Sypnosis

DAMN!’s tonal creed resides in the overlapping spheres of mythical Greece and technological futures. Parables from the ancient world continue to oscillate with relevance as we daily contend with ever-manner of gods, monsters and mortals.

Within the multiplexes of the Kampong Java enclave with its coiling dens, rooms, staircases, back alleys and front yards, CAKE stitches a chroma where corporeality and incorporeality intermingle in technologically-infused dreamscapes.

In climates of risk-aversion and flattening consumptions, CAKE observes attitudes of invention and creative willfulness embracing transgenerational explorations across technologies and disciplines; defining multidisciplinary expression within the site-specificity of these restored walls.

Damn if we don’t try to imagine what comes next—together.

House 52

Oracular Circuitry

A study in robotic rhythm and response

In collaboration with VAAS, thesupersystem programs robotic plants that move and respond, their gestures shaped by algorithms, mimicking organic motion through mechanical precision. Bound by code, their movement recalls the gods’ unseen hand in The Oresteia—an order imposed upon mortal lives, seemingly inescapable.

𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘹 𝘝𝘈𝘚𝘚 𝘹 𝘙𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘹 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘯 001

𝐦á𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐧

2025

Printed scrolls, microcontrollers, servo-controlled rollers, mechanical arms

mármaron takes inspiration from ancient inscriptions of myths on marble to preserve age-old stories. Digitised scans of stones taken from the Greek island of Paros, historically known for its white marble, are printed on scrolls and draped across the space. This creates a landscape of geological artefacts and digital facsimiles. Against this backdrop, exploring acts of mechanical reproduction, print rollers and robotic arms sprawl and twitch repeatedly performing a vicious or virtuous ritual.

Artist: Huijun Lu

Waiting To Upload

Waiting To Upload is a collection of selected titles across books, essays, and zines that expand the interdisciplinary and collaborative vision of art and technology. The collection includes contributions from DAMN!’s featured artists, and Feelers’ own personal library and publications.
Artist: Feelers

𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐀𝐑: 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐊𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐧⁣

Performance on 25 Mar 2025

In sonic ritual, ambient artist Kin Leonn responds in improvisation to the Songs of Clytemnestra and the inescapable resonance of fate. Performing live with a combination of synths, keys, and manipulation of software samples, a sonic incantation is manifested through echoing swells and seismic drones. The piece unfolds itself in a 6-channel surround sound setup, where the shifting spatiality of sound itself becomes an actor in this spectral play.

𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵: 𝘒𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘯⁣

Helen 

Performance on 27 March. 

Five dancers freestyle to music on tap as live mapping on their anatomies brandish lines between ecstasy and agony, not unlike the delirium of Greece ravaging Troy, for Helen.

𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘓𝘪𝘮, 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘢𝘯, Oh Shu Xin, Celestine Chua

𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵: 𝘮𝘥𝘳𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴⁣

𝘋𝘑: 𝘒𝘪𝘢𝘵

House 53

WINDS •._.••´¯``•.¸¸.•` Genealogical curses and Technological Presences 

Bl**dlines and vengeance collide, stretching The Oresteia into a wired, unrelenting present. Wearing a breathing vest that inflates and seethes with her body, Clytemnestra receives her Husband-King Agamemnon and his captive priestess Cassandra. The reverent calls of solenoid-activated cymbals do little to diffuse Clytemnestra’s impending response; a reckoning for Agamemnon’s s*crifice of their daughter for favorable winds.

A sentient altar of light-emitting diodes foreshadows inescapable fate.

𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘓𝘦𝘰 𝘠𝘦𝘦 & 𝘛𝘦𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘰𝘬 𝘛𝘰𝘯𝘨; 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘦 & 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘬 𝘚𝘪 𝘟𝘶𝘢𝘯 & 𝘝𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘭 

𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 & 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘦

House 54

Between Light and Shadow

A Duplex of Light and Fury.

Drawing from Southeast Asian folklore, Between Light and Shadow foreshadows Agamemnon’s inauspicious return—a cycle of curse and reckoning that reverberates across cultures. 

The installation unfolds across two charged spaces:

The Undoing Room, where noise, fragmented projections, and flickering light manifest ancestral burdens and unrest. Live noise musicians emerge as unseen forces, amplifying the chaos—an embodiment of fate’s relentless grip. 

The Salve Room, a space of transformation and renewal, bathed in meditative light and ambient sound. In The Salve Room, only the echoes remain, inviting contemplation and release.

𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵: 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘮

𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴: 𝘙𝘢𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘯 & 𝘯𝘢𝘻

𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯: 𝘫𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘯

𝘝𝘍𝘟 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘳: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮

𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘈𝘙𝘛𝘍𝘈𝘊𝘛𝘖𝘙𝘠