Singapore

Titled The Odyssey, a new projection-mapping work on seven building surfaces in the Civic District that was created by a team of artists, illustrators and multimedia designers will transport audiences around the cosmic universe.

Musty locker rooms and summertime citrus are invoked in internationally renowned scent researcher and artist Sissel Tolaas's composite mapping of the unique smell ID of Singapore's youth in eau d'you Who Am I.

French Tal Isaac Hadad explores the pleasurable tingling of ASMR with a sound-oriented video installation Listening Bodies.

Heavy breathing and slow caressing gestures turn 'touch without touching' into a surprisingly sensual experience.

Singers and masseurs work together to produce a spontaneous a capella arrangement to redefine the relationship between body and voice in Recital for Maasseur.

The Regency Made Me Blind by Gary Carsley and Jeremy Chu transforms the fourth level of the City Hall stairway into an immersive enclosed garden that references five botanical gardens in Southeast Asia.

Design collective Mash-Up reimagines the wreck of the Fame, the ship Sir Stamford Raffles hired in 1824 to travel back to London from Southeast Asia. Spot cultural references from across the region including Hindu deity Lord Shiva.

OH! Time Capsule's light projections come alive with tropical flora and fauna to explore Raffles's interest in natural history.

Tell Your Children interprets Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with colourful visual dioramas.

Sebastian Chun's Sticks takes inspiration from the "pick-up sticks" game and bakau piling, a technique used to construct scaffolding.

Leave your mark on this iridescent tunnel by students from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.

Five trees, five songs and five stories wait to be discovered in site-specific audio and environmental installation Under the Five Trees.

Titled The Odyssey, a new projection-mapping work on seven building surfaces in the Civic District that was created by a team of artists, illustrators and multimedia designers will transport audiences around the cosmic universe.

Musty locker rooms and summertime citrus are invoked in internationally renowned scent researcher and artist Sissel Tolaas's composite mapping of the unique smell ID of Singapore's youth in eau d'you Who Am I.

French Tal Isaac Hadad explores the pleasurable tingling of ASMR with a sound-oriented video installation Listening Bodies.

Heavy breathing and slow caressing gestures turn 'touch without touching' into a surprisingly sensual experience.

Singers and masseurs work together to produce a spontaneous a capella arrangement to redefine the relationship between body and voice in Recital for Maasseur.

The Regency Made Me Blind by Gary Carsley and Jeremy Chu transforms the fourth level of the City Hall stairway into an immersive enclosed garden that references five botanical gardens in Southeast Asia.

Design collective Mash-Up reimagines the wreck of the Fame, the ship Sir Stamford Raffles hired in 1824 to travel back to London from Southeast Asia. Spot cultural references from across the region including Hindu deity Lord Shiva.

OH! Time Capsule's light projections come alive with tropical flora and fauna to explore Raffles's interest in natural history.

Tell Your Children interprets Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with colourful visual dioramas.

Sebastian Chun's Sticks takes inspiration from the "pick-up sticks" game and bakau piling, a technique used to construct scaffolding.

Leave your mark on this iridescent tunnel by students from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.

Five trees, five songs and five stories wait to be discovered in site-specific audio and environmental installation Under the Five Trees.

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Light to Night Festival 2019: Preview all the Instagrammable installations to see, touch and even smell

Sensory overload

Text: Aravin Sandran

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Image: Hazirah Rahim

The Light to Night Festival returns with a bumper edition across an extended six weeks in a two-part special — headlining Singapore Art Week 2019 from 18 to 27 January then commemorating Singapore Bicentennial from 28 January to 24 February. The loaded schedule is packed with close to 50 programmes including a brand-new commissioned series of sensorial encounters, site-specific environmental installations dotted around the Civic District, an in-the-dark performance by the Singapore National Youth Orchestra alongside entertainment courtesy of comedians Kumar and Hirzi as well as musical acts The Sam Willows and Charlie Lim. We trekked the vicinity to bring you the best of the best in the gallery above so you'll get that perfect IG moment with your contour and highlight still looking fresh and poppin'.

Light to Night Festival's Singapore Art Week edition runs from 18 to 27 January 2019, and the Singapore Bicentennial edition from 28 January to 24 February 2019.