CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Wednesday 6 August 2025

Time

Studio Theatre

Multi-Purpose Hall

Time

Studio Theatre

Multi-Purpose Hall

9.30am

Registration
Venue: Studio Theatre Lobby

10.00am

Introduction and Housekeeping

10:05am

Opening address by Keng Hua

10.15am - 11.10am

Keynote
June Yap
Director, Curatorial & Research Singapore Art Museum
Grasping at…
(In person)

10.15am - 11.10am

Panel 1: Bodies, Memories, and Voices

Chair: Christabel Teng

Negar Tahsili Fahadan: Amidst…: The tear-filled performing body as a resistant repertoire (in person)

Joshua Dela Cruz: Salin-Salin: Performing Memory and Technology in Egnogot Indigenous Traditions (in person)

Roselle Pineda: What You Heard Was My Voice and the Voices of Many: Meandering, Overhearing, and the Partial Connections of Creative Practice (in person)

Panel 2: Capturing Public Space and Community Practices

Chair: Kimberly Shen

Yen Yen Woo: Capturing Impact - The Case of Kampung Halloween (in person)

Weiqin Chay: Diari Seorang Tailor: Staging Proximities as a Method of Remembering and Imagining (in person)

Regina De Rozario and Seah Sze Yunn: Rendering the Palimpsestic City: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Realising PERCEPTION3’s Public Space Practice (in person)

12.30pm – 1.30pm

Lunch (provided)
To be served in the Studio Theatre Lobby

1.30pm - 2.50pm

Panel 3: Storytelling and Material Transformation

Chair: Georgette Yu

Pixie Tan & Nidya Shanthini Manokara: Embodied Pages: Capturing, Reframing and Rendering Bharatanatyam Practice through Zine-Making (in person)

Yix, Guo Yi Xian: From Page to Play, Words to World: Capturing Cuteness through Publishing and Virtual Production (in person)

Charlotte Schuitenmaker: Indigenous Agency through Digital Oral Storytelling in Australia (online)

Panel 4: Capturing Bodies and Digital Performance

Chair: Ye Shufang

Tessa Rixon and Elizabeth Gibbs: Digital or Die? Advancing Digital Innovation in the Australian Live Performance Sector: A Multi-Year Government-Funded Research Initiative (online)

Jesus Montajes: Transforming Kadayawan: Spatial and Performance Reconfiguration into the Digital (in person)

Gavin, Boon Hiong Low & Beverly, Yuen Wei Low: Being and Presence: Capturing Energy Flow and Embodiment in Physical Theatre and Performer Training (in person)

3.00pm - 4.30pm

Panel 5: Capturing Performative Practices

Chair: Angelynn Tan

Dan Craddock: Capturing the Ethics of Performing Parafiction (online)

Jessica Hsing An Chen: Music Draws Blood: A Monodrama of East and West (in person)

Ania Zoltkowski: Stitching Worlds: Embroidery as Performative Documentation of Pluriversal Fashion-Textile Practices (online)

Panel 6: Curating, Archiving, and Practice

Chair: Andrew Mowatt

Adrian Tan: OPEN END: Curating The Substation Archive as Research and Performance (in person)

Elise Maynard: Recreating Odette: Experimental History in the Archive (online)

Merissa Tee: Within Fear lives Wonder: Capturing the Contemporary Sublime with Cyanotype (in person)

4.30pm – 5.00pm

Tea Break (provided)
To be served in the Studio Theatre Lobby

5.00pm - 6.00pm

Keynote
Professor Robin Nelson
Hunting the Snark: Aiming to Capture the Elusive
(In person)

Thursday 7 August 2025

Time

Studio Theatre

Multi-Purpose Hall

Recital Hall, C5-02

Time

Studio Theatre

Multi-Purpose Hall

Recital Hall, C5-02

9am

Registration

Studio Theatre Lobby

Student Panel (Music): Capturing Pedagogies Through Performance

Chair: Rebecca Kan

Mario Kusuma: Capturing Pedagogies is Negotiating Technique and Expression (in person)

Yuvaarani d/o Balasubramaniam: Capturing Pedagogies is about the Body as a Site of Knowing (in person)

Tan Xin Jie: Capturing Pedagogies as a Living Archive of Cultural Memories (in person)

Jovanna Yam: Capturing Pedagogies is Conjuring Colour through Touch and Mental Imagery (in person)

Jayron Tan: Capturing Pedagogies is Extending Sonic Possibilities with Technology (in person)

9.30am – 11am

Panel 7: Capturing Performance Practice

Chair: Felipe Cervera

He Jin Jang: The Only Thing I Can Do Is to Lend My Body: Capturing Invisible Rituals in Choreographic Research (in person)

Ang Gey Pin: Capturing Practice: Embodied Imprints of the Performer (in person)

Siri Rama: Rasa Experiences – ‘Capturing’ a ‘Tasteful’ Performance and Performing Tastefully for ‘Capture’ (online)

Panel 8: Capturing Care

Chair: Michael Tan

Lydia Wong-Plain and Kimberly Shen: Thinking About Care: Feminist Curatorial Methodologies in Paracuratorial Spaces (in person)

