The Everyday Vinyl
The Everyday Vinyl investigates how co-creative artistic production fosters community building, belonging, and resilience through the act of participation. Lim explores community co-creation firstly in the form of a collective mural, and secondly in the production of a short film. The Everyday Vinyl enables participants to get hands-on experience in community collaging via a series of workshops, to produce a co-created mural made of repurposed vinyl sticker discards. This work draws from previous iterations carried out during Singapore Art Week (2023 & 2024), and at NTU Gallery (2023).
THIS WORK PROPAGATES ITSELF, November 2025, Vinyl Sticker Collage, SDE CAFE @ NUS School of Architecture
In this extension of the work at NUS School of Design and Environment (SDE), we wish to
explore an iterative mural––one where the mark making, rules, and instructions are collectively
contributed by members of the SDE community. The work is titled This Work Propagates Itself,
a challenge to the community to freely interact with a designated glass wall at the SDE4 Open
Plaza, using vinyl. The artist (along with other members of DASSAD––Adar Ng & Woong Soak
Teng) would also be present to co-create a mural alongside participants.
His recent work include The Believers, Eroding the City, and Tucked Under. His work has won multiple awards such as the National Youth Film Awards (2020), NTU Global Digital Art Prize (2019), and the Objectifs Documentary Award (2019). He graduated from Yale-NUS College with a BA (Hons) in Urban Studies. His works have been exhibited in Singapore and Greece.
DASSAD is a multidisciplinary arts trio comprising of Adar Ng, Dave Lim, and Woong Soak Teng. Primarily made up of image-makers, the collective has been focused on human histories, environments and their associated anxieties, and ways of creating conversations around the imagination of new futures. Their works range from moving images to site-specific installations that engage mediums as messages and generate meanings out of time-based processes. Since its formation in 2021, DASSAD has presented a public installation ‘The Everyday Vinyl’ at the Light to Night Festival 2022, and was commissioned by National Museum Singapore and Maybank Foundation to create a video artwork titled ‘Indefinite Waters’ for the museum’s LED Wall. Other exhibitions include ‘About Routes, Not Roots’ at Art Agenda S.E.A., Singapore and ‘An Uncanny Assortment of Objects’ at VT Art Salon, Taiwan and starch, Singapore.