double space

After five years, dblspce is moving out of our physical space. This isn’t an ending, but a pause – a moment to rest, recalibrate, reflect on what has unfolded, and make space for what comes next. The past years have shaped us in ways we are still coming to understand. dblspce has been sustained independently, woven alongside other commitments and rhythms, often in the in-between moments. We’re taking this time to consider how dblspce can continue to hold, support, and evolve alongside the practices we care deeply about. It meant a lot to gather with some of our past residents and friends this weekend – to share space once more, and to be reminded that dblspce has always been shaped collectively. Thank you for your unwavering trust, generosity, and the thoughtful ways your practices have left their imprint on this space. This is a transition – the closing of one chapter and the beginning of another. dblspce continues, just in a different form for now. We’re also grateful to friends and supporters, here and elsewhere, for your kindness and encouragement along the way. If you’d like to work together this year, have a project in mind, or simply start a conversation, we’d be glad to hear from you. Until then, we’ll see you soon! xx

Thank you to everyone who spent time with us at 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 this past weekend. Through site-specific artworks, walking conversations, and programmes, the festival unfolded as a series of encounters within the shopping mall—foregrounding its layered histories, rhythms, conceptual and spatial possibilities. The festival builds on a legacy of artist-run initiatives led by women artists that have creatively repurposed commercial spaces in Singapore for artistic and community engagement. What emerged were moments of attention, exchange, and collective reflection, shaped by the contributions of artists, participants, and the wider public. We are most grateful for the care, openness, and presence that made these conversations possible. —- Artists and contributors: Regina De Rozario and Cheryl Charli, Priyageetha Dia, I_S_L_A_N_D_S, Viknesh Kobinathan, Salty Xi Jie Ng, Weixin Quek Chong, Sab Koh, Joanne Pang, Xingyun Shen, Eve Tan, Suzann Victor, Susie Wong Curators: Anca Rujoiu and Kimberly Shen The 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 festival was supported by the National Arts Council Singapore and the accompanying publication by Curatorial Practice at Monash University

𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙨: 𝘿𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙇𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝘼𝙩𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 Workshop by Regina De Rozario 📅 Friday, 20 March, 5pm - 7pm 📍 dblspce (Peninsula Shopping Centre, 02-20) We are often called to navigate our city in the most efficient way possible but what if we were to follow a different “map”; such as one composed of sound leaks from the past, rhythms hidden in present time, or whispers and vibrations from the future? Combining a brief introductory lecture on psychogeography and an immersive guided soundwalk, this workshop will examine how the pragmatic, functional city could be “unmapped” and reframed. Through deep listening prompts and embodied observations, participants will learn how to sense the landscape “by ear” and recognise it as a layered, living composition. --- Regina De Rozario is a Singapore-based artist, writer, researcher and educator whose work is centred on art in public space. Drawing on psychogeography, assemblage thinking and queer feminist practices, she uses walking, mapping, writing and image-making to investigate how power and memory shape narratives of everyday environments. She is also one-half of perceptionthree, an interdisciplinary art duo that examines loss, memory and the transformation of urban spaces through text, photography, video and site-specific installation. Image: Regina De Rozario and Cheryl Charli, Exit/Loop (2026), audio walk with pre-recorded narrative, field recordings, music, ambient sounds, and guided physical movements through public space. 🔗 Registration link in bio or head to dblspce.com/circulations

𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 Live Drawing Performance by Joanne Pang 📅 20 - 22 March, 2pm daily 📍 dblspce (Peninsula Shopping Centre, 02-20) Across the three days of 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, artist Joanne Pang will activate the glass frontage of dblspce through a live, site-responsive drawing performance. Working with ink, bitumen and solvent-based materials, Pang negotiates with her body as a medium to produce, calibrate, and process image data while drawing visibility to intersections of physical and emotional states that constitute motherhood. --- Joanne Pang has an interdisciplinary practice that considers the poetics, materiality and memory between man and environments that intersect with personal experiences. She creates site-specific installations, sculpture, paintings and drawings. She is also founder of prypress, a publishing-as-curatorial studio and art and design educator across several institutions. Image: Joanne Pang, Living Traces (2026)

