
experiences that critically reflect on challenges in urban development and
future habitats.
For full programme, go to ntu.ccasingapore.org/exhibitions/ideasfest
To register for events, go to citiesforpeople.peatix.com
C ities f o r p e o p l e N T U C C A I deas F est 2 0 1 6 / 2 0 1 7
In partnership with:
Supported by Gillman Barracks
Programme Office
Programme Partner:
Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial
Practice, installation view. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
R E S E A R C H an d
ED U C A T IO N
H O R U I A N (Singapore)�
S EP T E M BE R 2 0 1 6 – J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 7
Working within narrative formats such as lecture, essay, and film, Ho investigates images and their sites of emergence, transmission, and disappearance within contexts of globalism and governance.
H E M A N C H O N G (Singapore)� S EP T E M BE R 2 0 1 6 – FEB R U A R Y 2 0 1 7
Positioned at the intersection between visual arts and writing, Chong’s
artistic practice addresses the multiple roles of written and visual narratives
in everyday life.
J A S O N W EE (Singapore)�
S EP T E M BE R 2 0 1 6 – J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 7
Examining unexplored futures, architecture, and idealism, Wee hollows out
singular authority in favour of polyphony, transforming singular histories
and spaces into various visual and written materials.
S I R E N E U N Y O U N G J U N G * (South Korea)� DECEMBER 2016 – FEBRUARY 2017
Since 2008, Jung has been investigating Yeongsung Gukgeuk, the Korean
all-female musical theatre, to challenge patriarchal structures within Korean
society.
T H A O - N G U Y E N P H A N * (Vietnam)�
JANUARY – MARCH 2017
Through a combination of painting, video, performance, and installation,
Phan creates provocative artworks that address historical and contemporary issues.
A L I C E M I C E L I * (Brazil)�
JANUARY – MARCH 2017
Concerned with the visible and invisible trauma inflicted on social and
natural landscapes, Miceli’s practice focuses on the photographic representations of landmine fields.
S P A C E S OF T H E C U R A T O R I A L
N e w r e l e as e s
P U B L I C A T IO N S
PUBLIC RESOURCE CENTRE
The Artists Resource Platform contains visual material and audio recordings of talks from over 90 Singapore based artists, NTU CCA Singapore’s
Artists-in-Residence, and independent art spaces in Singapore. This archive provides local and visiting curators, scholars, and writers, as well as
an interested public, a point of entry to contemporary artistic practice.
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The Centre seeks to question the future of “curating”, a term
commonly associated with the exhibition format. What are the
infrastructures and modes of presenting and discussing artistic
production in diverse cultural settings and in particular throughout Southeast Asia’s vastly changing societies?
NTU CCA Singapore’s current exhibition spaces, designed by artist
and curator Fareed Armaly, respond to this curatorial framework
to unfold different juxtaposed formats.
SUNDAY, 5 MARCH 2017, ILHAM GALLERY, KUAL A LUMPUR
Sternberg Press EDI T O R S Ute Meta Bauer and Brigitte Oetker
Lee Weng Choy
Edited on behalf of the Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy at the Federation of German Industries, in collaboration with NTU CCA
Singapore.
PUBLISHER
C A L L FO R A PP L I C A T IO N S
N T U C C A S I N G A PO R E an d
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Under NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media’s (ADM) M A S T E R OF A R T
( R E S E A R C H ) and DO C T O R OF P H I L O S OP H Y programmes, NTU CCA
Singapore offers a stream in Spaces of the Curatorial. A p p l i cat i o n d e a d l i n e :
30 June 2017. For more information: www.adm.ntu.edu.sg/programmes.
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FEB R U A R Y 2 0 1 7
In recent years Orosz has researched extensively on György Kepes. He is
currently Curator of the Collection of Photography and Media Arts at the
Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.
E M I L Y PE T H I C K * (United Kingdom)�
FEB R U A R Y 2 0 1 7
Since 2008, Pethick has been director of The Showroom, United Kingdom, where she has commissioned numerous artist projects and initiated the long-term programme Communal Knowledge.
DI A N A C . BE T A N C O U R T * (USA/Philippines/Bangladesh)� M A R C H 2 0 1 7
Working across South Asia, Betancourt is currently Chief Curator of
Dhaka Art Summit and Artistic Director of Samdani Art Foundation.
M A R I A H L A V A J O V A * (Netherlands)�
MARCH 2017
Artistic Director of BAK, Netherlands, since 2000, Hlavajova is also the
initiator and Artistic Director of FORMER WEST, a long-term, transnational
research project.
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SINGAPORE DESIGN WEEK
SATURDAY, 11 MARCH 2017
R E S IDE N C IE S OPE N
7.00 – 11.00pm, Residencies Studios, Blocks 37 and 38 Malan Road
T H E N T U C e ntr e f o r
C o nt e m p o rary A rt S i n g a p o r e
Located in Gillman Barracks, the NTU Centre for Contemporary
Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) is a national research centre of Nanyang Technological University and is supported by a
grant from the Economic Development Board, Singapore. The
Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of e x h i b i t i o ns ,
r e s i d e nc i e s , r e s e arch an d aca d e m i c e d ucat i o n , engaging in knowledge production and dissemination. The NTU CCA
Singapore positions itself as a space for critical discourse and
encourages new ways of thinking about Spaces of the Curatorial in Southeast Asia and beyond. The Centre’s dynamic public
programmes serve to engage with various audiences through
lectures, workshops, open studios, film screenings, Exhibition
(de)Tours and Stagings. As a research centre, it aims to provide
visiting researchers and curators a comprehensive study on the
contemporary art ecosystem in Singapore and the region.
C O N T R IB U T E T O
N T U C C A S I N G A PO R E
Taxpayers to Singapore enjoy a 250% tax deduction in 2016. Visit
ntu.ccasingapore.org/support or giving.sg for more information.
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S O U L I Y A P H O M I V O N G * (Laos)�
FEB R U A R Y – A P R I L 2 0 1 7
Artist and educator Phomivong employs a range of new media in his
artistic practice to question the cultural and artistic landscape in Laos.
C H O Y K A F A I * (Singapore)�
FEB R U A R Y – A P R I L 2 0 1 7
Driven by the urge to understand the conditioning of the human body in
light of uncertain futures, Choy works across the boundaries between
visual arts, dance, and theatre.
C H R I S C H O N G C H A N f u i * (Malaysia)�
FEB R U A R Y – A P R I L 2 0 1 7
Working with the moving image, Chong addresses issues of migration,
economics, and natural sciences through the processes and methodologies of different disciplinary fields.
P U B L I S H E R S NTU CCA Singapore, König Books, London, and
Bildmuseet, Umeå
EDI T O R S Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu
Block 6, Library
A U DIO P U B L I C A T IO N
T o más S arac e n o :
ARACHNID ORCHESTRA. JAM SESSIONS
SOUNDCLOUD
soundcloud.com/ntuccasingapore/sets/arachnid-orchestra-jam
R E L E A S ED 2 8 O C T OBE R 2 0 1 6
NTU CCA Singapore
Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu
PUBLISHER
EDI T O R S
Block 38, Residencies Studios
Block 37, Residencies Interior
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSIT Y
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Ulrike Ottinger, China. The Arts – The People, 1986, film still. Courtesy the artist.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
ULRIKE OTTINGER
CHINA. THE ARTS – THE PEOPLE
PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILMS FROM 1980s
AND 1990s
27 M AY – 1 3 AUG US T 2017
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
This first large scale exhibition by artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger in
Asia will juxtapose the artist’s cinematographic productions with her work
as photographer. The focus is on her research and travels in China during
the 1980s and 1990s. Depicted in China. The Arts – The People (1985) is
the everyday life in Beijing, Sichuan Province, and Yunnan Province.
Whereas in Taiga (1992), Ottinger focuses on the life and rituals of nomadic
peoples in Northern Mongolia, specifically the Darkhad nomads and the
Sojon Urinjanghai. Exile Shanghai (1997) reconstructs the odyssey, while
German, Austrian, and Russian Jews intersect during their exile in Shanghai.
Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989) is her only feature fiction film shot
in China. Driven by her curiosity for people and places, Ottinger’s images
alternate between documentary insight and theatrical extravagance,
presenting encounters with everyday realities at the intersection of the
contemporary, the traditional, and the ritual. Her photographs, created
throughout her career and largely in parallel with the production of her
films, serve as important visual cues and are central to this presentation at
NTU CCA Singapore.
Ottinger, initially a painter, came to filmmaking in the early 1970s. During her
career she has created an extensive image archive, including photographs,
collections of postcards, cut-outs, illustrations, and other iconographic
documents. Her films have received numerous awards, having been shown at
the world’s most important film festivals, and appreciated in multiple
retrospectives, including Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, The Museum
of Modern Art, New York, and Cinémathèque française, Paris. Her work has
been featured in major international exhibitions, such as Gwangju Biennale and
Documenta XI, Kassel. Her most recent solo shows include Haus der Kulturen
der Welt, Berlin, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Witte de With Center for
Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, and Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.
