RECAP | Curatorial Roundtable 03 | A Moveable Feast: Itinerancy and Curatorial Practice

[From left] Farah Wardani, Vera Mey and Ahmad Mashadi.

The establishment of international curatorial networks follows the growing proliferation of curatorial residencies around the world. For some, this has helped encourage horizontal movements across the so-called global south by curators in their practice and research. Curatorial Roundtable 03 explored the issues and potentials of itinerancy in curatorial practice from the perspective of curators based around the region. This discussion brought together Farah Wardani, director of the Indonesian Visual Art Archive, and Vera Mey, curator of residencies at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore. The talk was moderated by Ahmad Mashadi, Head of NUS Museum.

About the moderator
Ahmad Mashadi is currently the Head of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum. Before joining the NUS Museum, Ahmad served as Senior Curator at the Singapore Art Museum focusing on Southeast Asian Art. Recent exhibitions curated include Archiving Apin (2013) and Camping and Tramping through the Colonial Archive: The Museum in Malaya (2011).

About the speakers

Vera Mey is a curator at the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (CCA), a research centre of Nanyang Technological University. She was Assistant Director of AUT University’s ST PAUL St Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand from 2011 - early 2014 where she also convened the AUT University Master of Arts Management Curatorial Strategy program. For 2013, Vera was curator in residence at Arts Initiative Tokyo, Japan. Last December with Erin Gleeson, Sa Sa Bassac, Phnom Penh she curated the non-productive nomadic residency FIELDS: an itinerant inquiry across the Kingdom of Cambodia (2013). This involved a group of 17 artists, curators, and researchers traveling together for 20 days questioning the intersection between contemporaneity, archaeology and the politics of memory rooted in mutual unknowing within the context of contemporary Cambodia.  She completed her Masters in Museum & Heritage Studies from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2010) and most recently was a participant on the 8th Berlin Biennial Young Curators Workshop (2014). 

Farah Wardani completed her MA in Art History (20th Century) from the Department of Historical & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, London, UK, in 2001. She has been active as a teacher, researcher, writer, curator and art organizer since 2001 in her home country, Indonesia. She is the co-author of a book titled Indonesian Women Artists: The Curtain Opens (Indonesian Fine Arts Foundation, 2007). Her recent and ongoing projects include being the consulting curator for the exhibition Indonesian Eye: Fantasies & Realities at Saatchi Gallery, London, 2011; and Artistic Director for Biennale Jogja XII 2013. From 2007 until present she positions as the executive director of Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, with works include the IVAA Digital Archive http://archive.ivaa-online.org/, the first digital archive of contemporary art in the country.

Curatorial Roundtable 03 | in photos

 

Curatorial Roundtable 03 | in video

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Curatorial Roundtable 03 | A Moveable Feast: Itinerancy and Curatorial Practice

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Date: 9 October 2014, Thursday  
Time: 7.00 - 9.00pm
Venue: Possibility Room, Level 5, National Library Building

Free admission with registration.
To register, please email museum@nus.edu.sg or call 6516 8817.

Moderator:
Ahmad Mashadi (NUS Museum)

Speakers:
Vera Mey (Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore)
Farah Wardani (Indonesian Visual Art Archive)

The establishment of international curatorial networks follows the growing proliferation of curatorial residencies around the world. For some, this has helped encourage horizontal movements across the so-called global south by curators in their practice and research. This session aims to explore the issues and potentials of itinerancy in curatorial practice from the perspective of curators based around the region.

About the Curatorial Roundtable Series
Presented in conjunction with Curating Lab 2014, the Curatorial Roundtable public talk series gathers together curators and artists working across different fields of research and engagement, to discuss the boundaries of curatorial practice. Amidst the increasing attention paid to the role of the curator, this series aims to probe further into the limits of curatorial practice. Although presented primarily for the participants of Curating Lab 2014, the Curatorial Roundtable is an opportunity to bridge the gap between the curator and the audience, providing opportunities for interaction and stimulating discussions on curatorial practices and processes.

