Light To Night
The marquee Singapore Art Week event illuminates the Civic District again this year with the theme of ____-in-Progress, in a nod to the uncertainty of these pandemic times.
Installations look at both timelessness and new perspectives - from Nathan Yong's ouroboros-like work There In The Middleness on the Padang to Ways Of Seeing by Zarch Collaboratives, a giant telescope structure on the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) Green.
Joanne Ho and W.Y. Huang's (Re)rooting (above), a multimedia work designed using machine learning frameworks, covers the National Gallery Singapore facade. Inside the museum, paintings from the National Collection come alive through an augmented-reality app.
The festival also features performances both onsite and online, such as chamber music series VCHPresents, with the likes of quartet La Vie en Harp and South-east Asian music groups Orkestra Sri Temasek and Sari-Sari Philippine Kulintang Ensemble.
Where: National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew's Road; Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Place; The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Lane; Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall, 9 Empress Place; Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, 1 Esplanade Drive
MRT: City Hall/ Raffles Place/ Esplanade
When: Friday (Jan 22) to Jan 31, various timings
Admission: Various entrance fees apply
Info: National Gallery's website
Wan Belantara: Enjet-Enjet Semut
In this Malay-language play, the title of which translates to King Of The Jungle: As The Ants Go Marching In, an army of ants embarks on a journey to send gifts and tributes to its new king, whose landmark election the ants believe they are responsible for because of their large numbers.
The M1 Singapore Fringe Festival commission, written by Anwar Hadi Ramli and directed by Saiful Amri, draws on Farid ud-Din Attar's classic Persian poem The Conference Of The Birds. It also weaves in fables and stories from Malay literature, such as the tale of the warriors Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat.
In-venue tickets at the Esplanade Theatre Studio have sold out, butthe production is available via video-on-demand.
Where: Sistic Live
When: Next Friday (Jan 29) to Feb 4
Admission: $15 via Sistic (call 6348-5555 or go to Sistic's website)
Info: In Malay with English surtitles. Go to this website.
Xity
In this contemporary work, Raw Moves dancer Matthew Goh investigates the relationship between the city and its inhabitants.
Xity also kicks off the nationwide Got To Move dance movement, which runs digitally in its sixth edition from this month to March.
The work uses augmented reality (AR) to present "audio geometry", a 2D animation that consists of geometric shapes responding to the rhythm of a soundscape.
Where: Goodman Arts Centre, Block O, Multi-Purpose Studios Studio 1 and 2, Block O Goodman Arts Centre, 90 Goodman Road
MRT: Mountbatten
When: Jan 31, 3pm (live)
Admission: $20, $18 (concession) from xity.peatix.com. The AR app is available for free here.
Info: Raw Moves' website