CUR ATE D BY:
UTE META BAUER,
Founding Director
Deputy Director, Exhibitions, Residencies and
Public Programmes
M A G D A L E N A M A G I E R A , Curator, Outreach and Education
KHIM ONG,
Ulrike Ottinger, Taiga, 1992, film still. Courtesy the artist.
For updates, please visit ntu.ccasingapore.org/events
NTU CENTRE FOR
CONTEMPORARY
ART SINGAPORE
TOURS
EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition tours led by NTU CCA Singapore’s curators
every first Friday of the month, 7.00pm.
Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
T E L +65 6339 6503
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RESIDENCIES STUDIOS
For booking of school and group tours, please contact
ntuccaeducation@ntu.edu.sg
Blocks 37 and 38 Malan Road,
Singapore 109452 and 109441
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Singapore 108934
T E L +65 6460 0300�
E M A I L ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
ntu.ccasingapore.org
ntu.ccasingapore
@ntu_ccasingapore
Free admission to exhibitions and
public programmes
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PUBLIC
PROGRAMMES
�EXHIBITIONS
RESIDENCIES
Exhibitions presented by the Centre are focused on international
contemporary artistic production linked to various fields of inquiry providing a critical platform for reflection and discussion.
Embracing art in all its diverse media with a commitment to current
debates, each exhibition is accompanied by an extensive public
programme ranging from talks to tours, from screenings to
performative interventions.
The Centre’s Residencies Programme is dedicated to facilitate
the production of knowledge and research by engaging and
connecting artists, curators, and researchers of various disciplines from around the world. Its seven studios support the artistic process in the most direct way: they provide artists with
the time and locale to pursue their research-based practice and
grant them access to an interesting and immersive context to
further the development of new ideas.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
THE MAKING OF AN INSTITUTION
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
The Making of an Institution
of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore)
connecting artistic projects, discursive manifestations, and the institutional
apparatus in a seamless display. It looks back into its young past in order to
shape its future. Challenging the format of an exhibition, The Making of an
Institution creates a communal space where projects and research
explorations by the Centre’s Artists-, Curators-in-Residence, and Research
Fellows coexist with ongoing series of talks, screenings, performances,
and workshops. The project engages the Centre’s main pillars –
EXHIBITIONS, RESIDENCIES,
RESEARCH
AND
ACADEMIC
– bringing to a
close the overarching curatorial
narrative Place.Labour.Capital.
that served as a framework for
its activities since 2013.
EDUCATION
S O U L I Y A P H O U M I V O N G (Laos)
Artist and educator Phoumivong employs a range of media in his practice.
As the only teacher of animation in Laos, he is making significant contributions to art education in his country.
C H O Y K A F A I (Singapore)
Working at the intersections of art, design, and technology, Choy’s research
springs from a desire to explore the material and immaterial aspects that
condition the human body.
C H R I S C H O N G C H A N F U I (Malaysia)
The artistic practice of Chong ranges from moving images to printmaking,
photography, and installation addressing issues of migration, economics,
and the systematization of knowledge.
G E R A L D I N E K A N G (Singapore)
Looking at familiar yet overlooked places, Kang combines photography,
installation, and participatory projects to reflect on a range of topics.
Currently she is focusing on migrant labour in Singapore.
H U Y U N (China)
Delving into personal and historical narratives, Hu is interested in
modernities and the way in which they are mobilized and reinterpreted in
L U C Y D A V I S (Singapore)
Founder of The Migrant Ecologies project in 2010, Davis encircles nature
in art, visual culture, materiality, and memory in Southeast Asia. Her writings have been published in numerous catalogues and anthologies.
M A T T H I A S S O H R (Germany/Switzerland)
Working with sculpture, Sohr is currently pursuing a research into
“bureaucracy studies” in the context of disability and health care.
C H I T O O (Malaysia)
The work of multidisciplinary artist Chi reconfigures personal and public
observations through the lens of humour, satire, and poetry.
B U E N C A L U B A Y A N (Philippines)
Blurring the distinction between personal and cultural histories, Calubayan examines the contradictions found within the notion of Filipino identity through paintings, performances, and sculptures with a conceptual
approach.
T Y L E R C O B U R N (United States)
Reflecting upon the mechanisms of pervasive and omnipresent
technologies, Coburn works with performance, installation, writing,
and sound.
R O D O L F O A N D A U R (Chile)
APRIL 2017
The contemporary art projects coordinated by Andaur promote local
artistic practices across South America. He is currently part of the
The Research programme aims to connect academic research with other
forms of knowledge production. The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art
Singapore collaborates with researchers of various disciplines whose
work focuses on contemporary concerns addressing Singapore and the
region. In addition to the Centre’s focus on Spaces of the Curatorial, its
current research clusters engage with questions raised by climate change
and its impact on habitats and environments.
SPACES OF THE CURATORIAL
APPLICATION DEADLINE 30 JUNE 2017
The Centre seeks to engage the potential of “curating”, and its
expanded field. What are the infrastructures and modes of
presenting and discussing artistic and cultural production in
diverse cultural settings and in particular throughout Southeast
Asia’s vastly changing societies?
Under NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media’s (ADM) M A S T E R O F A R T
and D O C T O R O F P H I L O S O P H Y programmes, NTU CCA
Singapore offers a stream in Spaces of the Curatorial.
For more information: adm.ntu.edu.sg/programmes
NEW RELEASES
PUBLICATIONS
NTU CCA Singapore’s current exhibition spaces, designed by artist
and curator Fareed Armaly, respond to this curatorial framework
to unfold different juxtaposed formats.
RELEASE 30 APRIL 2017
THE EXPANDED FIELD OF ART WRITING
This critical art writing short course explores various methods and techniques of writing an art review. Led by renowned international writers and
editors, B E N E A S T H A M ; C H R I S T Y L A N G E ; and C A R O L Y I N G H U A L U ,
participants acquire significant tools to develop their analysing, formulating,
and editing skills, as well as expand their practical knowledge of the field.
PARTNERSHIPS
THE EXHIBITION HALL
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
Becoming Palm is the outcome of a conversation between artist Simryn Gill
and anthropologist Michael Taussig tracing the complexities of oil palm plantations in two remote geographical locations, Southeast Asia and South
America. How do we relate to the oil palm? Is it “A tree, a landscape, a commodity, a friend, an intruder, an enemy? A saviour? A migrant? Can making art
give any sense to these questions?” (Simryn Gill).
Authors S I M R Y N G I L L and M I C H A E L T A U S S I G
P U B L I S H E R S NTU CCA Singapore and Sternberg Press
THE LAB
THE SINGLE SCREEN
THE VITRINE
THE SEMINAR ROOM
Block 43, Exhibitions
RELEASE 30 APRIL 2017
of the artists’ studio. Through showcasing discussions, performances,
research and works-in-progress, Residencies OPEN profiles the diversity
of contemporary art practice and the divergent ways artists conceive
artwork with the studio as a constant space for experimentation
and research.
This edition of Residencies OPEN features works-in-progress from
CHRIS CHONG CHAN FUI, CHOY KA FAI, LUCY DAVIS, HU YUN,
G E R A L D I N E K A N G , S O U L I Y A P H O U M I V O N G , and M A T T H I A S S O H R .
Block 37,
Residencies Interior
SINGAPORE ART BOOK FAIR 2017
Gillman Barracks, Block 7 Lock Road
NTU CCA Singapore is pleased to announce its participation in the Singapore Art Book Fair 2017 organised by Books Actually. We are proud to
launch our new publication Becoming Palm as well as a series of limited
editions of everyday objects for which we invited our past and present
Artists-in-Residence.
For more information: singaporeartbookfair.org
THE NTU CENTRE FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART SINGAPORE
Located in Gillman Barracks, the NTU Centre for Contemporary
Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) is a national research centre of Nanyang Technological University and is supported by a
grant from the Economic Development Board, Singapore. The
Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of E X H I B I T I O N S ,
R E S I D E N C I E S , R E S E A R C H A N D A C A D E M I C E D U C A T I O N , engaging in knowledge production and dissemination. The NTU CCA
Singapore positions itself as a space for critical discourse and
encourages new ways of thinking about Spaces of the Curatorial in Southeast Asia and beyond. The Centre’s dynamic public
programmes serve to engage with various audiences through
lectures, workshops, open studios, film screenings, Exhibition
(de)Tours and Stagings. As a research centre, it aims to provide
visiting researchers and curators a comprehensive study on the
contemporary art ecosystem in Singapore and the region.
CONTRIBUTE TO NTU CCA SINGAPORE
Taxpayers to Singapore enjoy a 250% tax deduction in 2017. Visit
ntu.ccasingapore.org/support or giving.sg for more information.
