Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts
Exhibition
 

Incidental Scripts are emblematic Yang Fudong’s multi-faceted approach towards the creation of visual imageries that complicates our understanding of reality / fiction, and our experience of space / time.

Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts

12 December 2014 - 1 March 2015

Yang Fudong, a leading international figure of contemporary art and one the most important artists to emerge out of China in the 1990s, staged his first major solo exhibition in Southeast Asia at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. The exhibition, Incidental Scripts, presented a selection of four works by Yang: An Estranged Paradise (1997-2002), The Fifth Night (II) Rehearsal (2010), On the Double Dragon Hills (2012) and About the Unknown Girl – Ma Sise (2013-2014). These works are emblematic of his multi-faceted approach towards the creation of visual imageries that complicates our understanding of reality / fiction, and our experience of space / time.

The exhibition was curated by Ute Meta Bauer (NTU CCA Singapore Founding Director) with Khim Ong (Independent Curator).

Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts public programmes
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Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, December 12 2014 – March 1 2015, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Contributors
Ute Meta Bauer
Ute Meta Bauer
Curator, Founding Director
Singapore

Ute Meta Bauer is a Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU). She is currently the Acting Director and Principal Research Fellow at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore); and is the Chair of the Masters in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices (MA MSCP) programme. Having served as the Founding Director of NTU CCA Singapore for over a decade, her work as educator and curator over the past years has focused on Climates. Habitats. Environments. At the Centre, she curated and co-curated The Oceanic (2017/2018), Trees of Life. Knowledge in Material (2018), and The Posthuman City (2020). In 2022, she served as curator for the Singapore Pavilion at the 59th Biennale di Venezia, featuring artist Shubigi Rao. Her recent large scale projects include the 17th Istanbul Biennial (2022), co-curated alongside David Teh and Amar Kanwar, and the artistic direction of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024. She is a Trustee of the Art Foundation TBA21 and a member of the Governing Council of n.b.k. Berlin. Bauer was recently conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Art and Design by Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland.

Khim Ong
Khim Ong
Guest Curator
Singapore

Khim Ong is Head & Curator, Biennale and Residencies at Singapore Art Museum. Previously, she was Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes at NTU CCA Singapore (2016–19) where she co-curated solo exhibitions of internationally acclaimed artists Tarek Atoui, Amar Kanwar, and Yang Fudong, and research exhibitions Trees of Life — Knowledge in Material (2018), Ghosts and Spectres — Shadows of History (2017), and Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice (2016). She is co-editor of the publication The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) (NTU CCA Singapore and World Scientific Publishing 2020). Previously, Ong held curatorial positions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE and Osage Gallery, Hong Kong. Ong was curator of the Southeast Asia Platform at Art Stage Singapore in 2015 and was part of the curatorial team of Escape Routes, Bangkok Art Biennale 2020.

Yang Fudong
Yang Fudong
Artist
China

Yang Fudong was born in 1971 in Beijing and now lives and works in Shanghai. Working primarily in photography and film, Yang’s works are filled with psychological and existential questions. Yang’s work has been shown at many international exhibitions including: Documenta XI, Germany, 2002; the Shanghai Biennale, China, 2002; the Carnegie International, United States, 2005; the Asia Pacific Triennial, Australia, 2006; and the Venice Biennale, 2007.