Victor began as a painter and was also artistic director (along with
Susie Lingham, Henry Tang and Iris Tan) of ‘5th Passage Artists
Ltd’, an artists’ collective which was the first corporate-sponsored
art space in Singapore.7 She has exhibited widely internationally,
most recently at the 49th Venice Biennale, concentrating now on
performance and installation.8 Important spaces for contemporary
art today include the Substation arts centre and the artist-run
space Plastique Kinetic Worms. The Substation was the island’s
first multicultural and multidisciplinary arts centre, ‘a powerhouse
for the arts’, founded by Kuo Pao Kun. It opened on 16 September,
1990, with a 120-seat theatre, an art gallery, a dance studio, two
multipurpose rooms, a garden courtyard for performances and
other arts events, an art shop and a box office. Influential art critic
Lee Weng Choy is now Artistic Co-Director9. An important
journal on art and society, focas, is produced under the auspices
of the Substation.10 A source of archival information on artists
is the online archive Singapore Art.11