AFTERALL JOURNAL
Through a three-year research and publishing partnership between the Nanyang Technological University and the University of the Arts London, NTU CCA
Singapore joined the editorial team of the Afterall journal. Initiated in 1998 and
a highly-respected publication, Afterall journal focuses on artistic and cultural
production in relation to broader theoretical, social, and political contexts from
which both emerge. The Centre will actively contribute to expand Afterall journal cultural conversations and research in Southeast Asia supporting the critical work of artists, scholars, curators, and art critics in the region.
For more information: afterall.org
27 APRIL 2017
C ALL FOR APPLIC ATIONS
NTU ADM AND NTU CCA SINGAPORE SHARED
ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
BECOMING PALM
ONGOING ART WRITING COURSE
ON THE OCCASION OF THE SINGAPORE ART BOOK FAIR 2017
NEW RELEASES
Ináñez University, Santiago, Chile.
R O S E M A R Y F O R D E (United Kingdom)
APRIL 2017
Chair of un Projects, a collective that aims to generate independent and
critical dialogue around contemporary art in Australia, Forde is currently
completing a PhD in Curatorial Practice at Monash Faculty of Art Design
& Architecture, Melbourne, Australia.
The Making of an
Institution, installation view.
Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore
R E S E A R C H AND
EDUCATION
RESIDENCIES OPEN
TOMÁS SARACENO
ARACHNID ORCHESTRA. JAM SESSIONS
RELEASE MAY 2017
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
Following the launch on SoundCloud, Tomás Saraceno: Arachnid Orchestra.
Jam Sessions is a print release accompanied by audio file that brings together
recordings of jam sessions between arachnids and Singaporean-based
musicians, studio rehearsals, alongside sketches and reference texts that
informed this experimental project.
P U B L I S H E R S NTU CCA Singapore and Sternberg Press
Block 43, The Lab
Block 37, Residencies Interior
Block 6, Library
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RESIDENCIES
OPEN
O P E N STUDIOS
FEAT U RING ARTISTS-IN-RE SIDE NCE
Chris Chong Chan Fui
Choy Ka Fai
Lucy Davis
Hu Yun
Geraldine Kang
Souliya Phoumivong
Matthias Sohr
DAT E & TIME
Thursday
27 April 2017
6.00
10.00pm
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Residencies OPEN offers a rare insight into the
often introverted sphere of the artist studios.
Through showcasing discussions, performances,
installations, and works-in-progress, Residencies
OPEN profiles the diversity of contemporary art
practice from around the globe and the divergent
ways artists conceive an artwork with the studio as
a constant space for experimentation and research.
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Chris Chong Chan Fui
R E SIDE NCY P E R IO D: MA R CH – A P R I L 2017
During his residency, Chris Chong Chan Fui is developing The
Economy of Birds (and Maximum Standard of Living), a researchbased project that looks at how contemporary societies in Southeast
Asia determine the minimum standards of living. The artist
investigates the notion of “human dwelling” through a comparison
between the human and the animal world, drawing a parallel
between the practice of farming swiftlet birdhouses for sale and the
typology of the metropolitan apartment block. Research materials
related to the artist’s most current projects are laid out across the
studio space to visualise possible connections and generate new
ideas about the relationship between nature and artificiality, reality
and representation. The studio presentation also showcases the first
experiments resulting from the artist’s research on the Linus garden
in Mount Kinabalu, Borneo, Malaysia and a work in progress inspired
by The Birth of a Flower (1910) a stop-motion short film realised by
British botanist Frank Percy Smith (1880–1945) who pioneered the
use of time lapse in nature documentary.
C H O N G C H A N F U I (b. 1972, Malaysia) works across
multiple media including film, photography, and printmaking. His
works have been exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington, United States; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France;
EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, among others. His
films have been screened at international festivals such as The
Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, France; BFI London Film Festival,
United Kingdom; and Wavelengths in Toronto, Canada.
CHRIS
Chris Chong Chan Fui, Linus’ Garden (work in progress), 2017,
photograph.Courtesy the artist.
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R E S ID E NCY P E R IOD: F E B R UA RY – MAY 2017
Choy Ka Fai’s open studio provides a rare insight into the artist’s
ongoing project, Dance Clinic, which experiments with Artificial
Intelligence and motion capture technology. Blurring the boundaries
between visual arts, dance, design, and technology, Choy’s work
employs video, interactive installation, sound, as well as
choreography to explore the multiple forces that condition the
human body, focusing on the intersection between technology,
memory, and movement. Dance Clinic is a collaborative research
initiative dedicated to the study of dance whose mission is to
empower choreographers with science and technology, support
creative processes, accelerate discovery, and enable productive
rehabilitations. The Dance Clinic team will embark on it first public
engagement program in collaboration with TanzHaus NRW
Düsseldorf, Germany, in the summer of 2017. On view, are several
videos and other research materials gathered by the self-appointed
Dance Doctor – the artist himself – that demonstrate the integration
of body movements and neuro-sensing technology.
(b. 1979, Singapore/Germany) is a former stipendiary
at the Berlin Künstlerhaus Bethanien and previously served as
Associate Artistic Director of TheatreWorks, Singapore (2007–2009).
His projects have been presented in major festivals worldwide,
including Sadler’s Wells, London, United Kingdom (2016); ImPulsTanz
Festival, Vienna, Austria (2015); and Tanz im August, Berlin, Germany
(2013, 2015).
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Image by Brandon Tay. Courtesy the artist.
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Lucy Davis
R E S IDE NCY P E R IOD: A P R IL – J UNE 2017
The most recent development of The Migrant Ecologies Project,
Lucy Davis’ Railtrack Songmaps is presented in the artist’s studio
after its launch in January 2016. A three-year research project
developed together with multiple collaborators in Singapore,
Railtrack Songmaps revolves around bird songs recorded along the
former Malaysian railway tracks at Tanglin Halt. One of the first
public housing development estates in Singapore, several Tanglin
Halt blocks alongside the old railway line are in the process of being
demolished, endangering the survival of the incredibly rich
biodiversity of the area as well as of its informal tree shrines,
kampung garden initiatives, and songbird clubs. Featuring the
fleeting voices and appearances of nature, this multimedia
installation explores interspecies communication and the
entanglements of animal life and urban development. Initiated by
Davis, the project has a distinct interdisciplinary scope. Her core
collaborators for this presentation are Zai Tang, composer; Kee Ya
Ting, photographer; and Hera, book designer.
(b. 1970, Uganda/France) is an artist and writer whose
practice encircles nature and visual culture, science and indigenous
knowledge, natural histories and urban memory. She is the founder of
The Migrant Ecologies Project and founding editor of the publication
series focas: Forum on Contemporary Art & Society (2000-2007).
Amongst her recent solo shows is When you get closer to the heart
you may find cracks, NUS Museum, Singapore (2014-2015).
LUCY DAVIS
Lucy Davis and Kee Ya Ting, A desire path recalls a Ruak-ruak
(White-breasted Waterhen), 2016
Sun-shadow puppet of found internet bird photographed where the bird
was last heard, along the rail tracks at Tanglin Halt. Courtesy the artist.
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Hu Yun
R E S IDE NCY P E R IOD: MA R CH – MAY 2 017
Grounded on research, surveys, travels, oral histories, and archives,
Hu Yun’s practice often reconfigures historical narratives to produce
works that subtly merge the factual and the imaginary. In line with
the methodology of his previous investigations and with his ongoing
interest in the ways in which modernities are mobilised and
reinterpreted in different contexts, Hu is now delving into personal
and official narratives related to the waves of Chinese emigration that
took place in the 20th century. Examining Chinese cemeteries in
Singapore as spaces that silently preserve the traces of historical
encounters, he is focusing on the symbolism of early 20th century
tombstone epitaphs to understand how they reflect the Chinese
political landscape. In collaboration with Singaporean artist Koh
Nguang How, Hu is also studying the migration routes that led artists
from China to Singapore in the mid-20th century prompting the
development of the Nanyang style. His studio presentation will
include a selection of relevant materials from Koh’s Singapore Art
Archive Project.
HU YUN (b.
1986, China) engages with a wide variety of media, from
graphite and watercolour to performance, video, and installation. His
work has been exhibited at the 11th Gwangju Biennale, The Eight
Climate (What Does Art Do?), South Korea (2016); Power Station of
Art, Shanghai, China (2015), the 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale,
China (2012), and National History Museum, London, United Kingdom, (2010). He is the co-founder of PDF, an independent e-journal.
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Hu Yun, Bukit Brown before Qingming Festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day),
2017, photograph. Courtesy the artist.
