Comma Space

生日快乐， 大雾. Happy birthday, Da Wu.

🎉 Huge congratulations to Genevieve Chua @genplural . The @apexartnyc Fellowship is a month-long program in New York City that immerses artists in non-art experiences to broaden perspectives and spark new ideas through reflection and cultural exposure, super special! So excited our Singapore artist will be joining them! Nominated by @wang_ruobing

Our 3rd edition of PechaKucha @ Arts x Tech Lab: Kinetics: Forces & Feedback went down last Friday, 27 March. This round was themed around kinetics,with our guest programmer Irmandy Wicaksono @irmandyw bringing together speakers Chok Si Xuan @sixuannn , Ruobing & Sai @wang_ruobing @sai_studios , Shaoyu Cai, and Yang Jie @yj.sg to share on movement, systems, and interaction from different angles. A big thank you to everyone who showed up and made the night what it was! 📸 Swipe for a few highlights. Photo credits to Kee Ya Ting @thekytstudio Organised by @tusitala.sg With support from @creativetechsg Guest programmed by @irmandyw This programme is supported by the National Arts Council’s Arts x Tech Lab initiative @nacsingapore #singapore #creativetechnology #pechakucha #recap

PechaKucha @ Arts x Tech Lab–Kinetics: Forces & Feedback Speakers Line-up Happening on 27 Mar, Friday at 7pm, Irmandy Wicaksono has curated 4 presentations tackling different perspectives on how the invisible forces of our lives play a role in art and technology. Join Chok Si Xuan @sixuannn , Ruobing & Sai @wang_ruobing @sai_studios , Shaoyu Cai, and Yang Jie @yj.sg as they take the stage to share their practices and ideas. Read on for a short summary of each speaker’s presentation. Material Memories–Within this presentation, Si Xuan shares about her foray into the quality of memory in humans and non-humans, what that might look like and how it shapes our worldview. Slow Motion: Moving with the Everyday–Slow Motion: Moving with the Everyday looks into how artistic practice can attune to the rhythms of everyday life through slow processes, material engagement, and attentive movement. Multi-sensory Interfaces for XR–This talk presents research on mobile and wearable multisensory interfaces that deliver physical sensations, particularly haptic feedback, to enhance interaction, perception, and user experience across integrated physical and virtual environments. Masak Masak: Experiments in Moving Objects and Performing Machines–The element of play and experimentation in the speaker’s practice of making kinetic objects, from where he started, to where he wants and hopes to take it. Organised by @tusitala.sg Guest programmed by @irmandyw This programme is supported by the National Arts Council’s Arts x Tech Lab initiative @nacsingapore Register for your slot through the link in bio 🔗 #creativetech #singapore #singaporeartsweek #art #tech

𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥 𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕖𝕤 / 𝔽𝕒𝕣 𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕤 ℕ𝕖𝕒𝕣 Till this Sunday (22 February 2026) only! Building on the 2024 residency and exhibition Murmuring Shores / On the Brink at the museum of Onomichi City University, this exhibition brings together two interwoven ideas: the sea as a shared environment, and the act of crossing into unfamiliar territory. Artists: Ayaka Yoshida (@dayodayo_999 , JP) Liu Liling (@frufrull , SG) Ng Hui Hsien (@nghuihsien , SG) Susanna Tan (@fahfahsaigai , SG) Tamaki Ono (@tamaki_ono_ , JP) Yang Jie (@yj.sg , SG) Yumi Nishimura (@yumifonfon , JP) Curated by Wang Ruobing (@wang_ruobing , SG) & Yutaka Inagawa 稲川 豊 (@yutaka_inagawa_artwork , JP) — Image 2: Re-edit Standards (2021–2024) by Tamaki Ono Image 3: The Fissure and A Light (2025) by Liu Liling Image 4: A dog, stones, stories (I still live there) 5 (2025, right) and A Narrative Attitude That Generates Flat Characters 2 (2025, left) by Yumi Nishimura Image 5: Flower Voice Specimen (2026) by Ayaka Yoshida Image 6: Cosmic Coincidences (2026) by Ng Hui Hsien & Yang Jie Image 7: 待樹 (Tai-ju): Phantom Pine (2026, front) and 待山 (Tai-san): Every island a mountain (2026, right) by Susanna Tan Image 8: Group photo of artists and curators Photos by @ken_filmingosg

