Climate: S.O.S – Season of Sustainability

From 7 Nov – 19 Dec

"Skyscraper" (The Bruges Whale) is an 11-meters tall sculpture made from recycled ocean plastic, designed by award-winning architects and designers Jason Klimoski and Lesley Chang from the acclaimed StudioKCA in New York.

The plastic waste used in the sculpture – ranging from hangers and kitchen bowls to toilet seats and car bumpers – was amongst 5 tons of waste pulled from the Pacific Ocean in 2018. Shaped into the iconic Skyscraper, it is now serving as a stark visual reminder of the 150 million tons of plastic polluting our waters. With an estimated 8 million tons added every year, pound for pound, there is more plastic waste in the ocean than there are whales.

Skyscraper is a part of the Climate: S.O.S Season of Sustainability at ArtScience Museum. The installation was originally positioned in the Jan Van Eyck Plein canal during the 2018 Bruges Triennial and has been brought to Singapore by Ocean Recovery Alliance as the first stop of its Asia Pacific tour.

From 1 October, join the global movement to beat plastic pollution by snapping and sharing with your friends a photo or video using a new augmented reality experience by MeshMinds and André Wee, powered by Spark AR Studio. Let's all pledge to create #CleanSeas for future generations.

        
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From 5 Oct – 3 Nov | Free admission

Changing Course 2019 is a climate change initiative and exhibition developed by Singapore-based media company Eco-Business in collaboration with ArtScienceMuseum. The multimedia exhibition features a gallery of photographic prints by a team of award-winning journalists and a VR experience on the global climate crisis. It also presents the global premiere of Arctic Awakening, a new short film documentary, shot on location in the Arctic and Singapore.

This initiative raises awareness of the need to urgently respond to our climate crisis and inspires action to address it. It explores humanity’s relationship with our planet, outlines the challenges in our current global patterns of consumption and production, and provokes answers to this one central question: How can we change the course of humanity? 

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4 – 6 September, 14 –16 September

33 mins

Becoming Visible is an investigative documentary focusing on the 2016 offshore oil and gas seismic survey off the South African coast. The film investigates how irregular deep-water mammal strandings might have been caused by noise-pollution during this activities, and asks us to consider the multilayered impact we have on the natural world. 

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7 – 12 September
48 mins

Jago: A Life Underwater is a multi-award winning documentary film, which tells the story of an 80-year old sea nomad called Rohani from his bamboo hut in the Sulawesi Seas. The story is told entirely from Rohani’s perspective, set against the spectacular backdrop of the Togian Islands where he grew up, and recreates events that capture the extraordinary turning points in his life, as a hunter and as a man. 

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17 September, 21 – 24 September
102 mins

A Plastic Ocean explores the fragile state of our oceans and uncovers alarming truths about the consequences of our disposable lifestyle. The film highlights workable technologies and innovative solutions that everyone -from governments to individuals -can do, to create a cleaner and greener ocean.

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25-28 September
89 mins

Ghost Fleet is a hard-hitting documentary that exposes one of the darkest secrets of the sea: the often inhumane conditions that fishermen live under as they work to feed the world’s insatiable appetite for seafood.

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Saturday - Sunday | 5-6, 19-20 and 26-27 Oct | 11am-12pm
Venue: Rainbow Room, Basement 2

Join us in an interactive workshop facilitated by local creative technology studio, MeshMinds, and taught on iPad. Using the Everyone Can Create curriculum from Apple, you will explore photography, drawing, video and music to express your ideas. Transform your creations from 2D to 3D, using AR Makr for iPad - a creative toolbox for augmented reality - and place them in the real world before sharing with your friends to spread the global movement to beat plastic pollution and create clean seas for future generations.

*Free admission, on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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'Til The End of The World, We'll Meet In No Man's Land

17 October 2019 | 7.30pm & 9pm
Level 4, Expression Gallery 

Helming the October edition of ArtScience Late, iNCH presents a binaural musical radio play that is intimately based in the personal experience and reflections of her expedition to Antarctica as part of 2041’s International Antarctic ClimateForce Expedition. 'Til The End Of The World, We'll Meet In No Man's Land was first commissioned by TheatreWorks (Singapore) and premiered in April 2019 at 72-13, Singapore.

This ArtScience Late performance is programmed as part of Climate S.O.S, a season of programmes focusing on the impact of climate change on our oceanic environments.  

*Admission is free on a first-come-first-served basis, limited to capacity. No intermission.

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