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Geraldine Kang
R E S IDE NCY P E R IOD: MA R CH – J UNE 2017
8.00–9.00PM
Poetry Recital by Migrant Bengali Literature of Singapore
Geraldine Kang uses photography as a tool to negotiate identities,
challenge the politics of visibility, and problematise our position of
proximity to certain subjects. She is currently developing a new
series of works that address the condition of migrant workers in
Singapore and expand her long-standing interest in the social
impacts of labour policies. Works on view include a series of portraits
of Special Pass workers realised for the forthcoming Labour Court
Research Project Report. Workers on Special Passes are workers who
have a legitimate reason (for instance, to resolve a dispute with the
employer) to temporarily stay in Singapore after their Work Permit is
cancelled and who live through a period of deep uncertainty. The
presentation also includes preliminary studies of her research about
bin centres and an installation featuring an interview with a Bangladeshi
worker alongside a map of the construction sites he has worked on.
(b. 1988, Singapore) holds a Bachelor of Fine
Art from Nanyang Technological University. She has exhibited her
work both locally and internationally and received a solo exhibition
at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, LaSalle, Singapore (2015). She
was awarded the 2011 Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Still
Photography. Images from her series As quietly as rhythms go (2014)
are currently on view at Ota Fine Arts, Gillman Barracks, Singapore.
GERALDINE KANG
Geraldine Kang, image from the series
As quietly as rhythms go, 2014, photograph. Courtesy the artist.
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Souliya Phoumivong
R E S IDE NCY P E R IOD: F E B R UA RY – A P R IL 2017
Souliya Phoumivong presents the footage of the new claymation
film he has been shooting during the residency. This stop-motion
film portrays several on-the-road adventures of a clay puppet and
his loyal buffalo companion around Singapore. While the puppet is
an alter ego for the artist himself, the buffalo ironically references
the Laotian stereotype that associates the animal with dumbness
and stupidity. This work conveys the artist’s most intimate perspective
about his encounters with a different culture and high-tech
modernity outside of Laos. It also stands as a direct continuation of
Phoumivong’s first claymation film, Big World (2010), realised on
occasion of a residency at Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, Japan,
which marked a pivotal moment in the artist’s practice defining a
radical shift from painting to new media.
(b. 1983, Laos) is a media artist working
with film, photography, and clay animation and a lecturer at National
Institute of Fine Arts, Vientiane, Laos. In 2012 he established Clay
House Studio, the first stop-motion animation studio in Laos. Most
recently he participated in the exhibition Missing Links, Jim
Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand (2015). He is currently a
member of ESCAPE from the SEA (2016), a curatorial development
programme initiated by the Japan Foundation Asia Centre.
SOULIYA PHOUMIVONG
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Souliya Phoumivong, untitled, 2017, photograph. Courtesy the artist.
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Matthias Sohr
R E S IDE NCY P E R IOD: A P R IL – J UNE 2017
Premised upon the methodologies of ethnographic fieldwork, the
artistic practice of Matthias Sohr results in sculptures and installations
that draw from technology and social sciences to reflect a wide
range of research interests. During his three-month residency, Sohr
will gradually transform his studio into a temporary space for the
production of sculptures and installations that refine existing strands
of research and explore new possible developments. Having
recently produced a series of works related to the accessibility of art
spaces for people with disabilities, the artist is currently broadening
his investigation of the cultural, political, and aesthetic issues related
to the accessibility of art and educational programmes experimenting
with easy-to-read texts and other formats that convey the meaning
of artistic practices and foster the circulation of knowledge.
S O H R (b. 1980, Germany/Switzerland) obtained a
Master of Visual Arts from the University of Art and Design Lausanne,
Switzerland in 2013. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University
of Arts and Industrial Design Linz, Austria (2011–2012); Berlin University of the Arts, Institute of Spatial Experiments, Germany (2010). His
work has been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
(MOT), Japan (2011) and Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
(2014), among others.
MAT THIAS
Matthias Sohr, detail from untitled (Bilateral Relations), 2016, wheelchair.
Courtesy the artist.
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Heman Chong and Renée Staal, The Library of Unread Books, 2016 (ongoing).
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Simryn Gill and
Michael Taussig,
Becoming Palm, 2017.
Published by NTU
CCA Singapore and
Sternberg Press.
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Singapore Art Book Fair 2017
G I LLM A N B A R R AC K S, B LOCK 7 LO CK R OA D
2 7 – 3 0 A P R IL 20 1 7
NTU CCA Singapore is pleased to participate in the Singapore Art Book
Fair 2017 organised by Books Actually with the launch of a series of
limited editions of everyday objects designed by former and current
Artists-in-Residence and the release of our new publication Becoming
Palm. Published by NTU CCA Singapore and Sternberg Press, Becoming
Palm is the outcome of a conversation between artist Simryn Gill and
anthropologist Michael Taussig tracing the complexities of oil palm
plantations in two remote geographical locations, Southeast Asia and
South America.
N T U CE N T R E FO R CO NTE MP O R A RY A R T SING A P OR E
Located in Gillman Barracks, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art
Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) is a national research centre of Nanyang
Technological University and is supported by a grant from the Economic
Development Board, Singapore. The Centre is unique in its threefold
constellation of exhibitions, residencies, research and academic
education, engaging in knowledge production and dissemination. NTU
CCA Singapore positions itself as a space for critical discourse and
encourages new ways of thinking about Spaces of the Curatorial in
Southeast Asia and beyond.
EXHIBITIONS
Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
T E L +65 6339 6503
RESIDENCIES STUDIOS
Blocks 37 and 38 Malan Road, Singapore 109452 and 109441
RESEARCH CENTRE AND OFFICE
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Singapore 108934
T E L +65 6460 0300
E M A I L ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
Free admission. Public programmes on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Curator-led exhibition tours every first Friday of the month.
For updates on exhibitions and programmes, visit
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UPCOMING EXHIBITION
GHOSTS AND SPECTRES –
SHADOWS OF HISTORY
1 SEPTEMBER – 19 NOVEMBER 2017
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
Ghosts, myths, rituals, and traditions present a system of shared
knowledge that enables the expression of an unspoken, muted
consciousness steeped in the vernacular. Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows
of History delves into these narratives, considering them from various
positions: as standing for different moments in history, and as refuge for
free expression and historical memory. The exhibition presents four
artistic perspectives, each employing a system of metaphorical reference
to explore different moments in history and to situate the present. Works
of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ho Tzu Nyen, Nguyen Trinh Thi, and Park
Chan-kyong offer an entry point to examine the complex web of symbols
that slip in and out of everyday consciousness, tackling ideas of tradition
and modernity, politics and ideologies, memory and history. Ghosts and
Spectres reflects on the significance of these allegories as “cultural
objects” that are embedded in cultural, social, and political histories.
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
(b. 1970, Thailand) is recognised
for his distinctive voice in contemporary cinema. His films are non-linear
and often invoke personal politics and social issues. His films and
installations have won him widespread international recognition and
numerous awards, including the Sharjah Biennial Prize, UAE (2013) and
the Cannes Palme d’Or, France (2010).
HO TZU NYEN
(b. 1976, Singapore) makes films, videos, and theatrical
performances out of historical and philosophical texts and artefacts. His
work has been presented at major museums and institutions worldwide
including the Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, 2015; New York, 2013), DAAD
Galerie, Berlin (2015), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2012), and Tate Modern,
London (2010). In 2011, Ho represented Singapore at the Venice Biennale.
NGUYEN TRINH THI
(b. 1973, Vietnam) is a Hanoi-based moving
image artist. Her diverse practice, transcending the boundaries between
cinema, documentary and performance, has consistently engaged with
memory and history. Her works have been shown at international festivals
and art exhibitions including Jeu de Paume, Paris (2015–16); CAPC musée
d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2015); the Lyon Biennale (2015); Asian Art
Biennial, Taichung (2015); Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial (2014); and Singapore
Biennale (2013). Nguyen is founder and director of Doclab, Hanoi, an
independent centre for documentary and experimental films and video art.
PARK CHAN-KYONG
(b. 1965, South Korea) is a media artist, film
director, and writer. His work often engages with histories and politics of
representation by evoking traditional cultures and ritualistic practices.
Park’s major works include Citizen’s Forest (2016), Manshin: Ten
Thousand Spirits (2013), the award-winning Night Fishing (2011,
co-directed with Park Chan-wook), Sindoan (2008), Power Passage
(2004–07), and Sets (2000). Park served as Artistic Director of SeMA
Biennale Mediacity Seoul in 2014.
CUR ATE D BY:
UTE META BAUER,
Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore,
and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU
KHIM ONG,
Deputy Director, Exhibitions, Residencies
and Public Programmes
Park Chan-kyong, Citizen’s Forest, 2016, still from three-channel video, 26 min 6 sec.
Courtesy of Art Sonje Center, Seoul, and Kukje Gallery, Seoul.
PUBLIC
PROGRAMMES
For updates, please visit ntu.ccasingapore.org/events.
EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition tours led by NTU CCA Singapore’s curators
every first Friday of the month, 7.00pm.
