About the Database
The Environmentally-Engaged Artistic Practices in South, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Database aspires to provide a comprehensive and rich data source for artists, climate scientists, and policymakers on the artistic practices of artists and collectives from the South, Southeast Asian and Pacific Regions. The complexity of the climate crisis at hand requires a transdisciplinary approach to research and practice, even as we see climate change becoming an ever-pressing theme across the disciplines of science and art. This database does not aim to be an exhaustive list of artists from the South, Southeast Asian and Pacific region but a carefully crafted list of artists and collectives that have a keen focus on environmental themes. Drawing on the expertise built up by NTU CCA over the years, this database animates the expansive network of artists from around the South, Southeast Asian and Pacific regions dedicated to themes related to traditional knowledge, biodiversity and ecosystems, anthropogenic impacts and risk and resilience. The hope is that this database presents an easy to use and initial source of information for scientists, policymakers and artists to find artists relevant to their area of expertise or region of study with the possibility of collaborating with artists in the database toward building transdisciplinary research methods.
The content featured in the database is edited and proofread by an internal team at NTU CCA. If you would like to contribute to, update or edit any of the information that currently exists in the database, please email ntuccacomms@ntu.edu.sg to get in touch.
This database is supported by the Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1 Grant (RG39/21) Environmentally-Engaged Artistic Practices in South, Southeast Asia and the Pacific and their potential impact as contribution for transdisciplinary research in Singapore led by Principal Investigator Professor Ute Meta Bauer. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author (s) and do not reflect the views of the Ministry of Education, Singapore.
How To Navigate the Database
Thematic Categorisation
The artists in this database are categorised into four distinct themes that reflect topics shared across climate sciences, humanities and the arts.
Anthropogenic Impact and Deep Time features artists illuminating human impact on environments with immediate devastating consequences on ecosystems but also pointing to possible rifts through future worlds.
Traditional Knowledge and Cosmologies includes artists that draw from ancestral histories, folklore and spiritual intelligence that deepen our understanding of the unseen and spectral elements of the natural world.
Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Livelihoods focuses on particular species-relations that artists developed through methods of long-term observation, cataloguing and audio-visual documentation.
Risk, Resilience, and Resistance shed light on the inequalities created by a changing climate and subsequently impacting regional ecosystems an dlivelihoods, artists in this category focu on community practices, localised knowledge as well as as on environmental and social justice.
Geography and Research Methodologies
The featured projects are further sorted into geographic locations, research methodology, and the various artistic media used. Many of these projects work both within but also without the current geographical delineations of maps, complicating the ways that we think about boundaries, topographies and spatiality. We hope to provide a wider range of 'countries/regions' onto this database that go beyond existing framing of borders. Similarly, artists engage in various rigorous research methodologies across a variety of fields and mediums, we hope to expand through our categorisations an expansive way of understanding research methodologies.
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