Singapore Night Festival 2012

The yearly Singapore Night Festival has rolled around again. Camera toting hipsters with their "beggar" shoes, Bruno-Mars hairstyle and big plastic framed glasses thronged the streets.

I went on the last day of the festival. It was like a street party of arts. Festival goers could access museums and art galleries free of charge and the venues were open until 2am. Alleys between shop houses transformed itself into mini art booths where one could play with interactive exhibits. An Argentinean participant had an exhibit where a translucent 15m pool is suspended and it lowers itself to eye level. Dancers swim and frolic within as the exhibit tilts and moves around! A local artist knitted balls of yarn on the spot as she wound them between lamp posts and hydrants and right across the street where it could catch an unsuspecting person right across the throat or trip another over.

I was surprised there were no PETA picketing outside the live virtual fish tank projected against the SAM @ 8Q building. It was a video of goldfish swimming around before the tank before the water is slowly drained and the fish flopped around. Imagine the stress on those fish and since goldfish don't do really well with stress (they are spoilt fishes that could not take any changes in the environment), I wondered how many went up to the fishy heaven to join their cousins, the canned tuna.

At the same building facade, I bumped into Sauron's siblings and extended family!

Night Watch exhibit

In the SAM building we wondered around the rooms with lots of interactive exhibits like making shapes out of ordinary everyday things, drawing Walter the Rabbit and yelling into a microphone that projects decibels into images onto a screen.

If a shrink saw these photos, there may be cause for worry about the mental health of SG young. Torturing Walter in many ways covered the walls of 1 gallery. Even shafting a knife up the poor rabbit ass.

Mine

Reactive wall. During the calm vs kid yelling into the mike

L - boxes where one could leave messages. R- Grow A Garden in the Dark Exhibit - visitors are taught how to fold origami flowers and attach it onto a "vine" in the "garden"

Electricity (Neon) - I spent some time in front of this exhibit, drawing out little details like a fortune cat on top of a tower while the lit parts stood out like a 3D painting

Sinister but yet there is an element of maternal instinct

Buildings decided to get in on the fun too!

Top - Singapore Art Museum. L - National Museum of Singapore R - Peranakan Museum

I took a break on the National Museum lawn with my friends. Out came the sotong heads from the Old Chang Kee food van nearby and a hip flask filled with 15 year old Scotch single malt whiskey. Yum! Watching the images flicker across the building, with good food and company sure makes this night interesting.

I decided to make use of the free entrance and catch a glimpse of the Queen Victoria wedding dress exhibition at the National Museum. Wedding dresses from different eras were shown along side the local ones. Unfortunately there was too much glare off the glass where the star of the show was kept so I had to content myself with these.

Look at the corseted waist!

Wedding couture from the 1970's