Culture | Smart City: Tracing Latencies

Tracing Latencies is a hybrid group exhibition of the Culture | Smart City project, held from 3 March to 3 April 2022 at 136 GOETHE LAB. It is part of the Culture | Smart City project, a multidisciplinary collaborative initiative by EUNIC Cluster Singapore, under the guidance of Goethe-Institut Singapore.

This mixed-media, multi-sensory exhibition presents 8 art installations from artists and creative practitioners across Southeast Asia, to radically (re)imagine the conditional ways we relate to our increasingly digitized urban environments and each other. It traces and unfolds the cloaked systems, illegible structures and dislocated anxieties that constitute the constructed environment and crowds of algorithms that surround and engulf us. Entangling a mixed array of multivarious processes and voices across the tactile and digital realms, the audience is invited to walk/click through, pause and embrace the peripheral and the unexpected as central to the future of urban cultural transformation.

Presented at a trepidatious time, artmaking and the poetic role of creative play in the everyday are celebrated as sites of learning, resistance and hope in transitional times of precarious flux.