Art Pals

Curated by Noorlinah Mohamed. The Art Pals is inspired by the Festival In-Transit that Ong Keng Sen created for House of World Cultures in Berlin in 2002. The Art Pal is a buddy to the Fellows and becomes a personal conduit to connect the Fellows to an-other locality. Meeting first digitally and then individually face-to-face, the Arts Pals and Fellows journey In The Commune together. They engage in small and individual ways, away from institutional focus that has dominated the arts in recent years.

  • Alecia Neo

    Alecia Neo collaborative practice is centered on radical hospitality and care. Her ongoing project, Care Index, explores ways of archiving and sharing physical gestures and embodied experiences of care. She is co-founder of art collective Brack and Ubah Rumah Residency located on Nikoi Island.

  • anGie seah

    anGie seah's multidisciplinary art practice traverses the domains of drawing, sculpture, performance art, sound, installation and video — the oneness and porousness of life and art in which she thrives; to be, live, and practise art while embracing the agency of life’s uncertainty.

  • Ditha Emmanuel

    Deborah Arunditha Emmanuel is a performance artist and writer working between poetry, sound, movement, and the dramatic arts. She has performed at many events and festivals locally and worldwide, winning poetry slams in Singapore, New Zealand, Germany and Australia. She makes neo-shamanic tribal funk music with Mantravine and co-organises Opens, a para-academic forum based in Singapore.

  • Eve Tan

    Eve Tan, a Singapore artist, delves into challenges for female artists. Through performance, she explores social dynamics and authority's impact on art. With 30 years' experience, she's active in various art projects and exhibitions.

  • Ho Rui An

    Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance, and theory. He has presented projects at the Shanghai Biennale; Bangkok Art Biennale; Gwangju Biennale; Jakarta Biennale; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien; Singapore Art Museum; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Japan.

  • Irfan Kasban

    Irfan Kasban is a transdisciplinary artist concerned in weaving intricate universes as a celebration of space and time. In 2020, Irfan was conferred the Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council, Singapore. His current area of research is performance as ritual healing.

  • Jennifer Teo

    Jennifer Teo is a cultural worker who has been involved in the Singapore art scene since the late 90s. She mainly works as an artist, curator and editor with Post-Museum, and has a wide interest in socio-cultural issues, particularly those related to care, climate, community, feminism, food, knowledge, and spirituality.

  • Kirsten Han

    Kirsten Han is a Singaporean writer and activist. She is managing editor of Mekong Review, an Asia-focused literary journal, and runs We, The Citizens, a newsletter covering Singapore through the lens of human rights, democracy and social justice. She is also a member of the Transformative Justice Collective, where she works towards the abolition of the death penalty and an end to the War on Drugs.

  • Kirsten Tan

    Kirsten Tan is a New York-based Singaporean filmmaker, whose debut feature, “Pop Aye” was awarded prizes at Sundance, Rotterdam, Zurich and other film festivals, and was invited to represent Singapore at the Oscars. Her short films “10 Minutes Later”, “Fonzi”, “Sink”, “Cold Noodles” and “Dahdi” have collectively received over ten international awards.

  • Marylyn Tan

    Marylyn Tan is a queer, female, Chinese Singaporean writer-artist. Her first child, GAZE BACK (Lambda loser, Singapore Literature Prize 2020), is the lesbo Singaporean trans-genre witch grimoire you never knew you needed. Her work trades in the abject, vulgar and pleasurable, striving to emancipate and restore the alienated, endangered body.

  • Myra Loke

    Myra Loke is a theatre director, performer, puppeteer, designer and educator. She is part of the core team of The Finger Players, one of Singapore’s leading theatre companies that specializes in puppetry. Myra led the company as co-Artistic Director from 2020 – 2023. Myra also co-founded The Wanderlings where she creates experiences for the young audiences.

  • Peggy Ferroa

    Peggy Ferroa has led theatre-based programmes for the Singapore Prison Service since 2006. Her work serves to enhance literacy, ignite critical thinking and encourage reflective practices, all to facilitate reintegration. As an independent community artist, Peggy also collaborates with seniors, employing theatre for well-being.

  • Rosemainy Buang

    Rosemainy Buang is a gamelan musician, educator, composer, and sound artist from Singapore. With a decade of training in gamelan, she is dedicated to expanding her creative horizons through collaborative projects with other artists from diverse disciplines.

  • Salty Xi Jie Ng

    Salty Xi Jie Ng co-creates semi-fictional paradigms for the real and imagined lives of humans within the poetics of the interdimensional intimate vernacular. Her practice is currently concerned with ancestry, eroticism, ageing, and kinship with the other-than-human. She is the 2024 winner of the Chamberlain award for social practice artists.

  • Wong Binghao

    Wong Binghao is a writer, editor, curator, and currently the Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) Asia Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. They approach art essayistically, constellating emotionally available readings and experiences of art in the hope of building more emancipatory, ethical worlds.