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Jackson Tan

2 Oct 2025

Jackson Tan is an award-winning designer and creative director who was named Designer of the Year at Singapore’s President’s Design Award in 2007. He co-founded PHUNK Studio in 1994 and …

Faith Tan

2 Oct 2025

Faith Tan has spent nearly two decades shaping and championing the performing arts, especially in the field of dance, commissioning choreographers and work from across Asia. At Esplanade – Theatres …

John Clang

2 Oct 2025

John Clang is an internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker, recognised for both his commercial collaborations and deeply personal artistic work. He has worked with brands such as Hermès, Adidas and …

25 Years of The Substation: Reflections on Singapore’s First Independent Art Centre

4 Sep 2019

25 YEARS OF THE SUBSTATION features the accounts of 25 artists and people who have been associated with The Substation since its founding in 1990. The book is organised around …

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Exploring Research Space in Fashion: The Fluidity of Knowledge between Designers, Individuals and Society

30 Oct 2018

Research involving fashion theory, or the consumption and use of fashion products, requires a study into material culture as the communication of symbolic values. Within the study of fashion, material …

Exploring Research Space in Fashion

Terms of Encounter: The ’85 New Wave and France, Magiciens De La Terre and Chine Demain Pour Hier

16 Aug 2018

This article focuses on the encounters and exchanges between French and Chinese artists, art critics and curators from 1985–90 and their impact on the development of two important presentations of …

Terms of Encounter: The ’85 New Wave and France, Magiciens De La Terre and Chine Demain Pour Hier

Nurturing Aspiring Young Artists for the Animation and VFX Industry: A Singapore Perspective

16 Aug 2018

In the recent decade, a downward trend of employment has been observed in the animation and VFX industry globally. This trend is observed in Singapore as the domestic industry is …

Nurturing Aspiring Young Artists for the Animation and VFX Industry: A Singapore Perspective

Jules Itier and the Lagrené Mission

16 Aug 2018

In the 1970s, Gilbert Gimon discovered the daguerreotype work of Jules Itier and subsequently published two articles: one in French in 1980 and one in English in 1981. The historical …

Jules Itier and the Lagrené Mission

Indonesische Kunst Der Gegenwart

14 Aug 2018

Yvonne Spielmann diskutiert in ihrer Studie den Stellenwert indonesischer Kunst der Gegenwart, die seit den 1990er Jahren zunehmend an Kunstereignissen im asiatisch-pazifischen Raum und weltweit an Biennalen, Auktionen, Messen und …

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Mobilizing Urban Neighbourhoods: Artivism, Identity, and Cultural Sustainability

14 Aug 2018

The time period of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has brought significant changes and tough challenges to post-war Yugoslav countries (i.e. Wachtel 1998; Dragićević Šešić and Dragojević 2006; …

Mobilizing Urban Neighbourhoods: Artivism, Identity, and Cultural Sustainability

ARTISTS IMAGINE A NATION: SG50. PICTURES OF PEOPLE AND PLACES FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF KOH SEOW CHUAN AND FRIENDS

3 Aug 2018

Published to accompany the group exhibition Artists imagine a nation: SG50.Pictures of people and places from the collections of Koh Seow Chuan and friends, including Abdullah Ariff, Boo Sze Yang, …

RENDEZ-VOUS

3 Aug 2018

Published by Association Rendez-vous, la jeune création contemporaine to accompany the group exhibition Rendez-vous, including Lina Adam, Mathilde Barrio Nuevo, Sophie Bonnet-Pourpet, Thibault Brunet, Chun Kaifeng, Jean-Alain Corre, Hasan and Husain …

FINDING COMFORT IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE IMAGINATION. A CATALOGUE OF IDEAS BY ANA PRVACKI

3 Aug 2018

Published to accompany the solo exhibition Ana Prvački: Finding comfort in an uncomfortable imagination, at the ICA Singapore Foreword by Bala Starr Texts by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Raimundas Malasauskas, Chus Martinez …