SPEAK CRYPTIC
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        • AN OCEAN WITHOUT THE ANCHOR
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        • ANATOMY OF A HEARTBREAK
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    • SOUNDS
      • PRIMARY MOTIF
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT
  • STORE
    • CASTING CALL ZINE (Free Download)
    • BACKGROUNDS (Free Download)
  • WORK
    • RECENT
      • Paintings
    • ARCHIVE (2009-2023)
      • PAINTINGS
        • Recent Paintings
      • DRAWINGS
        • Recent drawings
        • SELECTED DRAWINGS
        • State/s
      • EXHIBITIONS
        • OPEN MY HEART, EASE MY TASK, LOOSEN THE KNOT ON MY TONGUE
        • FLYING SUPERMARKET
        • KNIVES IN THE WATER
        • SORRY, NOT SORRY
        • AGIT
      • Murals and Installations
        • AN OCEAN WITHOUT THE ANCHOR
        • THE SAME SIDE OF THE MOON ALWAYS FACES EARTH
        • IN ALL DIRECTIONS
        • CROSSING SHORES
        • KAMAR KAMILLION
        • FENOMENA
        • SLOW AND STEADY
        • SING ALONG IF YOU KNOW THE WORDS
        • A STATE OF DECLINE
        • IN THE CLOUDS
        • MINOR CITIES
        • PRESENT CONDITION
        • KA-KHÉ
      • PERFORMANCES
        • ANATOMY OF A HEARTBREAK
        • THE TRIBE
    • SOUNDS
      • PRIMARY MOTIF
"SPEAK CRYPTIC'S THE TRIBE"
For the O.P.E.N. Festival's CLUB MALAM as part of Singapore International Festival of the Arts 2016
Old Kallang Airport, Singapore

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Speak Cryptic’s response to Potentialities is a bold move of turning his drawings into live performance, a first for this visual artist who achieved recognition for his black-and-white graffiti of masked characters with long crooked fingers. Either solo or in groups, these characters depict Speak Cryptic’s response to living in a ‘multi’ world, where uniqueness is about making the different cultural influences that shape you, your own. 

The Tribe is a performance created in celebration of that ethos – dialogue, diversity and personal ownership – created in collaboration with KayKay Nizam, Henrik Cheng, Sonia Kwek, Kimberly Chan, Syaiful Ariffin, Norisham Osman, Khalid Supandi and 100 public artists. Together they breathe life to 100 newly-drawn characters in a series of pop-up interactive ‘happenings’: installations of a mobile listening booth equipped with listening devices, an instant social media wall update, electrifying dances to Senyawa and NADA, an augmented reality treatment of Speak Cryptic’s original artworks by Eugene Soh, and much more. 


Speak Cryptic’s The Tribe is an unapologetic acceptance of the awkward and the alternative, the invisible made visible.
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  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT
  • STORE
    • CASTING CALL ZINE (Free Download)
    • BACKGROUNDS (Free Download)
  • WORK
    • RECENT
      • Paintings
    • ARCHIVE (2009-2023)
      • PAINTINGS
        • Recent Paintings
      • DRAWINGS
        • Recent drawings
        • SELECTED DRAWINGS
        • State/s
      • EXHIBITIONS
        • OPEN MY HEART, EASE MY TASK, LOOSEN THE KNOT ON MY TONGUE
        • FLYING SUPERMARKET
        • KNIVES IN THE WATER
        • SORRY, NOT SORRY
        • AGIT
      • Murals and Installations
        • AN OCEAN WITHOUT THE ANCHOR
        • THE SAME SIDE OF THE MOON ALWAYS FACES EARTH
        • IN ALL DIRECTIONS
        • CROSSING SHORES
        • KAMAR KAMILLION
        • FENOMENA
        • SLOW AND STEADY
        • SING ALONG IF YOU KNOW THE WORDS
        • A STATE OF DECLINE
        • IN THE CLOUDS
        • MINOR CITIES
        • PRESENT CONDITION
        • KA-KHÉ
      • PERFORMANCES
        • ANATOMY OF A HEARTBREAK
        • THE TRIBE
    • SOUNDS
      • PRIMARY MOTIF