Co-curated by Dr Marc Glöde, Assistant Professor, NTU ADM, and Dr Ella Raidel, Assistant Professor, NTU ADM and WKWSCI.
1 – 14 November 2020
the time is now. (I+II), Heidrun Holzfeind, 2019
Colour, sound, 48 min
Rating: PG
Holzfeind is interested in architectural and social utopias that create an alternative living. She documents the shamanistic rituals of the Japanese improvisation/noise duo IRO, Toshio and Shizuko Orimo, in what they call “Punk Kagura”—in reference to Kagura, a ritual dance tradition and music for the gods. Holzfeind uses a visual language that adapts their mystical rituals: breaks in image; the colour and narrative corresponding with the soundscape; the modernist architecture of Takamasa Yosizaka; and the surrounding nature in which the duo performs a choreography for healing our damaged planet. The urgency is underlined in the title the time is now.
15 – 28 November 2020
Heaven’s Crossroad, Kimi Takesue, 2002
Video, colour, sound, 35 min
Rating: G
What does it mean to “look” cross-culturally? This film follows up on this question by creating a visual journey through Vietnam. Instead of following the established patterns of the classic documentary, Takesue creates an experimental experience that challenges the audience and invites us to reflect on what it means to “truly see another culture”. Within this beautiful visual travelogue, questions of desire, projection, and communication begin to appear, that are embedded in this idea of the cross-cultural encounter.
29 November – 10 December 2020
Naked Spaces—Living is Round, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1985
16mm transferred to digital file, colour, sound, 135 min
Rating: PG13 (This film contains some nudity)
Six West African countries (Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin and Senegal) stand in the centre of this film. The work explores the life in the rural environments of these countries by taking a closer look at the everyday. With its nonlinear structure, the film steps away from the classical traditions of the documentary/ethnography tradition and offers a sensuous approach. It is a poetic journey to the African continent in which the interaction of the encountered people or the spaces in which they are living becomes relevant.
11 – 24 December 2020
A Song of Ceylon, Laleen Jayamanne, 1985
16mm film, colour, sound, 51 min
Rating: PG13 (This film contains mature content and some nudity)
This film is an intense study of the body, gender and the multiple aspects of colonialism. It addresses theatrical conventions by recreating classic film stills and presenting the body in striking tableaux. A remarkable film on which Trinh T Minh-Ha, in Discourse (1989), commented: “The anthropological text is performed both like a musical score and a theatrical ritual….The film engages the viewer in the cinematic body as spectacle…”.
25 December 2020 – 5 January 2021
Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989
16mm film transferred to digital, colour, sound, 108 min
Rating: PG13 (This film contains some disturbing scenes from the archival footage of the Vietnam War)
This film is Trinh’s complex deep dive into the difficulties of translation, as well as themes of exile or dislocation. By using historic material, dance, printed texts, folk poetry and combining it with anecdotal narratives, she examines the status of Vietnamese women since the Vietnam War, as well as the status of images as evidence. It is a complex approach that invites the audience to reflect on the modes of perception and encourages a profound critique of audio-visual strategies.
6 – 19 January 2021
Nervous Translation, Shireen Seno, 2018
Colour, sound, 90 min
Rating: PG
This film follows the inner voice and play of an eight-year-old girl who cooks perfect miniature dishes, mimicking the world of adults. The perception of the child is translated through fragmentation and sounds that are written into words, such as the ring of the telephone, and the sound of the aircon, all forming together, an orchestra of the everyday. Waiting, boredom, and dead time pave the temporality of her imagination, while she is listening to cassette tapes recorded by her father, a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia. The personal phantasmagoric vision encounters the political dimension echoing the times of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
20 – 31 January 2021
Reassemblage, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1982
16mm film transferred to digital, colour, sound, 40 min
Rating: PG13 (This film contains some nudity)
With her remarkable and widely discussed first film, Trinh brings the conventions of the documentary to our attention and asks how films in the field of documentary and ethnographic tradition have consecutively established a power to manipulate the way in which we perceive different cultures. By gathering filmic means and techniques that reject the traditional narrative forms, Trinh constantly alerts us to our own process of perception, furthermore reminding us that watching a movie is not a passive, but an active process.
1 – 14 February 2021
The Human Pyramid, Jean Rouch, 1961
DCP, colour, sound, 93 min
Rating: NC16 (This film contains mature content)
At the Lycée Français of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Rouch worked with students there who willingly enacted a story about the arrival of a new white girl, Nadine, and her effect on the interactions of and interracial relationships between the white colonial French and Black African classmates, all non-actors. Fomenting a dramatic situation instead of repeating one, Rouch extended the experiments he had undertaken in Chronicle of a Summer, including having on-camera student participants view rushes of the film midway through the story. The docu-drama shows how working together to make the film changes their attitude towards each other.—Icarus Film
15 – 28 February 2021
95 and 6 to Go, Kimi Takesue, 2016
Digital, colour, sound, 85 min
Rating: G
While visiting her grandfather, a recent widower in his 90s in Hawai’i, Takesue begins to follow his everyday routines. When he shows interest in his granddaughter’s stalled romantic screenplay, an interesting discussion about her work, family, memories, and identity unfolds. Shot over six years, this film shows how personal aspects intertwine with a critical reflection of the documentary genre.
]]>Trinh T. Minh-ha’s approach to film has addressed a wide field of discussions—reaching from the ethics of representation in ethnographic film, to aspects of migration, debates on global socio-political developments, and different layers of feminist discourse. Her films are investigations into the question of the voice as well as the relationship between the visible and audible. This programme will present a selection of films that echo some of these discussions negotiated by Trinh in her filmic works as well as her writings, and create a dialogue with other filmmakers and scholars.
Co-curated by Dr Marc Glöde, Assistant Professor, NTU ADM, and Dr Ella Raidel, Assistant Professor, NTU ADM and WKWSCI.
1 – 14 November 2020
the time is now. (I+II), Heidrun Holzfeind, 2019
Colour, sound, 48 min
Rating: PG
Holzfeind is interested in architectural and social utopias that create an alternative living. She documents the shamanistic rituals of the Japanese improvisation/noise duo IRO, Toshio and Shizuko Orimo, in what they call “Punk Kagura”—in reference to Kagura, a ritual dance tradition and music for the gods. Holzfeind uses a visual language that adapts their mystical rituals: breaks in image; the colour and narrative corresponding with the soundscape; the modernist architecture of Takamasa Yosizaka; and the surrounding nature in which the duo performs a choreography for healing our damaged planet. The urgency is underlined in the title the time is now.
15 – 28 November 2020
Heaven’s Crossroad, Kimi Takesue, 2002
Video, colour, sound, 35 min
Rating: G
What does it mean to “look” cross-culturally? This film follows up on this question by creating a visual journey through Vietnam. Instead of following the established patterns of the classic documentary, Takesue creates an experimental experience that challenges the audience and invites us to reflect on what it means to “truly see another culture”. Within this beautiful visual travelogue, questions of desire, projection, and communication begin to appear, that are embedded in this idea of the cross-cultural encounter.
29 November – 10 December 2020
Naked Spaces—Living is Round, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1985
16mm transferred to digital file, colour, sound, 135 min
Rating: PG13 (This film contains some nudity)
Six West African countries (Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin and Senegal) stand in the centre of this film. The work explores the life in the rural environments of these countries by taking a closer look at the everyday. With its nonlinear structure, the film steps away from the classical traditions of the documentary/ethnography tradition and offers a sensuous approach. It is a poetic journey to the African continent in which the interaction of the encountered people or the spaces in which they are living becomes relevant.
11 – 24 December 2020
A Song of Ceylon, Laleen Jayamanne, 1985
16mm film, colour, sound, 51 min
Rating: PG13 (This film contains mature content and some nudity)
This film is an intense study of the body, gender and the multiple aspects of colonialism. It addresses theatrical conventions by recreating classic film stills and presenting the body in striking tableaux. A remarkable film on which Trinh T Minh-Ha, in Discourse (1989), commented: “The anthropological text is performed both like a musical score and a theatrical ritual….The film engages the viewer in the cinematic body as spectacle…”.
25 December 2020 – 5 January 2021
Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989
16mm film transferred to digital, colour, sound, 108 min
Rating: PG13 (This film contains some disturbing scenes from the archival footage of the Vietnam War)
This film is Trinh’s complex deep dive into the difficulties of translation, as well as themes of exile or dislocation. By using historic material, dance, printed texts, folk poetry and combining it with anecdotal narratives, she examines the status of Vietnamese women since the Vietnam War, as well as the status of images as evidence. It is a complex approach that invites the audience to reflect on the modes of perception and encourages a profound critique of audio-visual strategies.
6 – 19 January 2021
Nervous Translation, Shireen Seno, 2018
Colour, sound, 90 min
Rating: PG
This film follows the inner voice and play of an eight-year-old girl who cooks perfect miniature dishes, mimicking the world of adults. The perception of the child is translated through fragmentation and sounds that are written into words, such as the ring of the telephone, and the sound of the aircon, all forming together, an orchestra of the everyday. Waiting, boredom, and dead time pave the temporality of her imagination, while she is listening to cassette tapes recorded by her father, a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia. The personal phantasmagoric vision encounters the political dimension echoing the times of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
20 – 31 January 2021
Reassemblage, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1982
16mm film transferred to digital, colour, sound, 40 min
Rating: PG13 (This film contains some nudity)
With her remarkable and widely discussed first film, Trinh brings the conventions of the documentary to our attention and asks how films in the field of documentary and ethnographic tradition have consecutively established a power to manipulate the way in which we perceive different cultures. By gathering filmic means and techniques that reject the traditional narrative forms, Trinh constantly alerts us to our own process of perception, furthermore reminding us that watching a movie is not a passive, but an active process.
1 – 14 February 2021
The Human Pyramid, Jean Rouch, 1961
DCP, colour, sound, 93 min
Rating: NC16 (This film contains mature content)
At the Lycée Français of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Rouch worked with students there who willingly enacted a story about the arrival of a new white girl, Nadine, and her effect on the interactions of and interracial relationships between the white colonial French and Black African classmates, all non-actors. Fomenting a dramatic situation instead of repeating one, Rouch extended the experiments he had undertaken in Chronicle of a Summer, including having on-camera student participants view rushes of the film midway through the story. The docu-drama shows how working together to make the film changes their attitude towards each other.—Icarus Film
15 – 28 February 2021
95 and 6 to Go, Kimi Takesue, 2016
Digital, colour, sound, 85 min
Rating: G
While visiting her grandfather, a recent widower in his 90s in Hawai’i, Takesue begins to follow his everyday routines. When he shows interest in his granddaughter’s stalled romantic screenplay, an interesting discussion about her work, family, memories, and identity unfolds. Shot over six years, this film shows how personal aspects intertwine with a critical reflection of the documentary genre.
As part of the SEA AiR programme, Dia had undertaken her residency at Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands), Nau at Rupert (Lithuania) and Supasuthivech at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Germany) through the summer. Bringing back their experiences from diverse contexts in the EU to Singapore for this exhibition, Passages speaks of the artists’ journeys across geographical and cultural boundaries from one continent to another; the cultural exchanges that take place during this time; and the continuous development of ideas as they return to their home countries to create new works for the exhibition.
Employing new media technologies to aid their storytelling, each artist creates speculative narratives that traverse time and space, shifting between the past and present. While distinct in their artistic research and practices, their works evoke memories and explore meanings in liminal spaces, reverberating in their journey from one passage to the next.
Priyageetha Dia’s research interest lies in the plantations of Southeast Asia and their colonial histories, including those of migrant labour and structures of production and power. She explores gaps in historical records that are not only text-based, but also non-textual ones such as photographs, artefacts and oral interviews. Her four-channel sound installation Sap Sonic is a sonification of images from the photo album of the Sumatra Caoutchouc Company, a rubber planting company, from the archives of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Beyond their visual representations, the images bear witness to the power dynamics between the coloniser and its labourers as well as the hierarchy between nature and machine. Reframing this landscape from a visual to a sonic one, Sap Sonic serves as an aural gateway to the plantations as it delves into the lived yet unspoken lives of those who work on and inhabit the plantations, both human and nonhuman. Accompanying the work, Sap Script is a text installation in white latex paint, referencing rubber sap, on a black, obsidian-like background. Its typeface echoes the slender and linear structure of rubber trees, distorted to resemble the waveform of sound waves. Through the intangible, unseen nature of sound, Sap Sonic probes aspects of the visual world; expanding the agentive possibilities of the uncounted and the underheard.