Block 43 Malan Road, Singapore 109443
T E L +65 6339 6503
Printed in June 2017
TOURS
RESIDENCIES STUDIOS
For booking of school and group tours, please contact
ntuccaeducation@ntu.edu.sg.
Blocks 37 and 38 Malan Road,
Singapore 109452 and 109441
ntu.ccasingapore.org
ntu.ccasingapore
@ntu_ccasingapore
@NTUCCASingapore
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10, Singapore 108934
T E L +65 6460 0300�
E M A I L ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
Free admission to exhibitions and
public programmes unless otherwise stated.
LOCATED AT
RESEARCH CENTRE AND OFFICE
J U LY —
SEPTEMBER
�EXHIBITIONS
RESIDENCIES
Exhibitions presented by the Centre are focused on international
contemporary artistic production linked to various fields of inquiry providing a critical platform for reflection and discussion.
Embracing art in all its diverse media with a commitment to current
debates, each exhibition is accompanied by an extensive public
programme ranging from talks to tours, from screenings to
performative interventions.
The Centre’s Residencies Programme is dedicated to facilitate
the production of knowledge and research by engaging and
connecting artists, curators, and researchers of various
disciplines from around the world. Its seven studios support the
artistic process in the most direct way: they provide residents
with the time and locale to pursue their research-based practice
and grant them access to an interesting and immersive context
to further the development of new ideas.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
ULRIKE OTTINGER: CHINA. THE ARTS –
THE PEOPLE, PHOTOGRAPHS AND
FILMS FROM THE 1980s AND 1990s
27 M AY – 1 3 AUG US T 2017
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
This exhibition by the award-winning
filmmaker and artist Ulrike Ottinger
is the first large-scale exhibition of
her work in Asia. The selection of
artworks, comprising 4 films and
more than 100 photographs, focuses on the artist’s research and travels
in China and Mongolia between
1985 and 1997. Ottinger’s filmic and
Ottinger: China. The Arts –
photographic oeuvre is filled with ^ Ulrike CCA Singapore, installation The People,
2017, NTU
view.
rich imagery of everyday life in the
communities she visited, along with the history of each region. Such works
are a testament to her committed approach, rendering a practice reaching
far beyond its described territory.
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
T Y L E R C O B U R N (United States)�
JUNE – JULY 2017
Working with performance, installation, writing, and sound, Coburn
critically engages technological developments as well as its complex
material infrastructures.
C H U N K A I F E N G (Singapore)�
JULY – OCTOBER 2017
The artistic practice of Chun draws from his interest in mapping the day-today life of the city. Adhering to rigorous formal criteria, his sculptures are
charged with narrative potentials.
H S U C H I A - W E I (Taiwan)�
JULY – AUGUST 2017
In line with his research on forgotten histories of the colonial and Cold
War periods in Asia, Hsu has also been investigating the concepts of truth
and reality in filmmaking to explore issues related to memory and identity.
M I G U E L A N D R A D E V A L D E Z (Peru)�
JULY – AUGUST 2017
Situated at the intersection of architecture and sculpture, Andrade
Valdez’s practice addresses the boundaries between the public and
private, the social and the individual, the content and the container.
M A N O N D E B O E R (Netherlands/Belgium)�
J U LY – S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 7
De Boer’s films often subject the medium itself to critical scrutiny. Her
works question the power of images, probe its claims to truth, and
experiment with the interplay between image and sound.
SIG N UP TODAY
ART OPENINGS –
THE EXPANDED FIELD OF ART WRITING
A L I C E M I C E L I (Brazil)�
AUGUST 2017
Focused on the photographic representations of landmine fields, Miceli’s
practice is concerned with the visible and invisible trauma inflicted on
social and natural landscapes.
S O N Y A L A C E Y (New Zealand)�
SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2017
Exploring the physical form of public communications within spoken,
printed, and digital scenarios, Lacey works across a number of media,
including performance, video, and installation.
K A R T I K S O O D (India)�
SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2017
Drawing from his own personal experiences, Sood employs a range of
materials to create installations that explore the tensions between the
handmade and the mechanical, the material and the concept.
R I C H A R D S T R E I T M AT T E R -T R A N (Vietnam)� S E P T E M B E R – O C T O B E R 2 0 1 7
In recent years, Streitmatter-Tran has shifted the focus of his artistic practice
from performance and new media to the investigation of the physical properties
of the materials through figurative sculpture, painting, installation, and drawing.
SPACES OF THE CURATORIAL
C U R AT O R S A N D W RI T E R S -I N-RE S I D E N C E
S T E F A N I E H E S S L E R (Germany)�
JULY 2017
Co-founder of the art space Andquestionmark in Stockholm, Sweden, Hessler
has curated numerous exhibitions internationally. She is currently curating
The Current, an interdisciplinary research project of TBA21-Academy.
PEKAKA
BIRD PEOPLE SERIES 1/8 (LIM KIM SENG & LIM KIM CHUA)
^
Exterior view of NTU CCA Singapore.
The Centre seeks to engage the potential of “curating”, and its
expanded field. What are the infrastructures and modes of
presenting and discussing artistic and cultural production in
diverse cultural settings and in particular throughout Southeast
Asia’s vastly changing societies?
BY THE MIGRANT ECOLOGIES PROJECT
(LU CY DAVIS , KE E YA TING & Z AI TANG)
24 JUNE TO 3 SEPTEMBER 2017
The Vitrine, Block 43 Malan Road
The mixed-media selection presented in The Vitrine stems from Railtrack
Songmaps, a project exploring competing claims to nature and culture that
resounds along the former Malaysian railway tracks at Tanglin Halt. The
particular constellation of elements on display weaves in and out of the
memories of Lim Kim Seng who, together with his brother Lim Kim Chua,
joined the Nature Society of Singapore (NSS) as a teenager. Kim Seng helped
The Migrant Ecologies Project to identify 105 bird species around Tanglin Halt.
NTU CCA Singapore’s exhibition spaces, designed by artist and
curator Fareed Armaly, respond to this curatorial framework to
unfold different juxtaposed formats.
THE EXHIBITION HALL
THE LAB
THE SINGLE SCREEN
THE VITRINE
THE SEMINAR ROOM
APPLIC ATION DE ADLINE 1 5 AUG US T 2017
COURSE DATE S: 2 O C TOB E R – 21 NOVEMB E R 2017
SPEAKERS’ CORNER
NEW RELEASES
COURSE FEE: S$1,400 (NOT INCL. GST)
26 M AY – 1 AUG 2017
PUBLICATIONS
This short professional course aims to develop and deepen art-writing skills.
Consisting of keynote lectures, preparatory readings, and workshops, participants are exposed to various literary genres—poetry, fictional writing, and
curatorial texts—and are encouraged to go beyond the conventions of the art
review and the academic essay. To apply: NTUCCAeducation@ntu.edu.sg
PROXIMITIES AND ENCOUNTERS
R E S E A R C H AND
EDUCATION
The Research programme aims to connect academic research with other
forms of knowledge production. The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art
Singapore collaborates with researchers of various disciplines whose
work focuses on contemporary concerns addressing Singapore and the
region. In addition to the Centre’s focus on Spaces of the Curatorial, its
current research clusters engage with questions raised by climate change
and its impact on habitats and environments.
PUBLIC RESOURCE CENTRE
The Public Resource Centre consists of a research library specialised in
contemporary art with a focus on the Southeast Asian region, and NTU CCA
Singapore’s Artist Resource Platform. The Artist Resource Platform contains
audio and visual materials from over 100 Singapore-based artists,
independent art spaces, and NTU CCA Singapore’s Artists-in-Residence.
It aims to provide local and visiting curators, researchers, writers, as well as
the general public, with a point of entry into contemporary art practices and
their sites of presentation.
READY, STEADY, GO
THE NTU CENTRE FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART SINGAPORE
29 JUNE – 14 JULY 2017
15 JULY – 1 AUGUST 2017
NTU CCA Singapore presents Speakers’ Corner, a public resource platform
comprising of video documentation of public programmes and related
research material from the Centre’s archives. This programme offers an
expanded reading and understanding of the complexity and diversity of the
contemporary art production of today and how it intersects with current
developments in culture, society, and politics.
> Still from video documentation of
past public events at NTU CCA Singapore.
C ALL FOR APPLIC ATIONS
NTU ADM AND NTU CCA SINGAPORE
SHARED ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
APPLIC ATION DE ADLINE 31 M ARCH 201 8; INTAKE AUG US T 201 8
First of its kind in Singapore, the newly-established M A S T E R O F A R T
I N M U S E U M S T U D I E S & C U R A T O R I A L P R A C T I C E S has been designed
to prepare graduates for professional positions in the highly complex and
diverse museum landscape and in the ever-expanding spaces of the
curatorial, which require knowledge, experience, and creativity. This
study programme places emphasis on the theoretical and practical
challenge of contemporary as well as historic art and cultures, with a
focus on Southeast Asia.
