Category: GUEST PROGRAMME

Feel Fellow presents explorations by Dylan Chan & Daniel Chong which re-centres the conditions in which relation comes into being, shifting focus from identity toward affect. Rooted in queer experiences shaped by lived proximities in Singapore, the works reflect on the subtle negotiations of visibility, belonging, and restraint.

Through gesture, and spatial intervention, the artists hope to explore moments of tension between intimacy and absence. Central to the collaboration is a sense of yearning to locate oneself within spaces that may not always feel accommodating. The project hopes to offer a quiet yet insistent reflection on how queer identities move through, reshape, and inhabit the spaces around them.

Feel Fellow continues the duo collaborative streak from curatorial collaboration on exhibition Exposure_Exposure (2026) at Objectifs and a duo presentation unfurling murmurs (2025) at DECK as part of the 2024/5 DECK Associates Programme.

The Artists Village presented Plurals and Other Wild Creatures, a collaborative performance-installation that approaches space as a living, mutable ecology. This project invited artists with distinct practices to work together in the space of Kim Association and experiment with ideas of plurality, collectivity, and community-building frameworks.

Across the programme, participating artists and collaborators contributed through performances, readings, discussions, movement-based sessions, audio and video works, archival materials, and process-led activities. Together a modular environment was co-created through objects, gestures, or sounds, forming intimate spaces and communal zones. Participating artists include Pow Jun Kai, Shirley Soh, Felix Cheng, Bodhi, Zhang Qiao and others working across performance, documentation, installation, and collective conversation.

The sg_____jb translocal agency brought together artists and art researchers on both sides of the Singapore-Johor Causeway and inquired into themes of migration, shared heritage, urban transformation, and translocal identities. Through presentation, experimentation, and discussion, the programme reflected on the politics of mobility, exchange and historical infrastructure.

Drawing from historical infrastructure of the former BBC relay stations, as well as the development of Johor-Singapore Rapid Transit System Link and the expansion of the Iskandar Malaysia economic zone, the programme considered the reconfiguration of transborder mobilities, labour flows, and spatial imaginaries between Singapore and Johor. Through experimental assemblies, thesis deliberation, performance lecture and artist sharing, participating artists and researchers explored the evolving cultural, social, and infrastructural ties that bind the two border cities, the daily rhythms of cross-border life and the ways these physical and symbolic crossings shape contemporary cultural expressions and collective memory.

Following the Singapore iteration of sg_____jb translocal agency, the project continued in Johor and opened up further dialogue and collaborations across the Causeway.

As part of Heritage Fest 2025, Sweet Memories brought together food, heritage, and artistic making in a communal workshop format. Using gula melaka, natural sugar with deep cultural significance, as a guide, the programme explored food cultures, family histories, and shared heritage across Southeast Asia. Through storytelling, food-making, and art-making, participants shared memories, family recipes, and personal experiences, gradually building a communal space of exchange. 

The programme was led by artists and researchers Akai CHEW (SG), Arie SYARIFUDDIN (ID), Natalia TAN (SG), and Sayaka SHINKAI (JP/DE), who invited participants into a multisensory setting to reflect on the diversity, origins, food cultures and shared fates of Southeast Asia and its people. 

FAR draft folder: Kim Yam, May 2025 was a pop-up studio and living archive for women, femme, and non-binary artists. The programme, organized by Fertile Art Refinery, turned the space into a mobile site for experimentation, learning, collaboration, and renewal, adaptable across different environments and communities.

With its open format and spatial autonomy, the programme allowed participating artists to critically negotiate and reimagine ideas of cultural transformation, collective process, and potential futures. Through performance-installation, open studios, artists talks, and sharing sessions, artists and participants engaged with speculative mythologies, embodied knowledge, multispecies entanglements and critical utopian practices.