Upon her arrival in Vilnius, Lithuania, for her residency, Ngoc Nau was drawn to Soviet-era architectural elements in the city, such as the Soviet brutalist architecture of the Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports. She also became intrigued with the iconic image of a Lenin statue being removed, with its legs severed, from the city centre square in 1991. This imagery became a point of departure for her exploration into multifaceted aspects of post-Soviet realities in her own country. Portraying contemporary life amidst the remnants of socialist architecture and monuments using 3D animation and visual effects, Nau’s video installation, Virtual Reverie: Echoes of a Forgotten Utopia, demonstrates the transformative power of technology in reshaping our perceptions of reality. Central to the work is a constructed representation of the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Palace of Culture and Labour in Hanoi, Vietnam, that serves as a stage for five hip-hop dancers embarking on a symbolic journey. As they interact with elements drawn from historical references in Vietnam and Lithuania, the dancers bridge the gap between historical artifacts and contemporary experiences. Echoing the ebb and flow of ideologies, their passage brings about new meanings when past memories evolve in the face of shifting landscapes.
Saroot Supasuthivech’s multimedia installation, Spirit-forward in G Major, charts the transformative journey experienced by Thai expatriates in Germany, told through a metaphoric cycle of life, death and rebirth. The work’s narrative unfolds in four parts. “New Beginnings” uses therapeutic dialogues to depict the initial migrant experience. “A Surreal Interlude”, based on interviews conducted with Thai monks and nuns in Berlin, transports viewers into a realm of magic and mortality inspired by Grimm’s fairy tales. The third segment focuses on a Thai music score Sai Samon, the oldest documented. Finally, “A Glimpse Beyond” dives into a poetic meditation on death and the afterlife, told from the viewpoint of the deceased. This poignant culmination is an exploration into a liminal reality between the familiar and the surreal, encapsulating the interplay of tradition, adaptation and preservation within an evolving cultural landscape.
Passages will be held through Singapore Art Week 2024, with a public programme taking place on 20 January 2024. Details of the public programme can be found here.
SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian Artists in the European Union is made possible thanks to a generous grant of the European Union.
Dates
Opening reception:
28 November 2023, 5–8pm
Refreshments will be served
Public programme:
20 January 2023, 4-5.30pm
Opening Hours:
1 December 2023 – 14 January 2024: Friday – Sunday, 1–7pm
Closed on 24, 25, 31 December 2023 and 1 January 2024
Singapore Art Week
19 – 28 January 2024: Monday – Sunday, 1–7pm
Late nights on 20 and 27 January 2024: Saturday, 1–9pm
Location:
NTU CCA Singapore Residencies Studios
Block 38 Malan Road
Gillman Barracks
Singapore 109441
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore presents the second-cycle exhibition of SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian Artists in the European Union (SEA AiR), a programme developed by NTU CCA Singapore and funded by the European Union. Titled Passages, this exhibition features new works by artists Priyageetha Dia (Singapore), Ngoc Nau (Vietnam) and Saroot Supasuthivech (Thailand), inspired by their three-month-long residencies in Europe.
As part of the SEA AiR programme, Dia had undertaken her residency at Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands), Nau at Rupert (Lithuania) and Supasuthivech at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Germany) through the summer. Bringing back their experiences from diverse contexts in the EU to Singapore for this exhibition, Passages speaks of the artists’ journeys across geographical and cultural boundaries from one continent to another; the cultural exchanges that take place during this time; and the continuous development of ideas as they return to their home countries to create new works for the exhibition.
Employing new media technologies to aid their storytelling, each artist creates speculative narratives that traverse time and space, shifting between the past and present. While distinct in their artistic research and practices, their works evoke memories and explore meanings in liminal spaces, reverberating in their journey from one passage to the next.
Priyageetha Dia’s research interest lies in the plantations of Southeast Asia and their colonial histories, including those of migrant labour and structures of production and power. She explores gaps in historical records that are not only text-based, but also non-textual ones such as photographs, artefacts and oral interviews. Her four-channel sound installation Sap Sonic is a sonification of images from the photo album of the Sumatra Caoutchouc Company, a rubber planting company, from the archives of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Beyond their visual representations, the images bear witness to the power dynamics between the coloniser and its labourers as well as the hierarchy between nature and machine. Reframing this landscape from a visual to a sonic one, Sap Sonic serves as an aural gateway to the plantations as it delves into the lived yet unspoken lives of those who work on and inhabit the plantations, both human and nonhuman. Accompanying the work, Sap Script is a text installation in white latex paint, referencing rubber sap, on a black, obsidian-like background. Its typeface echoes the slender and linear structure of rubber trees, distorted to resemble the waveform of sound waves. Through the intangible, unseen nature of sound, Sap Sonic probes aspects of the visual world; expanding the agentive possibilities of the uncounted and the underheard.
Upon her arrival in Vilnius, Lithuania, for her residency, Ngoc Nau was drawn to Soviet-era architectural elements in the city, such as the Soviet brutalist architecture of the Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports. She also became intrigued with the iconic image of a Lenin statue being removed, with its legs severed, from the city centre square in 1991. This imagery became a point of departure for her exploration into multifaceted aspects of post-Soviet realities in her own country. Portraying contemporary life amidst the remnants of socialist architecture and monuments using 3D animation and visual effects, Nau’s video installation, Virtual Reverie: Echoes of a Forgotten Utopia, demonstrates the transformative power of technology in reshaping our perceptions of reality. Central to the work is a constructed representation of the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Palace of Culture and Labour in Hanoi, Vietnam, that serves as a stage for five hip-hop dancers embarking on a symbolic journey. As they interact with elements drawn from historical references in Vietnam and Lithuania, the dancers bridge the gap between historical artifacts and contemporary experiences. Echoing the ebb and flow of ideologies, their passage brings about new meanings when past memories evolve in the face of shifting landscapes.
Saroot Supasuthivech’s multimedia installation, Spirit-forward in G Major, charts the transformative journey experienced by Thai expatriates in Germany, told through a metaphoric cycle of life, death and rebirth. The work’s narrative unfolds in four parts. “New Beginnings” uses therapeutic dialogues to depict the initial migrant experience. “A Surreal Interlude”, based on interviews conducted with Thai monks and nuns in Berlin, transports viewers into a realm of magic and mortality inspired by Grimm’s fairy tales. The third segment focuses on a Thai music score Sai Samon, the oldest documented. Finally, “A Glimpse Beyond” dives into a poetic meditation on death and the afterlife, told from the viewpoint of the deceased. This poignant culmination is an exploration into a liminal reality between the familiar and the surreal, encapsulating the interplay of tradition, adaptation and preservation within an evolving cultural landscape.
Passages will be held through Singapore Art Week 2024, with a public programme taking place on 20 January 2024. Details of the public programme can be found here.
SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian Artists in the European Union is made possible thanks to a generous grant of the European Union.
Dates
Opening reception:
28 November 2023, 5–8pm
Refreshments will be served
Public programme:
20 January 2023, 4-5.30pm
Opening Hours:
1 December 2023 – 14 January 2024: Friday – Sunday, 1–7pm
Closed on 24, 25, 31 December 2023 and 1 January 2024
Singapore Art Week
19 – 28 January 2024: Monday – Sunday, 1–7pm
Late nights on 20 and 27 January 2024: Saturday, 1–9pm
Location:
NTU CCA Singapore Residencies Studios
Block 38 Malan Road
Gillman Barracks
Singapore 109441
This third edition of IdeasFest draws relational links to improve the understanding of sustainable food systems and their urgencies, opening a pathway towards actionable steps to ensure food security. Current food practices are threatening both people and planet; more nourishing and sustainable ways of eating and producing need to be developed. This need to transform our societies towards socio-ecological sustainability is clear, but many proposals lack the concrete economic and political scaffolding necessary to make their implementation feasible.
The global food system encompasses all economic sectors, and understanding its components is essential for developing and executing effective measures to strengthen its sustainability. IdeasFest 2023 FOOD Eat. Secure. Sustain. looks into how various technologies affect (traditional) food practices and culinary techniques, and which of these are valued. Food security hinges on sustainable food systems which are based on subsystems, including farming, waste management, and supply infrastructures, which in turn interact with trade, energy, and health systems.
Focusing on social interactions that connect academic research with artistic and cultural fields as well as with architecture and design applications, this edition draws a direct relation between human societies and their impact on the environment. It presents environmentally friendly ways of living, exploring regional crafts, reusing, repairing und upcycling. While scientific evidence on climate change and food scarcity is widely discussed, to materialise future-proof food communities, it requires socially robust and impactful proposals that create a relay between local perspectives and knowledge generated in academia. To address food related issues and the climate crisis in a continued dialogue is necessary, as there is a risk that the gravity and urgency of this crisis will not be fully comprehended.
As a platform to feature new initiatives, NTU CCA Ideas Fest FOOD Eat. Secure. Sustain. is an invitation to share and engage in cooperative projects and collective experiences through workshops, site visits, screenings, performances, public installations, participatory projects, and a summit. This diverse programme will be enriched by presentations of start-up initiatives and public dialogues on how to support Singapore’s aspiration to meet 30% of its nutritional requirements domestically by 2030 collectively and individually. A two-day Ideas Conference will bring together a prominent group of architects, theorists, researchers, curators, designers, and community groups to discuss further ideas on sustainability, circular economy, food security, creative learning, and the potential of cultural heritage such as crafts and sustainable urbanism to envision a responsible future city.
Ideas Fest 2023 FOOD Eat. Secure. Sustain., conceived in partnership with Singapore-ETH Centre Future Cities Laboratory Global, contemplates on sustainable food systems, climate awareness and solutions for a more sustainable future. Curated by Prof. Ute Meta Bauer (NTU CCA and NTU ADM), Magdalena Magiera (NTU CCA), Assoc. Prof. Laura Miotto (NTU ADM), Prof. Thomas Schroepfer (ETH FCL and SUTD), Dr. Tanvi Maheshwari (Associate Director for Research, Future Cities Laboratory Global)
Registration and tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite.
