Festival Walk - i Light Singapore

Festival Walk - i Light Singapore (2023 0624)

Locate: Civic District

Date: 1 to 25 June 2023,

Time: 7.30pm to 11.00pm daily with extended hours to 12.00am on Fridays and Saturdays

 

i Light Singapore is Asia’s leading sustainable light festival held in Marina Bay.

 

Installations

Glacier Dreams

Refik Anadol

Refik Anadol Studio (USA) and Julius Baer

Location: Façade of ArtScience Museum

Inspired by both the beauty and fragility of glaciers, Glacier Dreams is the result of a groundbreaking, long-term research project involving machine learning, environmental studies and multi-sensory media art.

 

Tree Man

ENESS (Australia)

Location: Event Square

Encircling a sapling in his arms, Tree Man provides sanctuary for a young tree while carving out an inner sanctum for visitors. The act of nurturing and connecting with our environment is emphasised in these whimsical light sculptures.

 

Blumiwave

DP Design (Singapore)

Location: Mist Walk

Blue energy is harnessed from the chemical potential of a salinity difference between the sea and river waters. Blumiwave is an interpretation of this renewable energy source.

 

Moooooootion

XD49 (Thailand)

Location: Bayfront Event Space

Moooooootion is an interactive stage set conceived as a playful counterpoint to the confinement brought about by lockdowns. At this installation, visitors are encouraged to bring colour and music to a grey world through movement.

 

Symphony 1

Chan Wan Kyn, Linknito, Linez

The Grand Lowlife Orchestra (Singapore | USA | Morocco)

Location: Mist Walk

Masses of twisting vine-like structures emit an icy glow to fill the space before sprouting into sprigs of crystalline flowers. The sprawl of its existence is a comment on nature and our relationship with it, contradicting yet also enhancing the brutal denseness of urban spaces it finds itself in.

 

 Block Party

Jeremy Lin, Jedy Chen, Dexter Hong

Plug & Play (Singapore)

Location: Entrance of Marina Bay Link Mall

Familiar public housing blocks in Singapore come to life as they react to movement prompts from visitors, taking on personalities of their own. As one bends and twists with the buildings, gardens bloom spontaneously over their facades.

 

the things left unsaid

Brigette Teo

Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media

Location: Breeze Shelter

the things left unsaid is a manifestation of the artist’s unspoken thoughts and feelings about growing up in a time of seemingly never-ending doom. Repeatedly confronted by news of a gloomy future and an impending climate catastrophe, the artwork acts as a refuge from despair. 

 

Light Anemones

Malte Kebbel

Studio Kebbel (Germany)

Location: The apex at The Promontory at Marina Bay

Light Anemones is a versatile light sculpture that evolves with time and space. It seeks to portray the captivating world beyond the water surface, where the mysteries of the deep sea and the wonders of underwater creatures come to life.

 

Résonances

Louis-Philippe Rondeau in collaboration with ELEKTRA. Distributed by Wireframe Public Art Agency. (Canada)

Location: Open Plaza, OUE Bayfront

Résonances is an interactive installation that embodies the inexorable passage of time. It seeks to reveal the limit between present and past.

 

Trumpet Flowers

Amigo & Amigo (Australia)

Location: Clifford Square

Inspired by gramophones, these super-sized flowers burst to life occasionally with a specially commissioned musical score by Otis Studio, accompanied by some of Sydney’s finest jazz musicians.

 

Aquatics

Philipp Artus (Germany)

Location: Under Esplanade Bridge (near Merlion Park)

Aquatics is an interactive animation depicting sea creatures swimming around and interacting with one another. It explores the emergence of life through abstract shapes and movement.

 

Bleached

Berenice Chao Zong Xin, Nicky Josephine Tjandra

Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media (Singapore)

Location: South Beach Avenue – Level B1M  (beside Akira Back)

Bleached connotes the fate of marine ecosystems affected by climate change and human activities.

 

Show III

Chen Jiawen, Lai Ling Ling

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore) and James Cook University (Singapore)

Location: South Beach Main Entrance (next to JW Marriott Singapore South Beach drop-off point)

Inspired by a belief that showers are perfect settings for self-contemplation, Show III is an invitation to unwind outdoors by soaking in its calming blue light, with the company of a composed soundscape and virtual water droplets.

 

Prism

Jun Ong (Malaysia)

Location: Millenia Walk (The Great Hall)

Prism is an immersive installation that harnesses both natural and artificial light to create an ever-changing interplay of colours and spatial perception. It is inspired by the power of pure forms – when combined with a purposeful use of light, such forms trigger a deeply emotional reaction.