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Guided Tours of Public Art Trail at Mapletree Business City II
2019-10-23 12:30 - 13:00, 2019-08-28 12:30 - 13:00, 2019-08-14 12:30 - 2019-08-15 13:00 (Asia/Singapore)
Guided tours at Culture City. Culture Scape., NTU CCA Singapore’s collaboration with Mapletree Business City II will return in July 2019 as part of the centre’s ongoing exhibition, Siah Armajani: Spaces for the Public. Spaces for Democracy.
Inspired by the idea of expanded sculptural environments, the artworks explore the interplay between landscape, architecture, and the broader social and economic environments they are placed in. More than being monumental or site-specific, each work alters or permeates its local context for visitors to experience art in public spaces in new and exciting ways.
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Art, Urban Change, and the Public Sphere, Public Art Education Summit
2019-10-17 09:00 - 2019-10-19 00:00
Art, Urban Change, and the Public Sphere
NTU CCA Singapore is pleased to present Art, Urban Change, and the Public Sphere, which engages with art in privately owned public spaces through a Public Art Education Summit and research presentation. Taking as its point of departure the neighbouring Culture City. Culture Scape. Public Art Trail at Mapletree Business City—developed with curatorial consultation by NTU CCA Singapore—the Summit and presentation explore broader cultural and artistic developments on a civic scale situated in urban landscapes. How do political and economic changes in the public realm evoke a regional discourse on art in cities?
Public Art Education Summit
17 – 19 October 2019
NTU CCA Singapore
Guest-of-Honour: Prof Wang Dawei, Executive Dean, College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University
With contributions by: Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Richard Bell (Australia), Lewis Biggs (UK), Lilian Chee (Singapore), Amanda Crabtree (UK/France), Daniel Mudie Cunningham (Australia), Eileen Goh (Singapore), Sophie Goltz (Germany/Singapore), Catherine David (France), Limin Hee (Singapore), Kok Heng Leun (Singapore), Richard Lim (Singapore), Hongjohn Lin (Taiwan/Singapore), Massamba Mbaye (Senegal), Alecia Neo (Singapore), Alan Oei (Singapore), Nikos Papastergiadis (Australia), Milenko Prvački (Ex-Yugoslavia/Singapore), Jasmeen Patheja (India), Katherine Ann Leilani Tuider (US), Ashley Thompson (UK), et al.
With capability-development workshops by Amanda Crabtree (UK/France), Daniel Mudie Cunningham (Australia), Hongjohn Lin (Taiwan/Singapore) and Katherine Ann Leilani Tuider (US).
The Public Art Education Summit is the first of its kind in Singapore and part of a larger engagement of NTU CCA Singapore in professional education of public art. It focuses on cultural place-making and building communities through artistic practices. It aims to stimulate a debate between art professionals, policy makers, urban developers and other local stakeholders, on how and for whom art creates public spaces in our built environment. Any artistic or curatorial initiative in “public space” must address the question of how to construct “a public” and with it, how to encounter identity. Any difference—be it regional and local, ethnic and religious, economic and social—generates its own cohabitation of urban space and public culture to communicate with. The challenge for art in the public sphere lies in its openness to existing and yet, imagined communities of civic urbanism. Ranging from corporate cultural engagement in privately owned public spaces to urban regeneration, the invited speakers draw connections to the beginnings of community engagement in public art with its fluid methods. Furthermore, they suggest a critical look at different artistic and curatorial practices which reflect on “artists as citizens.” Or, how any space called public, first and foremost, is created by the different people inhabiting that space.
Held in association with College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, and Institute for Public Art, London. Supported by Mapletree Investments and, additionally, by Public Art Trust, an initiative of National Arts Council Singapore.
Admission to the summit and the workshops is free.
Please register at https://bit.ly/2XJUYtm for the summit. Limited seats are available.
Please register at http://tiny.cc/amandacrabtreeworkshop / http://tiny.cc/katherinetuiderworkshop / http://tiny.cc/danielcunninghamworkshop / http://tiny.cc/hongjohnlimworkshop for workshops. Workshops are limited to 12 participants each.
For detailed information, please see http://tiny.cc/ntuccaPAES
Image caption: Discursive Picnic at Archifest 2017, Mapletree Business City II. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Guided Tours of Public Art Trail at Mapletree Business City II
2019-09-25 12:30 - 13:00, 2019-07-31 12:30 - 13:00
Guided tours at Culture City. Culture Scape., NTU CCA Singapore’s collaboration with Mapletree Business City II will return in July 2019 as part of the centre’s ongoing exhibition, Siah Armajani: Spaces for the Public. Spaces for Democracy.
Inspired by the idea of expanded sculptural environments, the artworks explore the interplay between landscape, architecture, and the broader social and economic environments they are placed in. More than being monumental or site-specific, each work alters or permeates its local context for visitors to experience art in public spaces in new and exciting ways.
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Art, Urban Change, and the Public Sphere
2019-08-31 12:00 - 2019-10-27 00:00
In partnership with Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd., Culture City. Culture Scape. is a public art education programme launched in 2017. A first of its kind in Singapore, the programme features a series of newly commissioned public art works by Dan Graham, Zulkifle Mahmod, Tomás Saraceno and Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA), nestled at Mapletree Business City II, and aims to bring the arts closer to the communities.
Conceived as a research presentation at NTU CCA Singapore’s The Lab, Art, Urban Change, and the Public Sphere engages with the making of the Public Art Trail at Mapletree Business City II in the context of Privately-Owned Public Spaces (POPS) together with other artistic and urban developments in Singapore. The works of the Public Art Trail by international renowned artists Dan Graham, Zulkifle Mahmod, Tomás Saraceno and Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA) are animated through augmented reality in a unique spatial setting. The presentation reflects on emerging discourses such as Future Asian Spaces or Art in the Public Sphere and situates the interconnectedness of cultural politics, urban developments and economic conditions in today’s Singapore. A same-titled Public Art Education Summit in October will reflect on the socio-poltical changes and challenges of Art in the Public Sphere with a focus on community engagement, social (corporate) responsibility, and new artistic approaches in an ever-expanding urban setting.
Tue-Sun 12—7 pm
Open on Public Holidays
Closed on Mondays
Image Caption: Zulkifle Mahmod, Sonic Pathway, 2017, copper pipes, 512 solenoids, microcontrollers, speakers, Mapletree Business City II. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.

