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Exhibition

Techno Diversions. Nothing has to be the way it is

NTU CCA Singapore

17 January 2025 to 26 January 2025

17 – 26 January, 12.00 – 7.00pm. Fri 24 and Sat 25 January, 12.00 – 10.00pm [long hours for Art After Dark]. Closed on Monday.

Free admission

Wheelchair accessibility

Synopsis

Techno Diversions. Nothing has the be the way it is explores transformative understandings of technology through the lens of artistic practices that pursue the renewal of human agency within the technosphere and the critical re-enchantment with its tools. The exhibition features new works by Chok Si Xuan, bani haykal, and Ong Kian Peng borne out of the artists’ engagement with the material, cultural, and spiritual layers of the devices, networks, and apparatuses that infiltrate the flow of contemporary life in our increasingly techno-driven society. Embracing the urgency to think critically about prevailing modes of technological development, these artists chart new paths of significance through creative frictions and acts of repurposing, disrupting, and de-centralising. Techno Diversions is the first iteration of NTU CCA Singapore’s Communities of Practice, a shapeshifting research platform that brings forth communities at the intersection of artistic practices.

Participating artists/curators:

Chok Si Xuan, Artist, Singaporean
bani haykal, Artist, Singaporean
Ong Kian Peng, Artist, Singaporean
Anna Lovecchio, Curator

 

Public programmes:

Guided Tours: Saturday 18 January, 3.00pm and 5.00pm, NTU CCA Singapore Block 6 Lock Road #01-10 Gillman Barracks Singapore 108934

Artist Tour by Chok Si Xuan, bani haykal, Ong Kian Peng: Saturday 25 January, 3.00 - 4.00pm, NTU CCA Singapore Block 6 Lock Road #01-10 Gillman Barracks Singapore 108934

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