Imagined as a transient arts space charged with multidisciplinary artistic expression and public engagement, the SIFA Pavilion lends a powerful new dimension to the Festival’s relationship with the shared public environ; the common space where our plural narratives co-exist. A colossal installation, titled Beneath Tide, Running Water, by visual artist Wang Ruobing doubles as a […]
Singapore’s pinnacle annual performing arts festival, Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA), returns from 16 May to 1 June 2025, guided by the overarching theme More Than Ever. Organised by Arts House Limited (AHL) and commissioned by the National Arts Council (NAC), SIFA 2025 celebrates Singapore’s unique cultural identity and the evolution of its artistic […]
A vandalised artwork. An enigmatic painter forced to create wartime propaganda. A desperate act of love. As Emma, an art conservation student restores a portrait of a Japanese woman, Mizuki, she finds herself transported deep into the heart of Syonan-to—Japanese-occupied Singapore. There, Emma stitches together the lives of Mizuki, the artist, Huang Wei and the […]
Man. Father. Fool. In this dark and claustrophobic world, Lear is the all-powerful patriarch, but he is also his own fool. Being a fool is one thing. Having power and being a fool is quite another. What happens when the power we hold is taken away? “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!” This […]
Experience a talking installation paying homage to the glorious plantations that lined Orchard Road. Witness a magnificent sailboat travelling across the Empress Lawn. Touch, feel and create as you go on a pilgrimage of memories through whimsical and playful interactive kinetic installations that take you on a journey through time and space. Many were once […]
On stage, a house appears from nothing. It goes up fast, choreographed like time-lapse photography. Residents move in, move out, get evicted, burn it down, loot it, rent it, remodel it, get married and divorced in it, grow up in it, die in it, haunt it. And all the while, they leave and live among […]
Work is a huge part of our lives, but it is often not thought and talked about in public. What does work mean to each of us? What are our dreams and worries about work now and in the future? Drawn from research and interviews with people from different walks of life, hello, is this […]
Vampyr is a mockumentary about stubborn shapeshifting creatures—half-dead, half- alive, half-animal, half-human, half-earth—that refuse to obey the mandate of the nature/culture divide. Living in unregulated wind turbine parks in Chile, these indeterminate beings exist sometimes as disoriented bats, and sometimes as exhausted night-shift workers. A piece about energy and exhaustion, work and rest, Vampyr is […]
