Singapore artists will display their new works, aimed at inspiring new ways of thinking about and understanding technology, at an exhibition organised as part of their participation in an art incubation programme by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) during Singapore Art Week 2025.

Communities of Practice, an art incubation programme that supports artists in their research and experimentation processes, is a platform hosted by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore).

Local artists Chok Si Xuan, bani haykal, and Ong Kian Peng participated in Communities of practice.Techno Diversions — a five-month programme curated by Anna Lovecchio, Curator, Programmes, NTU CCA Singapore. The project aims to bring together artistic research, various fields of knowledge, and create communities with shared interests to transform how we understand technology.

Titled Nothing Has To Be The Way It Is, the exhibition is inspired by the essay “It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is,” in which Ursula K. Le Guin remarked that the subversive power of the imagination “gnaws at the very foundation of the belief that things have to be the way they are.” Nothing Has To Be The Way It Is hints at the endless permutations of how things can be.

The exhibition will run from 17 to 26 January 2025 at The Hall, NTU CCA Singapore’s programme space at Gillman Barracks, which was launched in September 2024. This event marks the first time The Hall will host a group exhibition, reinforcing the Centre’s longstanding commitment to explore and experiment with the spaces of the curatorial.

Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, The Hall, Block 6 Lock Road, #01-09, Gillman Barracks, 108934

Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00 – 7:00pm
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 January, 12:00 – 10:00pm
Closed on Monday

When: 17 - 26 Jan 2025,

By: NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore)