A marquee event of Singapore Art Week, Light to Night Festival will electrify the Civic District and beyond with visual spectacles and new interactive art experiences from 14 January to 3 February 2022.
Spearheaded by National Gallery Singapore with programme collaborators Asian Civilisations Museum, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, The Arts House, Victoria Theatre & Concert Hall, and new collaborators including the National Library Board, Capitol Singapore and Funan, the visual arts festival continues its successful phygital format with an expanded line-up of day and night programmes and more festival locations across three weeks.
The 2022 edition of Light to Night inspires everyone to engage with the world anew through the theme “New Ways of Seeing, Thinking and Being”. This year’s theme champions the collective pursuit of new perspectives and states of mind to gain a better understanding of how the world has evolved in the “new normal”.
Visions is an outdoor augmented reality art exhibition that brings together the works of renowned international artists such as Olafur Eliasson and KAWS, and debuts a commissioned AR work by Singapore artist Ho Tzu Nyen.
Move For?ward (Unseen: Inside Out) is Unseen Art Initiative’s disability-led project spearheaded by emerging young performance artist Claire Teo, and in collaboration with Kira Lim.
Art and technology presentations at Y-Lab is composed of three programmes:
The Everyday Vinyl is a public art vinyl installation that ruminates on the hyperobject* of plastic, concentrating in particular on the ubiquitous vinyl.
Making Room encapsulates the changes in our private spaces as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Flight is inspired by the movement of flocks of birds during their migration, as well as the complex movement of people during the Covid-19 pandemic.
With this work, an urban beach resurfaces along Singapore’s old coastline of 1843.
By spotlighting selected leisure and entertainment places in downtown Singapore as well as presenting fascinating histories hidden in plain sight, Curiocity invites you to examine the evolution of our spaces and reflect on our relationship with them.
Sticki (2022) is a vinyl installation that mimics the rise and fall of our emotions as we go through various stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Various locations:
Gallery Gigs features online videos of performances and interviews by local performing artists.
Live music is back! Gallery Gigs (LIVE!) lets you discover a range of music genres, from acoustic to electronic, all staged at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium at National Gallery Singapore.
Funny Fridays is a live-comedy series where stand-up comedians share more about how they have adapted to the new normal and found humour in today’s world.
Programmes:
Highlights various craft making activities, an aura photobooth, art journalling, personality-inspired claw machines and more to keep your weekends occupied.
The City Beneath The City is a whimsical installation that imagines a fantastic copy of our island-city growing and building under our present one.
The installation piece is inspired by the migrant stories of seafarers who made their way to Singapore by sea for a better life many decades ago, The Same Side of the Moon Always Faces Earth is a visual representation of the act of crossing a body of water to get to a specific destination.
This short preview of the upcoming digital production, The Senate of Birds, will feature a cornucopia of chamber music, solo compositions, dancers, and narration, to explore the complicated relationship between humans and nature in Singapore’s journey of rapid development and modernisation.
In Memory Portals, two glowing doorways stand on the ACM Green representing alternate, fantastical views of the Singapore River.
Unfolding across the Esplanade Tunnel, Kang Ouw expands upon Boedi Widjaja’s preoccupation with the world of wuxia through Jin Yong’s novel (Ode to Gallantry).
Unfolding through various materials, including found objects, clay and sand, Fazleen Karlan’s latest work d3ar succ3ss0r at the Community Wall posits a speculative examination of remnants from our present by individuals from the future.
Drawing upon long-established motifs in Gatot Indrajati’s works, Sender of Wishes is conceived as a cityscape with inhabitants represented by toy figures.
Microorganisms Landscape expresses Han Sai Por’s concern with the impact of human activity on the environment and man’s relationship with nature through an installation that foregrounds the pivotal role of microorganisms in nature.
Full festival details are available here from 13 January.
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