FACULTY TEAM

Noor Effendy Ibrahim (Senior Lecturer) is an interdisciplinary arts practitioner pursuing research as art-practice and having created interdisciplinary live performances since 1992. Effendy has been the Artistic Director of Teater Ekamatra (2001-2006) and The Substation (2010-2015). Effendy received the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Singapore Foundation Culture Award in 2007. He sat on the NAC Board (2004-2006) and participated in the NAC Cultural Fellowship programme in 2014. Effendy is currently a senior lecturer at the School of Fine Art, Faculty of Art and Design, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Besides performance art, he creates interdisciplinary theatre performances under the collective Very Shy Gurl by fendy.

GUEST ARTIST

Koh Nguang How (Guest Artist, 2022-23)is an artist and researcher. He worked as a curatorial assistant at the National Museum Art Gallery from 1985 to 1992. He has been associated with the Singaporean art collective The Artists Village since 1989 and has documented its key events from June 1988 to January 2022. He began exhibiting art archives in 1992 at Performance Week at Gallery 21, Singapore, notably in the exhibition ERRATA at p-10, Singapore in 2004. He initiated the Singapore Art Archive Project (SAAP) in 2005, and has since presented over fifteen thematic works and exhibitions of SAAP in Singapore and abroad. He lives and works in Singapore.

Kamiliah Bahdar (Guest Artist, 2023-24) is an independent curator fresh from completing her Masters of Arts at Nanyang Technology University of Singapore, but already armed with a diverse portfolio of artisticendeavours and experiences to her name. After achieving her Bachelor of Arts with honours in 2011, Kamiliah joined Galerie Steph as Manager and Curator for three years, where she worked closely with both international modern art masters and emerging Asian artists alike. Since then, she also began delving into a mélange of writings, curator residencies and projects through the years. Her portfolio includes curating exhibitions for emerging and established Singaporean artists at local art institutions such as Gillman Barracks, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, Gajah Gallery and the National Museum of Singapore; as well as overseas residencies with Ketemu Project Space in Indonesia and Casa Tres Patios in Colombia.

Eunice Lacaste (Guest Artist, 2024-25) is a Research Assistant at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and PhD Candidate and the NTU School of Art, Design and Media. She is currently researching screen cultures. Eunice focuses on participatory art that engages the public through digital media. As an emerging researcher practitioner, she intends on decompartmentalising the aesthetic and the ethical, only to repackage them together in a more inclusive approach. Eunice is currently a member of the Artist Village Singapore, one of the pioneering art collectives in the country.