Preventive Publics: The Burning Car in Thomas Hirschhorn’s Installations

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...

Mapletree–NTU CCA Singapore Public Art Education Programme

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...

Tours: Culture City. Culture Scape. Guided Tour at Mapletree Business City II

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,...

Tour: Culture City, Culture Scape at Mapletree Business City II

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,...

Curatorial Consciousness. Participation between Practice and Process

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...

Tour: Culture City. Culture Scape. Guided Tour at Mapletree Business City II

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,...