Episode 6 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream.

Before the rise of co-shared workspaces, legendary writers and philosophers were known to hub from cafes such as the famed Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots in Paris. From a local coffee shop or kopitiam as they are known as in Singapore, SYED MUHAMMAD HAFIZ, independent curator and PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) gives us a sneak peek on his research of what he refers to as the 'Singapore Artworld'. 

song credit: Aggronaught by Khai Hori