What connects us in today’s digital world? In what ways can art, spirituality and digitality create meaning? Is it possible to use digital devices to engage with spiritual questions, nature, our bodies and other beings?
In this lecture-performance, Anja Gebauer Negri introduces the central questions of her research project Magic Medium. Grounded in empirical interviews with Singaporean artists and fieldwork, she proposes artistic and spiritual practices that offer critical, creative and innovative approaches to digitality.
After a short performative introduction, participants enter the magic circle and become part of a collaborative experience. Exercises of Re-Enchantment fosters intimate interactions with everyday digital media through an immersive, ceremonial and participatory format. These guided interactions also raise questions about the meaning of personal data, individual wishes and the mediation of the everyday world.
The work is made possible with the support of a fellowship as part of the DAAD Postdoctoral Program.
The lecture performance will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Associate Professor Woo Yen Yen, Programme Leader of the MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice programme at LASALLE College of the Arts.
9–16 Mar 2026
9:00am–8:00pm
The Ngee Ann Kongsi Library
What if objects can bring a research project alive—in a ceremonial, intimate way? Channeling Media is an interactive art installation which precedes and feeds into the lecture performance, and invites visitors into a process of discovery. The installation explores a form of mediality that reflects on spirituality and digitality within contemporary art, with different media acting as channels to experimentally access aspects of the art-based research project Magic Medium.
Dr Anja Gebauer Negri is a German researcher, educator and artist. She is a DAAD fellow in Singapore with the MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice programme at LASALLE College of the Arts, working on an artistic research project on spirituality and digitality.
Her practice and scholarship focus on digital culture, media art, participation and critical educational approaches. She taught and carried out research at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where she completed her PhD in 2021. She has extensive professional experience in museum contexts, including the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Haus der Kunst (Germany), and the Museum of Modern Art Salzburg (Austria), where she headed the Department of Art Mediation.
Since 2016, she has taught at universities in Germany, Austria and the US, and her artistic work has been exhibited internationally in Germany, Italy and Singapore.
