Yangtze Scribbler

Conceived through an encounter with fellow artist Debbie Ding’s investigations into urban markings, Yangtze Scribbler becomes a film about “reading” the city, and the meanings people leave behind in informal signs and marginal spaces. Scored by artist bani haykal, the work sits within an ecology of Singapore contemporary art networks, showing Tan’s attunement to how artists think, how signs circulate, and how memory adheres to sites later erased. It also connects to Tan’s wider urban inquiries, including Singapore GaGa.