RECAP: Curatorial Roundtable 02 | Dis-positions: Between Artistic Practice and Curatorial Practice

Moderated by Anca Rujoiu, curator at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore (CCA), the second session of the Curatorial Roundtable convened last Thursday evening with Singaporean artist, curator and publisher Michael Lee and Romanian artist Florin Tudor, currently on residency with the CCA.

Topic: Dis-positions: Between Artistic Practice and Curatorial Practice 
While the debate on the intersections between the artist and the curator continues, much of such discussions and theorisations continue to move at the expense of discerning the local contexts within which they are articulated. This session is an attempt to add to this ongoing debate concerning artistic practice and curatorial practice; but at the same time it insists also on a plurality within this discussion by examining the different contexts where artistic practice and curatorial practice may meet.
 
About the moderator
Anca Rujoiu is a Romanian curator currently based in Singapore. She is curator at CCA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore and co-director of FormContent, a curatorial initiative in London. Previously, she coordinated the public programme of the School of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art (UK). With FormContent she explored various exhibition models and challenged the relationship between artist/curator often overlapping their roles in the process. Her recent project with FormContent, It’s Moving from I to It unfolded as a performative script within a nomadic structure testing formats of production and distribution. She has been a visiting lecturer at various universities including Goldsmiths College, Central Saint Martins University and Newcastle University (UK). As a researcher and writer, she worked for several film and television productions, artists’ publications. She graduated from the MFA Curating Programme at Goldsmiths College (UK) and was one of the curators selected for the 3rd International Curator Course at the Gwangju Bienniale (KR) in 2011. 

About the speakers
Michael Lee is an artist, curator and publisher based in Berlin and Singapore. He researches urban memory and fiction, transforming his observations into objects, diagrams, situations, curations or texts. He has staged solo exhibitions in Berlin, Hong Kong and Singapore. His biennale participations include Shenzhen Sculpture (2014); Kuandu (Taipei, 2012); Singapore (2011); Shanghai (2010), and Guangzhou Triennial (2011, 2008). His curatorial projects include Between, Beside, Beyond: Daniel Libeskind's Reflections and Key Works 1989-2014 (Singapore Art Museum, 2007), and his editorial projects include Who Cares: 16 Essays on Curating in Asia (published by Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, 2010).

Florin Tudor, together with Mona Vatamanu, is an artist in residency at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore. Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor¹s artistic practice span diverse media including film, photography, painting, performance, and site-specific projects. Through their works, they confront the traumatic legacy of Communism in their native Romania and Eastern Europe, while wrestling with the ongoing challenge of how to process history. As part of their residency at CCA so far they have taken a look at the surrounding environment of both the natural jungle-like environment and various constructions happening in Gillman Barracks to explore various social dynamics. Their work has been included in numerous international exhibitions including (selection): Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul, 2012; Blind Spots, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, 2009; 5th Berlin Biennial, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2008; among others. Vatamanu and Tudor live and work in Bucharest. 

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*Due to a technical fault, parts of Anca's and Michael's presentations have unfortunately not been captured on video.

Curatorial Roundtable 02 | Dis-positions: Between Artistic Practice and Curatorial Practice

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Date: 4 September 2014, Thursday  
Time: 6.30 - 9.00pm
Venue: Imagination Room, Level 5, National Library Building

Free admission with registration.
To register, please email museum@nus.edu.sg or call 6516 8817.

Moderator:
Anca Rujoiu (Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore)

Speakers:
Michael Lee
Florin Tudor

While the debate on the intersections between the artist and the curator continues, much of such discussions and theorisations continue to move at the expense of discerning the local contexts within which they are articulated. This session is an attempt to add to this ongoing debate concerning artistic practice and curatorial practice; but at the same time it insists also on a plurality within this discussion by examining the different contexts where artistic practice and curatorial practice may meet.

About the Curatorial Roundtable Series
Presented in conjunction with Curating Lab 2014, the Curatorial Roundtable public talk series gathers together curators and artists working across different fields of research and engagement, to discuss the boundaries of curatorial practice. Amidst the increasing attention paid to the role of the curator, this series aims to probe further into the limits of curatorial practice. Although presented primarily for the participants of Curating Lab 2014, the Curatorial Roundtable is an opportunity to bridge the gap between the curator and the audience, providing opportunities for interaction and stimulating discussions on curatorial practices and processes.

