In celebration of the company’s 20th anniversary, The Arts Fission Company presents MAKE IT NEW, a ten-day event featuring diverse programmes at different locations. Instead of merely reminiscing the past, the company chooses to utilize the themes, ideas, concepts and staging ideas from existing works as inspiration for new...

“CLOSER TO THE musicians,” Darren Moore, artistic director of the C.H.O.P.P.A. Experimental Music Festival urged the audience as we sat cross-legged on the floor. Obediently, we wriggled our bums across the floor, as musicians Yong Yandsen and Daysuke Takaoka wielded their instruments and took their seats less than a metre...

LOST AMONG THE chemical bottles and the apparatus, I find myself stuck in another seemingly arty and cool craft, which proved to be an extremely intricate and tedious process. For anyone who has dabbled in film cameras, they know that this process seems glamorous, although in reality it is nothing special. The House of Photography...

DECKED IN BOOKS labelled with a Dewey Decimal System and handwritten labels “Art & Reference” to broadly classify the archives, The Independent Archive dedicates itself to the laborious act of archiving art that quickly disappears. Their lovely nook feels like a refuge for performance arts, cassettes safely kept in dry boxes...

STEPPING INTO A studio is an entry into a private space; where its landscapers, the artists, divulge the inner recesses of their minds. Phunk studios’s Transmission: Visions & Memories is an exploration of that theme by eight different artists. It is often said that art reflects one’s own being; and without...

THE CONNOISSEUR CONCERTO presents Singled Out – an art exhibition conceptualised by creative agency fFurious, and developed in collaboration with events organisation art-management.com, and Thunder Rock School. The exhibition held at tcc ‘The Gallery’ at 51 Circular Road opened on the 16th of October 2014, introduced an array of uniquely redecorated vinyl records. ‘THE...

“Who is the best of you?” was the question posed to the public in June 2014 by Julie’s, the Malaysian household snack manufacturer for biscuits snacks. Members of the public were invited to share their personal stories and submit photographs that best represented their response on the official website. The...

WHILE THE RISE of local independent businesses like crafts, bakes, apparel and accessories remains abundant, she chose to stem something a little out of the ordinary. She chose the art of perfecting floral arrangements with lace trims, doilies, white ribbons and brown paper. For Cherriesmitten, its grail is to smitten others with...

NO DSLRs, NO STRAPPY BAGS, NO HEAVY PHOTOGRAPHY GEAR, just a camera phone and the eye for good pictures. These are the tools used by photographer, Razifman Adnan. The 23 year old private student also holds a part time job and says that with his busy schedule, he doesn’t get...

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR ME IS TO WALK THE LITTLE ALLEYS OF THE CITY, TO FIND THE LITTLE ALCOVE WHERE SOMEONE IS COOKING SOMETHING, AND JUST WATCH THEM DO IT. THAT’S MY IDEA OF FUN. –YOTAM OTTOLENGHI A FRESH ALTERNATIVE to coffehouses in and around Everton Park, and bars...