Symposium: Environmentally-Engaged Artistic Practices in South, Southeast Asia and the Pacific 2024

Image Credits: Ade Darmawan, Tuban, 2019 installation view. Arus Balik - From below the wind to above the wind and back again, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.

Friday, 26^th January 2024 – Saturday, 27^th January 2024

10AM – 4PM 

Seminar Room, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art

Blk 37, Malan Road, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 109443 

ABOUT

Join us for the Environmentally-Engaged Artistic Practices in South, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Symposium. Across two days, this symposium will engage artists, scientists, and climate change initiatives on themes of interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary collaboration, designing for climate resilience, disaster technologies and archipelagic histories across the South, Southeast Asian and Pacific regions. This event continues NTU CCA’s decade-long inquiry into research-based artistic practices. This symposium draws from the expansive network of artists engaged in environmentally grounded practices connected to ecology and community.

Join our public workshops with artist Nice Buenaventura (Tropikalye) and Nashin Mentani (Peta Bencana & Climate Emergency Software Alliance) on the 26th and 27th of January 2024.

AGENDA 

DAY 1 

10:00AM – 11:00AM 

Opening Address by Professor Simon Redfern, Dean, College of Science, President’s Chair in Earth Sciences, Professor, Asian School of Environment, Nanyang Technological University

Keynote Address, The Potential and Impact of Environmentally-Engaged Artistic Practices in Collaboration with Academic Research presented by Ute Meta Bauer, Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU & Founding Director of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

11:00AM – 12:00PM

In Conversation | Intersecting Ecosystems: Possibilities across the Arts and Sciences

Panel: Ang Song Nian (Artist, Lecturer NTU, Singapore), Zen Teh (Artist, Singapore), Dr Ching Jianhong (Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS), Moderated by Angela Ricasio Hoten (NTU ADM)

1:00PM – 2:00PM 

In Conversation | Islands in Flux: Weathering the Future

Panel: Nice Buenaventura (Artist, Philippines), Serina Rahman (Lecturer, NUS), Moderated by Soh Kay Min (NTU ADM)

2:00PM – 4:00PM 

Tropikalye | Workshop by Artist Nice Buenaventura

Register for the workshop here

DAY 2 

10:00AM – 11:00AM 

In Conversation | Collaboration in Crisis: Technology in Disaster Response

Panel: Nashin Mahtani, (Peta Bencana & CESA, Indonesia), Sang-Ho Yun (NTU), Moderated by Eunice Lacaste (NTU ADM)

11:00AM – 12:00PM

In Conversation | Liquid Landscapes: Designing for Climate Resilience 

Panel: Som Supaparinya (Artist, Thailand), Dr Erich Wolff (ASE NTU), Stefan Huebner (ARI NUS), Laura Miotto (NTU ADM) 

1:00PM – 2:00PM 

#ClimateEmergis, how to design the future together | Workshop by Nashin Mahtani, Founder of Peta Bencana and Climate Emergency Software Alliance (CESA) 

Register for the workshop here

2:30PM – 4:00PM 

Film Screening & Conversation 

In conversation with Yeo Siew Hua, moderated by Dr Marc Glöde (NTU ADM)

REGISTRATION 

Access the full symposium programme schedule here

Click here to register for the full symposium. If you would like to register for the workshops, please see the links above. Please contact us at [email protected] for further enquiries. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 

This symposium is supported by the Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1 project (RG39/21)“Environmentally-Engaged Artistic Practices in South, Southeast Asia and the Pacific and their potential impact as contribution for transdisciplinary research in Singapore” led by Principal Investigator Professor Ute Meta Bauer.

Organised by Professor Ute Meta Bauer and Research Assistant Angela Ricasio Hoten, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. 

 
Hosted by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.

Special thanks to Eunice Lacaste.