The Substation is excited to announce the return of its annual arts festival – SeptFest 2022, in celebration of its 32nd anniversary. SeptFest has been The Substation’s annual celebration of art, culture and community for over 3 decades, and is a mainstay in Singapore’s arts calendar. In this 32nd edition, also the first under Artistic Director Ezzam Rahman, The Substation re-establishes our role as an independent arts company that champions multi-disciplinary artists and cross-disciplinary works, through our curation and commissions.

Welcoming the new normal of its departure from 45 Armenian Street, the current iteration of SeptFest 2022 will present a citywide arts festival, with a series of exciting and intriguing performances and presentations in various arts spaces and digital platforms throughout the month of September 2022. The Substation’s partnerships for the art festival prioritise the experience of discovery and connection and deepen the dialogue between artists and audiences.

Under the curatorial theme of uproot | rootless, SeptFest 2022 unveils a diverse line-up of multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary programmes through the works of 15 artists of varying narratives and practices, from different generations. Their works investigate and interrogate the urgent issues in the post-pandemic world: identity and privacy, displacement and disembodiment, virtuality and virality. Through their works, the artists seek to respond to the conflicts and contradictions that infect our isolated bodies and ravaged mindscapes, deploying a range of different media and working in unconventional spaces, both physical and digital.

The 15 artists are Alfian Sa’at, Andrea Rachael Danker, Andy Yang, Anthony Chin, Arron Teo, The Blue Statesmen (comprising Bryan Tan, Casey Lim and Robin Loon), Chong Li-Chuan, Ghazi Alqudcy, Grace Kalaiselvi, Joanne Lim, Nicole Phua, Nurul Huda Rashid, Oliver Chong, Rofi and Smiha Kapoor.