Zenon (Metamoksha) is an interdisciplinary artist, DJ, and curator who positions the rave as a curatorial medium— treating the dancefloor as a site for world‑building and cross‑disciplinary collaboration. Their productions have brought together DJs, performance artists, light designers, poets, fashion designers, and hardcore bands into temporary universes of sound, movement, and immersive visuals. Rooted in Southeast Asian and queer futurisms, Zenon works with speculative fiction and spatial dramaturgy to create events that feel at once magnetic and destabilizing, inviting collective states of dreaming, becoming, and transformation.
They are the founder of Bussy Temple, Singapore’s renowned queer rave and art collective, and co‑founder of 3NiTi, a DJ collective spotlighting femme and queer DJs in Malaysia. Recognised as a driving force in the underground scene, they have produced 30+ cross‑border shows across Singapore, Vietnam, and Malaysia, with work featured in Vogue Singapore, Mixmag Asia, and Life in Arpeggio. In 2023, they were awarded a year‑long residency at T:>Works Singapore, where they developed curatorial formats that fuse rave, performance art, and community‑building—reimagining nightlife as both sanctuary and resistance within Singapore’s tightly controlled cultural landscape.
Lethal Fantasies: Chrysalis
2024 – T:>Works Singapore (CoThink Lab Fellowship)
A rave exploring femininity in its most grotesque, liminal, and uncontainable forms.
Developed through Bussy Temple’s residency with T:>Works, Chrysalis transformed a black box theatre into a zone of mutation and myth—through sound, lighting, movement, and live performance. While the first edition of Lethal Fantasies focused on reclaiming seduction and power through the lens of third-wave feminism, Chrysalis ventured deeper into the grotesque, the unbecoming, and the not-yet. It asked: where does transformation end and monstrosity begin?
Role:
Concept and theme development · Artistic direction · Southeast Asian
artist curation (SG, PH, VN, MY) · Co–spatial design · Copywriting
and production management
Featured: DJs, butoh performers, pole artists, poets, lighting installation artists, and visual collaborators from across Southeast Asia
DJs: Teya Logos (Philippines), Puppy Ri0t (Vietnam), rEmPiT g0dDe$$ (Malaysia), Suhsi, Metamoksha, Nydthakid
Performances: XUE (Butoh), Sonia (Contemporary), Divya (Pole Dance)
Credits:
📍 Curated & Directed by: Zenon (Metamoksha)
📍 Co-conceptualized and co-produced with: Bussy Temple – Bruce Lee,
Jo Ho, Minsoo Bae, Nydia Shiang
📍 Poetry: Minsoo Bae
📍 Lighting & Installation: ANILA_AA (@TACTILITY_OF_LIGHT)
📍 Set Design: Nydia Shiang
📍 Venue: T:>Works (Singapore)
PRIMORDIA by Bussy Temple and :Dismal (VN)
2025 July – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
A cross-border collaboration with DJs, performance artists, and visual artists across Southeast Asia and beyond (Singapore – Vietnam – Indonesia – France – Australia)
PRIMORDIA delved into ritual, ancestry, and queer embodiment—staging the rave as a site of emergence, decay, and rebirth. Drawing on butoh, rope performance, and immersive visual design, the night explored the liminal space between eroticism and monstrosity, sacredness and ferality. Through overlapping gestures of sound, light, and movement, PRIMORDIA summoned a mythic atmosphere where transformation was not metaphorical, but embodied.
Co-created across borders, PRIMORDIA marked a rare convergence of Southeast Asian queer collectives, uniting DJs, movement artists, and visual collaborators from Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, France, and Australia. The night was both communion and revolt—an offering toward a regional future built through intimacy, intensity, and shared imagination.
Role: Event Artistic direction · Lineup curation · Concept development · Performance and visual artist coordination · Production support
📍 Organizer: Zenon and Van Anh
📍 Curation and event direction: Zenon
📍 Conceptualization: Zenon and Minsoo
📍 Visual Installations: Lucas (Cherish Films), Thomas (Glasoon)
📍 Lighting Installation: Van Anh
Performers
– DJs: Phat Paris (VN), Van Anh (VN), nydthakid (SG), Metamoksha (SG), Howrøng (SG), Shen Long (VN)
– Performance Artists: Gula Malacca (ID) & Asiangayfriend (VN) [Rope Ritual], Elden Zachery (SG) [Butoh], Sharyfairy (SG) [Butoh], Dunes (FR)
XENOFLESH
2023 – MDLR Singapore
An immersive collision of noise, techno, and movement-based experimental performances exploring queer posthumanism.
Departing from Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto, XENOFLESH imagined technology not as escapism but as a portal for connection—where data, emotion, and subjectivity converge. Set against a backdrop of noise, movement, and light, the event brought together experimental artists to dissolve the boundaries between machine and nature, human and mutant, body and sound.
Curated in dialogue with xenofeminist thought, XENOFLESH approached techno-futurism as a space for empathy and intimacy—reimagining technology as a medium to envision a mutant queer future built on collective transformation.
Role: Event Artistic direction · Lineup curation · Co-conceptualisation · Spatial dramaturgy · Technical coordination
📍 Curation and event direction: Zenon and Jo Ho
📍 Conceptualization: Jo Ho and Minsoo Bae
📍 Poetry: Minsoo Bae
📍 Venue: MDLR (Singapore)
Featured: Experimental live performers, sound artists, movement-based artists, and live drawing collaborators from Asia, including FITNESSS ft. LUΗG, JAS LIN & HEARTHEALER, MadamData, Chaulichi, Baben Shin, HOWRØNG, SLINKY
Arcan’s 6th Year Anniversary
2023 – Arcan, Ho Chi Minh City
A cross-border collaboration between Asian queer collectives at one of Ho Chi Minh City’s most prominent underground clubs.
For this special edition of Arcan’s anniversary, Zenon led the conceptual direction under Bussy Temple—developing the event’s overarching concept and spatial narrative. Drawing on their curatorial focus on science fiction, world-building, and Southeast Asian queer futurism, they brought together artists and designers from Ho Chi Minh and Singapore to transform the club into an immersive, site-specific installation exploring unity and collective transformation.
Role: Concept and theme development · Artistic direction · Spatial concept · Installation co-direction · Production artist curation · Local production management
📍 Conceptualized by: Zenon & Van Anh
📍 Poetry by: Minsoo Bae
📍 Production Artist Curation: Zenon
📍 Visual Artists: Van Anh, Mieu, Lua, khong.khong 01, arcaneomorph
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HKCR: Lethal Fantasies Radio Residency
2024 – Hong Kong Community Radio
A radio residency curating and spotlighting emerging Southeast Asian femme and queer electronic musicians and artists.
Started by Zenon and Victoria (rEmPiT g0dDe$$), the series emerged from their shared observation of the lack of platforms genuinely dedicated to Southeast Asian femme and queer artists in electronic music—especially those led by regional voices. Since June 2024, they have curated a lineup of emerging talent from Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Myanmar, prioritizing underrepresented voices that showcase cutting edge and distinct contributions to the region’s growing electronic music landscape.
Role: Concept development · Artist curation · Show direction · Editorial writing · Community outreach
Featured 12 Artists and counting from Vietnam, Philipines, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia.
Link to archived playlist here
Curated by: Zenon/Metamoksha, rEmPiT g0dDe$$
Platform: Hong Kong Community Radio (HKCR)