For centuries, people in both Eastern and Western traditions have been producing relics and creating art as a way to narrate the hereafter. But what might life be after death? How do world religions address this reality? From Jakarta, Liza Markus of The Dung Beetle Project will host a panel discussion about this timeless topic. From Singapore, Oliver Lim and Vimal Kumar, will share their perspectives to see how inter-faith approaches might be able to help us think through the puzzles surrounding the great beyond.

From Jakarta, curators Evelyn Huang and Nin Djani of ARCOLABS will talk about their experience in doing online residency, what they have learnt during their research, and how the exhibited works contribute to the curatorial framework. From Singapore, artists will share about their practice, inspiration and how taking part in hereafter has influenced their work.

In this online talk, artist and researcher Koh Nguang How looks backs at his contributions to the archive of The Substation and shares his reflections on a variety of images and events over the course of its history.

Writer and researcher Ng Yi-Sheng surveys two centuries of artistic interpretations of this event, including multilingual works of poetry, fiction, drama, memoir, film, visual art and song, created before, during and after the Singapore Bicentennial.

Draw as if painting, paint as if sculpting, and draw as if sculpted in this experimental drawing workshop by Karl Kerridge.

In this session, independent curator Annie Jael Kwan will reflect on the development of her practice through her recent projects, the research network, Asia-Art-Activism, and its activities.

Beginning with a brief history on woodcut printing, participants of this workshop will be introduced to one of the oldest methods and techniques of printmaking.

Do you already know basic brush lettering? Would you like to learn about the other various font style calligraphy writing? This would be an ideal workshop for parents to guide their child in learning a variety of font calligraphy styles.

Join us for an artist’s talk for the exhibition, Sandstorm in an Hourglass, live on our Facebook page at 3pm, 12 September 2020.

Participants are invited to tinker and chat with the artists in a 2 hour hands-on art workshop inside the Substation gallery, where we Bottle Thunder, creating kinetic assemblages from found objects and common electronic parts.

In this workshop, artist Sharmeen/Sifar will lead the participants to create a collective Rangoli-inspired design with text. The text will be a memory of a moment in time, when they felt hurt by words someone told to them, a memory of what age they were when this was said to them.

Join us for a dialogue with Dana Lam, Jon Chan and Nurul Izzaty, three of the participating artists in the 'It's Complicated' exhibition at 7pm, 29 July 2020. Livestreamed on The Substation’s Facebook page.

When is a garden a city, a city a farm, a farm or garden a planet? As artists-in-residence at Yale-NUS College these past 7 months, Andrew Yang and Christa Donner have been exploring Singapore’s local cultures and natures of growing/growth. Just having scratched the surface of the island’s complex econo-ecology through interviews, painting, sound, video, and photography, Donner and Yang examine the alternately tidy and messy meshwork of biodiversity in this time of rapid global change.

This session is part of the Subs Visiting Artists Programmes. #subsvisitingartists.

As part of The Substation's Associate Artist Showcase, a series of tours of the ongoing online exhibition will be conducted via live videos on our Facebook page in July 2020. The fifth tour is 23 July at 9pm by Fertile Art Refinery (FAR).

FAR is a celebration of women-centric organisation in the Singapore art scene. The collective supports art shows and projects that extend a long and wide reach of women's voices in the Singapore art.

As part of The Substation's Associate Artist Showcase, a series of tours of the ongoing online exhibition will be conducted via live videos on our Facebook page in July 2020. The fourth tour is 22 July at 9pm by Brack.

BRACK is a Singapore-based platform for socially engaged artists in Southeast Asia, interested in practices of gathering and dialogical exchanges across mediums, disciplines and communities.

As part of The Substation's Associate Artist Showcase, a series of tours of the ongoing online exhibition will be conducted via live videos on our Facebook page in July 2020. The third tour is on 21 July at 9pm by Stephanie Dogfoot.

Stephanie Dogfoot (also known as Stephanie Chan) lives in Singapore and has been writing poetry ever since her first gerbil died when she was 11. The author of Roadkill for Beginners, a poetry collection published by Math Paper Press, she is both a Singapore (2010) and UK Slam (2012) champion and has represented both countries in international poetry slams.

Through a series of varied programming such as podcasts, live panels, and editorials, Framing Criticisms aims to gather artists, writers, and thinkers from multiple disciplines to engage in critical dialogue around current conversations within the arts community in Singapore.