RECAP: Curatorial Roundtable 01 | Lines of Control: Curatorial Con-texts

The first session of the Curatorial Roundtable talk series was held at the Visitors’ Briefing Room in the National Library Building on 7 August (Thursday), from 6.30pm to 9pm. Moderated by Kenneth Tay, assistant curator at the NUS Museum, Dr Charles Merewether (NTU School of Art, Design and Media), Charmaine Toh (National Gallery Singapore, Jennifer Teo and Woon Tien Wei (Post-Museum) came together to explore the topic of ‘Lines of Control: Curatorial Con-texts’.

Despite the rise of the independent and transnational curator, the role of the curator is inextricably bound up in site - be it the museum, the international biennale, or the small non-profit space. To that end, how do we continue to speak about authorship in curatorial practice given that the latter continues to be influenced, changed and developed alongside the contexts curators find themselves in? As the inaugural session of the Curatorial Roundtable talk series, this session explored these questions while addressing also the perhaps problematic over-investment in the figure of the independent and transnational curator.

Speakers

Dr Charles Merewether was born in Edinburgh. He received his PhD after studying literature, philosophy and art history. He subsequently taught European modernism at the University of Sydney before leaving to live in Colombia and then Mexico. He taught at Universidad Iberoeramericana, then at the Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona. In 1991 he moved to New York and received a research fellowship from Yale University and worked as the Inaugural Curator for the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico (MARCO) between 1991-1994. Subsequently he was a Curator at the Research Institute at the Getty Center in Los Angeles for (1994-2003) and gave courses at the University of Southern California (USC). He was Artistic Director of the Sydney Biennale between 2004-2006. Between 2007-8, he was Deputy Director of the Cultural District, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi and from 2010-2013, Merewether was Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore. He is currently Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Charmaine Toh is a curator at the National Gallery, Singapore, currently researching photography and Singaporean artists working in the 1980s and 90s. She was the Programme Director of Objectifs: Centre of Photography and Film from 2010 to 2014 where she played a pivotal role in revitalising the gallery programme and initiated plans for documentation and research of local art practice. She is also the founder and Director of The Art Incubator, an independent organisation that facilitates the production and presentation of new work via residencies and exhibitions. Charmaine was the co-curator of the 2012 Marina Bay Light Festival and co-curator of the 2013 Singapore Biennale. 

Jennifer Teo and Woon Tien Wei have worked together for more than 10 years, in The Artists Village, p-10 and Post-Museum, an independent cultural and social space which they set up in 2007.

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Curatorial Roundtable 01 | video

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Curatorial Roundtable 01 | Lines of Control: Curatorial Con-texts

Date: 7 August 2014, Thursday
Time: 6.30 - 8.30pm
Venue: Visitors' Briefing Room, Level 1, National Library Building

Moderator:
Kenneth Tay (NUS Museum)

Speakers:
Charles Merewether (School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University)
Charmaine Toh (National Gallery Singapore)
Jennifer Teo & Woon Tien Wei (Post-Museum)

Despite the rise of the independent and transnational curator, the role of the curator is inextricably bound up in site - be it the museum, the international biennale, or the small non-profit space. To that end, how do we continue to speak about authorship in curatorial practice given that the latter continues to be influenced, changed and developed alongside the contexts curators find themselves in? As the inaugural session of the Curatorial Roundtable, this session will attempt to explore these questions while addressing also the perhaps problematic over-investment in the figure of the independent and transnational curator.

About the Curatorial Roundtable Series
Presented in conjunction with Curating Lab 2014, the Curatorial Roundtable public talk series gathers together curators and artists working across different fields of research and engagement, to discuss the boundaries of curatorial practice. Amidst the increasing attention paid to the role of the curator, this series aims to probe further into the limits of curatorial practice. Although presented primarily for the participants of Curating Lab 2014, the Curatorial Roundtable is an opportunity to bridge the gap between the curator and the audience, providing opportunities for interaction and stimulating discussions on curatorial practices and processes.

in pictures I Curatorial Roundtable 05. 18 January 2013

with Jim Supangkat

common programme: Curatorial Roundtable 05

Date: 18 January 2013, Friday
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: NUS Museum (map)
              University Cultural Centre
              National University of Singapore
50 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119279

            
To RSVP, please email museum@nus.edu.sg or call 6516-8817 / 8428
Limited seats available.

