New art, music and ‘photographic encounters’ from Dazed Club members

“I’m Claudia Koh, a Singaporean artist working between painting and sculpture. My practice explores how Southeast Asian identity, cultural memory, and Singapore’s constructed environment shape experiences of space, intimacy, and autonomy. Growing up among dense housing, manicured greenery, and planned infrastructure made me attentive to how our surroundings quietly influence movement and behaviour, like an ecosystem.

“My work explores what lingers between people, within places, and after a moment has passed. I think of the images I have shared as traces of those experiences, or attempts to give form to things that are often difficult to name. I am interested in the feelings that remain after an encounter, a memory, or a change in environment. Sometimes what stays with us is not a clear story, but an atmosphere, a tension, or a sense of longing.

“My enduring influences come from Singapore’s interconnected ecosystems, which sometimes feel like a terrarium. Chinese mythology, zodiac signs, rituals, and superstitions give me a language for thinking about fortune, death, protection, and family. Smells and sounds also shape my memory of home, from cooking in apartment corridors to air conditioning, neighbours, traffic, rain, and construction. I am also influenced by stop motion films and dystopian comics, particularly their strange constructed worlds and unexpected materials. I love how they make familiar things unsettling and allow tenderness and anxiety to exist together. Recently, I saw stop motion created with porcelain and wood, which opened new possibilities for me.

“My creative friends in Singapore and New York continually inspire me through their work and our conversations about art and film. Singapore remains my strongest influence, perhaps because homesickness keeps drawing me back to familiar spaces. I am working towards a body of work featuring musical instruments, preparing for the next year.”

“I’m Sissy Cinnamon (they/them), a Romanian-Lebanese DJ and multidisciplinary artist based in London, working across music, nightlife and visual culture. I only started DJing two years ago, but my practice has grown quickly, from intimate club nights to making my festival debut at Boomtown this summer. My approach is eclectic and intentional; as a genre-fluid DJ, I create euphoric sonic journeys that are emotional, sensual, unexpected and, above all, certified p*ssy power. My sound gravitates towards heavy kicks, sultry vocals and feminine energy, with my multilayered identity and queerness naturally informing the way I create.

“A lot of my work explores identity, self-expression, sexuality and community, particularly the freedom and self-discovery that can exist within queer nightlife. I’m interested in the tension between feeling powerful and vulnerable, and in creating spaces where both can exist together. I’m particularly passionate about creating more space for FLINTA* artists and using my platform to advocate for minorities and challenge inequalities within nightlife and the wider music industry.

“My biggest influences and muses are DJ Fuckoff, La Femme and Doja Cat, artists who embody individuality, sensuality and playfulness. My creative scene is London’s queer and underground nightlife, and the people I’ve met through it. I’m a resident DJ with Globe Town Records and am looking forward to expanding internationally, making my Italy debut in September and hopefully taking my music to more international dance floors. I’m also learning music production as the next step in developing my sound and creative practice.”

“My name is Liam John, a movement artist and director based in London. My work focuses on celebrating people and the extraordinary body; be it through choreography, image, illustration or film.

“I have always been drawn to movement, and in fact first trained and worked as a professional dancer. This training combined with my love for illustration and image making has led me to where I am now; using movement as a tool, with graphic line and form as a visual language.

“Some of my influences are, oddly enough, not dance or movement based. Although there are some incredible artists out there that constantly inform me and my work, I am very inspired by the mundane or everyday; finding ways to abstract or amplify themes in very normal pedestrian situations. People you meet at the bus stop, at Tesco, at the club, on Instagram… they all have unique stories and outlooks to share – and I am fascinated by interpreting these stories and sharing how I see them.

“These themes are very present in some of my recent works, RatRace is an ongoing series exploring how extraordinary people come from anywhere around us. I also recently directed and choreographed ‘FLY’, which explores the masculine pack-mentality, not wanting to stand out of the crowd or be ‘caught with your pants down’.

“My creative scene has always changed and shifted; I think that ‘the scene’ is a place a lot of people strive to end up, rather than looking around and making ‘the scene’ fit where they currently are and who they’re surrounded by. That said, I started this journey in London and am currently very lucky to have more and more opportunities with artists from around the world.”

“Œil pour Œil is a photography and art direction duo founded by Astrid Staes and Dimitri Lanctuit. Œil pour Œil evokes reciprocity and confrontation; it is the mirror between the one who looks and the one being looked at. The setup we chose is based on constraint. It is at the core of our process; without constraint, no freedom. Under-exposure, abstraction, storytelling.

“Our latest series Ashes to Ashes deals with the destruction of our ecosystems – a world slowly turning to ash. Tatiana looks into the microscope, searching for life where everything has already disappeared. Our work is all about encounters; they drive us, move us and give meaning to what we do. Moreover, we collect artefacts and conduct extensive image research.

“We are influenced by photographers like Josef Koudelka for his strong compositions, Marie-Laure de Decker for her bravery and Bill Henson for his aesthetic; Leonora Carrington for her surrealism, Füssli for his romance; and Andrew Wyeth for his photographic approach to painting. Our designer reference is, without hesitation, Alexander McQueen for his freedom. Then there’s British playwright Edward Bond, Spanish theatre director Angélica Liddell, Massive Attack, Nick Drake – and a lot of Marvin Gaye.

“We are currently setting up a studio in the countryside which will function as both a home and a space for creation. We are building a darkroom and a studio dedicated to music and painting. Our main desire is to create our own tempo and to open doors to the artists we like. Among our upcoming projects is the launch of Issue 1 of L’Abbeye Magazine, with both a print and digital publication of The Anatomy of the Horse, produced by @proteststudios. Follow our work and upcoming projects on @oeilpouroeilstudio, by @astrid_staes and @dimitrilanctuit.”