Paradise Lost

2014

Paradise Lost is the inaugural exhibition of the newly established Centre for Contemporary Art in Singapore, January 2014. Conceived as a constellation of three artistic productions that together explore narratives of travel and migration, place and displacement, the personal intertwined with colonial history. The exhibition juxtaposes trans-generational perspectives, bringing together three major installations of moving image: Surname Viet Given Name Nam by Trinh T. Minh-ha, Yellow Patch by Zarina Bhimji and Disorient by Fiona Tan. While all three artists are of Asian descent, their education and artistic practice unfolded in Europe and the US, and gained international exposure from there. This is the first time these works are shown in Asia in an exhibition context.

Paradise Lost introduces an imaginary Asia — Asia as a space of projections and desires stemming from an experience of dislocation and asynchronicity. We took inspiration from this for the exhibition branding, creating a distinctive identity which express notions of nostalgia and poetry across all print, marketing and environmental design.

CCA Talks

2014

In conjunction with Art Stage Singapore 2014, the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) presented CCA Talks at Art Stage, which featured an exciting array of artists, curators, writers, academics and other art world personalities. This series of talks focuses on the challenges and particulars of the regional art landscape. Convened by Lee Weng Choy, CCA’s Deputy Director and Senior Curator (designate), this year’s programme engages the ‘We are Asia’ theme of the art fair in three sessions: Hong Kong vs Singapore, Art & Knowledge and Local Art Institutions: New Horizons.

For this, we designed an interesting promotional brochure which detailed the schedules of the talks and the profiles of the various speakers. The brochure also doubled up as a poster when fully opened.

Centre for Contemporary Art

2014

The CCA—Centre for Contemporary Art is a research centre of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), developed with support from the Singapore Economic Development Board, officially opened in October 2013.

The CCA embraces artistic, academic and scholarly research, and views contemporary art as a form of knowledge production in its own right. Through a holistic approach, the CCA’s three main areas of activity—exhibitions, residencies and research—are intertwined and feed into each other, shaping organically the profile and programme of the institution.

We were commissioned to develop their brand identity ranging from their logo, stationary & marketing materials as well as way-finding systems. During its inaugural phase, we also designed a series of materials to promote the “Free Jazz” events, a series of programmes where creatives, cultural producers and intellectuals come to improvise together and contribute to the thinking and envisioning of the potentials for this new Centre for Contemporary Art.