𝙋𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙖 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙚 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠 𝘿𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 Artwork activation by Salty Xi Jie Ng 📅 Saturday, 21 March, 3pm - 4.30pm 📍 dblspce (Peninsula Shopping Centre, 02-20) 💔 Please bring an item from an experience of heartbreak that you wish to let go of. It will not be returned. What are you heartbroken about? Drawing from Salty Xi Jie Ng’s @buangkok.mall.life.club project (2020-21), this session considers what it might mean to collect, circulate, exchange, and aid another in the release of heartbreak. Attendees are invited to bring an item from an experience of heartbreak for a temporary altar, engage in a participatory score around the mall, before a circle for exchange and delegated release. --- Salty Xi Jie Ng is an artist, performer, researcher, and educator based between Singapore and Portland, Oregon. Serving an enchanted process guided by the mantic and divinatory, her transdisciplinary practice is an alchemical site in collaboration with people and their lives. In hopes of uncovering hidden selves and histories in kinship with the other-than-human, she tends to the erotic, ancestry, ageing, the inner worlds of older women, the end-of-life, and relationships with the departed and spirit worlds, while examining artistic labour and what gets to be called art. Image: Salty Xi Jie Ng, Buangkok Mall Life Club (2020-2021) 🔗 Registration link in bio or head to dblspce.com/circulations

𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 / 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 DJ Workshop and Listening Party with Viknesh Kobinathan 📅 Saturday, 21 March, 6pm - 8pm 📍 dblspce (Peninsula Shopping Centre, 02-20) What happens when we listen closely to a mall? Responding to Peninsula Shopping Centre through sound, this workshop gathers a small group to record and assemble the ambient textures of the building. Participants will move through the mall capturing sounds on their phones — fragments of movement, conversation, circulation — before returning to dblspce to mix these recordings into a shared listening environment. Participants are welcome to join the mix at any point as the evening unfolds. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘝𝘪𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘒𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯. --- Viknesh Kobinathan is a cultural worker based in Singapore whose practice explores gathering around sound and image as acts of care, healing, rest, and refusal. He previously served as Programmer at the Asian Film Archive (2019–2024) and was named one of Screen International’s Future Leaders in programming and curation in 2024. Images courtesy of Viknesh Kobinathan 🔗 Registration link in bio or head to dblspce.com/circulations

Alongside the public programmes and activations, 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 will present artworks on-site at dblspce throughout the festival. A mix of existing artworks, site-specific interventions and new works mobilise conventions of autobiography, self-reflection and portraiture to foreground the position of women artists in Singapore’s society across different generations and the complexities and shared vulnerabilities of communal work. 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗢𝗻-𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 📅 20 - 22 March 2026, 11am - 6pm. Live performance drawing by @joannepangry at 2pm throughout the festival

The final day of 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 gathers artists and cultural workers in a conversation reflecting on the histories, conditions, and forms of remembrance possibilities of artist-run spaces in shopping malls. 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝟬𝟮: 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗻 📅 22 March 2026, 11am – 12pm This walk returns to Parkway Parade, the first site of artist-run initiative 5th Passage from 1991-1994. Guided by artist and former contributor to 5th Passage’s activities, Eve Tan, participants will revisit the spatial and cultural conditions that shaped the initiative’s presence within the mall. The walk will situate the communitarian and experimental programmes of 5th Passage in relation to the site of the shopping mall. The method of walking is proposed as an alternative form of knowledge production that activates cultural memory, archives, and lived experience in situ. 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘂𝘇𝗮𝗻𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 (𝗰𝗼-𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲), 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗴 (𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁), 𝗞𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗻 & 𝗦𝗮𝗯 𝗞𝗼𝗵 (𝗰𝗼-𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗱𝗯𝗹𝘀𝗽𝗰𝗲), 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜_𝗦_𝗟_𝗔_𝗡_𝗗_𝗦, 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗰𝗮 𝗥𝘂𝗷𝗼𝗶𝘂 📅 22 March 2026, 3pm – 5pm This sharing session invites cultural workers of different generations who have contributed to the discourse on local independent art spaces in malls. Reflecting on distinct yet connected histories, the conversation will consider how artists have inhabited, negotiated, and reimagined commercial infrastructures in Singapore, and conclude with final thoughts of Circulations. Limited capacity. Registration required for each programme by 18 March. 🔗 Registration link in bio.

