Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  The project evolves through and around past and present movements and migrations of naturecultures in art and life in Southeast Asia. These events and spaces are, for him, conundrums of enigma, idealism and unexplored futures. Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA, Researchers unveil roadmap for a carbon neutral China by 2060, Next pandemic? Jalan Jati – the teak road. The first introduction of teak to Africa and Central America (Trinidad) happened in the nineteenth century, but records of the source of planting stocks for both these regions is extremely unreliable. Much of the imagery in the film is made out of woodprints of the grain of this bed.

Menu. She is the founder of The Migrant Ecologies Project, an umbrella for arts and ecology initiatives in Southeast Asia. The application of such markers allows an assessment of the evolutionary history of the species, the conservation status of remnant stands, and the source of origin of global plantations. National University of Singapore Museum, When you get closer to the heart, you may find cracks…Stories of Wood, The Migrant Ecologies Project w/Lucy Davis, Singapore, June 2014 - February 2015 * The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Jalan Jati (Teak Road), Migrant Ecologies Project w/ Lucy Davis… Thoughts from the vanguard of biodiversity research, Teak is one of the most valuable timber trees in the world, but where did it originally come from…. Her Together Again (Wood: Cut) series was nominated for the APBC Signature Asia Pacific Art Prize by the Singapore Art Museum in 2011. 35: 1017–1022. In addition to the community plantations, there are now large scale government run teak plantations JALAN JATI Lucy Davis Singapore/ 2012 / 24 min / G. UTAMA – EVERY NAME IN HISTORY IS I Ho Tzu Nyen Singapore / 2003 / 22 min / PG. doi: 10.1139/X05-033, Verhaegen D, Fofana IJ, Logossa ZA & Ofori D (2010) What is the genetic origin of teak (Tectona grandis L.) introduced in Africa and in Indonesia?

WHAT ABOUT FARQUHAR? Lucy Davis ... producer Film Editing by . It is highly unlikely there are Indonesia-endemic species of Tectona grandis. Jalan Jati won Promotion Award of the International Festival at Oberhausen 2012 and Best Sound and Special Mention Animation in The Singapore Short Film Awards 2013. View all posts by Prof Andy Lowe. Thanks Jim I had understood that the center of biodiversity for teak was Burma but it could well have several centers but surely all in the Indian subcontinent and mainland SE Asia. His practice takes up the dilemmas, conflicts, and varieties of parallax in people’s interpretation of specific histories and spaces. From this information, it appears that India is the evolutionary home of teak, which expanded relatively recently (in geological and evolutionary terms, but still 10s to 100s of thousands of years ago) into SE Asia. Lucy was Founding Editor & Editor in Chief of the 6 volume series FOCAS Forum on Contemporary Art & Society from 2000- 2007. Davis’ Together Again (Wood:Cut) series was nominated for the APBC Signature Asia Pacific Art Prize Singapore Art Museum 2011). 15 September: What’s the fuss with E-waste? Lucy Davis is a visual artist, art writer, and Assistant Professor at the School of Art Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Layers of memory are traced through the central material and subject of this film—wood from a teak bed found in a karang guni store in Singapore.