SUMMIT
Free registration for Conference Days through https://bit.ly/ntuccaideasfest2023_events
Thursday, 16 February 2023
5.15pm – 8.00pm
Venue: CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, 138602
Theatrette, Level 2
5.15 pm Registration and Coffee
5.45pm Opening addresses by
Guest of Honor Dr. Alvin Yeo (Singapore), Senior Director, Joint Policy and Planning Division, Singapore Food Agency
Prof. Subodh Mhaisalkar (Singapore), Executive Director for Academic Research, National Research Foundation Singapore, President’s Chair in Energy and Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Prof. Tim White (Australia/ Singapore), Vice President (International Engagement); President’s Chair in Materials Science and Engineering; Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Prof. Sacha Menz (Switzerland), Director of Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global and Professor of Architecture and Building Process, ETH Zürich
Prof. Thomas Schroepfer (Germany/Singapore), Co-Director, Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global, Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) and Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Prof. Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore and Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), NTU
6.30pm Keynote Lecture CLOSING THE LOOP: The Role of Circular Economy in the Food Sector
by Paula Huerta (Spain/Indonesia), Circular Economy Consultant and Director Bambook Studio and GUASL
Followed by a conversation with Assoc. Prof. Laura Miotto (Italy/Singapore), at the School of Art, Design, and Media (ADM), NTU
8.00pm RECEPTION
Friday, 17 February 2023
8.30am – 7.30pm
CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, 138602
Theatrette, Level 2
8.30am Registration and Coffee
Food Ecosystems
9.00am Welcome by Co-Curators
Prof. Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Founding Director, NTU CCA and Professor at NTU ADM, Assoc. Prof. Laura Miotto(Italy/Singapore), NTU ADM, Prof. Thomas Schroepfer (Germany/Singapore), Co-Director, FCL-G, SEC, and Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design, SUTD
9.10am Food Connects
Lecture by Raine Melissa Riman (Malaysia), Co-Curator, E.A.T Borneo Conference, media strategist and social media lead, What About Kuching Festival
9.40am Hello! I am a Black Soldier Fly and I am Transforming the Global Food System
Flash Lecture by Niraly Mangal (India/Singapore), Doctoral Researcher at SEC
10.00am Clinically Relevant Materials & Applications Inspired by Food Technologies
Flash Lecture by Prof. Wiliam Chen (Singapore), Michael Fam Endowed Professor and Director, Food Science and Technology, NTU
10.20am Human Created Food Crisis
Flash Lecture by Britto Arts Trust / Mahbubur Rahman(Bangladesh), Artist, Co-Founder and Trustee, Britto Arts Trust
10.40am BREAK
11.00am Discussion with Prof. William Chen (Singapore), Michael Fam Endowed Professor, Director Food Science and Technology, NTU, Niraly Mangal (India/Singapore), Doctoral Researcher, SEC, Britto Arts Trust / Mahbubur Rahman (Bangladesh), Artist, Co-Founder and Trustee, Britto Arts Trust, and Raine Melissa Riman (Malaysia), Co-Curator, E.A.T Borneo Conference, media strategist and social media lead, What About Kuching Festival, Moderated by Prof. Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore and Professor, NTU ADM
12.00pm LUNCH BREAK
Urban Food Alternatives
1.30pm Architecture of Urban Agriculture for Building Sustainable Cities,
by Prof. Thomas Schroepfer (Germany/Singapore), Co-Director, FCL-G, SEC Global, Assoc. Prof. Carlos Banon (Spain/ Singapore), SUTD and Director and Co-Founder, AIRLAB Singapore
2.00pm How Singapore is Addressing Global Food and Environmental Challenges through Alternative Proteins,
Flash Lecture by Valerie Pang (Singapore), Innovation Associate, The Good Food Institute (GFI) APAC
2.20pm Healing Remedies & Roadside Beauties,
Flash Lecture by Adeline Kueh (Singapore), Artist, Senior Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts
2.40pm Consumer Acceptance of Alternative Proteins: Enduring and Emerging Issues,
Flash Lecture by Bianca Wassmann (Germany/Philippines), Doctoral Researcher, SEC
3.00pm BREAK
3.20pm Discussion with Assoc. Prof. Carlos Banon (Spain/Singapore), SUTD, Director and Co-Founder, AIRLAB Singapore, Valerie Pang (Singapore), Innovation Associate, GFI APAC, Adeline Kueh (Singapore), Artist, Senior Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts, and Bianca Wassmann (Germany/Philippines), Doctoral Researcher, SEC, Moderated by Prof. Thomas Schroepfer(Germany/Singapore), Co-Director, FCL-G, SEC
4.20pm BREAK
Non Conventional Food Sources
4.40pm Quantifying the Environmental Impact of Our Food – How To Make More Sustainable Choices
Flash Lecture by Dr. Iris Haberkorn (Germany/Singapore) Senior Researcher and Project Lead, SEC
5.10pm Urban Food Production in a Circular Bioeconomy with Microalgae as Case Study
Flash Lecture by Byron Perez (Ecuador/Singapore) Doctoral Researcher, SEC
5.30pm I Have Never Seen a Swimming Salmon in My Life
Flash Lecture by Hoo Fan Chon (Malaysia), Artist
5.50pm Reporting on Singapore’s Innovations of Cultivated Meat
Flash Lecture Dr. Keri Matwick (USA/Singapore) Lecturer, School of Humanities NTU and Dr. Kelsi Matwick (USA/Singapore) Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Florida
6.10pm BREAK
6.30pm Discussion with Dr. Iris Haberkorn (Germany/Singapore), Senior Researcher and Project Lead, SEC, Byron Perez (Ecuador/Singapore), Doctoral Researcher, SEC, Hoo Fan Chon (Malaysia), Artist, and Dr. Keri Matwick, Lecturer, School of Humanities NTU, and Dr. Kelsi Matwick (USA/Singapore), Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Moderated by Dr. Tanvi Maheshwari (India/Singapore), Associate Director (Research), FCL-G, SEC
Saturday, 18 February 2023
09.00am – 1.00pm
CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, 138602
Theatrette, Level 2
9.00am Registration and Coffee
Food Industries
9.30am Welcome by Co-Curators
Magdalena Magiera (Germany/Singapore), Curator and Research Associate NTU CCA Singapore, Dr. Tanvi Maheshwari (India/Singapore), Assoc. Director (Research), FCL-G, SEC
9.40am Sarawak Rice: From Traditional Significance to Modern Sustainability,
Lecture by Karen Shepherd (Malaysia) writer, content creator, and Strategic Director for UCCN Kuching Creative City
10.40am On Palms, Weevils, and Owls: Tracing more-than-human labour in the oil palm territories of Johor, Malaysia,
Flash Lecture by Hans Hortig (Austria/Singapore), Doctoral Researcher, FCL-G, SEC
11.00am Collective Making and Domestic Hacking,
Flash Lecture by Irene Agrivina (Indonesia), Artist, Co-Founder HONF and XXLAB
11.20am Microbial Fuel Cells: Mud, Microbes, and Midichlorians (of The Force),
Flash Lecture by Saad Chinoy (Singapore) Co-Founder, SpudnikLab, Storytellers’ Kitchen, and EdibleMakerspace
11.40am BREAK
12.00pm Discussion with Karen Shepherd (Malaysia), writer, content creator, and Strategic Director for UCCN Kuching Creative City, Hans Hortig (Austria/Singapore), Doctoral Researcher, FCL-G, SEC, Irene Agrivina (Indonesia), Artist, Co-Founder HONF and XXLAB, and Saad Chinoy (Singapore), Co-Founder, SpudnikLab, Storytellers’ Kitchen, and EdibleMakerspace, Moderated by Magdalena Magiera (Germany/Singapore), Curator and Research Associate NTU CCA Singapore
Saturday, 18 February 2023
04.00 – 6.00pm
National Design Centre, 111 Middle Road, Singapore 188969
Auditorium
4.00pm Circularity and 3D-printing for Addressing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Future Cities,
A Talk by Assoc. Prof. Carlos Banon, SUTD, Director and Co-Founder, AIRLAB Singapore
5.00pm Guided Exhibition Tour of Circular Futures: Next Gen (following the lecture)
Sunday, 19 February 2023
04.00 – 6.00pm
National Design Centre, 111 Middle Road, Singapore 188969
Auditorium
4.00pm The Potential for Digital Models in Urban Agriculture
A Sharing Session by Alba Lombardia (Spain/Singapore) PhD Researcher SUTD, with introductions by Prof. Thomas Schroepfer(Germany/Singapore), Co-Director, FCL-G, SEC, and Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design, SUTD, and Assoc. Prof. Carlos Banon, SUTD, Director and Co-Founder, AIRLAB Singapore
5.00pm Guided Exhibition Tour of Circular Futures: Next Gen (following the sharing session)
WORKSHOPS
Saturday, 18 February 2023
Tickets for workshops can be purchased or registered for at https://bit.ly/ntuccaideasfest2023_events
10am – 1pm To Gathering: Food Flows
with Alecia Neo (Singapore) artist, Ground-Up Initiative (Singapore), and Madhumitha Ardhanari (Singapore), Principal Sustainability Strategist, Forum for the Future
Venue: Kampung Kampus, 91 Lorong Chencharu, Singapore 769201
2.30 – 5.30pm Grow Your Own Microgreens with PVs
with Dr. Christoph Waibel (Germany/Singapore), Module Coordinator, Powering the City, FCL-G, Dr. Shi Zhongming (China/Singapore), Principal Investigator, Building Integrated Agriculture, FCL-G, Dr. Zhang Qianning (China/Singapore), Principal Investigator, Building Integrated Agriculture, NUS, Dr. Huang Zhaolu (China/Singapore), Research fellow, Building Integrated Agriculture, NUS
Venue: Future Cities Laboratory, Value Lab, Level 6, CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, Singapore 138602
3.00–5.30pm Novel Materials
with Irene Agrivina (Indonesia) Artist, Co-Founder HONF and XXLAB, and Saad Chinoy (Singapore), Co-Founder, SpudnikLab, Storytellers’ Kitchen, EdibleMakerspace
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-04, Singapore 109452
4.00 – 6.00pm An Afternoon with “Salmon” Tea Sandwich
with Hoo Fan Chon (Malaysia) Artist
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-06, Singapore 109441
Sunday, 19 February 2023
Tickets for workshops can be purchased or registered for at https://bit.ly/ntuccaideasfest2023_events
10.00am – 12.00pm Stories & Food of Semakau
with Firdaus Sani (Singapore), Founder Oranglaut.sg and The Black Sampan
Venue: West Coast Park
10.00 – 11.30am Elevating the Ordinary: Crafting a Creative Exploration of an Everyday Staple
with Karen Shepherd (Malaysia) writer, content creator, and Strategic Director, UCCN Kuching Creative City, Raine Melissa Riman(Malaysia), Co-Curator, E.A.T Borneo Conference, media strategist and social media lead, What About Kuching Festival, and Dr. Franca Cole (UK/Malaysia), Consultant in Conservation and Archaeology, Sarawak Museum, Lecturer, NTU ADM
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-04, Singapore 109452
10.00 – 12pm Healing Remedies & Roadside Beauties
with Adeline Kueh (Singapore), Artist, Senior Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-02, Singapore 109452
10am – 12.30pm Edible Wild
with Native’s Joy Chee, Resident Bartender, Gardener at Native Bar
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 6 Lock Road, Research Office, Singapore 108934
11.30am – 1.30pm Human Created Food Crisis
with Mahbubur Rahman (Bangladesh), Artist, Co-Founder and Trustee, Britto Arts Trust and Shimul Saha (Bangladesh), Artist, both members of Britto Arts Trust.
Venue: Intermission Bar, The Projector, 6001 Beach Rd, #05-00 GOLDEN MILE TOWER, Singapore 199589
2.30 – 5.30pm DIY Self-Watering Plant Robot!
with Dr. Christoph Waibel (Germany/Singapore), Module Coordinator, Powering the City, FCL-G, Dr. Shi Zhongming (China/Singapore), Principal Investigator, Building Integrated Agriculture, FCL-G, Dr. Zhang Qianning (China/Singapore), Principal Investigator, Building Integrated Agriculture, NUS, Dr. Huang Zhaolu (China/Singapore), Research Fellow, Building Integrated Agriculture, NUS
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-02, Singapore 109452
3.00 – 5.00pm How Food Media Affect What We Eat
with Dr. Keri Matwick (USA /Singapore) Lecturer, School of Humanities NTU and Dr. Kelsi Matwick (USA /Singapore) Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-04, Singapore 109452
EXHIBITIONS
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 & 38 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
Exhibition Hours
Thursday, 16 – Sunday, 19 February 2023, 12.00 – 7.00pm
Free admission to all exhibitions
Hello! I am a Black Soldier Fly and I am Transforming the Global Food System
Primary Contributor: Niraly Mangal, Doctoral Researcher, SEC
Other Contributors: Adrian Fuhrmann, PhD Researcher, SEC, Vartika Goenka, Research Assistant, SEC, Heng Chin Wee, Research Assistant SEC, Shaktheeshwari Silvaraju, PhD Student, SEC, Chloe Tan, Research Assistant, SEC, Tan Yong Jen, Research Assistant, SEC, Yanyun Yan, Research Associate, Zhang Qihui, PhD student
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03, Singapore 109452
Sustainable Food Systems with Microalgae-based Proteins
Dr. Iris Haberkorn, Senior Researcher and Project Lead, SEC, Byron Perez, Doctoral Researcher, SEC, Helena Schmitt, PhD Researcher, SEC, Carole Zermatten, Student SEC
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03, Singapore 109452
Hoo Fan Chon
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-06, Singapore 109441
The Journey of Food
Primary Contributors: Yuhao Lu, Postdoc. Researcher, FCL-G, Helen Lei Fan, Research Assistants, FCL-G
Other Contributors: Kaiyu Lu, Research Assistants, FCL-G, Muhammad Is’Maill Bin Azman, Research Assistants, FCL-G, Isabella Meo, Research Assistants, FCL-G, Jasper Phang Wee Keat, Research Assistants, FCL-G, Zi Gui Toh, Research Assistants, FCL-G,Loo Yanshan, Research Assistants, FCL-G
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-05, Singapore 109441
Potential Agriterritories – Agrarian Questions and Agroecological Design Architecture of Territory
Assoc. Prof. Milica Topalovic, Architecture and Territorial Planning, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, Alice Clarke, Teaching Assistant, Architecture of Territory, ETH Zurich, Hans Hortig, Doctoral Researcher, FCL-G, SEC, Karoline Kostka, Senior Researcher, New Urban Agendas for Agrarian Territories, FCL-G, SEC, and Students of the joint Master of Advanced Studies at the ETH Zürich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (ETH EPFL MAS UTD)
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-07, Singapore 109441
NTU CCA IdeasFest is a platform to catalyse critical exchange of ideas and encourage thinking “out of the box”. It links the artistic and academic communities with grassroots and self-organised initiatives and small-scale entrepreneurship. Following the global call for an ecological turn in art, architecture, and design, NTU CCA IdeasFest 2023 FOOD Eat. Secure. Sustain. presents projects that engage, investigate, and aim to ensure food security on a healthy planet. The vitality of food poses a wide-ranging set of questions and problems when confronted with nature’s diminishing capacity to nourish life as a result of harmful anthropocentric activity. Such challenges demand that we rethink our modes of production and consumption.
This third edition of IdeasFest draws relational links to improve the understanding of sustainable food systems and their urgencies, opening a pathway towards actionable steps to ensure food security. Current food practices are threatening both people and planet; more nourishing and sustainable ways of eating and producing need to be developed. This need to transform our societies towards socio-ecological sustainability is clear, but many proposals lack the concrete economic and political scaffolding necessary to make their implementation feasible.
