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21/8/2014

Theatrical Fields

CCA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore

Judith Barry, Stan Douglas, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, Eva Meyer & Eran Schaerf, Constanze Ruhm

From August 22 to November 2, 2014, the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (CCA) will present /Theatrical Fields /which introduces /theatricality /as a critical strategy in performance, film and video. The exhibition is scheduled to coincide with the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA).

The video installations by the following key artists in Theatrical Fields will be shown for the first time in Southeast Asia: Voice off (1999) by Judith Barry, USA; Suspiria (2003) by Stan Douglas, Canada; Lines in the Sand (2002) by Joan Jonas, USA), Vagabondia (200) by Isaac Julien, UK; She Might Belong to You (2007/2013) by Eva Meyer & Eran Schaerf, Germany Israel; X Characters Re(hers)AL (2003/4) by Constanze Ruhm, Austria.

The Exhibition: Theatrical Fields – Critical Strategies in Performance, Film and Video

In this exhibition, theatricality is not conceived strictly as a phenomenon in theatre, rather, it points to the 'constructedness' of everyday life. Theatrical forms make visible how our realities are staged and also how our histories are constructed and performed. The artists in this exhibition make use of various theatrical elements – from “character” to “voice”, “script”, “choreography” and “ritual” – to question and re-vision society’s existing scripts and histories.

Theatricality also refers to the meeting point between theoretical reflection and theatrical spectatorship through their common etymology. The concepts “theatre” and “theory” share etymological roots: both are derived from the Greek word “thea”, which means “to see”. /Theatrical Fields /evokes this deep-rooted connection between theatre and theory; In this conception, theory suggests an act of contemplation of something that unfolds in front of our eyes. In order to see something clearly, one needs to take a step back and contemplate it at a distance, like a spectator watching a play in the theatre.

Theatrical Fields, curated by Ute Meta Bauer with Anca Rujoiu, was first presented and commissioned by Bildmuseet, Umea in Sweden (2013). At Bildmuseet it included the installation /Sister Squares/by Marcel Dzama (Canada), and featured films by Marie Louise Ekman (Sweden) and Ulrike Ottinger (Germany), along with posters and artist books. /Reanimation,/a live performance of Joan Jonas with jazz pianist Jason Moran (USA), was presented at the Umea Jazz Festival.

In 2015 a catalog including keynotes from the symposium and commissioned essays will be published collaboratively by Bildmuseet Umea and CCA.

Public Programmes

A series of public programmes willexplore the notion and potential of theatricality as a tool to question and rewrite existing scripts and histories.

A one-day (Saturday August 23, 2014) symposium, moderated by SIFA artistic director Ong Ken Seng and CCA curator Anca Rujoiu will explore /Theatrical Fields /viewed from different perspectives. The symposium will feature keynotes by Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Cornell University; writer and filmmaker Eva Meyer, followed by a roundtable with artist Eran Schaerf, Katarina Pierre, Director Bildmuseet, Umea, and Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director of CCA.

Artist Judith Barry will give a public talk and host a workshop with the support of the School of Art, Design and Media, NTU (ADM)

Artist Isaac Julien will run a series of masterclasses at the School of the Arts, Singapore (SOTA).

For more information, please check CCA’s page on Gillman Barracks website and Facebook account:
www.gillmanbarracks.com/cca
www.facebook.com/CentreForContemporaryArt

CCA – Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

The Centre for Contemporary Art is a research centre of Nanyang Technological University, developed with support from the Economic Development Board, Singapore. Located in Gillman Barracks alongside a cluster of international galleries, the CCA operates as a local hub with an international perspective under the leadership of its Founding Director, Professor Ute Meta Bauer. The CCA embraces academic and scholarly research with contemporary art as knowledge production in its own right, taking a holistic approach towards art and culture by intertwining its three platforms: exhibitions, residencies, and research. Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

A research-intensive public university, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has 33,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the colleges of Engineering, Business, Science, and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. It has a new medical school, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, set up jointly with Imperial College, London. NTU is also home to world-class autonomous institutes—the National Institute of Education, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Earth Observatory of Singapore, and Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering—and various leading research centres such as the Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI), Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), and the Institute on Asian Consumer Insight (ACI). A fast-growing university with an international outlook, NTU is putting its global stamp on Five Peaks of Excellence: Sustainable Earth, Future Healthcare, New Media, New Silk Road, and Innovation Asia. Besides the main Yunnan Garden campus, NTU also has a satellite campus in Singapore’s science and tech hub, one-north, and a third campus in Novena, Singapore’s medical district.

Image: Isaac Julien, /Vagabondia/(2000). Installation view, The Turner Prize (2001), Tate Britain, London. Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Media Contacts

For inquiries about/Theatrical Fields /contact:

CCA Communications
Anca Rujoiu
+65 6684 0998
a.rujoiu@ntu.edu.sg

CCA – International Press Officer / segeband.pr
Denhart v. Harling
+49 179 4963497
dh@segeband.de

For inquiries about NTU, Singapore:
Feisal Abdul Rahman
NTU Corporate Communications Office
+65 6790 6687
feisalar@ntu.edu.sg

Media Preview: Friday August 22, 11 am, CCA, Block 43

Symposium: Saturday August 23, 10-4 pm, TheatreWorks, 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road, Singapore 239007

Centre for Contemporary Art
Block 43 Malan Road, Gillman - Barracks, Singapore 109443
Exhibition Opening Hours: Tue. – Sun. 12–7 pm; Fri. 12–9 pm; Closed Mon
Admission: Free

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