Tour: Culture City, Culture Scape at Mapletree Business City II
2019-05-15 15:30 - 16:00, 2019-04-17 15:30 - 16:00, 2019-03-20 15:30 - 16:00
Our upcoming guided tour is an excellent way to get inspired and unwind in the company of art. Enjoy a well-deserved cup of coffee and snack while we walk you through the artworks nestled in the lush compounds of Mapletree Business City II (MBC II). For more information, please email ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg.
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Culture City. Culture Scape. is part of the Mapletree-NTU CCA Singapore Public Art Education Programme, which includes regular guided tours, public events, educational materials, seminars, and conferences.
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Tour: Culture City. Culture Scape. Public Art Trail at Mapletree Business City II
2019-01-24 12:00 - 12:45, 2019-01-17 12:00 - 12:45
Guided tours at Culture City. Culture Scape., NTU CCA Singapore’s collaboration with Mapletree Business City II will return in January 2019 as part of Singapore Art Week.
Inspired by the idea of expanded sculptural environments, the artworks explore the interplay between landscape, architecture, and the broader social and economic environments they are placed in. More than being monumental or site-specific, each work alters or permeates its local context for visitors to experience art in public spaces in new and exciting ways.
If you’re also up for a hearty bite of gourmet sandwich, you’re in luck! On the occasion of Singapore Art Week 2019, we are offering complimentary vegetarian lunch bags from Park Bench Deli, limited up to 12 registrations.
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For more information about our tours, please visit: www.mapletreearts.sg or email ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg.
To register, please do so via Eventbrite.

Tour: Culture City. Culture Scape. Public Art Trail at Mapletree Business City II
2019-01-16 12:00 - 12:45
Guided tours at Culture City. Culture Scape., NTU CCA Singapore’s collaboration with Mapletree Business City II will return in January 2019 as part of Singapore Art Week.
Inspired by the idea of expanded sculptural environments, the artworks explore the interplay between landscape, architecture, and the broader social and economic environments they are placed in. More than being monumental or site-specific, each work alters or permeates its local context for visitors to experience art in public spaces in new and exciting ways.
If you’re also up for a hearty bite of gourmet sandwich, you’re in luck! On the occasion of Singapore Art Week 2019, we are offering complimentary vegetarian lunch bags from Park Bench Deli, limited up to 12 registrations.
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For more information about our tours, please visit: www.mapletreearts.sg or email ntuccaevents@ntu.edu.sg.
To register, please do so via Eventbrite.

Image caption: Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.

Workshop for Teachers and Educators
2018-12-01 14:00 - 16:30
Focusing on the artworks in the initiative entitled Culture City, Culture Scape., the workshop offers a closer look at the artistic practices, artworks on exhibit and prepares educators for visits with their students by providing educational tools as entry points to the art trail.
Led by art educator Kelly Reedy, the workshop will assist in identifying aspects of the initiative that might be relevant to their classes by suggesting techniques for exploring both the visual arts and other areas of daily encounters. The programme is free of charge and suitable for all education levels.

