With nothing better planned on a saturday rainy evening, i made plans to meet david to check out the National Museum at night. How often do they block the roads in orchard so you can admire the museum from a distance in the night right?
One of the last albums taken with my Samsung NV3. :)
From across the road, struggling a little in the rain...
*~ Singapore National Museum ~*
Performance:
The Loop of Fortune
By Action Theatre PAN.OPTIKUM (Germany)
Making its premiere in Singapore, The Loop of Fortune weaves the audience and the surrounding architecture into the plot of the performance, and uses associative images to tell the story of a man’s happiness and destiny.
Starting from Singapore Management University’s Campus Green, the performance shifts across the street to a large-scale finale in front of the National Museum of Singapore. The Loop of Fortune unfolds through acrobatics, acting, live vocals and seamlessly interwoven firework displays. The audience accompanies the protagonist through various stages of his life, different emotional states – the joyful and naïve feelings of happiness alternate with overconfidence and fear – and finally, the dawn of the awareness that it is neither necessary nor possible to oppose one’s destiny.
After the performance, we went to check out the exhibitions inside the museum, free entrance yah? ;)
*~ Exhibit: The Crystal City ~*
By Donna Ong (Singapore)
Crystal Glasses
Approx. H 0.7m x W 0.7m x L 21m
The skyline of a glass city stretches horizontally into the distance as clear turrets of glass rise vertically. Amber lights shine through their faceted surfaces, creating amorphous patterns that shift and change as the lights dim and brighten. This illusion of a glass city is created using ordinary everyday objects as crystal bottles, jars, cups, bowls and decanters.
Taking a walk into the
Singapore History Gallery..
*~ Fascinated by an old singapore stone ~*
*~ Fascinated by the 1st Map of Singapore ~*
*~ Exhibit: The Tree ~*
By FARM (Singapore)
Steel, Timber, LED light tubes, Microphones
Approx. H 7m x D 10m
The Banyan Tree right next to the National Museum of Singapore is a grand old dame in its own right. It sits majestically on the Museum’s front lawn, seemingly holding fort to a place full of histories, stories and magic.
A contemporary reinterpretation of the Banyan Tree, The Tree is a reconstruction of a series of interlocking frames with lights that pulsate gently in the night. Hanging microphones simulating that of aerial roots will also detect environmental sounds and alter the lighting nature of The Tree – glowing intensely and dimming down with the rising and falling sound levels.
*~ Exhibit: The Beginning ~*
By Sun Yu-li (Singapore)
Stainless steel tube with LED linear light
Approx. H 2.1m x W 2.1m x L 5.8m
The Beginning is a stainless steel sculpture with LED lights; the spiral form of which resembles a massive DNA model glowing in the night. Sun Yu-li adopts the approach ‘sculpture as a place’, in which the work incites the viewer to move or explore within its space.
At the end, i still realised i'm not really impressed by the art.. hmm.. nevertheless fireworks still does its magic~ :D
