Propositions for Planetary Attunement

NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore presents 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, featuring Artists-in-Residence 𝐍𝐠 𝐇𝐮𝐢 𝐇𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐧, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, and 𝐙𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐝 in collaboration with the NTU Earth Observatory of Singapore. What happens when artists and scientists find common ground in shared concerns and collective care for ecological complexities? Emerging from a year-long exchange between the artists and the researchers from the NTU Earth Observatory of Singapore, the programme explores the generative potential of interdisciplinary encounters, experimenting with the composition of scientific knowledge into artistic gestures of ecological witnessing, listening, and becoming. These explorations manifest in three acts that metabolise scientific evidence, ancestral knowledges, and other-than-human perspectives. Drifting between geosciences and creative processes, each artist offers a unique proposition that merges measurements and musings, interlacing the empirical with the embodied, science with speculation, facts with signals. Complementing the artistic propositions is a selection of research materials from the NTU Earth Observatory of Singapore created to offer a glimpse into the scientific data and phenomena that informed the artists’ inquiries. Together, these acts chart a non-linear journey to the threshold of our profound unknowing of the invisible forces that shape the planet, inviting us to cultivate deeper forms of attention and attunement to the Earth.