Please direct all enquiries to: Michelle Kuek | michellekuek@nus.edu.sg | 6516 8428

                                                   Stephanie Wong | steph.wong@nus.edu.sg | 6516 8797

:: Curatorial Roundtable Series 

Presented in conjunction with Curating Lab 2012, the Curatorial Roundtable series is a public talk series that gathers together curatorial and industry practitioners across different spectrums to discuss their latest exhibitions and projects. Although presented primarily for the participants of Curating Lab 2012, the series is an opportunity to bridge the gap between the curator and the audience, providing opportunities for interaction and stimulating discussions on curatorial practices and process.

:: About Jim Supangkat

Jim Supangkat (b.1948) is an art critic and chief curator of CP Foundation in Jakarta. He was the professor of Fine Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology for twenty years. As the leading curator in Indonesia, he initiated the Indonesia New Art Movement in 1970s regarded as the beginning of contemporary art discourse in Indonesia. He has been curating international contemporary art exhibitions in Indonesia including Contemporary Art of the Non-Aligned Countries (1995), CP Biennale I (2003) and CP Biennale II (2005), Contemporaneity: Contemporary Art in Indonesia at MOCA Shanghai (2010). He has written several books and numerous essays introducing contemporary art in Asia and Indonesia to the international art world. In 1997, he received the Prince Claus Award for this attempt.

Recap | Curatorial Roundtable 04

Held on 17 September 2012, at Future Perfect
Panelists: Arahmaiani, Chitti Kasemkitvatana, Darryl Wee

::: The Curatorial Roundtable Series

Presented in conjunction with Curating Lab 2012, the Curatorial Roundtable series is a public talk series that gathers together curatorial and industry pratitioners across different spectrums, to discuss their latest exhibitions and projects. Although presented primarily for the participants of Curating Lab 2012, this series is an opportunity to bridge the gap between the curator and the audience, providing opportunities for interaction and stimulating discussions on curatorial practices and process. 

Recap | Curatorial Roundtable 02

Held on 18 August 2012, at Unit 15, Lorong 24A Geylang
Panelists: David Henkel, Lilian Chee, Erika Tan

::: The Curatorial Roundtable Series

Presented in conjunction with Curating Lab 2012, the Curatorial Roundtable series is a public talk series that gathers together curatorial and industry pratitioners across different spectrums, to discuss their latest exhibitions and projects. Although presented primarily for the participants of Curating Lab 2012, this series is an opportunity to bridge the gap between the curator and the audience, providing opportunities for interaction and stimulating discussions on curatorial practices and process. 

in pictures I Curatorial Roundtable 04. 17 September 2012

with Arahmaiani, Chitti Kasemkitvatana, Darryl Wee

in pictures I Curatorial Roundtable 03. 28 August 2012

with Alan Oei, Tan Shir Ee, Khairuddin Hori

in pictures I Curatorial Roundtable 02. 18 August 2012

with David Henkel, Lilian Chee, Erika Tan

in pictures I Curatorial Roundtable 01. 1 August 2012

with Heman Chong, Pauline Yao, Cosmin Costinas

common programme: Curatorial Roundtable 04

Date: 17 Sep 2012
Time: 7pm
Venue: Future Perfect
              Gillman Barracks
              47 Malan Road, #01-22
            
To RSVP: Please email museum@nus.edu.sg or call 6516 8817 / 8428
Limited to only 30 seats 


::: THE CURATORIAL ROUNDTABLE SERIES

Presented in conjunction with Curating Lab 2012, the Curatorial Roundtable series is a public talk series that gathers together curatorial and industry pratitioners across different spectrums, to discuss their latest exhibitions and projects. Although presented primarily for the participants of Curating Lab 2012, this series is an opportunity to bridge the gap between the curator and the audience, providing opportunities for interaction and stimulating discussions on curatorial practices and process.

