Simo Tse Tse received a grant for the development of new work. Wanting Each Other is an artistic research project stemming from OG (Oriental Guys), a gay magazine founded in Singapore and distributed internationally between 1987 and 2003. Centring Asian male bodies, OG began as an erotic pictorial magazine combined with adult fiction and travel writing, aimed largely at Western audiences looking toward Asia. The racial specificity of its subjects raises complex questions surrounding the dichotomy between “Western” and “Asian,” as well as the relationship between reader and producer. As an object of desire, the magazine’s unfiltered portrayals reveal inherent tensions around interracial attraction, sexual labels, and fetishisation. By examining the underlying structures of desire, the project asks one fundamental question: how do we come to desire what we desire?Simo Tse Tse situates his artistic practice at the intersection of immigration histories, diasporic heritage, and queer personhood. Through researching personal, community-led, and institutional archives, he is invested in retelling and revealing misplaced histories, unsung voices, and lost memories. Working across text, printed matter, and audio-visual installations, the outcomes of his projects are not limited to static presentations but often insist upon creating participatory spaces for gatherings and guided conversations.