The global food system encompasses all economic sectors, and understanding its components is essential for developing and executing effective measures to strengthen its sustainability. IdeasFest 2023 FOOD Eat. Secure. Sustain. looks into how various technologies affect (traditional) food practices and culinary techniques, and which of these are valued. Food security hinges on sustainable food systems which are based on subsystems, including farming, waste management, and supply infrastructures, which in turn interact with trade, energy, and health systems.
Focusing on social interactions that connect academic research with artistic and cultural fields as well as with architecture and design applications, this edition draws a direct relation between human societies and their impact on the environment. It presents environmentally friendly ways of living, exploring regional crafts, reusing, repairing und upcycling. While scientific evidence on climate change and food scarcity is widely discussed, to materialise future-proof food communities, it requires socially robust and impactful proposals that create a relay between local perspectives and knowledge generated in academia. To address food related issues and the climate crisis in a continued dialogue is necessary, as there is a risk that the gravity and urgency of this crisis will not be fully comprehended.
As a platform to feature new initiatives, NTU CCA Ideas Fest FOOD Eat. Secure. Sustain. is an invitation to share and engage in cooperative projects and collective experiences through workshops, site visits, screenings, performances, public installations, participatory projects, and a summit. This diverse programme will be enriched by presentations of start-up initiatives and public dialogues on how to support Singapore’s aspiration to meet 30% of its nutritional requirements domestically by 2030 collectively and individually. A two-day Ideas Conference will bring together a prominent group of architects, theorists, researchers, curators, designers, and community groups to discuss further ideas on sustainability, circular economy, food security, creative learning, and the potential of cultural heritage such as crafts and sustainable urbanism to envision a responsible future city.
Ideas Fest 2023 FOOD Eat. Secure. Sustain., conceived in partnership with Singapore-ETH Centre Future Cities Laboratory Global, contemplates on sustainable food systems, climate awareness and solutions for a more sustainable future. Curated by Prof. Ute Meta Bauer (NTU CCA and NTU ADM), Magdalena Magiera (NTU CCA), Assoc. Prof. Laura Miotto (NTU ADM), Prof. Thomas Schroepfer (ETH FCL and SUTD), Dr. Tanvi Maheshwari (Associate Director for Research, Future Cities Laboratory Global)
Registration and tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite.
SUMMIT
Free registration for Conference Days through https://bit.ly/ntuccaideasfest2023_events
Thursday, 16 February 2023
5.15pm – 8.00pm
Venue: CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, 138602
Theatrette, Level 2
5.15 pm Registration and Coffee
5.45pm Opening addresses by
Guest of Honor Dr. Alvin Yeo (Singapore), Senior Director, Joint Policy and Planning Division, Singapore Food Agency
Prof. Subodh Mhaisalkar (Singapore), Executive Director for Academic Research, National Research Foundation Singapore, President’s Chair in Energy and Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Prof. Tim White (Australia/ Singapore), Vice President (International Engagement); President’s Chair in Materials Science and Engineering; Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Prof. Sacha Menz (Switzerland), Director of Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global and Professor of Architecture and Building Process, ETH Zürich
Prof. Thomas Schroepfer (Germany/Singapore), Co-Director, Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global, Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) and Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Prof. Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore and Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), NTU
6.30pm Keynote Lecture CLOSING THE LOOP: The Role of Circular Economy in the Food Sector
by Paula Huerta (Spain/Indonesia), Circular Economy Consultant and Director Bambook Studio and GUASL
Followed by a conversation with Assoc. Prof. Laura Miotto (Italy/Singapore), at the School of Art, Design, and Media (ADM), NTU
8.00pm RECEPTION
Friday, 17 February 2023
8.30am – 7.30pm
CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, 138602
Theatrette, Level 2
8.30am Registration and Coffee
Food Ecosystems
9.00am Welcome by Co-Curators
Prof. Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Founding Director, NTU CCA and Professor at NTU ADM, Assoc. Prof. Laura Miotto(Italy/Singapore), NTU ADM, Prof. Thomas Schroepfer (Germany/Singapore), Co-Director, FCL-G, SEC, and Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design, SUTD
9.10am Food Connects
Lecture by Raine Melissa Riman (Malaysia), Co-Curator, E.A.T Borneo Conference, media strategist and social media lead, What About Kuching Festival
9.40am Hello! I am a Black Soldier Fly and I am Transforming the Global Food System
Flash Lecture by Niraly Mangal (India/Singapore), Doctoral Researcher at SEC
10.00am Clinically Relevant Materials & Applications Inspired by Food Technologies
Flash Lecture by Prof. Wiliam Chen (Singapore), Michael Fam Endowed Professor and Director, Food Science and Technology, NTU
10.20am Human Created Food Crisis
Flash Lecture by Britto Arts Trust / Mahbubur Rahman(Bangladesh), Artist, Co-Founder and Trustee, Britto Arts Trust
10.40am BREAK
11.00am Discussion with Prof. William Chen (Singapore), Michael Fam Endowed Professor, Director Food Science and Technology, NTU, Niraly Mangal (India/Singapore), Doctoral Researcher, SEC, Britto Arts Trust / Mahbubur Rahman (Bangladesh), Artist, Co-Founder and Trustee, Britto Arts Trust, and Raine Melissa Riman (Malaysia), Co-Curator, E.A.T Borneo Conference, media strategist and social media lead, What About Kuching Festival, Moderated by Prof. Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore and Professor, NTU ADM
12.00pm LUNCH BREAK
Urban Food Alternatives
1.30pm Architecture of Urban Agriculture for Building Sustainable Cities,
by Prof. Thomas Schroepfer (Germany/Singapore), Co-Director, FCL-G, SEC Global, Assoc. Prof. Carlos Banon (Spain/ Singapore), SUTD and Director and Co-Founder, AIRLAB Singapore
2.00pm How Singapore is Addressing Global Food and Environmental Challenges through Alternative Proteins,
Flash Lecture by Valerie Pang (Singapore), Innovation Associate, The Good Food Institute (GFI) APAC
2.20pm Healing Remedies & Roadside Beauties,
Flash Lecture by Adeline Kueh (Singapore), Artist, Senior Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts
2.40pm Consumer Acceptance of Alternative Proteins: Enduring and Emerging Issues,
Flash Lecture by Bianca Wassmann (Germany/Philippines), Doctoral Researcher, SEC
3.00pm BREAK
3.20pm Discussion with Assoc. Prof. Carlos Banon (Spain/Singapore), SUTD, Director and Co-Founder, AIRLAB Singapore, Valerie Pang (Singapore), Innovation Associate, GFI APAC, Adeline Kueh (Singapore), Artist, Senior Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts, and Bianca Wassmann (Germany/Philippines), Doctoral Researcher, SEC, Moderated by Prof. Thomas Schroepfer(Germany/Singapore), Co-Director, FCL-G, SEC
4.20pm BREAK
Non Conventional Food Sources
4.40pm Quantifying the Environmental Impact of Our Food – How To Make More Sustainable Choices
Flash Lecture by Dr. Iris Haberkorn (Germany/Singapore) Senior Researcher and Project Lead, SEC
5.10pm Urban Food Production in a Circular Bioeconomy with Microalgae as Case Study
Flash Lecture by Byron Perez (Ecuador/Singapore) Doctoral Researcher, SEC
5.30pm I Have Never Seen a Swimming Salmon in My Life
Flash Lecture by Hoo Fan Chon (Malaysia), Artist
5.50pm Reporting on Singapore’s Innovations of Cultivated Meat
Flash Lecture Dr. Keri Matwick (USA/Singapore) Lecturer, School of Humanities NTU and Dr. Kelsi Matwick (USA/Singapore) Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Florida
6.10pm BREAK
6.30pm Discussion with Dr. Iris Haberkorn (Germany/Singapore), Senior Researcher and Project Lead, SEC, Byron Perez (Ecuador/Singapore), Doctoral Researcher, SEC, Hoo Fan Chon (Malaysia), Artist, and Dr. Keri Matwick, Lecturer, School of Humanities NTU, and Dr. Kelsi Matwick (USA/Singapore), Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Moderated by Dr. Tanvi Maheshwari (India/Singapore), Associate Director (Research), FCL-G, SEC
Saturday, 18 February 2023
09.00am – 1.00pm
CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, 138602
Theatrette, Level 2
9.00am Registration and Coffee
Food Industries
9.30am Welcome by Co-Curators
Magdalena Magiera (Germany/Singapore), Curator and Research Associate NTU CCA Singapore, Dr. Tanvi Maheshwari (India/Singapore), Assoc. Director (Research), FCL-G, SEC
9.40am Sarawak Rice: From Traditional Significance to Modern Sustainability,
Lecture by Karen Shepherd (Malaysia) writer, content creator, and Strategic Director for UCCN Kuching Creative City
10.40am On Palms, Weevils, and Owls: Tracing more-than-human labour in the oil palm territories of Johor, Malaysia,
Flash Lecture by Hans Hortig (Austria/Singapore), Doctoral Researcher, FCL-G, SEC
11.00am Collective Making and Domestic Hacking,
Flash Lecture by Irene Agrivina (Indonesia), Artist, Co-Founder HONF and XXLAB
11.20am Microbial Fuel Cells: Mud, Microbes, and Midichlorians (of The Force),
Flash Lecture by Saad Chinoy (Singapore) Co-Founder, SpudnikLab, Storytellers’ Kitchen, and EdibleMakerspace
11.40am BREAK
12.00pm Discussion with Karen Shepherd (Malaysia), writer, content creator, and Strategic Director for UCCN Kuching Creative City, Hans Hortig (Austria/Singapore), Doctoral Researcher, FCL-G, SEC, Irene Agrivina (Indonesia), Artist, Co-Founder HONF and XXLAB, and Saad Chinoy (Singapore), Co-Founder, SpudnikLab, Storytellers’ Kitchen, and EdibleMakerspace, Moderated by Magdalena Magiera (Germany/Singapore), Curator and Research Associate NTU CCA Singapore
Saturday, 18 February 2023
04.00 – 6.00pm
National Design Centre, 111 Middle Road, Singapore 188969
Auditorium
4.00pm Circularity and 3D-printing for Addressing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Future Cities,
A Talk by Assoc. Prof. Carlos Banon, SUTD, Director and Co-Founder, AIRLAB Singapore
5.00pm Guided Exhibition Tour of Circular Futures: Next Gen (following the lecture)
Sunday, 19 February 2023
04.00 – 6.00pm
National Design Centre, 111 Middle Road, Singapore 188969
Auditorium
4.00pm The Potential for Digital Models in Urban Agriculture
A Sharing Session by Alba Lombardia (Spain/Singapore) PhD Researcher SUTD, with introductions by Prof. Thomas Schroepfer(Germany/Singapore), Co-Director, FCL-G, SEC, and Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design, SUTD, and Assoc. Prof. Carlos Banon, SUTD, Director and Co-Founder, AIRLAB Singapore
5.00pm Guided Exhibition Tour of Circular Futures: Next Gen (following the sharing session)
WORKSHOPS
Saturday, 18 February 2023
Tickets for workshops can be purchased or registered for at https://bit.ly/ntuccaideasfest2023_events
10am – 1pm To Gathering: Food Flows
with Alecia Neo (Singapore) artist, Ground-Up Initiative (Singapore), and Madhumitha Ardhanari (Singapore), Principal Sustainability Strategist, Forum for the Future
Venue: Kampung Kampus, 91 Lorong Chencharu, Singapore 769201
2.30 – 5.30pm Grow Your Own Microgreens with PVs
with Dr. Christoph Waibel (Germany/Singapore), Module Coordinator, Powering the City, FCL-G, Dr. Shi Zhongming (China/Singapore), Principal Investigator, Building Integrated Agriculture, FCL-G, Dr. Zhang Qianning (China/Singapore), Principal Investigator, Building Integrated Agriculture, NUS, Dr. Huang Zhaolu (China/Singapore), Research fellow, Building Integrated Agriculture, NUS
Venue: Future Cities Laboratory, Value Lab, Level 6, CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, Singapore 138602
3.00–5.30pm Novel Materials
with Irene Agrivina (Indonesia) Artist, Co-Founder HONF and XXLAB, and Saad Chinoy (Singapore), Co-Founder, SpudnikLab, Storytellers’ Kitchen, EdibleMakerspace
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-04, Singapore 109452
4.00 – 6.00pm An Afternoon with “Salmon” Tea Sandwich
with Hoo Fan Chon (Malaysia) Artist
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-06, Singapore 109441
Sunday, 19 February 2023
Tickets for workshops can be purchased or registered for at https://bit.ly/ntuccaideasfest2023_events
10.00am – 12.00pm Stories & Food of Semakau
with Firdaus Sani (Singapore), Founder Oranglaut.sg and The Black Sampan
Venue: West Coast Park
10.00 – 11.30am Elevating the Ordinary: Crafting a Creative Exploration of an Everyday Staple
with Karen Shepherd (Malaysia) writer, content creator, and Strategic Director, UCCN Kuching Creative City, Raine Melissa Riman(Malaysia), Co-Curator, E.A.T Borneo Conference, media strategist and social media lead, What About Kuching Festival, and Dr. Franca Cole (UK/Malaysia), Consultant in Conservation and Archaeology, Sarawak Museum, Lecturer, NTU ADM
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-04, Singapore 109452
10.00 – 12pm Healing Remedies & Roadside Beauties
with Adeline Kueh (Singapore), Artist, Senior Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-02, Singapore 109452
10am – 12.30pm Edible Wild
with Native’s Joy Chee, Resident Bartender, Gardener at Native Bar
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 6 Lock Road, Research Office, Singapore 108934
11.30am – 1.30pm Human Created Food Crisis
with Mahbubur Rahman (Bangladesh), Artist, Co-Founder and Trustee, Britto Arts Trust and Shimul Saha (Bangladesh), Artist, both members of Britto Arts Trust.