Alecia Neo: Care Index: Collaborative Movement and Dialogical Practices for Enacting Care (in person)

Salty Xi Jie Ng: Portals of relationality: The sound of your grey hair / the smell of your dream / what does intimacy mean to a 76-year-old? (online)

Student Panel (Music): Capturing Pedagogies Through Performance

Chair: Rebecca Kan

Mario Kusuma: Capturing Pedagogies is Negotiating Technique and Expression (in person)

Yuvaarani d/o Balasubramaniam: Capturing Pedagogies is about the Body as a Site of Knowing (in person)

Tan Xin Jie: Capturing Pedagogies as a Living Archive of Cultural Memories (in person)

Jovanna Yam: Capturing Pedagogies is Conjuring Colour through Touch and Mental Imagery (in person)

Jayron Tan: Capturing Pedagogies is Extending Sonic Possibilities with Technology (in person)

11:10am – 12.30pm

Panel 9: Capturing Innovation

Chair: Levi Lim

Lala Santyaputri: Reimagining Raden Saleh: Copyright Challenges and Opportunities in Immersive Storytelling of Indonesian Art (in person)

Arron Teo: The Uncaptured Practice: AI Hallucination in Man-Machine Co-creation (in person)

Natalia Tan: Reweaving Realities: Digital and Analog Collisions (in person)

Panel 10: Capturing Place, Landscape, and Ecology

Chair: Park Hye Young

Zi Hao Wong and Liu Dian Cong: Intertidal as Practice: Mattering Stories for an Ephemeral Landscape (in person)

Kim Robertson: Restor(y)ing the Land (in person)

Khai Hori: The Unscripted School: Curatorial Rehearsals in Practice (in person)

Student Panel (Fine Art): Sensing and Undoing Practice

Chair: Hans Chew Ziyang

Nhawfal Juma’at: In the Juncture of Silence: Asemictism and the Divine (in person)

Catherine Lim Li Wan: Walking and Tracing (in person)

12.30pm – 1.30pm

Lunch (provided)
To be served in the Studio Theatre Lobby

1:30pm – 2.45pm

Panel 11: Capturing Music

Chair: Joyce Koh

Joyce Teo: The Secret Codes of Gamelan Music (in person)

Ning Hui See: Translocality and ‘Diversity’ in Concert Programming: A Pianist’s Autoethnography (in person)

Mukaddas Mijit (presenting) and Rachel Harris: Capturing Musical Encounters across the Soviet-Chinese Divide (online)

Panel 12: Bodies, Disruption, and Narrative

Chair: Adrian Tan

Lucie Sykes: Capture of Bodies: Sculptural Qualities Framework and Its Dynamic Reshaping of Actual and Virtual Bodies within Motion Capture Environments (online)

Patricia Mariz Hilao: The FlipTop Phenomenon: Embodied Narratives and Cultural Resistance in Filipino RapBattle League Performances (in person)

Nicola Conibere: Taking Care Taking: Capturing Disruption within Narratives of Flow in Artistic Research (online)

3:00pm

Double-Bill Book Launch (Studio Theatre)

Guest of Honour Address: Peter Ho Hak Ean

3.10pm

Launch of Data-Driven Smart Community Design
Edited by Chong Keng Hua (Provost and Vice-President, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore)

Conversation with Experts:
Yow Wei Quin (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Singapore University of Technology and Design), Chau Yuen (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University), Michael Tan Koon Boon (Research Division), Hoe Su Fern (Art, Culture, Smart City)

Moderator: Chong Keng Hua (Provost and Vice-President, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore)

4pm

Launch of Signature Pedagogies for Professions in Arts and Design
Co-edited by Rebecca Kan (Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore) and Christopher S. G. Khoo (Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University)

Conversation with Authors:
Christopher S. G. Khoo (Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Caren Carino (Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies), Grace Leong (Teaching and Learning Centre), Peh Mei Lian (School of Design Media), Alicia de Silva (Office of Academic Affairs), Eleanor Tan (School of Music), Tan Choong Kheng (School of Fine Art), Georgette Yu (School of Fashion)

Moderator: Rebecca Kan (Teaching and Learning Centre | Faculty of Performing Arts) (In person)

5pm

Tea Break (provided)
To be served in the Studio Theatre Lobby

5:15pm

Keynote (Studio Theatre)

Rianto
Making and Unmaking: Capturing the In-between
(In person)

6:15pm

Closing Statements ADPRex/ Opening Southeast Asian Forum (Studio Theatre)

Statements ADPRex/ Opening Southeast Asian Forum from Dr Bridget Tracy Tan

Signing of Memorandum of Understanding between NAFA and Institut Teknologi Bandung

6.45pm – 8.45pm

Reception Dinner (Campus 1)
(provided)

Opening of the UOB-NAFA Southeast Asian Arts Forum 2025
Imaginary Library: The Art of Embodied Chronicles

To be served at NAFA, Campus 1, 80 Bencoolen Street, 189655.