If you’re on the hunt for some new exhibitions that’ll get your brain ticking and leave you feeling inspired, then look no further than Singapore’s ArtScience Museum. A hub of creativity and cutting edge innovation, ArtScience Museum is a place where art, science and technology collide. The museum is currently showing three fascinating exhibitions, and until December 28 you can buy a ticket that gives you access to all three from just $48.
1. teamLab Future World
ArtScience Museum’s permanent Future World exhibition has wowed over four million visitors to date, and it has recently undergone a remarkable transformation at the hands of renowned international art collective, teamLab. Now, visitors can explore a series of awe-inspiring installations that push the boundaries of immersive art.
Light Sculpture with Paper Airplane is a mesmerising experience where visitors launch paper planes, each one triggering a visual and aural spectacle of melodic tones and laser beams. Crystal Universe immerses visitors in a dazzling constellation of lights through a large-scale artwork that brings planets, stars and galaxies to the forefront.
Continuous Life and Death breaks the boundaries between art, nature, and time by immersing visitors in a blanket of flowers, each in an endless cycle of blooming and withering. This cycle happens in time with the natural Singapore sunset and sunrise, allowing visitors to experience it as a living eco system. The refreshed Flow Reaches Far installation creates ‘flows’ as you move through the space, interacting with those of other visitors to create a dynamic environment that is controlled by the movement of the people within.
You may also remember the visitor favourite, Sliding Through the Fruit Field, which now transforms the simple act of climbing into a sensory encounter with the essence of water. And finally, Sketch Umwelt World invites visitors to bring their own designs to life by scanning them to appear on a giant screen, then watching them soar and glide in a vivid three dimensional trail.
2. Another World is Possible
This thought provoking exhibition takes a deep dive into the practice of world building in media – specifically cinema, design, architecture and literature. Challenging widespread dystopian and anxiety-filled visions, often presented in screen culture and mass media, the exhibition gives visitors the chance to peer into the future – a place filled with possibility.
Throughout the experience you can explore four major immersive installations by filmmaker and architect Liam Young, as well as significant works by other Singapore-based artists & creatives. The journey will take you through a visually arresting landscape, ranging from hyper-dense cities to geo-engineering spectacles. In this space where cinematic worlds and architecture collide, you’ll be immersed in iterations of the future that have been imagined across different genres, including cyberpunk visions of Western cinema, the hopeful and defiant voices of Afrofuturism, and more.
3. SingaPop!
This vibrant multi-media exhibition by singer, songwriter and playwright, Dick Lee is the ultimate nostalgic cultural experience. Charting key moments in Singapore’s cultural transformation, the exhibition highlights moments such as the birth of the unique Singlish language, hawker culture, film, music, and more. SingaPop! will take you from the 60s right through to present day, starting with the first chapter: SingaWho?
An audiovisual experience paired with a multilingual soundscape will welcome you before you journey further into space. Then, chapter two will trace early migratory paths from China, India, the Malay archipelago, and Europe, that lay the historical and cultural foundations for Singapore as we know it.
RojakLand will take you through 60 years of Singaporean pop culture, with photo ops, real theatre sets and more, before the SingaStyle chapter explores how fashion shaped national identity in the 1950s. Then, SingaSong interactive jukebox will reflect the nation’s creative musical diversity across generations, before the Screening Room takes a deep dive into the media landscape.
The final three chapters will look at Singlish, Singapore’s unofficial language, followed by a celebration of Singaporean hawker culture, finishing with the exhibition’s namesake SingaVoices! – a moving musical experience that pays tribute to national unity and resilience.