tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2024-04-09T20:03:46+08:00 Peatix Singapore Art Museum tag:peatix.com,2024:event-3858816 2024-03-08T16:00:00SGT 2024-03-08T16:00:00SGT

Final Transmissions from the Wayang Spaceship  Fri–Sun, 8–10 Mar | Various timings | Empress Lawn | Free Commune with Ming Wong’s Wayang Spaceship before its final send-off. This large-scale, futuristic and theatrical installation, which explores the migration and movement of people, goods and ideas through time and space, has appeared and disappeared in different sites for nearly two years. In its final weekend, we invite you to join us in experiencing the Wayang Spaceship once more.   1. Barter Chatter  Fri–Sat, 8–9 Mar | 4–10pm Sun 10 Mar | 2–8pm Do you have fond memories of street opera performances? Or do you have a favourite science-fiction film, novel or series? Visit our pop-up booth Barter Chatter and share your memories, stories and dreams in exchange for a piece of the Wayang Spaceship. Each piece is thoughtfully assembled by artist-collaborators of the public art commission.   Submit your response to one of the three simple questions at the booth to bring home limited-edition prints, illustrations, cartographs and sonic excerpts inspired by the Wayang Spaceship and its transmissions. Bring your picnic essentials and bask at the Empress Lawn with us! Local, nostalgic snacks will be provided at the booth, along with DIY activities to be enjoyed by everyone.  2. Send-offs (Performance activations) Fri–Sat, 8–9 Mar | 7.30–8.30pm Every day at dusk, the Wayang Spaceship resumes its role as a travelling Chinese theatre, illuminating the past, present and future with an operatic symphony of light, sound and image. Relish in two evenings of incantation, music, light and electric dreams as Chew Shaw En and Wu Junhan (8 Mar), as well as Andy Lim, Rosemainy Buang and Wu Junhan (9 Mar) send off the metaphorical spaceship with live performances. This programme is part of Wayang Spaceship, commissioned by The Everyday Museum with the support of Sun Venture. About the Wayang Spaceship A Wayang Spaceship has landed on our shores. Alongside the industrial, technological and ecological crises that have taken place throughout time, it also stands witness to our place in the cosmos. During the day, the Wayang Spaceship is seemingly dormant, its reflective surfaces mirroring the bustling traffic around the container seaport. Its own inactivity is interrupted by the occasional stray radio transmission relayed from another dimension. At dusk, the Wayang Spaceship reclaims its former role as a travelling Chinese theatre, illuminating the past, present and future with an operatic symphony of light, sound and image, as though it is livestreamed from the memory of a scholar-warrior, a time travelling consciousness who moves freely between the past, present, and future. Each day, after the Singapore Art Museum closes, the Wayang Spaceship activates with light, sound and film, allowing the public to commune with this solitary figure of Chinese opera.The Wayang Spaceship will evolve over a two-year period featuring a range of performances and access programmes. It is commissioned by The Everyday Museum, a public art initiative by Singapore Art Museum, and made possible with the generous support of Sun Venture.Wayang Spaceship at Empress Lawn is co-presented by Light to Night Singapore.