Exhibition setup for Between Lands: Migration as Transformation in Oct 2025.
The Sub+ Youth Curators Programme aims to develop aspiring curators, writers, and researchers of contemporary art through practical opportunities in our programmes and presentations, with guidance from The Substation’s team of arts managers, curatorial advisors, and programmers.
2026 Programme
Sub+ Youth Curators, Phyllis Chan and Goh Cheng Hao, take part in two programmes for the inaugural (blank) Experimental Film Festival - Singapore’s only experimental film fest, as co-programmers of the Student Cateogry and organiser-moderators of Panel Talk (03) with Singapore experimental filmmakers Daniel Hui, Nelson Yeo, and t.c. (Chew Tze Chuan).
2025 Programme
The first edition was born out of our residency partnership with Fondation la Roche Jacquelin, whose alumni artists are featured in the current exhibition, Between Lands: Migration as Transformation. Together with curatorial advisors from the Fondation, Iola Lenzi and Jean-Louis Morisot, The Substation is delighted to introduce and support emerging curators of independent art, alongside the development of artists in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
With support from the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), our co-presenter for Between Lands: Migration as Transformation, as part of the Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2025.
Goh Cheng Hao
Cheng Hao is a writer-curator based in Singapore, whose interests lie in redaction, handwriting, and the inexpressible. Trained in Southeast Asian art, he is also particularly invested in their intersections with the moving image and experimental art writing.
Cheng Hao spoke as the curatorial representative at In Transit: Dialogue Session in October 2025, in conjunction with The Substation Gathering Ground exhbition, Between Lands: Migration as Transformation. He has also spoken at the 2025 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium about the works of Indonesian artist S. Sudjojono and authorial intentionalism.
Foo Wee San
Wee San is a final-year undergraduate reading a double major in English Literature and Art History at Nanyang Technological University.
An avid writer, his research interests concern the creative nonfiction genre and the study of animist and spiritual motifs across Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art.
His creative works have been featured in Atelier of Healing, an online anthology on trauma and healing. If Wee San’s not rushing essays, he is editing video content for Mediacorp's social channels.
Phyllis Chan Yu Jie
Phyllis is writer-curator whose practice focuses on the intersections of film and contemporary art. She has curated and programmed for The Substation, Weekend Culture, and Asian Film Archive (AFA).
As a writer, she has contributed pieces to Singapore Film Society, Correspondence, Refractions, and NTU Film Society’s in-house publication Exposure, where her work for the latter also featured in AFA’s Asian Cinema Digest.