A collection of works by Debbie Ding

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\\ : The Singapore River as a Psychogeographical Faultline

First solo exhibition by Debbie Ding, featuring an interactive map installation exploring the Singapore River as a “psychogeographical faultline” where reality, memories and imagined spaces interact, merge, or drift apart - like a series of tectonic plates.

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Dream Syntax

A collection of dreams in the form of maps. Cities are special to us because the city exists in the memories of its inhabitants. What about dream spaces, which also only exist in the form of memory?

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Documentations

I began a new project documenting of art and music in singapore. because if we don't document it, who will? i focus mostly on the less "commercial" art forms such as performance art and sound art....

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BUILD! Open Source Urbanism

BUILD! - A Collection of Links about maps, art, architecture, non-places, urbanism, psychogeography, metaverses, transportation, technology, sound art, augmented reality, data visualisations, and other fun things.

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=== : corridors

Music experiments.

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Yangtze Scribbler (2010)

Mysterious symbols in stairwell of disused Yangtze Cinema, Singapore.

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Consumption and Production (2009)

An Experiment to measure Consumption and Production.

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Seoul Art: Mountains on CCTV (2009)

Having lost my English map on the first day of a trip to Seoul, I was forced to consult a Chinese map which revealed the Chinese roots of Korean toponymy. Does transliteration from Chinese to Hangeul obscure the significance of place names from Korean collective consciousness?

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Basements and the Flattening of Space (2009)

The concept of relief is something alien to the small island of Singapore. Were our houses and flats shaped like flatpacked boxes because we lacked the space and earth to dig deeper into, or were they flat because the people who built them also had flattened imaginations to begin with? ...

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Singapore As A Black Hole (2009)

This is a picture of Singapore as a Black Hole.

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Score for “Next Stop Raffles Place Interchange” (2009)

Next Stop Raffles Place Interchange is on every single day but is generally (and preferably) only attended on weekdays.

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Maps of Places Where I Have Previously Lived (2009)

Two maps drawn of four places where i have previously lived. Eusoff Hall and Kuok were both in the same campus, and Lordship Road and Shacklewell Lane were both in walking distance with each other. Staying in the same area ...

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美丽芽笼时光 : Geylang Happy Hour

Geylang Happy Hour: Your bi-weekly dose of diasporic Southeast Asian cha-cha, Hokkien Ah Beng Techno, and the occasional Russki Disco.

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Wanderer Above A Sea of Fog : in Singapore, London & Paris

Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is but surely one of the most memorable and iconic images of the romantic period, the view of the wanderer gazing out onto the peaks styled after Bohemia, conquering a mountain only to be dwarfed by its fearful hugeness.     ...

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Kitchun Sesshuns (2008)

What's cooking in Stoke Newington? Kitchun Sesshuns (2008) is a collection of recordings and drawings made in a funny little house in London.

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Hulk Dash

Hulk Dash was an monthly experimental music night organised by me & friends on the outskirts of Shoreditch.

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Cottage Life (2008)

A series of photographs taken in the Cotswolds, 2008.

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East London Faces (2008)

Impressionistic split-second sketches of people's faces, as spotted on daily bus commute to work. Hackney, East London.

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Disarming Venus (2007)

The marble sculpture of Venus de Milo is one of the finest classical treasures, but why is the much-revered standard in classical feminine beauty rendered without arms? Does beauty become a commodity only when it is disarticulated, broken and passive?

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A City With No Memory (2007)

Can it be called graffiti if it does not physically alter the object? Are the memories of a night's performance still attached to a building if we cannot see any marks or traces of the event? What happens to our memories of a place when a building is destroyed?

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