Venue: Intermission Bar, The Projector, 6001 Beach Rd, #05-00 GOLDEN MILE TOWER, Singapore 199589
2.30 – 5.30pm DIY Self-Watering Plant Robot!
with Dr. Christoph Waibel (Germany/Singapore), Module Coordinator, Powering the City, FCL-G, Dr. Shi Zhongming (China/Singapore), Principal Investigator, Building Integrated Agriculture, FCL-G, Dr. Zhang Qianning (China/Singapore), Principal Investigator, Building Integrated Agriculture, NUS, Dr. Huang Zhaolu (China/Singapore), Research Fellow, Building Integrated Agriculture, NUS
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-02, Singapore 109452
3.00 – 5.00pm How Food Media Affect What We Eat
with Dr. Keri Matwick (USA /Singapore) Lecturer, School of Humanities NTU and Dr. Kelsi Matwick (USA /Singapore) Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-04, Singapore 109452
EXHIBITIONS
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 & 38 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
Exhibition Hours
Thursday, 16 – Sunday, 19 February 2023, 12.00 – 7.00pm
Free admission to all exhibitions
Hello! I am a Black Soldier Fly and I am Transforming the Global Food System
Primary Contributor: Niraly Mangal, Doctoral Researcher, SEC
Other Contributors: Adrian Fuhrmann, PhD Researcher, SEC, Vartika Goenka, Research Assistant, SEC, Heng Chin Wee, Research Assistant SEC, Shaktheeshwari Silvaraju, PhD Student, SEC, Chloe Tan, Research Assistant, SEC, Tan Yong Jen, Research Assistant, SEC, Yanyun Yan, Research Associate, Zhang Qihui, PhD student
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03, Singapore 109452
Sustainable Food Systems with Microalgae-based Proteins
Dr. Iris Haberkorn, Senior Researcher and Project Lead, SEC, Byron Perez, Doctoral Researcher, SEC, Helena Schmitt, PhD Researcher, SEC, Carole Zermatten, Student SEC
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03, Singapore 109452
Hoo Fan Chon
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-06, Singapore 109441
The Journey of Food
Primary Contributors: Yuhao Lu, Postdoc. Researcher, FCL-G, Helen Lei Fan, Research Assistants, FCL-G
Other Contributors: Kaiyu Lu, Research Assistants, FCL-G, Muhammad Is’Maill Bin Azman, Research Assistants, FCL-G, Isabella Meo, Research Assistants, FCL-G, Jasper Phang Wee Keat, Research Assistants, FCL-G, Zi Gui Toh, Research Assistants, FCL-G,Loo Yanshan, Research Assistants, FCL-G
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-05, Singapore 109441
Potential Agriterritories – Agrarian Questions and Agroecological Design Architecture of Territory
Assoc. Prof. Milica Topalovic, Architecture and Territorial Planning, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, Alice Clarke, Teaching Assistant, Architecture of Territory, ETH Zurich, Hans Hortig, Doctoral Researcher, FCL-G, SEC, Karoline Kostka, Senior Researcher, New Urban Agendas for Agrarian Territories, FCL-G, SEC, and Students of the joint Master of Advanced Studies at the ETH Zürich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (ETH EPFL MAS UTD)
NTU CCA Singapore, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-07, Singapore 109441
This Exhibition was part of SEA AiR Studio Residencies for Southeast Asia Artists in the European Union Cycle 1, a programme funded by the European Union. Despite Hoo Fan Chon’s hope that the residency at Helsinki International Artist Programme would provide some respite from his obsession with fish-based iconography and symbolism, upon arriving in Helsinki the artist found himself immediately drawn to the salmon pink colour that commonly adorns buildings in Finland. This chromatic cue ignited his interest in issues of taste, class aesthetics, and fish culture triggering an erratic investigation about the cosmetic processing of farmed salmon, the environmental plight of this fish, and the social status of its consumption as a signifier of class and wealth. Inspired by amateur tutorials commonly found on YouTube, the video How to turn your siakap into salmon illustrates DIY techniques to colour fish. While the pink pigmentation of wild salmons is due to a natural diet made of krill and shrimp, the flesh of farmed salmon is off-white. In order to achieve the vibrant hue that makes salmon appealing to consumers, farmed salmons are regularly fed synthetic carotenoids, the health implications of which are still under scrutiny. In Southeast Asia, salmon is a luxury good and its consumption bespeaks the Western lifestyle aspirations of a rising global middle class.
The ironic speculation on how to “domesticate” a foreign species continues in I have never seen a swimming salmon in my life. Accompanied by a voiceover by Sir David Attenborough borrowed from an advocacy campaign to protect salmon, the installation features 3D animations of salmon cuts—fillet, loin and streak—swimming inside a fish tank, a staple fixture in Chinese seafood restaurants. The artist’s familiar-yet-distant relation to salmon culminates with Finnish landscape painting series, an installation featuring 13 paintings hung on a salmon pink wall. In this series, the artist introduced the motif of the proverbial “carp leaping over the dragon’s gate” and auspicious Chinese blessings into existing Finnish landscape paintings purchased in thrift shops around Helsinki. Both salmon and carps are known for their strength and jumping ability; in Chinese culture, the iconography of the leaping carp symbolises courage and perseverance leading to wealth and prestige.
HELLO! I AM A BLACK SOLDIER FLY AND I AM TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM
Primary Contributor: NIRALY MANGAL
Other Contributors: ADRIAN FUHRMANN, VARTIKA GOENKA , HENG CHIN WEE, SHAK THEESHWARI SILVARAJU, CHLOE TAN, TANG YONG JEN, YANYUN YAN, ZHANG QIHUI
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03, Singapore 109452
The small island state of Singapore imports 90% of food from overseas and uses less than 1% of its land for agricultural use. Developing approaches to an alternative food system based on insects, seaweed, microalgae or cultured meat can contribute to securing a resilient food future for Singapore and contribute to its “30 by 30” policy. But how do we create a circular food system in our cities? Food waste management holds the key to closing the loop. This exhibition demonstrates a nature-based solution for urban food waste management using the black soldier fly, the superfly that is transforming the global food system. It showcases how black soldier fly facilities convert local food waste into high-quality animal feed and fertilizers, which can then be used by other forms of urban agriculture, such as vertical or indoor farming and aquaponics. On display is your food’s journey from consumption to waste processing, showing how the black soldier flies upcycle it into by-products that carry valuable nutrients back into the food chain. This process not only helps to use land efficiently but also to synergise the built environment of Singapore with the social benefits of urban agriculture.
This research is a collaboration between researchers from the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore-ETH Centre and ETH Zurich. This research is supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme.
THE JOURNEY OF FOOD
Primary Contributors: DR YUHAO LU, HELEN LEI FAN
Other Contributors: ZI GUI TOH, MUHAMMAD IS’MAILL BIN AZMAN, KAIYU LU, JASPER PHANG WEE KEAT, ISABELL A MEO LOO YANSHAN
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-05, Singapore 109441
Considering urbanisation through the lens of food is important as cities grow, particularly in Asia, where cities are consuming fertile agricultural land at an unprecedented rate. Simultaneously, the industrialised agricultural practices developed to meet the rising food demands of urbanising populations are degrading and residualising the countryside. Mitigating the impact of climate change on Singapore’s food security requires both short-term tactics and long-term strategies. This includes sustainable and smart production in source countries and locally in Singapore, as well as raising public awareness on food waste. Displayed is the journey of rice—one of Singapore’s staple food sources, from its cultivation, processing, transportation and arrival in Singapore. As an island nation that highly depends on imports, Singapore relies heavily on the global food chain to source even its most basic food ingredients. This interactive exhibition shows, in a playful way, the pressing food-related challenges and hardship of conventional food cultivation.
POTENTIAL AGRITERRITORIES — AGRARIAN QUESTIONS AND AGROECOLOGICAL DESIGN. ARCHITECTURE OF TERRITORY.
MILICA TOPALOVIC, KAROLINE KOSTKA, HANS HORTIG, ALICE CLARKE AND STUDENTS OF ETH EPFL MAS UTD
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-07, Singapore 109441
With nearly half of the total land area on the planet dedicated to agricultural production, the urbanisation and industrialisation of agrarian territories have emerged among the most urgent impacts affecting ecologies and ecosystems around the world. Their effects include increasing dependence on fertilisers, pesticides and fossil fuels; depletion of soil fertility, water and natural resources; consumption of land; forced migration, and other disadvantages for local populations. Through fieldwork in agrarian regions supporting Zurich and Singapore, Potential Agriterritories explores critical questions emerging under 21st-century planetary urbanisation. We asked ourselves, what would be the alternatives to global food regimes that shape regional agricultural landscapes and local food cultures? Can we de-commodify agricultural territories of the Global North, such as those we encounter around Zurich? Can we decolonise plantations of the Global South, such as palm oil plantations surrounding Singapore? Can we re-examine the ways in which plants and animals are used in industrial food systems? How can novel and pioneering practices—from regenerative to solidarity agriculture—move us towards more local and regional food systems? What potential agrarianisms from today, and rural experiences from the past, may help restore relationships of care and reciprocity with soil and biodiversity?
The exhibition showcases parts of an evolving research and design archive created by Architecture of Territory at ETH Zurich. The two large maps explore urbanisation pro-cesses and their effects on emerging agricultural territories and landscapes in the metro-politan regions of Zurich (2023) and the Singapore-Johor-Riau (2015). Placed in dialogue, those maps present foreign and familiar (agricultural) landscapes with the intent to provoke critical reflection on regional, sustainable food production amongst the ongoing agricultural intensification and urbanisation. The video footage shows agricultural prac-tices in Singapore-Johor-Riau and around Zurich, including experimental and pioneering practices of permaculture, solidarity agriculture and biodynamic farming.
SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS WITH MICROALGAE-BASED PROTEINS
DR. IRIS HABERKORN, BYRON PEREZ, HELENA SCHMITT, & CAROLE ZERMATTEN
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03, Singapore 109452
Despite decent intentions of establishing sustainable food systems to support a stead-ily growing global population, traditional food production systems and their associated value-chains are exceeding our planetary boundaries. Sustaining a growing and increasingly urbanised population will require the development of novel food production and processing concepts that focus on shifting traditional linear production concepts towards circular solutions. Singapore aims to increase its domestic, independent food supply and a population growing under highly urbanised constraints with the “30 by 30” initiative. However, arable land in Singapore is limited and traditional food production and processing methods alone cannot meet this goal. This exhibition highlights how a state-of-the-art urban single-cell protein production platform could support Singapore in reaching it using microalgae, embedded in the context of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals—and explores what microalgae looks like, how it grows and is processed as well as potential taste experiences
This Exhibition was part of SEA AiR Studio Residencies for Southeast Asia Artists in the European Union Cycle 1, a programme funded by the European Union. Despite Hoo Fan Chon’s hope that the residency at Helsinki International Artist Programme would provide some respite from his obsession with fish-based iconography and symbolism, upon arriving in Helsinki the artist found himself immediately drawn to the salmon pink colour that commonly adorns buildings in Finland. This chromatic cue ignited his interest in issues of taste, class aesthetics, and fish culture triggering an erratic investigation about the cosmetic processing of farmed salmon, the environmental plight of this fish, and the social status of its consumption as a signifier of class and wealth. Inspired by amateur tutorials commonly found on YouTube, the video How to turn your siakap into salmon illustrates DIY techniques to colour fish. While the pink pigmentation of wild salmons is due to a natural diet made of krill and shrimp, the flesh of farmed salmon is off-white. In order to achieve the vibrant hue that makes salmon appealing to consumers, farmed salmons are regularly fed synthetic carotenoids, the health implications of which are still under scrutiny. In Southeast Asia, salmon is a luxury good and its consumption bespeaks the Western lifestyle aspirations of a rising global middle class.
