Bani Haykal
Residency period
10 September 2014 – 28 February 2015
About
Bani Haykal (b. 1985, Singapore) experiments with text and music. As a soloist, he works primarily with acoustic instruments, both traditional and/or hacked, and his studies revolve around narratives, structured improvisation and spoken word. He is a member of OFFCUFF and b-quartet. An Associate Artist with The Substation, Haykal has collaborated, exhibited, performed and toured internationally, as an artist and a musician, participating in festivals including Media/Art Kitchen (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Japan), da:ns Festival and The M1 Fringe Festival (Singapore) among others. Haykal was also a member of the Singaporean avant rock band The Observatory, with whom he has toured Norway (2012) and Italy (2013). Haykal was a recipient for the Young Artists’ Award (2013) and has been selected for the 2015 President’s Young Talents.
Focus
Bani Haykal’s research looks into the history and affect of the cultural cold war through the movement of Jazz music; identifying the political baggage associated with freedom and democracy as unpacked concepts locked in to the sociopolitical, economic and cultural narrative. Mirroring it to the narrative of Singapore’s present interest in music and the arts, Haykal posits the myths of freedom and cultural expansion as political and conceptual pollution that needs to be rethought and reimagined.
As a critically reflective artist and thinker, Haykal’s work examines the perceptions, relevance and culture of sound and music. This is often materialised through collaborations with artists across all fields as a means to discover new musical forms. These compositions can be interpreted as language in which to understand wider politics at play.
Public programmes
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In 2011, Bani Haykal presented an alternative ensemble as part of his Associate Artist Research Programme with The Substation involving musicians of various backgrounds performing music centred around graphic notation. The second presentation of “an alternative ensemble” consists of new works that rely on text as a musical score that were developed during the artist’s research residency with the CCA Singapore, looking at culture as a social control mechanism.
Bani Haykal is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans the fields of visual and literal performances, using music and sound.
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In 2011, Bani Haykal presented An alternative ensemble as part of his Associate Artist Research Programme with The Substation involving musicians of various backgrounds performing music centered around graphic notation. The second presentation of An alternative ensemble consisted of new works that rely on text as a musical score and that were developed.
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NTU CCA Artist-in-Residence Bani Haykal, ila and Zai Kuning came together for a performance that incorporated music and overhead projections.
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An improvised set by Artist-in-Residence, Bani Haykal and collaborators ila and Tim O’Dwyer.
27 Jun 2015, Sat 3:00pm - 6:00pm
11 Jul 2015, Sat 3:00pm - 6:00pm
18 Jul 2015, Sat 3:00pm - 6:00pm
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Lab sessions by Bani Haykal will present a series of collaborations over June and July using one of the NTU CCA Singapore studios as a base. Faculty of Listening is a means of thinking and experiencing music through non-musical lenses.
Faculty of Listening investigates “places as instruments” inspired by Didier Faustino’s public lecture at the BRIDGE THE GAP? 11 conference at NTU CCA Singapore where he says “architecture is not innocent, it is political”, and also by Marc Auge’s concept of non-places (Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, 1995). Haykal will present a series of lab sessions and performances using NTU CCA Singapore as a base, offering bikes for hire for visitors to take sound recordings around Gillman Barracks as part of his examination of music in relation to urban spaces.
This special project is supported by a National Arts Council grant.
LAB SESSIONS
Saturdays 20 & 27 June, 3.00 – 6.00pm
Saturdays 11 & 18 July, 3.00 – 6.00pm
PERFORMANCES
Tuesday 30 June, 8.00 – 10.00pm
Saturday 25 July, 5.00 – 7.00pm
Friday 31 July, 8.00 – 10.00pm
27 Jun 2015, Sat 3:00pm - 6:00pm
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Bani Haykal will present a series of collaborations over June and July using one of the NTU CCA Singapore studios as a base. Faculty of Listening is a means of thinking and experiencing music through non-musical lenses.
Faculty of Listening investigates “places as instruments” inspired by Didier Faustino’s public lecture at the BRIDGE THE GAP? 11 conference at NTU CCA Singapore where he says “architecture is not innocent, it is political”, and also by Marc Auge’s concept of non-places (Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, 1995). Haykal will present a series of lab sessions and performances using NTU CCA Singapore as a base, offering bikes for hire for visitors to take sound recordings around Gillman Barracks as part of his examination of music in relation to urban spaces.
This special project is supported by a National Arts Council grant.
LAB SESSIONS
Saturdays 20 & 27 June, 11 & 18 July, 3.00 – 6.00pm
PERFORMANCE
Tuesday 30 June, 8.00pm
Saturday 25 July, 6.00pm
Friday 31 July, 8.00pm
25 Jul 2015, Sat
31 Jul 2015, Fri
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Bani Haykal will present a series of collaborations over June and July using one of the NTU CCA Singapore studios as a base. Faculty of Listening is a means of thinking and experiencing music through non-musical lenses.
Faculty of Listening investigates “places as instruments” inspired by Didier Faustino’s public lecture at the BRIDGE THE GAP? 11 conference at NTU CCA Singapore where he says “architecture is not innocent, it is political”, and also by Marc Auge’s concept of non-places (Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, 1995). Haykal will present a series of lab sessions and performances using NTU CCA Singapore as a base, offering bikes for hire for visitors to take sound recordings around Gillman Barracks as part of his examination of music in relation to urban spaces.
This special project is supported by a National Arts Council grant.
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PERFORMANCES
Tuesday 30 June, 8.00 – 10.00pm
Saturday 25 July, 5.00 – 7.00pm
Friday 31 July, 8.00 – 10.00pm
LAB SESSIONS
Saturdays 20 & 27 June, 3.00 – 6.00pm
Saturdays 11 & 18 July, 3.00 – 6.00pm
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For this special day event at Gillman Barracks, NTU CCA Singapore has put together a line-up of programmes encompassing open studios, film screenings and performances. For full details of Art Day Out, visit www.gillmanbarracks.com.
Residencies: OPEN
NTU CCA Singapore, Studios, Block 37 & 38 Malan Road, 11.00am – 3.00pm
Featuring Artists-in-Residence, Yason Banal (The Philippines), Bani Haykal (Singapore), Amanda Heng (Singapore), Alex Murray-Leslie (Australia), Gary Ross Pastrana (The Philippines), Jeremy Sharma (Singapore), Shooshie Sulaiman (Malaysia) and Erika Tan (Singapore).
Artist Resource Platform
The Seminar Room, Block 43 Malan Road, 11.00am – 9.00pm
Highlights include selected documentation from NTU CCA Singapore’s residencies.
Film Screenings in collaboration with the Asian Film Archive
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
Punggok Rindukan Bulan (This Longing) by Azharr Rudin (Malaysia), 12.30pm – 2.30pm
Return to Burma by Midi Z (Myanmar/Taiwan), 7.30pm – 9.00pm
Erika Tan, Halimah-the-Empire-Exhibition-weaver-who-died-whilst-performing-her-craft
The Lab, Block 43 Malan Road, 3.00pm – 4.30pm
Live “broadcast” debate
Special Project: Faculty of Listening, Bani Haykal – Performance #2
Block 38 Malan Road, #01-07, 5.00 – 7.00pm