The holidays are here and I was at the Singapore Art Museum for the Night Festival. This year, it's called Voyage Night Festival 2011, and quite a number of exhibitions/installations play around with lights (also because that's a theme)!
One of the them includes 'Passage Illuminations', where the whole building is lighted up with different colours at an interval of 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, another colour will be lighted up as well, so the overall feel would be a kaleidoscopic display of light and shadows.
Another installation known as 'Le Parking en foile' (Parking Mad), makes use of Volvo cars parked in front of the Singapore Art Museum (SAM). The cars flash lights from their windows at different timings and it almost seems as though they're conversing with each other!
Other interesting ones like 'The Cloud' and 'Curiosities' also added to the beautiful lightings and colours in the night.
An interesting exhibit I made into a .gif:
Besides all the lighting fun, there was a huge installation, and I mean HUGE because of the space it took up. It's called 'A Dozen of Those'. It basically has 12 large, red helium balloons, each held by a faceless brown figure (which immediately reminds me of Domo-kun) sitting on a brown boulder. When you enter the Museum, you get greeted by this sight and it's just simply astounding(in a nice way of course).
Last but not least, one of the most memorable thing I took away from the Night Festival is this mini kopitiam. Daniella Beltrani's 'The In-between Food Court', was quite the hit because it was the only place (or so I know) that sold food (exclude the shopping malls because they're not part of Night Festival and they don't open past 12am).
They served simple local delicacies like Satay to Mee Rebus and Kueh Lapis. And what better drink to accompany these than our favourite Bandung?
I had a little talk with her and got to know that the reason why she suggested this idea to the artistic director of Substation, was because she just wanted somewhere where people can eat. Because when people eat, they relax.
She was better known as the "ang moh waitress" that night basically, this stand alone project she made was just this opportunity for her to interact and chit chat with her customers. If you think that's all, you're wrong.
Ms. "Super!" (her favourite catch phrase) also took instaxes of her customers, wrote their names on it, and then stuck them onto herself.
"It's a way of remembering them, really. Once this is over, I'll put all the pictures together and give it to the Substation. I feel that interacting with people is really important to people because these encounters we make, happen in everyday life as well," said the 'Walking Memory Bank', a title a customer had given her.
So that's what I did for the holidays so far. Tell us about the crazy things you did during your holidays!