::: ABOUT CURATORIAL ROUNDTABLE 04

What is the state of curatorship in Southeast Asia today? Does the profession really exist here, or is it more of a responsibility, shared amongst artists, writers, teachers, organizers and others? What are our expectations of a curator, and how do we identify good curating? This informal roundtable at Future Perfect will bring together 3 very different arts professionals from the region, to discuss the place of curatorial thinking in and alongside their practices. Each will introduce some of their projects, and reflect on the impact of curatorship, past, present and future.

::: PANELISTS

Arahmaiani is a visual artist, performance artist and poet. She studied art at the Institute of Technology Bandung (1979-1982), the Paddington Art School, Sydney (1983-85) and AKI-Enschede, Holland (2001-02). Her works have been exhibited and performed in Indonesia as well as in Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, China, Cuba, Brazil, Germany, France and the USA.


Chitti Kasemkitvatana is an artist, art lecturer and independent curator based in Bangkok. In the mid-1990s, he was a curator at independent art space, About Studio/About Cafe, where he was a founding member. His recent projects include Messy Sky, a biannual self-published magazine (www.messysky.com) and Messy, a project space in Bangkok (messyshop.tumblr.com).


Darryl Wee is an independent art writer, editor and translator based in Tokyo, where he has lived for the past 6 years. Before that, he studied literature and French at Harvard University. His writing has appeared in both English and Japanese in Art Asia Pacific, Artforum.com, The Wall Street Journal, LEAP, and Bijutsu Techo.

Recap | Curatorial Roundtable 01

Held on 1 August 2012, at Goodman Arts Centre
Panelists: Heman Chong, Pauline J. Yao, Cosmin Costinas

::: The Curatorial Roundtable Series

Presented in conjunction with Curating Lab 2012, the Curatorial Roundtable series is a public talk series that gathers together curatorial and industry pratitioners across different spectrums, to discuss their latest exhibitions and projects. Although presented primarily for the participants of Curating Lab 2012, this series is an opportunity to bridge the gap between the curator and the audience, providing opportunities for interaction and stimulating discussions on curatorial practices and process. 

common programme: Curatorial Roundtable 03

Date: 28 Aug 2012
Time: 6pm
Venue: Evil Empire, 48 Niven Road

To RSVP: Please email museum@nus.edu.sg or call 6516 8817 / 8428
Limited to only 30 seats (floor seating only)
::: THE CURATORIAL ROUNDTABLE SERIES

Presented in conjunction with Curating Lab 2012, the Curatorial Roundtable series is a public talk series that gathers together curatorial and industry pratitioners across different spectrums, to discuss their latest exhibitions and projects. Although presented primarily for the participants of Curating Lab 2012, this series is an opportunity to bridge the gap between the curator and the audience, providing opportunities for interaction and stimulating discussions on curatorial practices and process.

::: PANELISTS

Alan Oei is an artist-curator who has exhibited in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Melbourne and New York. As a curator, he has initiated public projects such as Blackout, a warehouse exhibition that drew 3000 people to an industrial estate, and OH! Open House, the annual walkabout featuring art inside real life homes in neighbourhoods like Marine Parade and Tiong Bahru.  He has a BA Art History (magna cum laude) from Columbia University (NY) and a Diploma in Fine Arts (distinction) from LASALLE College of the Arts.

Tan Shir Ee is an arts consultant, manager and curator who traverses artistic disciplines and cities. She cut her teeth at the National Arts Council and the Esplanade before joining the Akram Khan Dance Company in London. She coordinated the United Arab Emirate's inaugural participation at the 2009 Venice Biennale before returning to Singapore to helm the 
Freedom to Create Prize which advocates social change through the arts. Other projects include curating the commissioned art at the award-winning New Majestic Hotel. She is currently lecturing at LASALLE College of the Arts and working on the Land Transport Authority's Art In Transit programme. 

