Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Art and the Environment in Southeast Asia: Making in a Changing World
Artists in Southeast Asia are responding to urgent environmental and social shifts with innovative approaches that connect place, material, and community. This course offered a thematic journey into the ways contemporary art practices illuminate and address ecological challenges, gaining insight into the vibrant contemporary art scene in Southeast Asia and understanding how creative practices can shape the way we think about and respond to environmental challenges.
5 weeks, 1 hour per week
Dr Seng Yu Jin
Director (Curatorial, Research & Exhibitions), National Gallery Singapore
National Gallery Singapore
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Gain a deeper understanding of how contemporary Southeast Asian artists engage with socio-environmental issues around them.
- Develop skills to critically analyse artworks within their cultural and ecological contexts.
- Encounter art and ways of thinking from Southeast Asia.
- Apply vocabulary and visual analysis strategies to form an interpretation of artworks.
Syllabus
Week 1 | Welcome to the course!
In this section, you’ll get an overview of the course. Let’s start by meeting the team and the artists, exploring their practices, and connecting with fellow learners!
Week 2 | Changing Constants
This week, we will explore how artists Sharon Chin and Art Labor navigate the complex entanglements between changing environment and their communities.
Week 3 | How Things Meet
In this section, we will gain insight into how changing urban and natural landscapes have shaped artist Sopheap Pich’s practice and material selection.
Week 4 | In Our Backyard
This week, we will uncover day-to-day ecological encounters of artists Robert Zhao and Sharon Chin, delving into impacts of human activities towards non-human inhabitants co-existing in the same space.
Week 5 | Where do we go from here?
To conclude, we will reflect on what we learned over the past few weeks, we also invite you to consider how environment is not a distant ideal but a lived, complex reality—difficult to define, yet vital to how we understand our world.
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Issued on 22nd August 2026
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