What role does historical, traditional or indigenous knowledge of nature and culture play in the future of the world making and acts of life in general? How have digital technologies and internet culture shaped contemporary interpretation and translation of the nature/culture complex in the arts? The residents present their results from 24 to 27 January 2019 in Singapore and from 21 to 23 February 2019 in Manila.
Residents' Research
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Tour of ArtScience Museum by Honor Harger (Executive Director, Art Science Museum, Singapore), Singapore, 2018. -
Participant Nuriye Tohermes presenting her research during the residency, NTU CCA Singapore, 2018. -
Supervision with the Curatorial Advisory Board, De La Salle-College of Sait Benide, School of Design and Arts, Manila, Philippines, 2018. From left: Joselina Cruz (Curatorial Advisory Board, AoL), Nuriye Tohermes (participant, Germany) -
Workshop with Dr Welyne Jeffery Jehom (Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya), NTU CCA Singapore, 2018. From left: Nuriye Tohermes (participant, Germany), Dr Welyne Jeffery Jehom, Jennifer Katanyoutanant (participant, Thailand). -
Workshop at the Future Cities Lab with Aurel von Richthofen (Module Coordinator for Alternative Construction Materials, Future Cities Lab), Singapore, 2018. -
Participants on a guided tour of the Culture City. Culture Scape (Public Art Trail), at Mapletree Business City, Singapore, 2018. -
Participants on a Temple Trail of Wak Hai Cheng Bio, Chinese Temple, Singapore, 2018. From left: Nuriye Tohermes (participant, Germany), Jasyson C. Jimenez (participant, Philippines), Febie Babyrose (participant, Indonesia), Hung Duong (participant, Vietnam). -
Visitor at the Acts of Life Singapore presentation responding to AoL participant Roopesh Sitharan’s research experiment, “What is Wrong with Singapore.” NTU CCA Singapore, 2019. -
Visitors at Acts of Life Singapore presentation, NTU CCA Singapore, 2019. -
Visitors at Acts of Life Singapore presentation, NTU CCA Singapore, 2019. -
Lecture performance titled Black Swans, Butterflies and Elephants by participants Jayson C. Jimenez and Ida Roscher, NTU CCA Singapore, 2019. -
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Manila, 27 October to 11 November 2018
Singapore, 12 November to 14 November 2018
Various creative and interdisciplinary working scholars of related fields such as art, design, urbanism, humanities and digital sciences who live and work in Southeast Asia and/ or Germany joined the residencies in Singapore and Manila, starting on 28 October 2018. The participants worked on their respective fields of research, together with selected counterparts of their interest, deploying conceptual, terminological, or methodological research tools.
