SPECIAL EVENT

ArtScience Encounters

Presented in collaboration with artists and creatives, ArtScience Encounters is an invitation to discover curious spaces hidden within ArtScience Museum’s unique architecture.

Take time to explore and experience these compelling artworks, intriguing happenings and sensorial experiences spanning various genres and mediums. Spaces are refreshed periodically with new works.

Into Still Life by Shaman Tearoom

29 Nov (Fri), 7pm
30 Nov (Sat), 2pm & 7pm
ArtScience Cinema, Level 4
Ticketed admission: S$10

Multidisciplinary art collective Shaman Tearoom (led by artist Aiwei Foo and self-taught sound artist and experimental musician Kent Lee) delves into the state of stillness amidst the flux of change with Into Still Life. Seeking meaning in the quiet, everyday moments and objects that often go unnoticed, the performance serves as a reminder of mindful practice in daily life and culminates in a simple tea ceremony that gently underscores the themes of reflection and balance.

Presented as part of ArtScience Encounters: m—a, a micro season of performances inviting an emptying, grounding and centring of oneself.

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the centre trembles by XUE

7 Dec (Sat), 10am – 9pm
Oculus, Basement 2
Free admission

the centre trembles is a durational performance by butoh artist XUE sited within ArtScience Museum’s Oculus, the hollow core of the building’s architecture. This 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.

Presented as part of ArtScience Encounters: m—a, a micro season of performances inviting an emptying, grounding and centring of oneself.

ArtScience Encounters with Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen

A Lotus Turns To Light

From 12 Apr

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.

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Past Programmes

yeule's Oculus Mixtape

1 – 30 Sep

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

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Searching Blue

16, 17, 23, 24 Aug

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.

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Three Views Of The Lotus

12 Jul (Fri)

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 sound installation in ArtScience Museum’s Oculus, A Lotus Turns To Light.

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Ceaseless Benevolence In The Eye Of The Cascade

31 Mar 2023 – 11 Apr 2024

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.

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ArtScience Encounters Live with Kin Leonn

1 Jul 2023

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

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