Application deadline: November 15, 2016
Start date: August 14, 2017
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Block 6 Lock Road
#01-09/10, Gillman Barracks
Singapore 108934
T +65 6460 0300
[email protected]
The School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU), in collaboration with the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore), offers programmes leading to a Master of Art (Research) degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree. These postgraduate degrees are pioneering programmes in Southeast Asia, dedicated to the research focus of “Spaces of the Curatorial”, “Curating the City”, as well as suggested topics by the prospective candidates that relate to the Centre’s mandate.
These programmes will allow MA students and PhD candidates to pursue interdisciplinary research within the framework of contemporary critical discourse in the expanded field of contemporary art. Under this umbrella, candidates will engage with current developments in art infrastructures, knowledge production, archival practices, spaces of presentation and representation in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Students of the programme will be supervised and taught by an internationally diverse faculty of ADM including Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director of NTU CCA Singapore (Spaces of the Curatorial); Associate Professor Laura Miotto (Exhibition Design); and Assistant Professor Michelle Lim (Contemporary Curating). Incoming professorships in “Curatorial Practice” and “Art in Public Space and Critical Spatial Practice” further diversify the ADM faculty. Students will pursue research in close proximity to the Centre’s network of Artists-, Curators-, and Writers-in-Residence as well as to local and regional art communities. There will be multiple opportunities for students to partake in curatorial and research projects, exhibitions, symposia and other programmes at the NTU CCA Singapore, at ADM / NTU, and at other affiliated institutions in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
NTU CCA Singapore seeks applicants from diverse backgrounds with a strong interest in the expanded field of curating and/or in the art ecosystems of Southeast Asia. Applicants should be independent, self-driven, and interested in taking part in the defining phase of this new area of study offered by ADM / NTU in collaboration with the Centre. The two-year MA (Research) as well as the PhD programmes culminate in the preparation of a written thesis; alternatively candidates may choose to produce a project accompanied by a shorter thesis.
Admission is based on:
–A statement of intent
–A research proposal
–Samples of academic writing
–Documentation of (curatorial) projects
–Academic transcripts
–Report from two academic referees
For more information on the application process and requirements, curriculum and fees of the programmes, please visit here.
Apply online here.
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Located in Gillman Barracks, the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is a national research centre of Nanyang Technological University and is supported by a grant from the Economic Development Board, Singapore. The Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of exhibitions, residencies, research and academic education, engaging in knowledge production and dissemination. The Centre positions itself as a space for critical discourse and encourages new ways of thinking about “Spaces of the Curatorial” in Southeast Asia and beyond.
School of Art, Design and Media
The School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) offers inter-disciplinary courses designed to nurture creative individuals to become outstanding artists, designers, animators, new media performers and even business leaders. ADM challenges its students to be independent thinkers and provide them with a learning environment that fosters participation and inclusiveness, and conceptual and technical skills necessary for professional employment, research or advanced study in the arts and related fields.
Nanyang Technological University
A research-intensive public university, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in the colleges of Engineering, Business, Science, and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. NTU Singapore is the fastest-rising university in the world’s Top 15 and currently ranked 13th globally by QS World University Rankings 2015.
NTU ADM Graduate Programme Office
T +65 6316 2930 / [email protected]
