Core Programmes (2015-2019)

Helmed by Artistic Director, Alan Oei, the programmes of The Substation took on a thematic approach with a three-year curatorial direction that examines the city. The annual thematic centres on artists and field specialists, and aims to shape larger questions about Singapore through the critical lens of the arts.

2017: Discipline the City

How architecture and design are co-opted to organise and control space—and by extension—the city’s inhabitants

2018: Cities change. People die. Everything you know goes away. 

How heritage and its discourse shape the city through conservation and nostalgia

2019: A Public Square

How public space is contested

2019

2018

2017

2016