If you were invited to recreate your official identity on your Identity Card, would you?

That's what this website, Yourpinkic.org, invites you to do.

The brainchild of Yale-NUS student and artist Adam L. and his mysteriously-named friend Xilitla Child, this interactive art site aims to invite people to reconsider their own image and identity portrayed through their identification cards.

The thought-provoking website was spurred on by the amendment to the Public Order Act, which stops foreigners from participating in any kind of events held at Hong Lim Park.

What has it got to do with our IC?

Well, as a result of the amendment, security personnel will be present to check the ICs of the attendees at the first event affected by this ruling -- Pink Dot.

This is to ensure that those who participate are Singaporean citizens or Permanent Residents. This is likely to be extended towards other events that take place at the Speaker's Corner.

The significance of the IC in this artwork becomes pretty evident, in the eyes of the artists:

In this way, identities are defined for the institution through categories and addresses, dates and numbers, race and sex; the individual is made quantifiable, understandable, bound to laws and legislation, made privy to new privileges — all due to ownership of the identification card. The details on the card are confirmed and ascribed at the appropriate age and can only be amended or altered with the appropriate amount of difficulty.

Your Pink IC is an experiment in the individual agency to construct the self. If given the power to (re)create your own official identity, would you?

In case this is all Greek to you, one way to look at it is that the artists are inviting you to (re)consider how you perceive your identity card.

It also invites the audience to grapple with concepts and ideas surrounding their pink IC -- that it gives you autonomy in some ways because you are a citizen, yet it identifies and quantifies you through categories (name, age, sex, race), rather than truly representative of the unique qualities you carry.

After all, it's a way for easy identification for the state.

I want my (fun) IC!

Even if you don't relate to what the website is trying to convey, perhaps think of it as a chance to jazz up the serious-looking card.

Hate your bad fashion choices you made for that particular photo, for example? It's your chance to fix it, at least in the artistic way of things.

Do note that this is, obviously, not a real IC. The generated cards are not for use in any official transactions or for identification purposes.

Here's a sampling of how it looks like:

Interestingly, it looks like Citizen 005 decided to identify his(?) sex as a Hotdog.

Feeling creative already? You can submit your request for your own card, and view more details via the website.

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Top screenshot via Yourpinkic.org