Cypher BILLBOARD

Wouldn't you like to move in a different direction? The Goddex is a biotechnical entity composed of drill bits, surveillance, globes and an orchidaceous shell, operating as a digital cottage industry and advertising services, from karma laundering to the spiritual righting of wrongs. Let the Goddex listen to your desires: direct message your wishes to 65goddex65 on Instagram now.

With drinks generously sponsored by Martini, see you there!

soft/WALL/studs is a collective project based in Singapore involving artists, writers, filmmakers, art workers, and researchers. Its various formats include exhibitions, hosting, support, resource sharing, research, writing, détournement, game-making, teaching and collaboration.

As part of sWs, Weixin Quek Chong and Luca Lum worked to create the multi-pronged work, 65goddex65, in response to Cypher’s invitation. The work encompasses the billboard artwork which was installed from 8 to 30 July 2019, a ritual event performed with Marcus Yee on 14 July 2019 titled Day of crypt0fferings, and a digital webpage commission for the online project space SKELF which ran from 17 July to 22 October 2019.

Born in 1991 in Singapore, Luca Lum is an artist, writer, and researcher whose practice pivots around writing, performance and installation. Her foci include intimacy, exchange, erotics, media, and infrastructure. Her projects have been presented at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, LUMA Westbau (Zurich), Cemeti Institute of Art and Society (Yogjakarta; with soft/WALL/studs), Ikkan Art Gallery, and the NUS Museum (Singapore). She runs a collaborative project called soft/WALL/studs with several other artists, and lives and works in Singapore.

Weixin Quek Chong is a visual artist whose work explores materialities and relationships between the digital, organic and aesthetic. Her recent projects are inspired by processes of transformation in the biodiverse world and cyborg adaptation; incorporating images, sculptural objects, installations and sensorial-based explorations that frequently involve tactility, sound and immersive environments. Weixin graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art (London) and a BA(Hons) from LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore) and was a recipient of the NAC Overseas Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate) (2012) and the Tan Ean Kiam Postgraduate Scholarship. In 2018 she received the President's Young Talents Grand Prize conferred by the Singapore Art Museum and in 2019 the National Art Council of Singapore's Young Artist Award. Working between Madrid, Singapore and London, she has presented projects in Singapore, London, Seoul, Santiago, Yogyakarta, Taipei and Brussels among other cities and is an alumna of artist residencies in the Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art (Korea), NTU-Center for Contemporary Art (Singapore), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo- Molten Capital in Santiago, Chile as well as co-founder of the collaborative project soft/WALL/studs.

Marcus Yee is an art worker from Singapore, currently pursuing studies in History and Earth Systems Science in Hong Kong.” See “out of isolation: artists respond to covid-19 Marcus Yee,” National Gallery Singapore, October 2, 2020. https://www.nationalgallery.sg/magazine/out-of-isolation-covid-19-marcus-yee-words-into-compost-pullulations-against-cascades-of-crises

Addendum: Alongside Lum and Chong, another artist was involved in the making of this project. Due to ethical breaches, he is no longer a part of soft/WALL/studs, and has agreed to have his name removed from this project.