Reimagining Singapore: Self and Society in Contemporary Art

Chee-Hoo Lum is an associate professor of music education with the Visual and Performing Academic Group at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the coordinator of the NIE Centre for Arts Research in Education (CARE). CARE is also a member of the UNESCO UNITWIN: Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development. Chee-Hoo's research interests include issues towards identity, cultural diversity and multiculturalism, technology and globalization in music education; children's musical cultures; creativity and improvisation; and elementary music methods. He is currently on the editorial board of Research Studies in Music Education (RSME) and International Journal of Music in Early Childhood (IJMEC). He is a board member of Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research (APSMER) and was on the board of International Society for Music Education (ISME) from 2016 to 2018. He has previously been on the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Music Education (JRME), the co-editor of International Journal of Music Education (IJME) from 2014 to 2020 and an associate editor with the International Journal of Education and the Arts (IJEA). Chee-Hoo has published four edited books: (1) Contextualized Practices in Arts Education: An International Dialogue on Singapore; 2) Musical Childhoods of Asia and The Pacific); 3) Arts Education and Cultural Diversity: Policies, Research, Practices and Critical Perspectives; 4) The Artground Ecology: Engaging Children in Arts and Play Experiences, three co-authored academic books: 1) Teaching Living Legends: Professional development and lessons for the twenty-first century music educator; 2) Semionauts of Tradition: Music, Culture and Identity in Singapore; 3) World Music Pedagogy: School-Community Intersections, school textbooks, academic book chapters, referred journal articles and made numerous conference presentations at local and international settings. He has also successfully garnered a number of grant funding research projects (Tier 1 and Tier 2) through NIE OER, NIE AcRF, the National Arts Council and Mendaki of Singapore.

Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray is an artist and co-author (along with Chee-Hoo Lum) of the book Semionauts of Tradition: Music, Culture and Identity in Contemporary Singapore. She has been conducting research on the arts for the National Institute of Education, Singapore, since 2016. In 2021, she curated Dialogues with the Unseen, an exhibition featuring experimental and documentary films by artists from Southeast Asia, at Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in New York City. Before researching the arts, Juliette worked in international development. She has conducted anthropological research in Indonesia, Brazil, Cuba and Argentina; and she has taught English in India and Nepal.

Twardzik Ching Chor Leng is currently a senior lecturer at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and served as a member in the NIE Permanent Collection Committee from 2013 to 2018. As a contemporary artist and art educator, Chor Leng believes in developing local talent and resources in the arts. As such, she has served at the National Arts Council (NAC) Scholarship Committee, Lasalle College of the Arts Faculty of Fine Arts Industry Advisory Board, Ministry of Education (MOE) Art Syllabus Development Committee, and MOE Special Education Branch's Curriculum Advisory Group, and was recently invited to give a keynote address at the SZTU (Shenzhen Technology University, China) International Exhibition and Art Forum 2020. As a curator, she has overseen many exhibitions including international exhibitions such as Secrets in Life and Death (2017), an exhibition of paintings and prints by renowned Cheyenne and Arapaho artist Edgar Heap of Birds. She has served as a judge and curator inthe Singapore Youth Festival 2011 and 2014, as well as SAM's President's Young Talent Curatorial Committee (2014/15). She has also co-curated a multi-national travelling exhibition known as the Field Trip Project Asia (2015-present) that has travelled to Hong Kong, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan and Myanmar. Twardzik Ching Chor Leng has exhibited internationally, at the Jakarta Biennale #14, Indonesia, Ahrengsburg, Germany, Tokyo, Japan and Calgary and Regina in Canada. Corporate collectors of her work include Crown Life Canada and the University of Regina, Canada. In Singapore, public commissions of Chor Leng's works include the Istana, the Esplanade, the Singapore Art Show, Singapore Management University, NIE, National Museum of Singapore and Singapore Art Museum (SAM). Her recent commissions include the National Gallery Singapore (2015), Google Asia-Pacific office (2017), Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo, Japan (2018), the 5 Stones public art commission bythe NAC in commemoration of the Singapore Bicentennial (2019/20), and the Land Transport Authority for the Thomson Line MRT station due to open in 2021.

Chee-Hoo Lum 是新加坡南洋理工大學國立教育學院（NIE）視覺與表演藝術學術組的音樂教育副教授。他是NIE藝術研究中心（CARE）的協調員。CARE也是聯合國教科文組織UNITWIN：文化多樣性與可持續發展的藝術教育研究的成員。Chee-Hoo的研究興趣包括身份、文化多樣性和多元文化主義、音樂教育中的科技與全球化、兒童的音樂文化、創造力與即興創作，以及基礎音樂教學法。他目前是《音樂教育研究》（RSME）和《早期兒童音樂國際期刊》（IJMEC）的編輯委員會成員。他是亞太音樂教育研究研討會（APSMER）的董事會成員，並於2016年至2018年擔任國際音樂教育學會（ISME）的董事會成員。他曾擔任《音樂教育研究期刊》（JRME）的編輯委員會成員，並於2014年至2020年擔任《國際音樂教育期刊》（IJME）的共同編輯，以及《國際教育與藝術期刊》（IJEA）的副編輯。Chee-Hoo已出版四本編輯書籍：（1）《藝術教育中的情境實踐：新加坡的國際對話》；（2）《亞洲與太平洋的音樂童年》；（3）《藝術教育與文化多樣性：政策、研究、實踐與批判視角》；（4）《藝術生態：讓兒童參與藝術與遊戲體驗》，以及三本共同撰寫的學術書籍：（1）《教學活的傳奇：21世紀音樂教育者的專業發展與課程》；（2）《傳統的符號航行者：新加坡的音樂、文化與身份》；（3）《世界音樂教學法：學校與社區的交集》，並撰寫學校教科書、學術書章、同行評審期刊文章，並在本地及國際場合進行多次會議演講。他還成功獲得多個研究項目的資助（Tier 1 和 Tier 2），這些項目通過NIE OER、NIE AcRF、新加坡國家藝術委員會和Mendaki進行。

Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray 是一位藝術家，並與Chee-Hoo Lum共同撰寫了《傳統的符號航行者：當代新加坡的音樂、文化與身份》一書。自2016年以來，她一直在新加坡國立教育學院進行藝術研究。2021年，她在紐約市的移動影像博物館（MoMI）策劃了名為《與看不見的對話》的展覽，展出來自東南亞藝術家的實驗性和紀錄片電影。在從事藝術研究之前，Juliette曾從事國際發展工作。她在印尼、巴西、古巴和阿根廷進行了人類學研究，並在印度和尼泊爾教授英語。

Twardzik Ching Chor Leng 目前是新加坡南洋理工大學國立教育學院（NIE）的高級講師，並於2013年至2018年擔任NIE常設收藏委員會成員。作為當代藝術家和藝術教育者，Chor Leng相信發展本地的藝術人才和資源。因此，她曾在新加坡國家藝術委員會（NAC）獎學金委員會、拉薩爾藝術學院美術系產業諮詢委員會、教育部（MOE）藝術課程發展委員會，以及MOE特殊教育部的課程諮詢小組任職，並最近受邀在深圳技術大學（SZTU）2020年國際展覽與藝術論壇上發表主題演講。作為策展人，她負責過多個展覽，包括國際展覽《生與死的秘密》（2017），該展覽展示了著名的切延和阿拉帕霍藝術家Edgar Heap of Birds的畫作和版畫。她曾擔任新加坡青年藝術節的評審和策展人。