Day 2 of 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 unfolds through a series of walks, activations, and collective listening experiences across Peninsula Shopping Centre and beyond. 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝟬𝟭: 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗴 📅 21 March 2026, 11am – 12pm This guided walk with Susie Wong retraces the site of tickleart, an art space in showcases at CityLink Mall, co-ran by the artist between 2004 to 2008. By reflecting on tickleart’s presence within a commercial retail environment, the walk connects site with memories and archival materials, and will point to ways in which tickleart inhabited and negotiated this space – foregrounding questions of visibility, display and public mediation. 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗫𝗶 𝗝𝗶𝗲 𝗡𝗴 📅 21 March 2026, 3pm – 4.30pm What are you heartbroken about? Drawing from Salty Xi Jie Ng’s @buangkok.mall.life.club project (2020-21), this session considers what it might mean to collect, circulate, exchange, and aid another in the release of heartbreak. Attendees are invited to bring an item from an experience of heartbreak for a temporary altar, engage in a participatory score around the mall, before a circle for exchange and delegated release. 𝗔𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 / 𝗔𝗺𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗗𝗝 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗞𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 📅 21 March 2026, 6pm – 8pm This workshop invites a small group to collaboratively record, collect, sequence, and mix Peninsula Shopping Centre's ambient textures into a live listening party and performance. After a brief introduction to DJ software and hardware, participants will head out individually to capture field recordings using their phones, focusing only on sounds emerging from the people and spaces in and around the mall before gathering back at dblspce for a live group mix and shared listening experience. Limited capacity. Registration required for each programme by 18 March. 🔗 Registration link in bio.

How do we listen to the city differently? We are often called to navigate our city in the most efficient way possible but what if we were to follow a different “map”; such as one composed of sound leaks from the past, rhythms hidden in present time, or whispers and vibrations from the future? In this workshop to kickstart Day 1 of 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, artist Regina De Rozario introduces participants to psychogeography through a short lecture and an immersive guided soundwalk. Through deep listening prompts and embodied observation, participants will explore how the pragmatic, functional city can be “unmapped” and reframed – sensing the landscape by ear and recognising it as a layered, living composition. 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗗𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘇𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼 📅 20 March 2026, 5pm - 7pm 🕒 Workshop details via registration Limited capacity. Registration required for each programme by 18 March. 🔗 Registration link in bio.

𝘾𝙞𝙧𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝟮𝟬 - 𝟮𝟮 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗱𝗯𝗹𝘀𝗽𝗰𝗲, 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 is a three-day festival exploring the dynamic relationship between contemporary art and the shopping mall in Singapore. Informed by independent art space dblspce’s embeddedness in a retail environment, along with its past programming and artistic residencies, the festival builds on a legacy of artist-run initiatives – particularly led by women artists – that have creatively repurposed commercial spaces in Singapore for artistic and community engagement. Artists and contributors: Regina De Rozario and Cheryl Charli, Priyageetha Dia, I_S_L_A_N_D_S, Viknesh Kobinathan, Salty Xi Jie Ng, Weixin Quek Chong, Sab Koh, Joanne Pang, Xingyun Shen, Eve Tan, Suzann Victor, Susie Wong Curators: Anca Rujoiu and Kimberly Shen --- Programme of events and artworks on-site: 20 - 22 March 2026 (link in bio) Listening party and opening event: 21 March 2026, 6pm onwards The 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 festival is supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore and the accompanying publication by Curatorial Practice at Monash University. Artwork: Joanne Pang, Living Traces, ink and thanakar on paper, 2025.

𝒎𝒓 𝒃𝒐𝒚 — 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 we’re opening our studio as part of our residency at dblspce, inviting you to spend time with us as we continue our ongoing exploration of (male) friendship, intimacy, and the gestures that hold relationships together. drop by for conversations about friendship, fragments of memories, and traces of our process! 𝟮𝟳 𝗳𝗲𝗯 (𝗳𝗿𝗶) 𝟲-𝟵𝗽𝗺 𝟮𝟴 𝗳𝗲𝗯 (𝘀𝗮𝘁) 𝟮-𝟱𝗽𝗺, 𝟲-𝟵𝗽𝗺 @𝗱𝗯𝗹𝘀𝗽𝗰𝗲 — Jonathan Tan & art naming 奇能