A PPLI C ATI O N D E A D LIN E 1 5 N OV E M B E R 2 017; INTA KE AU G U S T 2 01 8
Under NTU ADM’s M A S T E R O F A R T ( R E S E A R C H ) and D O C T O R O F P H I L O S O P H Y programmes, NTU CCA Singapore offers a stream in Spaces of
the Curatorial. For more information: adm.ntu.edu.sg/programmes
TOMÁS SARACENO
ARACHNID ORCHESTRA. JAM SESSIONS
R E L E A S E J U LY 2 0 1 7
Following the launch on SoundCloud, Tomás Saraceno: Arachnid
Orchestra. Jam Sessions is a print
release accompanied by audio file
that brings together recordings of
jam sessions between arachnids and
Singaporean-based musicians, studio rehearsals, alongside sketches
and reference texts that informed this
experimental project.
^ Cover of Tomás Saraceno: Arachnid Orchestra.
Jam Sessions (2017).
P U B L I S H E R NTU CCA Singapore
E D I T E D B Y Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore,
and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU, and Anca Rujoiu,
Manager, Publications
Located in Gillman Barracks, the NTU Centre for Contemporary
Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) is a national research
centre of Nanyang Technological University and is supported
by a grant from the Economic Development Board, Singapore.
The Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of
EXHIBITIONS,
RESIDENCIES,
RESEARCH
AND
ACADEMIC
EDUCATION,
engaging in knowledge production and
dissemination. The NTU CCA Singapore positions itself as a
space for critical discourse and encourages new ways of
thinking about Spaces of the Curatorial in Southeast Asia and
beyond. The Centre’s dynamic public programmes serve to
engage with various audiences through lectures, workshops,
open studios, film screenings, Exhibition (de)Tours and Stagings.
As a research centre, it aims to provide visiting researchers and
curators a comprehensive study on the contemporary art
ecosystem in Singapore and the region.
CONTRIBUTE TO NTU CCA SINGAPORE
PL ACE.L ABOUR.CAPITAL.
THE MAKING OF AN INSTITUTION
UPCOMING IN SEPTEMBER 2017
Taxpayers to Singapore enjoy a 250% tax deduction in 2017. Visit
ntu.ccasingapore.org/support or giving.sg for more information.
This extensive publication revisits the NTU CCA Singapore’s activities since
its official inauguration in 2013 across exhibitions, residencies, public
programming, research, and education. Rather than a structured survey,
Place.Labour.Capital.: The Making of an Institution tells the story of the
NTU CCA Singapore through the voices of those artists, curators,
researchers, and academics who have contributed to its formation.
P U B L I S H E R NTU CCA Singapore
E D I T E D B Y Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore,
and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU, and Anca Rujoiu,
Manager, Publications
N A N YA N G T E C H NOLOGI C A L U NI V ER SI T Y
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ART AFTER DARK
Gillman Barracks
5th Anniversary Celebrations
RESIDENCIES
OPEN
O PE N STUDIOS
FEAT URING ARTISTS-IN-RE SIDE NCE
Chun Kaifeng
Sonya Lacey
Kartik Sood
Richard Streitmatter-Tran
DAT E & T IME
Friday
22 September 2017
7.00
11.00pm
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�Residencies OPEN
Residencies OPEN offers a rare insight into the often
introverted sphere of the artists‘ studios. Through
showcasing discussions, performances, installations,
and works-in-progress, Residencies OPEN profiles
the diversity of contemporary art practice from
around the globe and the divergent ways artists
conceive an artwork with the studio as a constant
space for experimentation and research.
Lucy Davis, detail of Pekaka Bird People Series 1/8
(Lim Kim Seng & Lim Kim Chia), 2017, mixed-media.
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Currently on view at The Vitrine, Block 43 Malan Road.
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Chun Kaifeng
R E SI D EN CY P ER I O D : J U LY – N OV EM B ER 2 0 1 7
Zeroing in on things that linger in the background of the city, the
sculptural practice of Chun Kaifeng is premised upon a close
observation of everyday fixtures and ordinary elements that
populate the contemporary urban landscape. Combining the
language of abstraction with industrial techniques and materials,
his evocative and ironic objects subtly reshape the common
understanding of our surrounding. This open studio session
provides an insight into Chun’s working environment, displaying
the industrial tools he is currently using together with recently
completed works such as Nowhere (Ghost), and Something Above
and Beyond All This (Slow Burn). On display is also Chun’s most
recent sculpture, created for an upcoming group exhibition at
Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju, South Korea, which tackles the
conventions of measurement and his current research materials on
the aesthetics and phenomenology of playgrounds.
(b. 1982, Singapore) completed a Master of Fine
Arts at Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom. His works have
been exhibited at National Gallery Singapore (2016-ongoing), and
included in group shows at Frac des Pays de la Loire, France (2015),
and ifa-Galerien, Berlin, Germany (2015). He was conferred the
National Arts Council Young Artist Award in 2015.
CHUN KAIFENG
Chun Kaifeng, Something Above and Beyond All This (Slow Burn), 2017
spray painted stainless steel. Courtesy the artist.
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R E S I D E NCY P ER I OD : S EP T EM B ER – O CTO B ER 2 0 1 7
Premised upon the history of graphic design and typography, the
artistic practice of Sonya Lacey revolves around physical forms of
communication within spoken, printed, and online scenarios and
addresses the texture of language and the patterns of circulation of
knowledge. Lacey presents two video works Smooth but coarser
than yellow (2017) and Newspaper for Vignelli (2010) which shatter
conventional notions of legibility. The former is a two-channel
projection that sets into motion fragmented images, texts, and
abstract patterns overlapping and bleeding into each. In the latter,
the camera follows a newspaper—which features the graphic layout
proposed by Italian designer Massimo Vignelli (1931–2014) for the
redesign of The European Journal in 1978—as it is blown away by the
wind. Also showcased are traces of her current experiments with
printed texts and light exposure as well as her ongoing research into
non-western print histories.
(b. 1976, New Zealand) works with a variety of media
including performance, video, and installation. Her works have been
shown at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
(2017, 2016), Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, United Kingdom
(2016), and London International Film Festival, United Kingdom
(2015). Also interested in curatorial, publishing, and collaborative
methodologies, in 2009 she established the collaborative research
project lightreading together with artist Sarah Rose.
SONYA L ACEY
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Sonya Lacey, Smooth but coarser than yellow, 2017, still from
two-channel Super 8mm film transfer. Courtesy the artist.
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Kartik Sood
R E S I D EN CY P ER I OD : S EP T EM B ER – O CTO B E R 2 0 1 7
Drawing inspiration from music, dance, literature, and various belief
systems as well as his own personal experiences, the multidisciplinary
practice of Kartik Sood negotiates the delicate tensions that exist in
states of in-between, in particular in the transition between life and
death, past and present. Working with a variety of media such as
painting, film, sound, and performance, Sood’s hypnotic video
works often feature shimmering figures in eerie landscapes. His
dreamlike imagery and enigmatic scenarios oscillate between reality
and fiction, stillness and motion, casting a shadow of mystery and
mysticism on the role of human beings in the world. A selection of
existing film works is presented together with the ongoing research
related to his upcoming performance.
(b. 1986, India) lives and works between Baroda
and Delhi, India. His works have been widely exhibited in India and,
most recently, he participated in the Yinchuan Biennale, China
(2016). In 2014, he was an Artist-in-Residence at Gasworks, London,
United Kingdom. In 2013, he received the Emerging Artist of the Year
Award by The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art.
KARTIK SOOD
Kartik Sood, City of wandering spirits, 2015,
projection on painted hardboard, installation view,
Yinchuan Biennale (2016). Courtesy the artist.
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Richard Streitmatter-Tran
R E S I D E N CY P ER I OD : S EP T EM B ER – O CTO B ER 2 0 1 7
In 2013, the artistic production of Richard Streitmatter-Tran underwent
a radical change as it shifted from performance and new media to
traditional fine arts in what the artist himself describes as a “material
turn,“ or “return to craft,“ which opposes the primacy of concept
over craft in the contemporary art world. The direct and self-taught
engagement with techniques and materials such as charcoal
drawing, clay sculpture, watercolour, and silk painting are part of the
artist’s investigation of the expressive qualities of materials as well as
realistic styles of representation. Streitmatter-Tran’s creative process
is also framed by a deep-rooted interest into modes of learning and
practices of artmaking that used to be passed down through
generations but are now disappearing due to the influx of new
technologies. During the residency, the artist’s studio becomes a
space for free-wheeling experimentation within the realm of plastic
and painterly creation.