Ethics of Curatorial Practice: Making Art Public, Building Institutions
2018-11-07 19:30 - 21:30
In examples of institutions created by artists or curators, many times the institution is a personal affair, whereby it is inextricably connected to the research interests and cultural practice of its founders. Reflecting on the already existing modes of cultural and institutional operations in Athens, Fokianaki will unfold the institutional trajectory of the independent space State of Concept Athens, where she serves as founding member, and how it evolved since its commencement of activities. She will demonstrate how the institution responded to the change of ecology in the local art field, by refining its discourse, choosing its institutional language, and honing in questions that directly respond to the socio-economic condition of Greece and Europe. Fokianaki will highlight ways of institutional being, through a practice that reflects on collective responsibility but also enacts ethical instituting, in a financially precarious environment. The question for the cultural worker is how to “unlearn one’s privileges” (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) by way of creating structures that promote the flourishing of institutions through collective responsibility, ethical practicing, but also through alternative economies of exchange, that promote what Fokianaki calls a “creative embodiment of instituting”.
iLiana Fokianaki is a writer and curator based in Athens and Rotterdam. Her research focuses on the notion of the state and the formations of power that manifest under the influence of geopolitics, national identity and cultural and anthropological histories. In 2013 she founded State of Concept Athens, the first non-profit institution with a permanent program and location in Athens. It promotes Greek and international artists through solo exhibitions, but also invites international curators to create exhibitions that comment on the current socio-political landscape of Greece and beyond. The institution has worked with artists such as Laure Prouvost, Hito Steyerl, Basim Magdy, Keren Cytter among others, most of whom had never exhibited in Greece before. State of Concept is also focusing on a pedagogical programme that enables, through free consultations, art students and artists to further their studies and develop their projects. In 2016, together with Antonia Alampi, Fokianaki founded Future Climates, a platform that aims to propose viable futures for small-scale organizations of contemporary art and culture. Fokianaki has taught in Greek institutions and abroad, and is a visiting lecturer at the Dutch Art Institute.

Tour: Culture City. Culture Scape. Guided Tour at Mapletree Business City II
2018-11-02 12:00 - 12:45
Explore the new art installations nestled in the lush compound of Mapletree Business City II (MBC II). Themed Culture City. Culture Scape., this public art project, commissioned by Mapletree and curated by NTU CCA Singapore comprises works by internationally renowned artists Dan Graham (United States), Zulkifle Mahmod (Singapore), Tomás Saraceno (Argentina/Germany), and Yinka Shonibare(Nigeria/United Kingdom).
Inspired by the idea of expanded sculptural environments, the artworks explore the interplay between landscape, architecture, and the broader social and economic environments they are placed in. More than being monumental or site-specific, each work alters or permeates its local context to invite visitors to a broader, richer engagement.
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Culture City. Culture Scape. is part of the Mapletree-NTU CCA Singapore Public Art Education Programme, which includes regular guided tours, public events, educational materials, seminars, and conferences.

Curatorial Consciousness. Participation between Practice and Process
2018-10-17 19:30
As artists have moved towards models of post-studio practice in which the art object is no longer privileged above other forms, the gallery itself becomes a site for production, dialogue, and debate. In this lecture, Dr Michael Birchall argues that the museum has transformed itself into a site of participation through the facilitation of socially engaged art projects. Whether socially engaged art commissions manifest inside the museum as installations or sites of activity or outside as collaborations with specific communities, curators build special relationships with each stakeholder—the museum, the artist, and the community—and they have become increasingly aware of the role of their audiences as participants.
Dr Michael Birchall (United Kingdom) is Curator of Public Practice at Tate Liverpool and Senior Lecturer in Exhibition Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom. His curatorial practice and research concern socially engaged art, performance, and notions of publicness in museums. He has previously held curatorial appointments at The Banff Centre’ Walter Phillips Gallery and The Western Front (both Canada), as well as at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (Germany). His writing has appeared in Frieze, ARKEN Bulletin, OnCurating, Modern Painters, C Magazine, Art & the Public Sphere, and various exhibition catalogues. Recently, he co-edited Collective Good/Collaborative Efforts (Stavanger: Rogaland Kunstsenter, 2017) and co-curated O.K. – The Musical (2017), an iterative community theatre musical by Christopher Kline at Tate Liverpool.

Tour: Culture City, Culture Scape at Mapletree Business City II
2018-10-05 12:00 - 12:45

Tours: Culture City. Culture Scape. Guided Tour at Mapletree Business City II
2018-09-07 12:00 - 12:45

Mapletree–NTU CCA Singapore Public Art Education Programme
2018-08-16 17:30 - 22:00
Sound Performance and Guided Tours

5.30pm
Guests to Arrive/ Photo-taking at LED Wall

5.50pm
Welcome by NTU CCA

5.55pm
Speech by Mr Edmund Cheng

6.00pm
Presentation of Token to NTU CCA

6.05pm
Start of Art Tour for Mapletree Directors

6.05pm
Start of Sound Performance by Zulkifle Mahmod

7.15pm
Guided Tour MBC II

Meeting point: Sonic Pathway Installation, 80 Mapletree Business City II

Preventive Publics: The Burning Car in Thomas Hirschhorn’s Installations
2018-05-16 19:30
Brianne Cohen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on contemporary art in the public sphere, and particularly, art engaged with concerns of global migration, postcolonial histories, political violence, and environmentalism. She is currently completing a book entitled “Preventive Publics: Contemporary Art and the Idea of Europe,” which examines art practices that model and instantiate plural publics among masses of strangers in order to prevent sociopolitical violence in 21st-century Europe. She also recently co-edited an anthology, The Photofilmic: Entangled Images in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (Leuven University Press and Cornell University Press, 2016).