The ironic speculation on how to “domesticate” a foreign species continues in I have never seen a swimming salmon in my life. Accompanied by a voiceover by Sir David Attenborough borrowed from an advocacy campaign to protect salmon, the installation features 3D animations of salmon cuts—fillet, loin and streak—swimming inside a fish tank, a staple fixture in Chinese seafood restaurants. The artist’s familiar-yet-distant relation to salmon culminates with Finnish landscape painting series, an installation featuring 13 paintings hung on a salmon pink wall. In this series, the artist introduced the motif of the proverbial “carp leaping over the dragon’s gate” and auspicious Chinese blessings into existing Finnish landscape paintings purchased in thrift shops around Helsinki. Both salmon and carps are known for their strength and jumping ability; in Chinese culture, the iconography of the leaping carp symbolises courage and perseverance leading to wealth and prestige.
HELLO! I AM A BLACK SOLDIER FLY AND I AM TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM
Primary Contributor: NIRALY MANGAL
Other Contributors: ADRIAN FUHRMANN, VARTIKA GOENKA , HENG CHIN WEE, SHAK THEESHWARI SILVARAJU, CHLOE TAN, TANG YONG JEN, YANYUN YAN, ZHANG QIHUI
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03, Singapore 109452
The small island state of Singapore imports 90% of food from overseas and uses less than 1% of its land for agricultural use. Developing approaches to an alternative food system based on insects, seaweed, microalgae or cultured meat can contribute to securing a resilient food future for Singapore and contribute to its “30 by 30” policy. But how do we create a circular food system in our cities? Food waste management holds the key to closing the loop. This exhibition demonstrates a nature-based solution for urban food waste management using the black soldier fly, the superfly that is transforming the global food system. It showcases how black soldier fly facilities convert local food waste into high-quality animal feed and fertilizers, which can then be used by other forms of urban agriculture, such as vertical or indoor farming and aquaponics. On display is your food’s journey from consumption to waste processing, showing how the black soldier flies upcycle it into by-products that carry valuable nutrients back into the food chain. This process not only helps to use land efficiently but also to synergise the built environment of Singapore with the social benefits of urban agriculture.
This research is a collaboration between researchers from the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore-ETH Centre and ETH Zurich. This research is supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme.
THE JOURNEY OF FOOD
Primary Contributors: DR YUHAO LU, HELEN LEI FAN
Other Contributors: ZI GUI TOH, MUHAMMAD IS’MAILL BIN AZMAN, KAIYU LU, JASPER PHANG WEE KEAT, ISABELL A MEO LOO YANSHAN
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-05, Singapore 109441
Considering urbanisation through the lens of food is important as cities grow, particularly in Asia, where cities are consuming fertile agricultural land at an unprecedented rate. Simultaneously, the industrialised agricultural practices developed to meet the rising food demands of urbanising populations are degrading and residualising the countryside. Mitigating the impact of climate change on Singapore’s food security requires both short-term tactics and long-term strategies. This includes sustainable and smart production in source countries and locally in Singapore, as well as raising public awareness on food waste. Displayed is the journey of rice—one of Singapore’s staple food sources, from its cultivation, processing, transportation and arrival in Singapore. As an island nation that highly depends on imports, Singapore relies heavily on the global food chain to source even its most basic food ingredients. This interactive exhibition shows, in a playful way, the pressing food-related challenges and hardship of conventional food cultivation.
POTENTIAL AGRITERRITORIES — AGRARIAN QUESTIONS AND AGROECOLOGICAL DESIGN. ARCHITECTURE OF TERRITORY.
MILICA TOPALOVIC, KAROLINE KOSTKA, HANS HORTIG, ALICE CLARKE AND STUDENTS OF ETH EPFL MAS UTD
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 38 Malan Road, #01-07, Singapore 109441
With nearly half of the total land area on the planet dedicated to agricultural production, the urbanisation and industrialisation of agrarian territories have emerged among the most urgent impacts affecting ecologies and ecosystems around the world. Their effects include increasing dependence on fertilisers, pesticides and fossil fuels; depletion of soil fertility, water and natural resources; consumption of land; forced migration, and other disadvantages for local populations. Through fieldwork in agrarian regions supporting Zurich and Singapore, Potential Agriterritories explores critical questions emerging under 21st-century planetary urbanisation. We asked ourselves, what would be the alternatives to global food regimes that shape regional agricultural landscapes and local food cultures? Can we de-commodify agricultural territories of the Global North, such as those we encounter around Zurich? Can we decolonise plantations of the Global South, such as palm oil plantations surrounding Singapore? Can we re-examine the ways in which plants and animals are used in industrial food systems? How can novel and pioneering practices—from regenerative to solidarity agriculture—move us towards more local and regional food systems? What potential agrarianisms from today, and rural experiences from the past, may help restore relationships of care and reciprocity with soil and biodiversity?
The exhibition showcases parts of an evolving research and design archive created by Architecture of Territory at ETH Zurich. The two large maps explore urbanisation pro-cesses and their effects on emerging agricultural territories and landscapes in the metro-politan regions of Zurich (2023) and the Singapore-Johor-Riau (2015). Placed in dialogue, those maps present foreign and familiar (agricultural) landscapes with the intent to provoke critical reflection on regional, sustainable food production amongst the ongoing agricultural intensification and urbanisation. The video footage shows agricultural prac-tices in Singapore-Johor-Riau and around Zurich, including experimental and pioneering practices of permaculture, solidarity agriculture and biodynamic farming.
SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS WITH MICROALGAE-BASED PROTEINS
DR. IRIS HABERKORN, BYRON PEREZ, HELENA SCHMITT, & CAROLE ZERMATTEN
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03, Singapore 109452
Despite decent intentions of establishing sustainable food systems to support a stead-ily growing global population, traditional food production systems and their associated value-chains are exceeding our planetary boundaries. Sustaining a growing and increasingly urbanised population will require the development of novel food production and processing concepts that focus on shifting traditional linear production concepts towards circular solutions. Singapore aims to increase its domestic, independent food supply and a population growing under highly urbanised constraints with the “30 by 30” initiative. However, arable land in Singapore is limited and traditional food production and processing methods alone cannot meet this goal. This exhibition highlights how a state-of-the-art urban single-cell protein production platform could support Singapore in reaching it using microalgae, embedded in the context of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals—and explores what microalgae looks like, how it grows and is processed as well as potential taste experiences
Building upon the NTU CCA Singapore’s research theme Climates. Habitats. Environments. and IdeasCity’s exploration of the role of art and culture beyond the walls of the museum, IdeasCity Singapore’s residency and public program will examine the urgency of solidarity structures in negating climate change and its impact on Southeast Asia and communities worldwide.
Twenty practitioners have been selected from an international open call for the residency program at the NTU CCA Singapore to develop independent research at the intersection of art and ecology. Throughout the residency, participants will engage in workshops and lectures presented by local artists, practitioners, and community leaders, including Heman Chong, Lynette Chua, Drama Box, Charles Lim, Zarina Muhammad, and Post-Museum, along with organizations such as New Naratif, The Projector, Singapore Community Radio, soft/WALLS/studs, and The Substation.
Residency Fellows include: Francisco Brown (United States), Jane Chang Mi (United States), Kar-men Cheng (Singapore), Lingying Chong (Singapore), Chloe C. Chotrani (Philippines/Singapore), Calvin Chua (Singapore), Fataah T. Dihaan (United States), ila (Singapore), Heider Ismail (Singapore), Lily Kwong (United States), Clarissa Ai Ling Lee (Malaysia), Michelle Lai (Singapore), Kwan Q Li (Hong Kong), Angela Mayrina (Indonesia/United Kingdom), John Kenneth Paranada (Philippines/United Kingdom), Patricia Sayuri (Japan/Brazil), Pen Sereypagna (Cambodia), Shahmen Suku (Singapore/Australia), Ruby Thiagarajan (Singapore), Dat Vu (Vietnam), Nikan Wasinondh (Bow) (Thailand) and Jason Wee (Singapore). For more information please visit: http://www.ideas-city.org.
On February 22, 2020 at NTU CCA Singapore, IdeasCity Singapore will present and broadcast a series of dialogues between local and international artists and community leaders on topics including food sovereignty (Angela Dimayuga and Emeka Ogboh), underground archives (Heman Chong and Monica Narula of Raqs Media Collective), image and power (Ho Rui An and Shumon Basar), ecofeminism (Marwa Arsanios), and traces of migration (Kunlé Adeyemi, Eleena Jamil, Bouchra Khalili and Alfian Sa’at). A sequence of debate circles will examine the roles of solidarity and speculation in addressing climate injustice, featuring interdisciplinary perspectives from speakers such as Becca D’Bus, Kirsten Han, Prasoon Kumar and Zarina Muhammad.
Workshops and conversations facilitated by Bakudapan Food Study Group and a presentation of new VR work by artist Rindon Johnson will invite select audiences to engage directly with artists envisioning pathways to equitable and sustainable futures. The programme will also feature screenings, showings, and remarks by performance artist ila and Digital Minister of Taiwan, Audrey Tang.
Responding to the context of climate crisis, in which artists, activists, and scholars around the world are working today, IdeasCity Singapore will include a series of programmes across Southeast Asia in collaboration with The Forest Curriculum and Nomina Nuda (Los Baños, Philippines), Malaysia Design Archive (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), House of Natural Fiber (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), The Land (Chiang Mai, Thailand), Sàn Art (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (Boston, United States).
Facilitated by IdeasCity and workshopped at NTU CCA Singapore with an advisory council of Singaporean community members whose work exemplifies equitable practices, a community agreement was developed that details best practices for achieving an accountable, sustainable, and authentic collaboration in Singapore.
Programme on 22 February 2020
10.00am
Start and Finish by Ute Meta Bauer and Vere van Gool
10.15am
Dialogues by Shumon Basar and Ho Rui An on capitalism and the extreme self
11.00am
Lecture by Kirsten Han on emergent medias and speech
11.20am
Film screening by ila
12.00pm
Presentation by Heman Chong on archives as commons
12.15pm
Lecture Screening by Marwa Arsanios on ecofeminism and community
1.00pm
Presentation by Monica Narula on submarine horizons
1.30pm
Performance by Radha “Midnight Masala”
1.55pm
Hologram lecture by Audrey Tang
2.00pm
Conversation between Becca D’Bus and Fellows on solidarity with nature
3.00pm
Discussion by Shumon Basar, Heman Chong, Vere van Gool, Charles Lim, and Zarina Muhammad on sovereignty and indigenous contexts
4.00pm
Lecture by Emeka Ogboh on food diasporas
4.15pm
Reading by Alfian Sa’at on the poetics of migration
4.30pm
Presentations by House of Natural Fiber and the Land Foundation on strategies for combatting climate change
5.00pm
Video Presentation by Angela Dimayuga on culture and cookbooks
5.10pm
Discussion by Ute Meta Bauer, Vanessa Ho, and Prasoon Kumar on trust networks and sustainability
6.00pm
Kitchen Mapping Workshop by Bakudapan Food Study Group
6.30pm
VR Demo by Rindon Johnson on speculative futures
7.00pm
Roundtable by Fellows
7.45pm
Live Music by Bani Haykal
8.00pm
Lecture Screenings by Kunlé Adeyemi, Eleena Jamil, and Bouchra Khalili on the poetics of migration
10.00pm
Start and Finish by Ute Meta Bauer and Vere van Gool
NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2020 is guest-curated by IdeasCity, New Museum, New York.
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and the New Museum are pleased to announce participants and collaborators for the second edition of the NTU CCA Ideas Fest, IdeasCity Singapore, guest-curated by IdeasCity, taking place in Singapore and across Southeast Asia from February 15 to 22, 2020.
Building upon the NTU CCA Singapore’s research theme Climates. Habitats. Environments. and IdeasCity’s exploration of the role of art and culture beyond the walls of the museum, IdeasCity Singapore’s residency and public program will examine the urgency of solidarity structures in negating climate change and its impact on Southeast Asia and communities worldwide.
Twenty practitioners have been selected from an international open call for the residency program at the NTU CCA Singapore to develop independent research at the intersection of art and ecology. Throughout the residency, participants will engage in workshops and lectures presented by local artists, practitioners, and community leaders, including Heman Chong, Lynette Chua, Drama Box, Charles Lim, Zarina Muhammad, and Post-Museum, along with organizations such as New Naratif, The Projector, Singapore Community Radio, soft/WALLS/studs, and The Substation.
