This open studio is a space for people to engage with the materials of our photo-research zine, which comprises photographs, collages, and interview transcripts, crafted in collaboration with the Queer Life Drawing Circle community. The zine itself, composed of black and white photographs, lets the material body recede, desaturated of color; while the mark makings, the drawings of fellow community members, and the models’ words form a collage tapestry of their presence, allowing the material body to recede but for the self to be witnessed. The different modalities layer atop each other to create intersubjective portraits.

Participants are welcome to engage with the original collage works, photographs, and drawings to witness how our project came to be.

How can we see beyond the form? How do we hold room for instability and expansion? How can a gaze be an act of care?

Inspired and created in collaboration with the queer life drawing community (@queerlifedrawing.sg), where queer drawers and models come together in experimental life drawing sessions, singmoolsung (@repressioncherry & @mintskaa) presents a photo-research zine and series of programmes exploring queer seeing.

Departing from queer phenomenology as the grounding literature, the project explores the potential of seeing as an act of queer care, intersubjectivity, and the joys of witnessing.

Design: @likefireatsea
Photography: @mintskaa
Models featured in photograph: Mischa & Anonymous

Imaginative Zine Making with Singmoolsung
Join the artists behind UNSEEING, a photo research zine exploring the queer gaze, for an afternoon of exploring how we see, and how we can expand beyond what we see in playful, intersubjective ways. This workshop will be oriented toward collaborative play and experimental zine making with fellow participants.

The workshop is free for all participants, and all art materials will be provided. No prior experience is required.

12-15 Participants.