(b. 1972, Vietnam) lives and
works in Ho Chi Minh City. His solo and collaborative works have
been exhibited internationally including Hong Kong Arts Centre
(2017), Singapore Art Museum (2016, 2012, 2009), Palais de Tokyo,
Paris, France (2015), among many others. He has also been involved
in numerous writing, education, and curatorial projects. In 2010, he
established DIA/PROJECTS, an experimental art space in Ho Chi
Minh City.
RICHARD STREITMAT TER-TRAN
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Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Following Nape, 2017
watercolour on silk and one black thread. Courtesy the artist.
�Studio of Hu Yun, Residencies OPEN,
27 April 2017, Residencies Studios.
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�Artists’ Limited Edition
For Art After Dark, NTU CCA Singapore‘s booth at the
Makers’ Market (Carpark B, Gillman Barracks) features
a new line of Artists’ Limited Edition of Everyday Items,
playful and thought-provoking products designed by
our Artists-in-Residence. Items include scarves, beach
towels, tote bags, umbrellas, and notebooks.
Also on sale at Block 43, Malan Road.
Duto Hardono,
Untitled #53, edition
of 150, heavy canvas
tote bag, 36 x 40cm.
LOCATION MAP
LOC K ROA D
Carpark B
Makers’ Market
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�Exhibition (de)Tour
Flowers from our Bloodlines
Lecture performance by artist Z A R I N A M U H A M M A D (Singapore)
in collaboration with choreographer S T E F A N I A R O S S E T T I (Italy/
France/Indonesia), featuring sound designer T I N I A L I M A N (Singapore),
artist E R I C L E E (Malaysia), musician V I V I A N W A N G (Singapore)
TH E E XH I BI T I O N HAL L , BLO CK 43 M A L A N R OA D
FRIDAY, 22 S E PT E MBE R 201 7, 7.3 0 – 9.0 0 P M
Therianthropy, the mythological ability of humans to metamorphose
into other animals through shapeshifting, has marked myth and folklore
across cultures and times, remaining one of the most common tropes
in magical and otherworldly narratives. Drawing from concepts of the
demonised and desired body, gender-based archetypes, and mythmaking,
this lecture performance invokes family histories and revokes the lineages
of colonisation in Southeast Asia.
N T U CE N T R E FO R CO NTE MP O R A RY A R T SING A P OR E
Located in Gillman Barracks, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
(NTU CCA Singapore) is a national research centre of Nanyang Technological
University and is supported by a grant from the Economic Development
Board. The Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of research
and academic programmes, international exhibitions, and residencies,
positioning itself as a space for critical discourse and diverse forms of
knowledge production. The Centre focuses on Spaces of the Curatorial in
Singapore, Southeast Asia, and beyond, as well as engages in multi-layered
research topics.
Since its inauguration in October 2013, NTU CCA Singapore has developed
into an influential institution encompassing research-based artistic practices
of international scope, curatorial education, and public programmes to
delve into the complexities of the contemporary art field.
EXHIBITIONS
Block 43 Malan Road,
Singapore 109443
T E L +65 6339 6503
RESIDENCIES STUDIOS
Blocks 37 and 38 Malan Road,
Singapore 109452 and 109441
Free admission.
Public programmes on
Wednesdays and Fridays.
For updates on exhibitions
and programmes, visit
NTU.CCASINGAPORE.ORG
RESEARCH CENTRE AND OFFICE
NTU.CCASINGAPORE
Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09/10,
Singapore 108934
T E L +65 6460 0300
E M A I L ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg
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UPCOMING EXHIBITION
THE OCEANIC
9 DECEMBER 2017 – 4 MARCH 2018
The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road
The Oceanic marks the start of NTU CCA Singapore’s new overarching
research topic CLIMATES. HABITATS. ENVIRONMENTS. that will inform
and connect the Centre’s various activities, ranging from research to
residencies and exhibitions for the next three years (2017–19).
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severe flooding, raising sea levels, and are forcing the migration of humans
and animals. The Centre intends to gain a deeper understanding of these
precarious realities through projects across disciplines, bringing together
artists, scientists, and practitioners from diverse fields of knowledge.
The works in The Oceanic refer to the long cultural history of the
Pacific and its Archipelagos and the impact of recent human activities at
sea. The artistic investigations emerging from the TBA21–Academy The
Current’s first cycle (2015–17)—with expeditions to Papua New Guinea,
French Polynesia, and Fiji—address the environmental, cultural, and
social transformations that have taken place on less accessible littorals
and island groups. These ongoing projects by the artists are created and
developed in exchange with the local residents, researchers, and experts
from various backgrounds.
CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE THE CURRENT FELLOWS
NABIL AHMED
ATIF AKIN
(Bangladesh/United Kingdom)
(Turkey/United States)
L AURA ANDERSON BARBATA
(Mexico/United States)
GUIGONE CAMUS
(France)
TUE GREENFORT
(Denmark/Germany)
NEWELL HARRY
(Australia)
KRISTY H. A. KANG
(South Korea/Singapore)
PERMAGNUS LINDBORG
ARMIN LINKE
FILIPA RAMOS
LISA RAVE
(Sweden/Singapore)
(Germany/Italy)
(Portugal/United Kingdom)
(United Kingdom/Germany)
JEGAN VINCENT DE PAUL
(Sri Lanka/Canada)
CUR ATE D BY
UTE META BAUER,
Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore,
and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU
This exhibition is organised by NTU CCA Singapore with the support of
TBA21–Academy The Current.
On the occasion of the exhibition, NTU CCA Singapore will present The
Current Convening #3, organised together with TBA21–Academy from
25–27 January 2018 during Singapore Art Week. Convened by Markus
Reymann, Director of TBA21–Academy, Stefanie Hessler, Curator of
TBA21–Academy, and Professor Ute Meta Bauer, The Current expedition
leader (2015–17), this three-day event of conversations, roundtables and
talanoa sessions, workshops, performances, and screenings, focuses on
the modalities of exchange, shared responsibilities, and also addresses
ownership rights of nature and cultures.
Lisa Rave, Europium, 2017, still of HD video, sound, 21 min. Courtesy the artist.
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IN ARCHIFEST 2017
EXHIBITIONS
RESIDENCIES
4 – 15 OCTOBER 2017
Exhibitions presented by the Centre are focused on international
contemporary artistic production linked to various fields of inquiry providing a critical platform for reflection and discussion.
Embracing art in all its diverse media with a commitment to current
debates, each exhibition is accompanied by an extensive public
programme ranging from talks to tours, from screenings to
performative interventions.
Archifest is an annual festival for the city to celebrate architecture and the
built environment. Details at ntu.ccasingapore.org and archifest.sg/2017
ARTIST RESEARCH PROJECTS
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road
SIREN EUN YOUNG JUNG
WRONG INDEXING:
YEOSEONG GUKGEUK ARCHIVE
CURRENT EXHIBITION
GHOSTS AND SPECTRES – SHADOWS OF HISTORY
1 SEPTEMBER – 19 NOVEMBER 2017
The Exhibition Hall and The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
Ghosts and Spectres — Shadows of History features video installations and
films by A P I C H A T P O N G W E E R A S E T H A K U L (Thailand), H O T Z U N Y E N
(Singapore), N G U Y E N T R I N H T H I (Vietnam), and P A R K C H A N - K Y O N G
(South Korea). The exhibition proposes a renewed understanding of the
past to situate the present through vignettes of collective memory and
personal experiences.
9 SEPTEMBER – 8 OCTOBER 2017
As a genre of theatre that features exclusively women actors, Yeoseong
Gukgeuk reached the peak of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s.
Reinventing traditional Korean theatre, the actors brought the process of
gender-shifting to the limelight and subverted socially acceptable norms.
Since 2008, siren eun young jung has investigated Yeoseong Gukgeuk
performers who, after the genre fell out of favour, went on to live disparate
lives. This configuration of archival materials offers an insight into the
artist’s research process and articulates the politics of recollecting.
S I R E N E U N Y O U N G J U N G (b. 1974, South Korea) was artist-in-residence
at NTU CCA Singapore from December 2016 to February 2017.
CHOY K A FAI
TH E WI N D TH AT CU T S TH E B O DY
13 OCTOBER – 10 DECEMBER 2017
> Apichatpong
Weerasethakul,
Fireworks (Archives),
2014, single-channel
video installation,
NTU CCA Singapore,
installation view.
Multidisciplinary artist Choy Ka Fai’s research focuses on choreographic
practices in Asia. This project presents his current investigation into Butoh,
which arose in Japan at the end of the 1950s. Choy traces the legacy of
one of Butoh’s key founders, Tatsumi Hijikata (1928–86) who sought a new
form of physical expression he referred to as ankoku butō (“dance of
darkness”). The research presentation features selections from the Tatsumi
Hijikata Archive in Tokyo, interviews, and documentary sketches.
C H O Y K A F A I (b. 1979, Singapore) was artist-in-residence at NTU CCA
Singapore from February to May 2017.