Residency Fellows include: Francisco Brown (United States), Jane Chang Mi (United States), Kar-men Cheng (Singapore), Lingying Chong (Singapore), Chloe C. Chotrani (Philippines/Singapore), Calvin Chua (Singapore), Fataah T. Dihaan (United States), ila (Singapore), Heider Ismail (Singapore), Lily Kwong (United States), Clarissa Ai Ling Lee (Malaysia), Michelle Lai (Singapore), Kwan Q Li (Hong Kong), Angela Mayrina (Indonesia/United Kingdom), John Kenneth Paranada (Philippines/United Kingdom), Patricia Sayuri (Japan/Brazil), Pen Sereypagna (Cambodia), Shahmen Suku (Singapore/Australia), Ruby Thiagarajan (Singapore), Dat Vu (Vietnam), Nikan Wasinondh (Bow) (Thailand) and Jason Wee (Singapore). For more information please visit: http://www.ideas-city.org.
On February 22, 2020 at NTU CCA Singapore, IdeasCity Singapore will present and broadcast a series of dialogues between local and international artists and community leaders on topics including food sovereignty (Angela Dimayuga and Emeka Ogboh), underground archives (Heman Chong and Monica Narula of Raqs Media Collective), image and power (Ho Rui An and Shumon Basar), ecofeminism (Marwa Arsanios), and traces of migration (Kunlé Adeyemi, Eleena Jamil, Bouchra Khalili and Alfian Sa’at). A sequence of debate circles will examine the roles of solidarity and speculation in addressing climate injustice, featuring interdisciplinary perspectives from speakers such as Becca D’Bus, Kirsten Han, Prasoon Kumar and Zarina Muhammad.
Workshops and conversations facilitated by Bakudapan Food Study Group and a presentation of new VR work by artist Rindon Johnson will invite select audiences to engage directly with artists envisioning pathways to equitable and sustainable futures. The programme will also feature screenings, showings, and remarks by performance artist ila and Digital Minister of Taiwan, Audrey Tang.
Responding to the context of climate crisis, in which artists, activists, and scholars around the world are working today, IdeasCity Singapore will include a series of programmes across Southeast Asia in collaboration with The Forest Curriculum and Nomina Nuda (Los Baños, Philippines), Malaysia Design Archive (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), House of Natural Fiber (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), The Land (Chiang Mai, Thailand), Sàn Art (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (Boston, United States).
Facilitated by IdeasCity and workshopped at NTU CCA Singapore with an advisory council of Singaporean community members whose work exemplifies equitable practices, a community agreement was developed that details best practices for achieving an accountable, sustainable, and authentic collaboration in Singapore.
Programme on 22 February 2020
10.00am
Start and Finish by Ute Meta Bauer and Vere van Gool
10.15am
Dialogues by Shumon Basar and Ho Rui An on capitalism and the extreme self
11.00am
Lecture by Kirsten Han on emergent medias and speech
11.20am
Film screening by ila
12.00pm
Presentation by Heman Chong on archives as commons
12.15pm
Lecture Screening by Marwa Arsanios on ecofeminism and community
1.00pm
Presentation by Monica Narula on submarine horizons
1.30pm
Performance by Radha “Midnight Masala”
1.55pm
Hologram lecture by Audrey Tang
2.00pm
Conversation between Becca D’Bus and Fellows on solidarity with nature
3.00pm
Discussion by Shumon Basar, Heman Chong, Vere van Gool, Charles Lim, and Zarina Muhammad on sovereignty and indigenous contexts
4.00pm
Lecture by Emeka Ogboh on food diasporas
4.15pm
Reading by Alfian Sa’at on the poetics of migration
4.30pm
Presentations by House of Natural Fiber and the Land Foundation on strategies for combatting climate change
5.00pm
Video Presentation by Angela Dimayuga on culture and cookbooks
5.10pm
Discussion by Ute Meta Bauer, Vanessa Ho, and Prasoon Kumar on trust networks and sustainability
6.00pm
Kitchen Mapping Workshop by Bakudapan Food Study Group
6.30pm
VR Demo by Rindon Johnson on speculative futures
7.00pm
Roundtable by Fellows
7.45pm
Live Music by Bani Haykal
8.00pm
Lecture Screenings by Kunlé Adeyemi, Eleena Jamil, and Bouchra Khalili on the poetics of migration
10.00pm
Start and Finish by Ute Meta Bauer and Vere van Gool
NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2020 is guest-curated by IdeasCity, New Museum, New York.
In the first half of 2022, amidst unrelenting surges of the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the artists took off from their home countries to conduct three-month-long residencies: Hoo Fan Chon at HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme (Finland); Citra Sasmita at WIELS (Brussels, Belgium); and Vuth Lyno at Villa Arson (Nice, France). The artworks featured in the exhibition Hoo Fan Chon, Citra Sasmita, Vuth Lyno: New Works have been created by the artists in the months following their residencies, a much-needed time for critical reflection and material experimentation that allowed them to develop their research findings and creative inspiration into full-fledged artworks. Ranging from installation and video to sculpture and painting, some of these works also mark these artists’ first attempts at embracing new mediums and materials: 3D animation techniques for Hoo Fan Chon, video for Citra Sasmita, and paper for Vuth Lyno. Most importantly, they bear witness to how the artists’ interests in the cosmetics of food, cultural contaminations, decolonial practices, the empowerment of women, and the resilience of marginalised communities, have evolved over the last year.
In residence at HIAP—Helsinki International Artist Programme (Finland) from late February to late May, Hoo Fan Chon soon became fascinated by the salmon pink hue that adorns the facades of many buildings across Finland and its neighbouring countries. This chromatic cue tied in with the artist’s ongoing interest in issues of taste, class, and fish culture—the son of a fisherman, fish-based imagery and foodscapes are often the subject of his work. Hoo Fan Chon’s erratic investigation, imbued with a distinctive sense of irony, around the cosmetic processing of farmed salmon and the social status of salmon consumption as a signifier of class and wealth in Chinese culture resulted in a multimedia installation. How to turn your siakap into salmon is a video work, inspired by tutorials commonly found on YouTube, that illustrates DIY techniques to colour affordable fish in order to simulate a salmon-eating experience. The artist’s first experiment with 3D animation, the installation I have never seen a swimming salmon in my life projects swimming salmon cuts onto an aquarium with a voiceover about the plights that threaten the survival of salmons. Finnish landscape painting series is a series of painterly interventions on found paintings where Chinese blessings and images of the proverbial “carp leaping over the dragon’s gate” are inscribed onto landscape paintings that the artist sourced from thrift shops around Helsinki.
The artistic practice of Citra Sasmita revisits ancient Balinese mythologies and retools traditional artistic techniques and materials to address misconceptions that persist in contemporary society, especially with regard to the status of women. The residency at WIELS (Brussels, Belgium) from April to June enabled her to encounter and research the legacy of her ancestors held in European museum collections built during the colonial era by often dubious and unethical means. The installation Timur Merah Project VIII: Pilgrim, How You Journey revolves around the figure of I Dewa Agung Istri Kanya, a queen of the Klungkung kingdom in Bali, who fiercely opposed the Dutch colonisers in the 19th century. Ruled out from most historical accounts, the history of this charismatic woman leader is revived in Citra’s powerful imagery and interspersed with scenes from the Bhima Swarga epic depicting the hero’s journey between Heaven and Hell. Painted on traditional Kamasan canvases, the paintings are mounted on antique pillars arranged in an eight-pointed star configuration that references ancient Balinese cosmologies. The installation also comprises a double-channel video, the artist’s first video work, in which a singer performs the poem Prelambang Bhasa Wewatekan (The Coded Language of Symbols), written by the Queen herself. Underneath the tantric symbolism of the poem secretly lurk the Queen’s memoir, anti-Dutch propaganda messages, and military strategies.
Pursuing intersecting interests in architecture, the politics of space, and place-making practices, during the residency at Villa Arson (Nice, France) from March to May, Vuth Lyno had the opportunity to travel several times to the French capital and research the architectural remnants of the 1931 International Colonial Exposition which took place in the Bois de Vincennes, a forest park in Eastern Paris. He discovered that the former Cameroon Pavilion was turned into a Buddhist temple in the late 1970s. Following its conversion into a place of worship, the building and the surrounding greenery have come to play an important role in the spiritual, cultural, and social life of the Cambodian community in France. A migrant community’s appropriation of a site previously used to display colonial (mis)representations of those very communities led the artist to develop a broader reflection on the role of urban parks as sites of refuge wherein minorities and marginalised groups (sex workers, queer communities, the homeless, etc.) can find emancipation and enact their agency. The resulting installation Vibrating Park-Forest ensues from a comparative study of heterogenous uses and grassroots practices that unfold in specific parks in Paris, Phnom Penh, and Singapore. Vibrating Park-Forest is the artist’s first installation made of paper, a material he began to experiment with during his residency at Villa Arson.
The exhibition is curated by Dr Anna Lovecchio, Assistant Director (Programmes), and NTU CCA Singapore. The project leader of SEA AiR is Ute Meta Bauer Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore, and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University.
SEA AiR—Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian Artists in the European Union is funded by the European Union.
Dates
Official Opening in the presence of H.E. Iwona Piórko, EU Ambassador to Singapore and the artists
10 January 2023, 4.00 – 5.00pm
Public preview: 4.00 – 7.00pm
Creative Trajectories
Artist talk by Hoo Fan Chon, Citra Sasmita, and Vuth Lyno
11 January 2023, 6.00 – 7.30pm
Exhibition Hours
11 January – 5 February 2023
Tue to Sun: 12.00 – 7.00pm
13 January: 12.00 – 9.00pm
Open on public holidays (except Mondays)
Location
NTU CCA Singapore Residencies Studios
Blocks 38 Malan Road
Singapore 109441
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and the European Union Delegation to Singapore are pleased to present the exhibition Hoo Fan Chon, Citra Sasmita, Vuth Lyno: New Works. The exhibition marks the culmination of the first cycle of SEA AiR—Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian Artists in the European Union (SEA AiR). As participating artists in the inaugural cycle of SEA AiR, Hoo Fan Chon (Malaysia), Citra Sasmita (Indonesia), and Vuth Lyno (Cambodia) have each been awarded a three-month-long residency at an art institution in Europe as well as funding for the creation of artworks.
In the first half of 2022, amidst unrelenting surges of the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the artists took off from their home countries to conduct three-month-long residencies: Hoo Fan Chon at HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme (Finland); Citra Sasmita at WIELS (Brussels, Belgium); and Vuth Lyno at Villa Arson (Nice, France). The artworks featured in the exhibition Hoo Fan Chon, Citra Sasmita, Vuth Lyno: New Works have been created by the artists in the months following their residencies, a much-needed time for critical reflection and material experimentation that allowed them to develop their research findings and creative inspiration into full-fledged artworks. Ranging from installation and video to sculpture and painting, some of these works also mark these artists’ first attempts at embracing new mediums and materials: 3D animation techniques for Hoo Fan Chon, video for Citra Sasmita, and paper for Vuth Lyno. Most importantly, they bear witness to how the artists’ interests in the cosmetics of food, cultural contaminations, decolonial practices, the empowerment of women, and the resilience of marginalised communities, have evolved over the last year.
In residence at HIAP—Helsinki International Artist Programme (Finland) from late February to late May, Hoo Fan Chon soon became fascinated by the salmon pink hue that adorns the facades of many buildings across Finland and its neighbouring countries. This chromatic cue tied in with the artist’s ongoing interest in issues of taste, class, and fish culture—the son of a fisherman, fish-based imagery and foodscapes are often the subject of his work. Hoo Fan Chon’s erratic investigation, imbued with a distinctive sense of irony, around the cosmetic processing of farmed salmon and the social status of salmon consumption as a signifier of class and wealth in Chinese culture resulted in a multimedia installation. How to turn your siakap into salmon is a video work, inspired by tutorials commonly found on YouTube, that illustrates DIY techniques to colour affordable fish in order to simulate a salmon-eating experience. The artist’s first experiment with 3D animation, the installation I have never seen a swimming salmon in my life projects swimming salmon cuts onto an aquarium with a voiceover about the plights that threaten the survival of salmons. Finnish landscape painting series is a series of painterly interventions on found paintings where Chinese blessings and images of the proverbial “carp leaping over the dragon’s gate” are inscribed onto landscape paintings that the artist sourced from thrift shops around Helsinki.
