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Priyageetha Dia, LANDWARE, 2022. NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Courtesy of the artist.
Projects
LANDWARE
LAMENT H.E.A.T
An ongoing research project, LAMENT H.E.A.T asks: Can memories of subjugation in Malaya’s colonial past be reconciled with through rituals of listening mediated by technology? Can contemporary art hosted within the museum become that remarkable place for reconciliation?
[1] Dia, Priyageetha. “LAMENT H.E.A.T — Priyageetha Dia.” priyageethadia.com. Accessed November 9, 2023. https://priyageethadia.com/LAMENT-H-E-A-T.
Turbine Tropics
"TURBINE TROPICS marks the first iteration of a new ongoing series, where Priyageetha Dia extends her fieldwork to reflect the role of imaginaries on extractive capitalism and Southeast Asian plantation narratives. While plantation corporatism forms a core tenet in her exploration, access to these plantation grounds is often elusive. These areas remain invisible to the public eye and away from scrutiny. Yet monoculture plantation industries provide a potent lens for understanding the underlying geopolitical currents that collide and entangle within these spaces. Integrating Homi K. Bhabha's liminality theory within this postcolonial context, Dia posits the rubber plantation as a liminal space, wherein it is neither wholly natural nor entirely artificial; rather, these plantation spaces exist in a state of constant upheaval and transformation." [2]
[2] Dia, Priyageetha. “Turbine Tropics.” Cargocollective.com, 2018. https://files.cargocollective.com/c912666/TURBINE-TROPICS_Text.txt.
Biography
Priyageetha Dia (b. 1992, Singapore) works with time-based media and installation. Her practice is braided between plantation ecologies, postcolonial memory(ies), migration politics, and the production of labour and data economics. Structured through fieldwork and archival research, she engages in nonlinear and speculative processes as a practice of refusal against dominant narratives.
In recent years, Priyageetha has explored the ways digital mediums offer potential sites of mediation for colonial histories through works such as LAMENT H.E.A.T, 2023 exhibited at Singapore Art Museum. Her newest research enquiry extends her previous fieldwork to look into the role of imaginaries on extractive capitalism and Southeast Asian plantation narratives. To launch this new field of enquiry, Dia exhibited TURBINE TROPICS, 2023 at Frieze Seoul. She was also an artist-in-residence at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore in 2022 and the SEA AiR--Studio Residencies at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands in 2023 [3] [4].
[3] Dia, Priyageetha. “Info — Priyageetha Dia.” priyageethadia.com. Accessed November 9, 2023. https://priyageethadia.com/Info.
[4] “Turbine Tropics.” Cargocollective.com, 2018. https://files.cargocollective.com/c912666/TURBINE-TROPICS_Text.txt.
Videos
On AiR with Priyageetha Dia, 2022
Conferences
'FL-ITCHHH', Traversing the Matrix, 2021
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, School of Art & Design, Singapore
'On Bodies: Regulations', 2020
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, School of Art & Design, Singapore
Reloaded, Art in Public Space, 2019
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore.
Selected Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Turbine Tropics, Frieze Seoul, COEX, Gangnam, Seoul
2023 LAMENT H.E.A.T, SAM Contemporaries: Residues & Remixes, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2022 Forget Me Forget Me Not, Yeo Workshop, Singapore
2021 Shadows passing like memories that give, Gillman Barracks, Singapore. Curated by Syaheedah Iskandar and
Fajrina Razak
2020 An Exercise of Meaning in a Glitch Season, Proposals of Novel Ways of Being, National Gallery Singapore
2020 The Earth and her Skin, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 2219:Futures Imagined, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
Selected Residencies
2023 Artist-In-Residence, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands, partner institute NTU Centre for Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2023 Residency, SMU Libraries AiR, Singapore Management University, Singapore
2022 Artist-In-Residence, NTU Centre for Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2021 405 Residency, Telok Kurau Studios, Singapore
2020 Dance Nucleus Residency, National Arts Council, Singapore
Selected Awards
2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia - The Arts, Singapore
2019 Recipient of ArtOutreach IMPART Art Awards, Artist Category, Singapore