The Centre’s Residencies Programme is dedicated to facilitate
the production of knowledge and research by engaging and
connecting artists, curators, and researchers of various disciplines
from around the world. Its seven studios support the artistic
process in the most direct way: they provide residents with the
time and locale to pursue their research-based practice and grant
them access to an interesting and immersive context to further
the development of new ideas.
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
C H U N K A I F E N G (Singapore)�
JULY – NOVEMBER 2017
The artistic practice of Chun draws from his interest in mapping the day-today life of the city. Adhering to rigorous formal criteria, his sculptures are
charged with narrative potential.
S O N Y A L A C E Y (New Zealand)�
SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2017
Exploring the physical form of public communications within spoken,
printed, and digital scenarios, Lacey works across a number of media,
including performance, video, and installation.
K A R T I K S O O D (India)�
SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2017
Drawing from his own personal experiences, Sood employs a range of
materials to create installations that explore the tensions between the
handmade and the mechanical, the material and the concept.
R I C H A R D S T R E I T M AT T E R -T R A N (Vietnam)�
SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2017
In recent years, Streitmatter-Tran has shifted the focus of his artistic practice
from performance and new media to the investigation of the physical properties
of the materials through figurative sculpture, painting, installation, and drawing.
O L I V E R H U S A I N (Canada)�
OCTOBER – NOVEMBER 2017
Interested in theatrical and cinematic notions of spectatorship and scenery,
Husain’s artistic practice engages with a wide range of languages and
codes from dance to puppetry, cinema to animation.
M I C H A E L L E E (Singapore)�
OCTOBER 2017– MARCH 2018
An artist, curator, and publisher, Lee researches urban memory and
fiction particularly addressing the implications of loss. His reflections are
condensed in objects, diagrams, situations, texts, and curatorial projects.
R O B E R T Z H A O R E N H U I (Singapore)� O C T O B E R 2 0 1 7 – M A R C H 2 0 1 8
Premised on concepts of doubt and uncertainty, the work of Zhao challenges notions of truth and the conventional structures for the dissemination of knowledge. He is the founder of The Institute for Critical Zoologists.
Š K A R T (Serbia)�
NOVEMBER 2017
Founded in 1990, the collective Škart focuses on the “architecture of
human relationships.” Their work engages primarily with the medium of
poetry and the language of design.
J A M I E N O R T H (Australia)�
NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2017
Combining industrial waste with native Australian plant species, North
creates sculptures that address the state of concurrence and conflict
between manufactured architectural structures and the biological world.
B U I C O N G K H A N H (Vietnam)� D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 7 – J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 8
Fascinated with social assumptions about cultural heritage, the artistic
practice of Bui is distinctive for its combination of historical research and
a conceptual approach to plastic arts.
J A C Q U E L I N E H O A N G N G U Y E N (Canada/Sweden)� D E C 2 0 1 7 – J A N 2 0 1 8
Using a broad range of mediums while also relying on archival material,
Nguyen investigates issues of historicity, collectivity, utopian politics, and
multiculturalism within the framework of feminist theory.
C A R L O S C A S A S (Spain)�
DECEMBER 2017 – FEBRUARY 2018
A filmmaker and visual artist, Casas intersects documentary film, cinema,
visual arts, and sound. His work often features environments that are
geographically, psychologically, or socially extreme.
K E N T C H A N (Singapore)�
DECEMBER 2017 – MAY 2018
Spanning across art, fiction, and cinema, Chan is an artist, filmmaker,
and curator who looks at the city and tropical nature forging links
between aesthetic experience and knowledge production.
SYMPOSIUM
S AT U R D AY, 2 8 O C T O B E R 2 0 1 7, 9 . 3 0 A M – 8 . 0 0 P M
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
A D M I S S I O N : S$35; Free for NTU students
R E G I S T E R : symposium-ghosts-and-spectres.peatix.com
On the occasion of Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows of History, this
symposium brings together the exhibiting artists as well as curators and
scholars from the region to expand upon historical events, and the varied
artistic processes and strategies seen in the works.
Keynote speakers include curator and moving image theorist D R M A Y
A D A D O L I N G A W A N I J , University of Westminster, London, and historian
P R O F E S S O R K E N N E T H D E A N , National University of Singapore
A R T I S T S ’ L I M I T E D E D I T I O N E V E RY DAY I T E M S
A P P LY N O W !
NTU ADM AND NTU CCA SINGAPORE
SHARED ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
APPLIC ATION DE ADLINE 31 M ARCH 201 8; INTAKE AUG US T 201 8
The one-year MA course in M U S E U M S T U D I E S & C U R A T O R I A L
P R A C T I C E S prepares graduates for professional positions in the highly
complex and diverse museum landscape and in the ever-expanding spaces
of the curatorial. With a focus on Southeast Asia, this study programme
places emphasis on the theoretical and practical challenges of
contemporary and historic art and culture of art institutions as well as of
heritage management.
A PPLI C ATI O N D E A D LIN E 1 5 N OV E M B E R 2 017; INTA KE AU G U S T 2 01 8
R E S E A R C H AND
EDUCATION
Under NTU ADM’s M A S T E R O F A R T S ( R E S E A R C H ) and D O C T O R O F
P H I L O S O P H Y programmes, NTU CCA Singapore offers programmes in
Spaces of the Curatorial.
For more information: adm.ntu.edu.sg/programmes
ROGER NELSON, POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
^ Limited edition beach towels: (Left) SHIMURAbros, Focus Chart 06,
(Center) Heman Chong, The Library of Unread Books, (Right) Arjuna Neuman, Together Again.
THE NTU CENTRE FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART SINGAPORE
Located in Gillman Barracks, the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art
Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) is a national research centre of
Nanyang Technological University and is supported by a grant from
the Economic Development Board, Singapore. The Centre is unique
in its threefold constellation of R E S E A R C H A N D A C A D E M I C
EDUCATION,
EXHIBITIONS,
RESIDENCIES,
engaging in
knowledge production and dissemination. The NTU CCA Singapore
positions itself as a space for critical discourse and encourages new
ways of thinking about Spaces of the Curatorial in Southeast Asia
and beyond. The Centre’s dynamic public programmes serve to
engage with various audiences through lectures, workshops, open
studios, film screenings, Exhibition (de)Tours, and Stagings. As a
research centre, it aims to provide visiting researchers and curators
a comprehensive study on the contemporary art ecosystem in
Singapore and the region.
COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 2017
The Research programme aims to connect academic research with other
forms of knowledge production. The Centre collaborates with researchers
of various disciplines whose work focuses on contemporary concerns
addressing Singapore and the region. In addition to the Centre’s focus on
Spaces of the Curatorial, its current research clusters engage with questions
raised by climate change and its impact on habitats and environments.
Dr Roger Nelson received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in
2017, with his thesis titled “Modernity and Contemporaneity in ‘Cambodian
Arts’ After Independence.” He is a founding co-editor of Southeast of Now:
Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, a peer-reviewed
scholarly journal published by NUS Press at the National University
of Singapore.
NTU CCA Singapore launched a line of artists’ limited editions
designed by the Centre’s Artists-in-Residence. Ranging from
scarves, beach towels, and tote bags to umbrellas, raincoats, and
notebooks, these numbered editions are sometimes witty, always
thoughtful, and beautiful to behold. Proceeds from sales go towards
the sustainability of the Centre’s residencies programme. Available
at Block 43 Malan Road.
SPACES OF THE CURATORIAL
The Centre seeks to engage the potential of “curating,” and its
expanded field. What are the infrastructures and modes of
presenting and discussing artistic and cultural production in diverse
cultural settings and in particular throughout Southeast Asia’s
vastly changing societies?
PIERS MASTERSON, VISITING SCHOLAR
VIDEO RESOURCE PL ATFORM
The newly-launched Video Resource Platform presents video documentation
of public events including seminars, talks, and conferences at NTU CCA Singapore, offering an expanded understanding of the complexity and diversity
of contemporary art production.
vimeo.com/ntuccasingapore
Piers Masterson is a curator, lecturer, public art
commissioner and writer based in London. He has
curated and commissioned numerous exhibitions
and projects by artists including Sinta Tantra,
Chila Burman, Suki Chan, Mona Hatoum, Faisal
Abdu’Allah, and Isaac Julien. Masterson is a regular
contributor to ArtAsiaPacific.
CONTRIBUTE TO NTU CCA SINGAPORE
13 NOVEMBER – 12 DECEMBER 2017
S U P P O R T E D BY
Taxpayers to Singapore enjoy a 250% tax deduction in 2017. Visit
ntu.ccasingapore.org/support or giving.sg for more information
NTU CCA Singapore’s exhibition spaces, designed by artist and
curator Fareed Armaly, respond to this curatorial framework to
unfold different juxtaposed formats.
N A N YA N G T E C HNOLOGI C A L U NI V ER SI T Y
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