Randian Art Residency news and announcements
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Residencies: OPEN as part of Art After Dark at Gillman Barracks

Featuring: Amanda Heng, Li Ran, anGie seah, and Yan Jun

Friday 25 September, 6.00 – 10.00pm

This edition of Residencies: OPEN will highlight NTU CCA Singapore’s Artists-in-Residence who focus on performance in their practices. The performances will take place outside Block 37 Studios, accompanied by activities happening within this remote block. Performances will range from live sonic hypnosis from Yan Jun, a collaborative performance from anGie seah looking at the sensation of “butterflies in the stomach”, a ceremonious ritual of conviviality with Amanda Heng and a special installation and screening of work by Li Ran. These four artists mutually share an interest in performance as a visceral medium to experience contemporary art.

Through her exchange of everyday rituals with various people in September, Amanda Heng’s (Singapore) presentation looks at the meditative, poetic and performative qualities in ceremonies, everyday life and public spaces. Visitors will be invited to experience the exchange of rituals through participation.

Amanda Heng | 6.00 – 10.00pm

Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03

Li Ran (China) presents two works that blur everyday life and performance, including Beyond Geography (2012), which looks at the role of performing the “native” within a fabricated jungle environment.

Li Ran | 6.00 – 10.00pm

Block 37 Malan Road, Studio #01-04

Through her exchange of everyday rituals with various people in September, Amanda Heng’s (Singapore) presentation looks at the meditative, poetic and performative qualities in ceremonies, everyday life and public spaces. Visitors will be invited to experience the exchange of rituals through participation.

Yan Jun | 8.00 – 9.00pm

Exterior of Block 37 Malan Road

Yan Jun’s (China) performances often incorporate improvisations and everyday objects. He will create a sonic device based on his experimentation of being situated in the jungle, drawing attention to the environs of Block 37, Gillman Barracks.

anGie seah | 9.00 – 10.00pm

Exterior of Block 37 Malan Road

anGie seah (Singapore) will present Part 1 of A Thousand Horses Running in my Head (2015), a mash up of bass droning, poetic gestures and erratic voice-works combined with everyday sounds.

SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS at NTU CCA Singapore

International symposium on the occasion of Allan Sekula: Fish Story, to be continued

On the occasion of Allan Sekula’s exhibition, Fish Story, to be continued, NTU CCA Singapore presents an international symposium that will mark a concluding point to the show and will highlight the continued relevance of Allan Sekula’s work and writings on the theme of globalisation and capitalism. The symposium will bring together art professionals who have collaborated with Allan Sekula across the years, as well as different researchers and artists who share a set of common interests with his work.

The programme will focus on key themes underlying Allan Sekula’s practice including questions of critical realism in contemporary art, representation of labour as well as the vast topic of the sea.

Participants include: Hilde Van Gelder, Professor, KU Leuven and Director, Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Leuven; Carles Guerra, Director, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; Roger Buergel, Director, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich; Mercedes Vicente, Curator and Writer, PhD Candidate, Royal College of Art, London; Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, Curator, National Gallery Singapore; Charles Lim, Artist; Ute Meta Bauer, NTU CCA Singapore Founding Director and Anca Rujoiu, NTU CCA Singapore Curator, Exhibitions.​

Part 1: Working with Allan Sekula | 10.30am – 2.30pm (with lunch break)

Speakers: Hilde van Gelder, Carles Guerra, Roger Buergel and Mercedes Vicente

Part 2: The Sea as Contested Territory | 2.30 – 4.00pm (with coffee break)

Speakers: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa and Charles Lim

Roundtable Discussions | 4.00 – 5.00pm

Moderated by Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu

Date: Saturday 26 September

Time: 10.30am – 5.30pm

Venue: The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Coffee, lunch & refreshments will be provided by NTU CCA Singapore.

Allan Sekula: Fish Story, to be continued is on show until 27 September 2015.