MEMEPURA
An AI-powered otternate origin story by Jayden Tan
Supper House x Journey East
14 - 31 August 2025
MEMEPURA, an AI-powered otternate origin story.
A speculative nation built not by conquest, but by code & imagination, and the quiet mischief of misremembering. Where history is reauthored, symbols reimagined, and the otter replaces the lion as the soul of a city that never was, yet somehow feels oddly familiar.
An exercise in authorship, exploring if storytelling’s future is human, artificial, or somewhere in between. This installation presents a speculative alternative: What if Sang Nila Utama had not seen a lion, but an otter?
FOWL PLAY
by Joanne Lim
Supper House x Journey East
14 - 31 August 2025
Perched along the beams and ledges of a familiar Singapore streetscapes, Fowl Play introduces a quiet flock of 3D-printed pigeons — each embedded with a mock camera. These sculptural hybrids bring together two familiar yet often overlooked figures in the urban landscape: the pigeon and the unblinking eye of public observation.
Responding to the each unique locale’s architecture — where bird spikes guard overhead beams and cameras dot these architectural features — the pigeons return not as a public nuisance, but as new observers. Once used in covert communications and now routinely deterred from public spaces, they serve here as both symbols of exclusion and instruments of invisible observation.
The pigeon and the camera share an uncanny affinity: both multiply, adapt, and become part of the urban background. Like networks of public monitoring designed for vigilance and safety, pigeons populate ledges and corners in quiet abundance — an unnoticed yet constant presence. Their accumulation echoes the rhythms of observation: multiply, attend, repeat. Once dismissed as pests, these pigeons are reimagined here as unlikely participants in the city’s watchful systems. Fowl Play draws attention to the subtle watchers embedded in our built environment. It invites reflection on the everyday dynamics of visibility in public space: Who observes? Who is observed? And how does the ordinary become something more than it seems?
About Jayden Tan
Jayden is a h(AI)brid artist, a term he uses to describe his evolving practice that blends generative AI with traditional craft, intuition with iteration, code with material form. His approach treats machine intelligence as both tool and texture, allowing accidents, algorithms, and aesthetic instincts to coexist in the same creative space.
Rooted in a background in advertising and photography, Jayden’s work carries a strong sense of visual storytelling and image-making as language. Years behind the lens and the pitch deck taught him how to compose, provoke, and persuade, but it is in breaking those forms open that his artistic voice has begun to take shape.
He is drawn to ideas that feel both absurd and oddly sincere, often chasing after overlooked symbols, speculative histories, or internet detritus, and treating them with unexpected reverence. His process is less about chasing resolution and more about lingering in ambiguity, curious about where meaning might glitch, loop, or quietly reassemble itself.
About Joanne Lim
Lim E-Lynn Joanne, also known as Joanne Lim (b.1985) is a Singapore-based artist, who graduated from Lasalle College of the Arts with a BA in Fine Arts (First Class). Since then, she has been nominated for the Takifuji Art Award 2021 and received the Lasalle Award for Academic Excellence and Winston Oh Travelogue Award in 2022.
She is interested in translating and visualizing data that she collects in long-term projects that involve collaboration with the community. Joanne's practice delves into conveying data and experiences in aesthetic forms, as a way of presentation through numerous mediums intertwined to address these current social issues.
Essentially, Joanne takes the position of an ordinary citizen engaged in varying forms of ‘gentle resistance’, her way of bringing attention and discourse to current social issues affecting different groups of Singaporeans or individuals residing in Singapore.
Joanne is also part of Mouse Click Click, a Singapore-based art collective that seeks to bring together the disciplines of art, science, and technology.
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Supper House, in collaboration with Journey East, will start their art calendar with a new show 开门见山 at Journey East at Tan Boon Liat Building.
Starting on the 5th of June 2025, we will be joined by 10 artists with 8 monthly presentations all the way to January 2026.
Every month, an artist will take over the Supper House pop-up and present their ideals, values, and concepts to our visitors.
What are the perceived values in objects that we hold dear? We have been asking ourselves this all day.
What is valuable is a matter of perspectives. In this world constantly shaped by opinions and values held dear to each and every unique individual, how do we then, each of us, see the value in the common things?
How each of us consumes and takes in art is a highly debatable subject. Much like how we view different locales.
Much like a dream, a mirage, or an idea, these are but forced perspectives valued by its owner, its creator.
We look forward to welcoming each and every one of you in the months ahead.
Featuring:
Hans Chew
Akai Chew
Theophilus Kwek
Sam Lay
Genevieve Leong
Joanne Lim
Ong Si Hui
Fiona Seow
Berny Tan
Jayden Tan
Owen Tee Hao Wei
Alexander Teoh