回 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑰𝑰 @sai_studios ✨ Sound Check ✨ Live performance with Equaver & Friends 🗓 1 February (Sun) 🕟 4:30–5:30pm 📍 Comma Space 🎟 Limited capacity — please register via the link in our bio What happens when an experiment is truly listened to — tuned through breath, voice, and vibration? During the first sound check of Sai’s Experiment I at @artoutreachsingapore , led by @franhomusic , the singers’ voices uncovered something unexpected: an enveloping vibration that gently held the experience, space and mind together. That moment sparked a new exploration, now reimagined within a different spatial arrangement at @commaartspace . This is not a technical sound check, but a vocal activation — a way of sensing, attuning, and awakening the experiment through listening to yourself. Come and let the voices move through you! 📸 by @ken_filmingosg #ExperimentII #SoundCheck #LivePerformance #Equaver #CommaSpace #SoundAndSpace #VocalResonance #回

🌑 [宅生记 Zhaishengji] Closing Programme 𝓐𝓬𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓼 𝓐𝓻𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓹𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬 𝓣𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓼 by artist & storyteller Hafiz Rashid @geroda19 🗓 31 Jan (Sat) 🕒 3–4pm 📍 7 Grange Road As 宅生记 Zhaishengji comes to a close, Hafiz Rashid offers a gentle shadow-puppet storytelling session to mark the transition of the space. Drawing from storytelling traditions of the Malay Archipelago, the performance unfolds as an act of gratitude and release—acknowledging the unseen presences, energies, and stories that have gathered throughout the exhibition. Through shadow, voice, and gesture, this quiet closing honours the exhibition as a lived, relational space, held in dialogue with archipelagic traditions of ritual, storytelling, and remembrance. About the Artist Hafiz Rashid is an experienced museum docent and storyteller with a deep passion for the history, culture, folklore, and languages of the Malay Archipelago (Nusantara), with a particular focus on textiles. He often incorporates these textiles into his tours and storytelling sessions. Hafiz has performed at notable events such as Storyfest at The Arts House (Old Parliament) and Singapore HeritageFest, and regularly shares stories from the Nusantara at museums and libraries across Singapore

𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥 𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕖𝕤 / 𝔽𝕒𝕣 𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕤 ℕ𝕖𝕒𝕣 Ng Hui Hsien & Yang Jie @nghuihsien @yj.sg ⬜ Cosmic Coincidences (close up) Mixed media sculpture (clothes rack, DC motors, stainless steel, fresnel lenses) ⬜ ⬜ Soot on washi paper (close up) Photographic prints by Ng Hui Hsien, made in Onomichi using alternative analogue techniques, presented as part of Cosmic Coincidences ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ Ng Hui Hsien & Yang Jie ▶︎ by @nghuihsien 📸 by @ken_filmingosg About the artists Ng Hui Hsien (SG) is an artist, educator, and curator whose practice evokes stillness and wonder, attending to inner landscapes and the more-than-human world. Informed by phenomenology, her work treats the body as a site of knowledge and explores our relationship with the living earth. She has presented solo exhibitions at Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Grey Projects, and Comma Space, Singapore, and exhibited internationally in Japan, Germany, and Iceland. She holds an MA in Photography and an MA in Sociology. Yang Jie (SG) is a sculptor whose practice draws inspiration from everyday objects and machines. Working with found and repaired materials, electronics, and mechanical movement, he transforms traces of use into kinetic sculptures that perform. His work reinterprets human experience through the unexpected meanings objects acquire beyond their original functions. He has exhibited internationally, with recent works including The House Between the Winds (Singapore International Festival of Arts, 2025), Traces of Time (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2024), all the king’s men (Singapore River, 2023), and The Waiting Machine (Comma Space, 2020).

𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥 𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕖𝕤 / 𝔽𝕒𝕣 𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕤 ℕ𝕖𝕒𝕣 Ayaka Yoshida @dayodayo_999 ⬜ Flower Voice Specimen Hard cover hand-bound book ⬜ ⬜ A Walk with Three Dimensions (XYZ axis) Single-channel HD video, colour, sound 5 min 25 sec ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ Installation view ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ Ayaka Yoshida 📸 1, 2 by artist and 3, 4 @ken_filmingosg About the artist Ayaka Yoshida (JP) is an artist based in Hiroshima. Her practice explores abstraction, embodiment, and memory through installation, performance, and time-based works, often emerging from walking, repetition, and acts of offering. She graduated from Onomichi City University with degrees in Painting and has exhibited at Onomichi City University Museum of Art and Onomichi Historical Museum, among others.

𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥 𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕖𝕤 / 𝔽𝕒𝕣 𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕤 ℕ𝕖𝕒𝕣 Yumi Nishimura @yumifonfon ⬜ A Flat Character Painting printed on fabric A Narrative Attitude That Generates Flat Characters 2 Oil, iron transom, wooden block(board piece), aluminum magnet, nails, embroidery thread, limpet shells, birch bark, aluminum plate, iron stud, cloth ⬜ ⬜ A dog, Stones, Stories(I still live there)5 (right) Oil and oil bar and acrylic on panel, 65 x 65cm A Narrative Attitude That Generates Flat Characters 1 Iron transom, section of a wooden building block (plank), section of a wooden building block (plank) painted with oil paint, aluminum magnets, nails, embroidery cord, Matsubagai (found object) ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ A Narrative Attitude That Generates Flat Characters 2 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ Yumi Nishimura A Flat Character A Narrative Attitude That Generates Flat Characters 2 📸 by @ken_filmingosg About the artist Yumi Nishimura (JP) is a Hiroshima-based painter and educator. Her practice explores the tension between narrative and materiality in painting, creating images that exist in a suspended state—where something is happening, yet meaning remains elusive. Drawing on Max Lüthi’s concept of “flat characters,” she uses figures as points of departure, allowing paint and process to transform them and open new possibilities within her practice.

𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥 𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕖𝕤 / 𝔽𝕒𝕣 𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕤 ℕ𝕖𝕒𝕣 Susanna Tan @fahfahsaigai ⬜ | ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ 待山 (Tai-san): Every island a mountain Found wooden boards, fallen tree branches, pins, salvaged pallet wood nail ⬜ ⬜ 待樹 (Tai-ju): Phantom Pine Fallen pine needles, silver plated wire, soil ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ 待山 (Tai-san): Every island a mountain 待樹 (Tai-ju): Phantom Pine ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ Susanna Tan 📸 by @ken_filmingosg About the artist Susanna Tan (SG) is a visual artist, researcher, and producer based in Singapore and Venice. Her interdisciplinary practice weaves plant symbolism, collective memory, and emotions of loss, love, and resilience through text, image, sculpture, and site-responsive installation. Plants function as intermediaries of human experience, carrying personal and cultural affect across time and place. Her ongoing project, Sad Plant Index, maps real and imagined species as repositories of human emotion. She founded 花花世界 / Studio Fah and collaborates as Superplanter, while also being part of n ear, an art collective centred on shared processes and artistic friendships. Susanna has exhibited internationally and undertaken residencies in Singapore and Japan, including at VILLA WASAKU, Onomichi (2024). She holds a BFA from Goldsmiths, University of London.