DiverseCity, the ongoing exhibition by the Singapore International Foundation, isn’t exactly an exhibition exhibition. A great part of it really is simply a showcase of the stuff that SIF has supported for the past year by way of travel grants overseas presentation grants. I thought I needed to clarify that because it is at the fourth floor of SAM at 8Q (in contrast to the previous one held at SOTA).But in that context, it’s still worth a visit—if only to be impressed with SIF’s involvement in the arts. This year, it’s 108 projects by 92 Singaporean artists/groups presented in 91 cities. It’s a crazy, the range as well. You’ve got the usual bigtime suspects like Ming Wong, Michael Lee, TheatreWorks, THE Dance Company, Ho Tzu Nyen, The Necessary Stage, Toy Factory, etc. But you’ve also got folks like the Singapore Contemporary Young Artists, Platform 65, Monster Cat, etc. (While some of the works have been shown here, you do realise that there are a lot of stuff done overseas by Singaporeans that haven't been seen here. Or at least not yet.) (And of course, you've probably read elsewhere about the great romance story that came about from one such SIF-supported project, the batik-meets-photography collab between Singaporean photographer Mintio and Indonesian artist Kabul.) That said, they did manage to squeeze in one small exhibition in Dezipcoding. It’s the Singapore leg of the travelling-exhibition-but-not-really Project Glocal. Organised by Filipino curator Dayang Yraola, the regional effort comprises artists from Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore, with the first exhibition held a few months ago in the Philippines. Despite the admittedly cramped space for it, and if you get past the idea that it’s within the bigger DiverseCity, and if you keep in mind that the framework behind Project Glocal is really more as an incubation-type endeavor where a bunch of artists from different countries hang out, get to know each other for some possible future collaboration, then it’s worth checking out. Singapore artists include Black Baroque Committee (with their quirky boxes of “dangerous” items from the previous NAFA graduate show making a repeat appearance in a slightly different way), Jason Wee (whose geometric preoccupations take on a more pyramidic form—via drawing), Ang Song-Ming (look out for the bag beneath the bench), Tang Ling Nah (who collaborates with the Philippines’ Irma Lacorte and SB2011 artist Mark Salvatus in an interesting multi-layered video piece) and Urich Lau (who gives us the chance to play DJ or God—didn’t Faithless have some similar song?—where we can “scratch” and manipulate the video of the other Rochor Road accident that did not involve the Ferrari). Oh, careful where you step. One of the artists from Hong Kong has scattered “cockroaches” on the floor. Like this one.

From Luke Ching's Folk Art series as part of Project Glocal's Dezipcoding exhibition at DiverseCity. Eeewww.