The Substation, on Singapore’s Armenian Street. March 02, 2021 at 2:10pm Singapore’s Substation, the city-state’s first independent multidisciplinary venue, announced today that it will close for good after vacating its Armenian Street space, a repurposed power substation for which it was named, at the end of July. The city-state’s National Arts Council (NAC) in 2017 determined that the 1925 building was in need of renovation, and plans were afoot for the organization to depart the premises for the two-year span necessary for the repairs to take place. The Substation opened under NAC’s rental subsidizing Art Housing Scheme, which in 2011 was changed to the Framework for Arts Space; in an effort to address the lack of physical space for Singapore’s burgeoning arts scene, the newer initiative hews to a multitenant model. Though the Substation and the NAC had been in talks for several years, with the NAC offering interim space during the organization’s exile, it was only last month that Substation organizers learned that upon their return they would not be granted the sole tenancy they had enjoyed since their founding in 1990 but would have to share the building with an unnamed number of arts organizations.