ArtScience Encounters

ArtScience Encounters: Jana Winderen Live

Oslo-based Norwegian sound artist Jana Winderen activates ArtScience Museum’s Oculus as a resonant body attuned to the acoustic life of the ocean in a live performance.

ArtScience Encounters: Stridulations by Robert Schwarz

Stridulations is a site-responsive, multi-channel sound installation by Vienna-based sound artist Robert Schwarz, devised for the Oculus at ArtScience Museum. Adapted from Schwarz’s long-running research into insect and arthropod communication, the work takes its name from stridulation — a process through which sound is produced by friction between chitinous body parts.

ArtScience Encounters: Windswept Adan by Ichiko Aoba

Enter the dreamlike archipelago of Windswept Adan, a multi-channel sound installation by singer-songwriter Ichiko Aoba. Conceived as a soundtrack to an imaginary film during journeys through the Ryukyu Archipelago, the work invites visitors into a speculative world where music and imagination intertwine.

ArtScience Encounters: Threshold by Louis Quek

In Threshold, sound artist Louis Quek proposes futures where boundaries and margins dissolve, existing instead in a perpetual state of endless transitions.

ArtScience Encounters: The Space Remembers You by Syafiq Halid with Norhaizad Adam

For one night only, sound and movement converge in a living ceremony. In this collaborative performance, sound artist Syafiq Halid activates his 14-channel installation in Another World Is Possible exhibition with the presence of dance artist Norhaizad Adam, extending his sonic philosophy into the moving body.

ArtScience Encounters with Libby Heaney: Qlimate Tongues

Qlimate Tongues is a multi-channel sound installation that explores the climate, its entanglements and the impact of quantum technologies. In the work, we hear hybrid human and non-human voices that are generated by artificial intelligence and hypnotic sounds that are generated by quantum computing, inviting contemplation on how advanced technologies shape and entangle with life on earth.

AeReA — Panzetti/Ticconi (Italy/Germany)

AeReA examines the flag as an object of imagination and symbolic power and its connections with the corporeal body.

Stripped of traditional insignias, the silver-grey flags wielded by the performers transform into spectral figures, blurring the lines between banners and shrouds. The title, AeReA, derived from the Latin words “ara” (altar) and “aerea” (air), underscores the duality of the flag as an object that has always functioned in principle to express ideas of unity and separation. With sound design by Demetrio Castellucci, AeReA provokes reflection on historical and contemporary notions of power and belonging

ArtScience Encounters with Hiroshi Ebina

Japanese sound artist Hiroshi Ebina sculpts an installation of ambient music works in the Oculus that delves into the realms of sound and spirit, offering solace through its tranquil tones.
 

Presented in collaboration with KITCHEN. LABEL as part of Living Gently, a season of slow programming and environments embracing a different way of looking and living.

Hiroshi Ebina Live

Japanese sound artist Hiroshi Ebina presents a live audiovisual set of electronic music centred around his boutique eurorack synthesisers and algorithmic sequencer, blurring the boundary between ambient, techno and vaporwave.

Making his Singapore debut, Ebina will perform music from his latest release Into the Darkness of the Night as well as new tracks and improvised material, as a companion programme to his installation for ArtScience Encounters in the Oculus

Tea Gathering with Chado Urasenke Tankokai

Experience the intricate ritual and deep symbolism of the Japanese tea ceremony, Chado, in this demonstration by Urasenke, one of the main schools in Kyoto with its tradition tracing back to the 17th century.

Meitei Live

Japanese experimental composer Meitei presents live music sets from his Kofū trilogy, brewing ambient textures, hypnotic rhythms, lo-fi beats and samples from forgotten vinyl that capture the beauty and melancholy of Japan’s disappearing heritage.

Drawing inspiration from the tales of geishas and samurais, the cinematic legacy of Akira Kurosawa and the uncanny writings of Edogawa Ranpo, Kofū intertwines elements that ground the music in Japan’s complex past, while delving into its lingering shadows.

ArtScience Encounters with Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen: A Lotus Turns To Light

Created by filmmaker and artist duo Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen, A Lotus Turns To Light is a 10-channel durational sound installation inspired by the cycles of lotus flowers, light and time. Composed as a textural soundscape for the annular space of ArtScience Museum’s Oculus, the work draws on the materiality of the lotus as well as themes of cycles and circularity to invite a flow of memory, feeling and simply being.

the centre trembles by XUE

the center trembles is a durational performance by butoh artist XUE sited within ArtScience Museum’s Oculus, the hollow core of the building’s architecture. The intervention creates a context in which participants can bear witness to rhythms of choice, change, and stillness in relation to how one situates the body, or how the body inadvertently situates itself in space.

Into Still Life by Shaman Tearoom

Multidisciplinary art collective Shaman Tearoom’s performance embarks on a journey into the profound stillness that lies amid the relentless flow of change, exploring the subtle, often imperceptible movements that arise within quiet moments.

yeule's Oculus Mixtape

A yeule-curated mixtape of their instrumental music works audio-transforming ArtScience Museum's Oculus into a techno-organic world. 

Searching Blue

Join us for an intimate and immersive encounter with Singapore's leading contemporary dance company, T.H.E Dance Company, through their site-adaptive performance Searching Blue.

Delving into the intricate relationship between the self and the other and centred on the profound theme of "oneness", this exclusive iteration—honed from insights gleaned during last year's monthlong Southeast Asian tour —offers a refined interpretation tailored exclusively for ArtScience Museum.

Three Views Of The Lotus

Three Views Of The Lotus is an expanded cinema, audio-visual performance by Singaporean filmmaker and artist duo Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen, presented as a companion piece to their cound installation in ArtScience Museum's Oculus, A Lotus Turns To Light.

Ceaseless Benevolence In The Eye Of The Cascade

Ceaseless Benevolence In The Eye Of The Cascade is a 10-channel ambient sound installation created by artist Kin Leonn in response to ArtScience Museum's Oculus, reimagining the waterfall of this architectural feature as a luminous source of all; a primordial spring of life at the heart of the natural world.

ArtScience Encounters Live with Kin Leonn

Kin Leonn inhabits the Oculus and brews an explorative sonic dreamscape of textured electronics and organic instrumentation, interpolated by field recordings.