An insightful sit-down with Keola Ho, founder of BUNKERBUNKER!! ,a no frills cafe/bar which serves as a platform for subculture and to make the arts accessible.

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Keola is a design trained, novice of people gathering and the founder of BUNKERBUNKER!!, a no frills cafe/bar which serves as a platform for subculture and to make the arts accessible, through meaningful collaborations and pushing the creative pursuits of youths in Singapore.

With previous work experience in designing and engaging with diverse communities, Keola continues to learn and grow on how space and programming can be effectively used to engage, involve and empower people.

An insightful sit-down with the minds behind Paradise Now, an artist collective currently based in Singapore.

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Founded in 2020, Paradise Now is a Multimedia Artist Collective whose artworks assimilate a diversity of daily influences drawn from perception through observation.

With a penchant for amalgamating incompatible elements, Paradise Now grows as a natural synergy of conflicting histories and personal experiences - they seek to explore the notion of space/mental space, memories, emotions, symbolism and metaphors through multidisciplinary approaches.

Paradise Now is a repository for their thoughts and memories that would otherwise fade away with the business of daily living.

An exciting conversation with Marylyn Tan, a queer, female, Chinese linguistic graduate, writer and artist.

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Marylyn Tan is a queer, female, Chinese, linguistics graduate, writer, and artist, who has been performing and disappointing since 2014. Her first volume of poetry, GAZE BACK (Singapore Literature Prize 2020, Lambda loser), is the lesbo Singaporean trans-genre witch grimoire you never knew you needed.

She works to emancipate and restore the alienated, endangered body. Marylyn reads poetry for Singapore Unbound and can be found in her habitat at instagram/marylyn.orificial or twitter.com/grinchfucker.

A conversation with Huang Junxiang , producer and director of various multimedia films.

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Huang Junxiang enjoys a good comedy and is grateful to be able to pursue a career in filmmaking. His short film, Give Yourself a Chance, was awarded at the Very Short International Festival 2012. His second, I Will Die screened at Singapore International Film Festival 2014. His most recent effort is Piece of Meat (2019), co-directed with Jerrold Chong, which enjoyed its premiere at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes and subsequently travelled to Annecy and Busan. Together with Jerrold, they co-directed this year's NDP music video, "The Road Ahead".

He has also served as the multimedia producer for SEA Games 2015, NDP 2016, and the Singapore Bicentennial 2019.

As a producer at Eric Khoo's Zhao Wei Films, he has produced a number of feature films including In The Room (Toronto 2016), Apprentice (Un Certain Regard 2016), Ramen Teh (Berlin Culinary Cinema 2018), Buffalo Boys (Fantasia Film Festival 2018) and Tiong Bahru Social Club (Busan International Film Festival 2020). He has also served as producer for both HBO Asia anthology series Folklore (2018) and Food Lore (2019) which has travelled to festivals including Toronto, Sitges and Fantastic Fest.

An insightful sitdown with John, illustrator, creative and movie enthusiast.

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John is a creative at heart , a thoughtful individual almost inseparable from his craft.

Throughout the episode, he speaks on his processes as a commercial illustrator, and on the importance of carving out time amidst the bustle for ones own creative practice.

He speaks on his inspirations and his journey as an illustrator, and the lessons he has learnt about himself, and his craft.

An insightful conversation with Andre Wee, an experimental illustrator and creative based in Singapore.

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Andre is a curious individual at heart , of which is shown largely through his expansive body of work.

An individual whose craft spans across multiple mediums and expressions, he seeks to continuously push at the boundaries of his work through the blending of emerging technologies and art.

He speaks about his craft and his processes, while sharing about the evolution of his art through his years as a illustrator.

His works are currently being represented by the Mulan Gallery (Singapore) and he has been exhibited both locally and internationally over the course of his career.

A mindboggling and fantastic conversation with Singaporean blockchain developer, Brendan Graetz

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Brendan Graetz takes you on a deep dive through the wonderful world of immutable ledgers and decentralised applications; with a dose of economics and climate change for good measure.

An insightful sitdown with Terra & Ember, a Singapore based pottery studio.

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Terra & Ember was started by a husband and wife duo with a passion for pottery and all things ceramics.​ It began as a spontaneous sign up for a beginner pottery class that has evolved into a humble home-studio based in Singapore.

Situated within a culturally rich environment along the bustling street of Geylang road, the ceramics are made with a loving touch, inspired by the ecology around them.

An illuminating sit down with jayefunk , a multidisciplinary creative, musician, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

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jaye is an offbeat musical rogue who cut his teeth in a local folk-rock duo, fronted a Japan-based funk group and then became a UK X-Factor finalist’s DJ. Upon his return to Singapore, the singer ushered in his comic reign as AZN SEN$ATION with parodic raps like ‘Suprememan’​.

The artist later re-debuted as jaye with 2019 Halloween bop ​‘TOMORROW’ about previous suicidal ideations generating 1.2 Million Youtube hits. Valentine's Day sophomore ballad ​‘DEJAVU’ followed suit, rallying 1 Million Youtube views.

Reprised by popular demand in 2020, ‘TOMORROW’ spawned 'Tomorrow the Game' - a realistic PC Halloween horror game that was a visual spectacle to up to 1 million viewers. His deconstructed single ​'ADHD'​ went further to enact a 4-part interactive ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Music Video inspired by BlackMirror’s Bandersnatch which garnered over 500K views. The experimental track was further gamified by a Super Mario-esque IG filter game solidifying the artist's mandate for game creation.

The brooding romantic’s latest release ‘Stay up till I sleep’ characteristically conveys the unspoken tension between his insomnia and married life.

Painfully authentic and sinfully catchy, his sonic outcome is an astringent-flavoured Alt-Pop that is altogether reminiscent of Twenty One Pilots, Blackbear and Khalid. A wearer of many hats, jaye is also the founder of creative hubs: The Parlour Singapore, The Music Parlour and The Parlour Seoul, empowering creatives one hub at a time.

An enlightening sitdown with Speak Cryptic, a multidisciplinary artist currently working and living in Singapore.

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Farizwan Fajari, professionally known as Speak Cryptic, is an artist currently working and living in Singapore.

Influenced by the visual language prevalent within the cultures of punk, underground music and of being a Singaporean, Malay of Baweanese descent, he utilises personal iconographies along with a cast of characters that he has been developing over the years and applies them to various visual narratives inspired by his own observations on current affairs and his immediate environment.

Exhibitions include the Koganecho Art Bazaar (Yokohama, Japan, 2018), the 1st Kuala Lumpur Biennale (2017), Secret Archipelago (Paris, France 2015) and the Singapore Biennale (2013).