SYNDICATE x Asylum Store 1st Anniversary

Asylum Store celebrated its 1st anniversary on 12 November 2011 and its parent AMNESTY commissioned SYNDICATE to design an audio-visual installation and tote bag.

Produced by our visual guru Brandon Tay, this piece is an investigation into the meaning of the term “The Floating World”. Traditionally a homonym for “sorrowful world” in kanji, the installation goes through several phases of representation – abstraction/nirvana,organic imagery/the physical world, landscape imagery/emotional states. Max Lane provided the accompanying apocalyptic soundtrack.

A mandala, a sigil, a symbol. Kiat sees his design for the limited edition tote bag as a mental re-programming device that allows us to restructure the minds of the masses through the commercial delivery system of retail and fashion. Through the hidden intentions in the design, world domination follows shortly via our Asylum agents.

We spent an afternoon DJing in-store with Darren Dubwise and Kiat sharing sound oddities as shoppers popped by the store to check out exclusive commemorative pieces by renowned labels Cor Sini Labe Doli, Nakkna and Rene Gurskov, and other limited edition bags contributed by Ivanho Harlim, Mojoko and Asylum!