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You wake up amnesiac, trapped inside a machine attached to probes, monitors and sensors. A civil servant named Tan tells you that you are freshly deceased. However, something called the Book of Red Shadows is keeping you from being brain dead for the equivalent of 10 days. You are now part of the government’s secret…

In a year of quarantines and social distancing, this year’s festival interrogates notions of community mindedness, loneliness, mental health, our need for physical and emotional human interaction and what intimacy could resemble in a time of pandemic and the lack of human contact. How has this scenario changed our understanding of our relationships with ourselves,…

Seen through the eyes of a child, Love is the Last Thing on my Mind is a collection of vignettes of everyday society. A child is obsessed by gardening while her father is obsessed with protecting her from the enveloping haze, an elderly home of neglected old folks confront their mortality, a couple in love gradually transit…

Days — and counting is an on-going portrait of COVID-19 that captures the surreal and strange times we live in through the lens of art and artists. The programme unfolds in three seasons each taking the form of an immersive digital experience that explores our new reality under the pandemic. The digital art walk takes…

A mysterious black box arrives at the doorstep of 12 artists from interdisciplinary backgrounds during this unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. When opened, the artists realized the box have the power to bend Space & Time. 4 groups of 3 Singaporean artists come together reaching through Space and Time to collaborate on 4 short…

Topography of Breath 2.0 is a virtual encounter with skin, flesh and breath, which takes from Toh’s ongoing exploration of the body in relation to productivity and exhaustion. This live stream performance looks through her own body as a medium for expressing ideas of breathlessness and its effects in current times. It is an experiment…

Bach wrote some of the most famous music in all human history – from the dazzling Brandenburg Concertos to the pinnacles of the Baroque suite. Our celebration of the Master of Baroque begins with the splendour of strings in his Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, followed by two of his magnificent Orchestral Suites, home to his universally beloved…

Examining gender roles and cultural custodianship in their respective disciplines, two practitioner-researchers attempt to resolve their ambivalent relationships with their dance forms. Soultari Amin Farid and Nirmala Seshadri revisit their personal histories with Malay dance and bharatanatyam. How have they failed their dance disciplines? How have these forms failed them? This double-bill features two hybrid performances that…

It’s time for Halloween at the museums! Inspired by the #CreepyObject challenge which was initiated by the Yorkshire Museum, the Museum Roundtable will be showcasing creepy looking museum objects in our members’ collections on our I Love Museums Facebook page. You can learn more about the creepy-looking artefacts and decide whether they simply appear scary…