Video installations, lms and artworks at bus stops are among Singapore Art Week: 10 things to catch the must-sees this year. Toh Wen Li highlights 10 offerings 1 Bus.Stop.Art. SERANGOON ROAD 2 Rochor WHERE: Bus stops along route of station service 175, from Geylang Bahru SOMERSET ROAD to Gillman Barracks NORTH BRIDGE WHEN: Jan 21 to Feb 3, all day ROAD STAMFORD Bugis ADMISSION: Free ROAD station INFO: busstopart.com Esplanade Artworks by 10 Singapore-based artists have sprung up on the City Hall station advertisement panels of 18 bus stops along the service 175 route. Download a self-guided tour map from the website and go bus station Promenade stop-hopping. You might even run into some of the artists along the way. KIM SENG 4 station Every day at dawn or dusk, Madhvi Subrahmanian will create Kolam ROAD Clarke Quay drawings on the Gillman Barracks walkway using rice our. Artist Yen 1 station 3 Phang, whose work looks at urban camouage, will occasionally appear at Marina the bus stop near Block 111 Jalan Bukit Merah in a ghillie suit. SOUTH BRIDGE Reservoir ROAD CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY Singapore Raffles Place Gardens DEPOT ROAD Outram Park River station by the station Bay Bayfront Downtown CENTRAL BOULEVARDstation station ALEXANDRA 9 10 Tanjong Pagar 7 ROAD station 8 STRAITS 2 Artwalk Little India Labrador Telok BOULEVARD Blangah SHENTON WAY Enjoy performances, workshops and fresh murals in this Park largely virtual festival celebrating the heritage of Little India. station station 6 5 KEPPEL ROAD Highlights include a performance by dance company Jigri Yaar Bhangra; a Bollywood Zumba workshop; and storytelling by Kamini Ramachandran. WHERE: Facebook and Zoom, plus six new artworks that can be viewed in Little India WHEN: Jan 22 to Feb 6 ADMISSION: Free, except for Spiced Up Motifs 3 Light To Night workshop ($20) Light projections, installations and an escape game in the heart of the INFO: artwalklittleindia.sg/awli-2021 civic district are some of the highlights of this annual festival, which returns with the theme “____-in-Progress”. The interior of an SMRT train has also been decked out with murals by local contemporary artists. WHERE: National Gallery Singapore; Asian 4 Creative Unions (at Funan) Civilisations Museum; Check out artsy collaborations among The Arts House; Victoria Singapore artists and the tenants of Funan Theatre and Concert Hall; mall. Furniture retailer Grafunkt, for instance, Esplanade – Theatres on has commissioned seven artists, including the Bay; and online Ashley Yeo and Luke Heng, to create WHEN: Jan 22 to 31 one-of-a-kind homeware items. Fashion label ADMISSION: Various Minor Miracles, meanwhile, collaborated with entrance fees apply multidisciplinary project Objects of Mass INFO: www.lighttonight.sg Distraction on a line of stone wearables including earrings and necklaces. WHERE: Funan, 107 North Bridge Road WHEN: Jan 22 to Feb 21 5 CosmicWander: Expedition ADMISSION: Free The centrepiece of artist Choy Ka INFO: www.artweek.sg/events/creative-unions Fai’s exhibition – born out of his travels and research into Asian WHERE: 01-02 to 04 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 39 Keppel Road; Singapore Art Museum’s shamanistic cultures – is a Facebook and YouTube channels six-channel video installation featuring dance rituals from places WHEN: Till Feb 21, noon to 9pm daily (till 5pm on such as Siberia and Indonesia. Jan 22). A lecture and panel discussion will be 8 Moo Moo Park streamed online on Jan 22, 7pm, and Jan 30, Another highlight is a “getai of virtual Hop into an electric car at the carpark gods”, a multi-channel installation in 7pm respectively ADMISSION: Free of the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre which a ctional band of spiritual and go on an audio-guided tour through beings dance to hit songs. INFO: str.sg/JzWj ox sculptures decked out with art by local artists such as Andre Wee, Antz and Danielle Tay. These works can be viewed on foot too. An exhibition space near the carpark will feature 6 S.E.A. Focus 7 State Of Motion 2021: [Alternate/opt] Realities murals that spring to life with augmented reality technology. This year’s showcase of art from The futuristic Marina One building plays host to the latest edition of the Asian local and regional galleries will WHERE: 01-05 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Film Archive’s multidisciplinary series. This year’s event explores the do away with the usual art-fair 39 Keppel Road; and online science-ction genre and has more than 10 video works and installations by layout of gallery booths. Instead, Singapore and mostly South-east Asian artists in the building’s unused retail WHEN: Jan 22 to 31 (S.E.A. Focus curated). there will be a curated show of S.E.A. Focus Digital is already online units and the sky garden and basement areas. A selection of South-east Asian physical works – titled sci- lms will also be screened at Marina One and Oldham Theatre. hyper-horizon – as well as ADMISSION: $10 at an online platform, virtual talks sistic.com.sg/events/sea0121 and studio tours. INFO: seafocus.sg WHERE: Marina One, 7 Straits View; Oldham Theatre, 1 Canning Rise WHEN: Till Feb 21, noon to 8pm daily (except public holidays) – (exhibition in Marina One); various timings (lm programme) ADMISSION: Free (exhibition); $10 (single lm ticket) INFO: stateofmotion.sg WHERE: Level 6 carpark, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, 1 Straits Boulevard WHEN: Jan 22 to March 28 ADMISSION: $10 (drive-through), $5 (walk-through) INFO: singaporeccc.org.sg 9 Inner Like The OutAR 10 Singapore Ceramics Now This group show features contemporary ceramic works by about 20 Singapore-based artists – such as Jason Lim, Steven Low and Ahmad Abu Bakar – as well as other events such as a ring demonstration of raku, a type of traditional Japanese pottery; experimental sound performances involving the use of ceramics; and panel discussions. WHERE: Gillman Barracks, 01-13, Block 7 Lock Road WHEN: Till Feb 13 ADMISSION: Free with registration at str.sg/JzmX INFO: sgceramicsnow.com This audio-visual art experience combines augmented reality, set installation and sound design to explore people’s relationship with nature. Visitors will be immersed in environments built by Reza Hasni and Siah Tiong Hong, with set design by Tina Fung of Space Objekt studio, and sound design by Intriguant. WHERE: Gillman Barracks, 01-33, Block 22 Lock Road WHEN: Till Jan 31, 5 to 11pm daily ADMISSION: Free. Sign up for artist-led tours at linktr.ee/INNEROUTAR INFO: mamamagnet.org/Inner-Like-The-OutAR PHOTOS: CHOY KA FAI, THE NEXT MOST FAMOUS ARTIST, MADHVI SUBRAHMANIAN, S.E.A. FOCUS, SINGAPORE, BHAJJU SHYAM & SAM LO, MAMA MAGNET, JIGRI YAAR BHANGRA, SINGAPORE CERAMICS NOW 2021, NEIGHBORHOOD, NGUYEN PHUONG LINH, GIN TAY, ARIFFIN JAMAR STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS: HYRIE RAHMAT.