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The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Singapore initiates, produces and presents innovative and emerging creative practices. Through an annual program of interdisciplinary artistic and curatorial practices across the visual arts, design, new media and performance, it provides a dynamic site for contemporary culture in Southeast Asia. Established by LASALLE College of the Arts in 1986 as the Dr Earl Lu Gallery and repositioned as ICA Singapore and the college's curatorial division in 2004, the ICA Singapore now comprises five galleries that span a total of 1,500 square metres. It is located at LASALLE’s architect-designed Rochor campus, near the city centre, in Singapore’s arts, culture, learning and entertainment precinct. The exhibition program is separated into two strands: major international exhibitions, and curriculum-related, individual and collaborative projects developed with LASALLE staff and students. The program provides a bridge between artistic research, experimentation and critique. Artists, curators, lecturers and students are encouraged to test their ideas through public exhibitions, exchange, critical viewing and discussion. The ICA Singapore is a member of the Asian Arts Space Network (AASN), and regularly collaborates with international organisations, artists and guest curators. ==History== For thirty years the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore has played a unique and significant role in the Southeast Asian contemporary art scene. The ICA Singapore was founded in 1986 as the Earl Lu Gallery, named in recognition of a major donation by Dr Earl Lu to LASALLE to support teaching and learning. Based at the LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts campus at 490 East Coast Road from 1986, and from 1995 at Goodman Road, it presented both contemporary and traditional arts, focusing on the perspective of the artist. During the first two decades, the gallery also developed the LASALLE College of the Arts Collection, acquiring significant paintings and sculpture by Chen Wen Hsi, Cheong Soo Pieng, Lim Cheng Hoe, Seah Kim Joo, Chua Ek Kay, Jimmy Ong, Ang Kiukok, Sutee Kunavichayanont and the founder of LASALLE, Brother Joseph McNally, among others. From 1996 to 2003, the gallery was directed by Binghui Huangfu, who developed major curated exhibitions of international contemporary art with an emphasis on visual arts from Asia. Highlights include ''In and Out'', ''Text & Subtext: International Contemporary Asian Women Artists Exhibition'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】website = Asia Art Archive )〕 ''Site + Sight: Translating Cultures'' and ''Compound Eyes: Contemporary Visual Art from China''. The programme was refocused under the directorship of Eugene Tan (2003–08), during which time the gallery staged solo exhibitions by international artists including Antony Gormley, On Kawara and Lim Tzay Chuen. In keeping with the gallery’s increased focus on research emerging from LASALLE, in 2004 it was renamed the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, and in 2007 published a comprehensive publication on contemporary art in Singapore. In 2007, LASALLE College of the Arts moved to its current award-winning campus designed by RSP Architects on McNally Street. With this new development, ICA Singapore was repurposed, inhabiting a new, dramatically increased footprint of seven galleries. In 2010, Charles Merewether was appointed Director. During Merewether’s tenure, the gallery maintained a dynamic exhibition and publishing programme, presenting numerous exhibitions of the work of college students and staff along with landmark solo presentations by artists including Roberto Chabet (2011)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.oaf.cc/flashV/news.html )〕 and Tang Da Wu (2013). In November 2013, Bala Starr was appointed Director. Bala was previously Senior Curator at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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