Altered States: Experiments in Moving Image

ArtScience Museum’s one-month-long show Altered States: Experiments in Moving Image redefines the art of filmmaking through experimental techniques and large-scale installations. This exhibition showcases the innovative works of local and international artists who push the boundaries of analogue film using everyday materials, cameraless photography, and ecological processes. Highlights include Liquid Solid by Nicky Assmann and Joris Strijbos, where freezing soap transforms into mesmerizing fractal patterns, and Fallen Candles – Triplet by Youki Hirakawa, a poignant meditation on time and renewal inspired by the Fukushima disaster. Other works, like Revenants: Optographic Animation by Sapphire Goss, explore surreal landscapes created from 80-year-old film stock, while Toh Hun Ping’s Dance of a Humble Atheist combines hand-sculpted ceramics with stop-motion animation to examine life and death.