• [Also published as a series of slides on instagram]

    It's hard to believe it's already been half a year since moving from Geylang, but we're finally back, and for the second time this year, wares infoshop library is open!

    Returning to this is exciting. Supporters on Patreon have already had a peek at what's been happening, and we've been inviting friends and past visitors to help test out using the space. There's much to update everyone on and future plans to sketch out: ideas, invitations and provocations which will unfold over the next few weeks here and on the blog. We start this first part with a summary of the journey so far, but if you've been waiting to visit, the website already has new information with hours up, so go check it out and make an appointment.


  • as flags hang

    as flags hang
    A rectangular portrait image with text laid over rather abstract visuals. The background is a halftone photo in dark red and grey of what looks like an object-strewn street after a riot. Large lowercase serif text in white occupies the top, middle, and bottom of the frame, reading:

“as flags hang

the state hangs

death feeding that violent celebration of riches

oblivious to the rage and love and possibility

held in abolishing it all”

In the middle of the frame superimposed by the above text is an inset square colour-reversed photo in contrasting beige, purple, and dark red of what looks like a massive oil storage tank engulfed in flames and smoke. Small lowercase sanserif beige text lines each edge of the square, reading: “this world's burning / extracting life / crisis normal / absent all care”

    With such stubborn adherence to so-called “justice” and “peace”, they've killed another man. The fifth in four months. There's just grief and anger, which reinforce further how we must move past (think past, plan past, make past) the nation state and capital for other, better ways of collective life. On the housing blocks, council-installed flags line the corridors pretending everything's fine.


  • A New Home

    A New Home

    [Originally published as a series of slides on instagram, we reproduce it here verbatim, each image slide accompanied by transcribed text, with image descriptions at the end of the post.]

    A quick and short post, sharing some of the notes visitors left for us and each other before we closed the library, and also to say:

    Just in time, we made it, we've found a new home!

    We've been resting, feeling out this space, understanding its new surroundings, and are excited to get it ready to welcome visitors again.


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