The artistic practice of Citra Sasmita revisits ancient Balinese mythologies and retools traditional artistic techniques and materials to address misconceptions that persist in contemporary society, especially with regard to the status of women. The residency at WIELS (Brussels, Belgium) from April to June enabled her to encounter and research the legacy of her ancestors held in European museum collections built during the colonial era by often dubious and unethical means. The installation Timur Merah Project VIII: Pilgrim, How You Journey revolves around the figure of I Dewa Agung Istri Kanya, a queen of the Klungkung kingdom in Bali, who fiercely opposed the Dutch colonisers in the 19th century. Ruled out from most historical accounts, the history of this charismatic woman leader is revived in Citra’s powerful imagery and interspersed with scenes from the Bhima Swarga epic depicting the hero’s journey between Heaven and Hell. Painted on traditional Kamasan canvases, the paintings are mounted on antique pillars arranged in an eight-pointed star configuration that references ancient Balinese cosmologies. The installation also comprises a double-channel video, the artist’s first video work, in which a singer performs the poem Prelambang Bhasa Wewatekan (The Coded Language of Symbols), written by the Queen herself. Underneath the tantric symbolism of the poem secretly lurk the Queen’s memoir, anti-Dutch propaganda messages, and military strategies.
Pursuing intersecting interests in architecture, the politics of space, and place-making practices, during the residency at Villa Arson (Nice, France) from March to May, Vuth Lyno had the opportunity to travel several times to the French capital and research the architectural remnants of the 1931 International Colonial Exposition which took place in the Bois de Vincennes, a forest park in Eastern Paris. He discovered that the former Cameroon Pavilion was turned into a Buddhist temple in the late 1970s. Following its conversion into a place of worship, the building and the surrounding greenery have come to play an important role in the spiritual, cultural, and social life of the Cambodian community in France. A migrant community’s appropriation of a site previously used to display colonial (mis)representations of those very communities led the artist to develop a broader reflection on the role of urban parks as sites of refuge wherein minorities and marginalised groups (sex workers, queer communities, the homeless, etc.) can find emancipation and enact their agency. The resulting installation Vibrating Park-Forest ensues from a comparative study of heterogenous uses and grassroots practices that unfold in specific parks in Paris, Phnom Penh, and Singapore. Vibrating Park-Forest is the artist’s first installation made of paper, a material he began to experiment with during his residency at Villa Arson.
The exhibition is curated by Dr Anna Lovecchio, Assistant Director (Programmes), and NTU CCA Singapore. The project leader of SEA AiR is Ute Meta Bauer Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore, and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University.
SEA AiR—Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian Artists in the European Union is funded by the European Union.
Dates
Official Opening in the presence of H.E. Iwona Piórko, EU Ambassador to Singapore and the artists
10 January 2023, 4.00 – 5.00pm
Public preview: 4.00 – 7.00pm
Creative Trajectories
Artist talk by Hoo Fan Chon, Citra Sasmita, and Vuth Lyno
11 January 2023, 6.00 – 7.30pm
Exhibition Hours
11 January – 5 February 2023
Tue to Sun: 12.00 – 7.00pm
13 January: 12.00 – 9.00pm
Open on public holidays (except Mondays)
Location
NTU CCA Singapore Residencies Studios
Blocks 38 Malan Road
Singapore 109441
Alongside scientists, environmental activists, enlightened policy makers and civil society members, contemporary artists are increasingly concerned with future prospects of ecological collapse and planetary survival. They address these issues through the language of art, creating images, sounds, narratives, and experiences that allow us to establish affective and cognitive connections with the environment and partake in the planetary intelligence of the Earth. Stemming from NTU CCA Singapore’s ongoing engagement with the overarching subject of Climates.Habitats. Environments., Free Jazz IV. Geomancers brings together a selection of creative practitioners who are distinctly alert to these urgencies.
Conceived for Singapore Art Week 2022, this programme consists of a film screening series, a virtual reality installation, a performance and a sound installation. Some of the featured artworks zero in on signs of earthly demise, others indicate pathways of resilience and strategies for regeneration. All the works result from long-term research and extensive fieldwork and, when presented together, they engender a kaleidoscopic overview of the multitudinous forms of ecological entanglements.
Artists: Martha Atienza (Philippines), Ursula Biemann (Switzerland), Carolina Caycedo & David de Rozas (United Kingdom; Spain/United States), Chu Hao Pei (Singapore), Liu Chuang (China), Pedro Neves Marques (Portugal), Katie Paterson (Scotland), Rice Brewing Sisters Club (South Korea), Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (Spain/Brazil), Jana Winderen (Norway), Zarina Muhammad & Zachary Chan (Singapore), and Robert Zhao Renhui (Singapore).
Exhibition Information
Katie Paterson
To Burn, Forest, Fire, 2021, performance
Performance schedule: 14, 15, 18, 22, and 23 January, 6.30 – 7.00pm
Block 37 Malan Road, #01-04, Gillman Barracks
Entrance is on a first-come first-served basis up to the capacity allowed by the
prevailing social distancing measures. Audience to arrive at least 15 minutes
before the performance starts. Please note that the performance entails the
burning of incense inside an indoor space.
Please see our Facebook event for the latest updates.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Phantom (kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name)
2014–2015, VR installation
Tuesday to Sunday, 12.00 – 7.00pm
Fridays, 12.00 – 9.00pm
Block 38 Malan Road, #01-07, Gillman Barracks
Please see our Facebook event for the latest updates.
Jana Winderen
Listening through the Dead Zones, 2021, sound installation, 20 min, on loop.
Monday to Thursday: 8.00am to 9.00pm (last entry 8.00pm)
Fridays to Sundays: 8.00am to 10.00pm (last entry 9.00pm)
Please see our Facebook event for the latest updates.
Green Roof, Marina Barrage, 8 Marina Gardens Drive, Singapore 018951
The sound installation is located on the Green Roof at Marina Barrage, above the
Sustainable Singapore Gallery, accessible either via the walking ramp or the elevator.
Once on the rooftop, visitors will find the work in the proximity of the glass house, on
the southern edge of the rooftop. Visitors are encouraged to take the time to pause and
experience Listening to the Dead Zones while facing the open sea.
Screening Programme
Friday, 14 and 21 January 2022, 12.00 – 9.00pm
Session I: 12.00 – 2.50pm
Session II: 3.00 – 5.50pm
Session III: 6.00 – 8.50pm
Tuesday to Sunday, 15 – 23 January 2022, 12.00 – 7.00pm
Session I: 12.00 – 3.20pm (intermission: 1.30 – 2.00pm)
Session II: 3.30 – 6.50pm (intermission: 5.00 – 5.30pm)
Block 38 Malan Road, #01-06, Gillman Barracks
Films will be screened in the order as below during each session.
Please see our Facebook event for the latest updates.
Martha Atienza
Panangatan 11°09’53.3”N 123°42’40.5”E 2019-10-24, 9min
Zarina Muhammad & Zachary Chan
earth, land, sky and sea as palimpsest, 17 min 37 sec
Rice Brewing Sisters Club
Mountain Storytellers, Storytelling Mountains: A Tale Theatre, 15 min 37 sec
Carolina Caycedo & David de Rozas
The Teaching of the Hands, 47 min
Pedro Neves Marques
Semente Exterminadora [Exterminator Seed], 28 min
Ursula Biemann
Acoustic Ocean, 18 min
Liu Chuang
Can Sound be Currency?, 19 min 43 sec
Chu Hao Pei
Inventing Miracle: The Rice to Power, 9 min 59 sec
Robert Zhao Renhui
And A Great Sign Appeared, 4 min 52 sec
Free Jazz IV. Geomancers is supported by National Arts Council Singapore and Nicoletta Fiorucci Russo De Li Galli. NTU CCA Singapore also wishes to thank our collaborators IHME Helsinki, and PUB Singapore’s National Water Agency at Marina Barrage.
]]>From its first iteration in 2013, Free Jazz has pushed boundaries and expanded upon pressing concerns of our times. Free Jazz IV. Geomancers continues this approach, featuring artworks ranging from virtual reality to video, performance, and sound as an exercise in planetary awareness. The exhibition presents significant artistic practices from across the globe that are deeply invested in creating an environmental consciousness and that share an understanding of the world as a vulnerable, yet resilient, mesh of coexistences, correlations, and co-creations. As with geomancy, these artworks can help us to read the signs that our planet is trying to send us and that they can inspire a stronger commitment to create a sustainable future for life on Earth.
Alongside scientists, environmental activists, enlightened policy makers and civil society members, contemporary artists are increasingly concerned with future prospects of ecological collapse and planetary survival. They address these issues through the language of art, creating images, sounds, narratives, and experiences that allow us to establish affective and cognitive connections with the environment and partake in the planetary intelligence of the Earth. Stemming from NTU CCA Singapore’s ongoing engagement with the overarching subject of Climates.Habitats. Environments., Free Jazz IV. Geomancers brings together a selection of creative practitioners who are distinctly alert to these urgencies.
Conceived for Singapore Art Week 2022, this programme consists of a film screening series, a virtual reality installation, a performance and a sound installation. Some of the featured artworks zero in on signs of earthly demise, others indicate pathways of resilience and strategies for regeneration. All the works result from long-term research and extensive fieldwork and, when presented together, they engender a kaleidoscopic overview of the multitudinous forms of ecological entanglements.
Artists: Martha Atienza (Philippines), Ursula Biemann (Switzerland), Carolina Caycedo & David de Rozas (United Kingdom; Spain/United States), Chu Hao Pei (Singapore), Liu Chuang (China), Pedro Neves Marques (Portugal), Katie Paterson (Scotland), Rice Brewing Sisters Club (South Korea), Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (Spain/Brazil), Jana Winderen (Norway), Zarina Muhammad & Zachary Chan (Singapore), and Robert Zhao Renhui (Singapore).
Exhibition Information
Katie Paterson
To Burn, Forest, Fire, 2021, performance
Performance schedule: 14, 15, 18, 22, and 23 January, 6.30 – 7.00pm
Block 37 Malan Road, #01-04, Gillman Barracks
Entrance is on a first-come first-served basis up to the capacity allowed by the
prevailing social distancing measures. Audience to arrive at least 15 minutes
before the performance starts. Please note that the performance entails the
burning of incense inside an indoor space.
Please see our Facebook event for the latest updates.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Phantom (kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name)
2014–2015, VR installation
Tuesday to Sunday, 12.00 – 7.00pm
Fridays, 12.00 – 9.00pm
Block 38 Malan Road, #01-07, Gillman Barracks
Please see our Facebook event for the latest updates.
Jana Winderen
Listening through the Dead Zones, 2021, sound installation, 20 min, on loop.
Monday to Thursday: 8.00am to 9.00pm (last entry 8.00pm)
Fridays to Sundays: 8.00am to 10.00pm (last entry 9.00pm)
Please see our Facebook event for the latest updates.
Green Roof, Marina Barrage, 8 Marina Gardens Drive, Singapore 018951
The sound installation is located on the Green Roof at Marina Barrage, above the
Sustainable Singapore Gallery, accessible either via the walking ramp or the elevator.
Once on the rooftop, visitors will find the work in the proximity of the glass house, on
the southern edge of the rooftop. Visitors are encouraged to take the time to pause and
experience Listening to the Dead Zones while facing the open sea.
Screening Programme
Friday, 14 and 21 January 2022, 12.00 – 9.00pm
Session I: 12.00 – 2.50pm
Session II: 3.00 – 5.50pm
Session III: 6.00 – 8.50pm
Tuesday to Sunday, 15 – 23 January 2022, 12.00 – 7.00pm
Session I: 12.00 – 3.20pm (intermission: 1.30 – 2.00pm)
Session II: 3.30 – 6.50pm (intermission: 5.00 – 5.30pm)
Block 38 Malan Road, #01-06, Gillman Barracks
Films will be screened in the order as below during each session.
Please see our Facebook event for the latest updates.
Martha Atienza
Panangatan 11°09’53.3”N 123°42’40.5”E 2019-10-24, 9min
Zarina Muhammad & Zachary Chan
earth, land, sky and sea as palimpsest, 17 min 37 sec
Rice Brewing Sisters Club
Mountain Storytellers, Storytelling Mountains: A Tale Theatre, 15 min 37 sec
Carolina Caycedo & David de Rozas
The Teaching of the Hands, 47 min
Pedro Neves Marques
Semente Exterminadora [Exterminator Seed], 28 min
Ursula Biemann
Acoustic Ocean, 18 min
Liu Chuang
Can Sound be Currency?, 19 min 43 sec
Chu Hao Pei
Inventing Miracle: The Rice to Power, 9 min 59 sec
Robert Zhao Renhui
And A Great Sign Appeared, 4 min 52 sec
Free Jazz IV. Geomancers is supported by National Arts Council Singapore and Nicoletta Fiorucci Russo De Li Galli. NTU CCA Singapore also wishes to thank our collaborators IHME Helsinki, and PUB Singapore’s National Water Agency at Marina Barrage.