Khairuddin Hori graduated with a Master of Arts from LASALLE, Singapore in 2006. Prior to his engagement as Senior Curator at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Khairuddin worked as an artist and independent curator focused on artists’ collectives and emerging talents from Southeast Asia with a particular focus on Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. In 2007, he employed six Asian curators as his art-makers in his solo exhibition Trading Craft which was presented in Bangkok and Singapore by the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. Khairuddin recently co-curated the exhibitions Negotiating Home, History and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia and The Singapore Show: Future Proof at SAM.

common programme: Curatorial Roundtable 02

Date: 18 Aug 2012
Time: 2pm
Venue: Unit 15 Lorong 24A Geylang

To RSVP: Please email museum@nus.edu.sg or call 6516 8817 / 8428
Limited to only 30 seats.


::: THE CURATORIAL ROUNDTABLE SERIES

Presented in conjunction with Curating Lab 2012, the Curatorial Roundtable series is a public talk series that gathers together curatorial and industry pratitioners across different spectrums, to discuss their latest exhibitions and projects. Although presented primarily for the participants of Curating Lab 2012, this series is an opportunity to bridge the gap between the curator and the audience, providing opportunities for interaction and stimulating discussions on curatorial practices and process.

::: PANELISTS

David Henkel is Curator for Southeast Asia at the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM). His focus is primarily on the Malay World and Tribal communities, as well as the early-modern period of Southeast Asian history. His research interests include weapons and warfare, religion and ritual, woodcarving, metalwork and textiles. His most recent exhibition was Land of the Morning: The Philippines and its People. 

Lilian Chee is a writer, architectural theorist and designer. She was trained at the Bartlett, University College London where she obtained her doctorate, and at the National University of Singapore where she is currently Assistant Professor. She is interested in the potentials and problematics of domesticity as it impacts the individual, the neighborhood, and ultimately, the city. Her interest has been explored across various visual media including architecture, art and film. She is presently working on a research film looking at domesticity within Singapore's public housing context.

Erika Tan is an artist and curator whose work has evolved from an interest in anthropology and the moving image. Her work is often informed by specific cultural, geographical or physical contexts; exploring different media to create situations that excite, provoke, question, confront and invite comments from an audience. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Thermocline of Art (ZKM, Germany 2007), The Singapore Biennale (2006), Around The World in Eighty Days (South London Gallery / ICA 2007), EAST International  (Norwich Gallery 2000), Cities on the Move (The Hayward Gallery, London), and Incommunicado (Hayward Touring exhibition). 

common programme: Curatorial Roundtable 01

Date: 1 Aug 2012
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Meeting Room 2, Block B, Goodman Arts Centre

To RSVP: Please email museum@nus.edu.sg or call 6516 8817 / 8428
Limited to only 40 seats.

::: THE CURATORIAL ROUNDTABLE SERIES

Presented in conjunction with Curating Lab 2012, the Curatorial Roundtable series is a public talk series that gathers together curatorial and industry pratitioners across different spectrums, to discuss their latest exhibitions and projects. Although presented primarily for the participants of Curating Lab 2012, this series is an opportunity to bridge the gap between the curator and the audience, providing opportunities for interaction and stimulating discussions on curatorial practices and process.

::: PANELISTS


Heman Chong is an artist, curator and writer. His art practice involves an investigation into the philosophies, reasons and methods of individuals and communities imagining the future. Charged with a conceptual drive, this research is then adapted into objects, images, installations, situations or texts. He participated in the 2nd Singapore Biennale (2008), Busan Biennale (2004) and represented Singapore at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). He previously co-facilitated Curating Lab 2009 and co-curated the accompanying Curating Lab: 100 Objects (Remixed) exhibition

Pauline J. Yao is an independent curator and scholar based in Beijing and Hong Kong. Previously, Yao co-founded the Arrow Factory in Beijing, and was a co-curator of the Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in 2009

Cosmin Costinas is the Executive Director of Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong) and its first Outset Curator of Contemporary Art. He was formerly a Curator at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst (Utrecht) and an advisory board member of Patterns/Erste Foundation (Vienna). He co-curated the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial and was the editor of documenta 12 Magazines from 2005-2007. He has taught and lectured at various universities and art academies in Europe and China.