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Visiting Artist Programme
The NIE Visiting Artist Programme (VAP) introduces students from NIE and NTU to a broad range of visual and performing arts professionals including musicians, artists, directors and playwrights with the aim of providing them opportunities to learn from and work closely with these distinguished practitioners.
Current Visting Artist:
Name | Designation, University/Company | Expertise / Biography | Workshops/Teaching |
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 Kok Heng Leun | Artistic Director, Drama Box Ltd | Kok Heng Leun is the Artistic Director of Singaporean theatre company Drama Box, and a prominent figure in both the English and Chinese-language theatres in Singapore. Thus far, he has directed over 80 plays, including Kuo Pao Kun’s Spirit Play, Forum Theatre Trick or Threat!, HERstory (Singapore Arts Festival 2011), Drift (Singapore Season 2008), and It Won’t Be Too Long (Singapore International Arts Festival, 2015) | Module: ADP26M Applied Theatre Drama Workshop: “Theatre of the Oppressed with a focus on Forum Theatre” |
 Amanda Heng Liang Ngim | Independent Art Practitioner, | Amanda Heng is a contemporary artist known for her collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to art. Heng’s works typically explore real-world social issues in the context of Singapore’s multicultural and fast-changing society. A pioneer of contemporary art in Singapore, Heng was involved in the founding of two local art collectives: The Artists Village in 1988 and Women in the Arts (WITA) in 1999.2 For her contributions to the local art scene, Heng was awarded the Cultural Medallion for Visual Arts in 2010. | Module: AAA08G Research and Practice in Performance Art Art Workshop: “Devising Performance Art in Everyday Life” |
 Quek Ling Kiong | Resident Conductor of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra; | Quek Ling Kiong was a recipient of the National Arts Council’s (NAC) Singapore Young Artist Award (2002) and the NAC Cultural Fellowship (2013). He studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music under the NAC Overseas Scholarship, as well as the Lee Foundation and Singapore Hokkien Huay Kwan scholarships. He learned Chinese percussion from renowned master Li Min Xiong and Western classical percussion from Xue Bao Lun. He also explored various Chinese percussion arts with masters such as Li Zhen Gui, An Zhi Shun and Zhu Xiao Lin. After graduating from the Conservatory in 1997, he joined the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) and became its Percussion Principal. | Module: AAA08H Amazing Chinese Music |
 Prvacki Milenko | Senior Fellow, Office of the President, LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore | Milenko graduated with a Master of Fine Arts (Painting) from the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Romania. He is one Singapore’s foremost art educators, having commenced teaching at LASALLE College of the Arts since 1994. He was Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts for 17 years and currently holds the position of Senior Fellow. His largest work can be found in the mosaic decorations that line the Dhoby Ghaut MRT station. For his contributions to the local arts scene, Milenko was conferred the Cultural Medallion for Visual Arts in 2012. | Module: AAA08G Special Topic in the Arts 1: Mosaic as an Expressive media
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 Chong Tze Chien | Core member of The Finger Players;
| Tze Chien is a core member of The Finger Players and an award-winning playwright and director. For his contributions to Singaporean Theatre, he was awarded the Young Artist Award by Singapore’s National Arts Council in 2006. Tze Chien was the Creative Director of Singapore Pools’ float and performance in Chingay Parade 2007 and 2008, co-conceptualist and writer for NDP 2016, Creative Director of Island Adventures for the National Museum of Singapore’s Children’s Season 2012, Artistic Director of The Arts House’s 10th Anniversary in 2014, and the co-curator of The Studios: Fifty, a festival of 50 iconic Singapore Plays presented by the Esplanade in 2015. | Modules: AAA08H Verbatim Theatre for the Classroom and Stage / ADP26E Playwriting and Script Analysis Drama Workshop: "Directing" |
Riduan Zalani | Percussionist; co-Founder of NADI Singapura | Riduan Zalani is a versatile percussionist with a keen interest in developing Southeast Asian ethnic drumming in contemporary settings and spotlighting Asian musical traditions on a global stage. An idealist at heart, he takes his dreams to the spotlight through his creative vision while serving his community of musicians, hoping to bring up their level of virtuosity to the world stage. This multi award-winning performer has performed in numerous local and international programmes, which culminated in him earning the prestigious National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award in 2015. | Music Workshop: Malay Drums & Rhythms (including Percussive Composition Ideas) Jan to May 2023
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 Ezzam Rahman | Multi-disciplinary Installation and Performance Artist | Ezzam Rahman (b.1981, Singapore) is a multi-disciplinary artist known for his interest in the body and the use of common, easily accessible, yet unconventional media in his art practice. Working across sculpture, installation, digital media and performance, he creates works that are often time-based and ephemeral, aiming to pique viewers’ thoughts on the themes of body politics, impermanence, traces and abjection. As a performance artist, Ezzam has performed extensively both regionally and internationally. | Module: AAA08G Identity and Performance Art Art Workshop: "Care as Acts of Art / Art workshop culminating in an art exhibition " Aug to Dec 2023 |
