Exhibition Hours: 7–15 May • Mon–Fri, 6–9pm | Sat–Sun, 2–9pm

​OPEN PLAY reconfigures the boundaries of the stage, devising an integrated sensory experience through the fusion of light, sound, and code. Expanding the physicality and temporality of live performance, this exhibition features the sonic and visual worlds of three musicians–Hidemen, Houg, and goneMUNE–set within a reactive environment designed by Alina Ling and NONFORM.

​Opening Hours:

​7–15 May • Mon–Fri, 6–9pm | Sat–Sun, 2–9pm

​​About the artists

​Alina Ling is an interactive designer that creates interfaces, installations and experiences that explore new dimensions of sensory perception. Incorporating technology with different modalities, her multi-sensory works manipulate the physical and intangible to provide a deeper understanding of spatial constructs and perceptual experience. 

​​NONFORM is a collective of artists whose expertise spans music composition, sound design, multimedia art, and video production. Through the integration of diverse skills and mediums, they create dynamic works that resonate across multiple sensory dimensions.

​​Hidemen is a group of close friends from secondary school who came together through their shared passion for music and art. Comprising mattgnaw, lamin, Wira Munir, and Ra’uf Shibel, Hidemen’s collaborative process is exemplified by their album DRAGON, which draws inspiration from medieval fantasy role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. With a genre-crossing sound rooted in hip-hop, Hidemen’s music and performances showcase a complex yet unified narrative and the attainment of creative control through collective world-making.

​​Houg is a Singaporean artist-producer known for his chillwave and trip-hop soundscapes blending R&B, jazz and rock. His new album MILD NOURISHMENT is crafted entirely using the Roland JV-1080 synthesizer and inspired by the video game Spyro the Dragon. This album merges quirky, surreal tones with chill, vaporwave aesthetics to chronicle personal struggles within a zany virtual world, a vision further enhanced by Houg's exploration of PlayStation 1-style animation for the accompanying visuals, emphasising nostalgia and surrealism in his storytelling.

​goneMUNE (pronounced GONE-MOON) is a Singaporean dark experimental musician/artist known for evocative storytelling and genre-defying sound. Blending retro synthwave with futuristic edge, they produce, mix, and edit all their music and videos, incorporating movement into their performances. Their latest project, AVERDONIA, explores trauma, memory, and their new cyborg alter-ego of the same name. It is where mechanical chaos collides with resurfacing human memories - an internal battle between artist and cyborg that questions how we might reclaim ourselves and confront a world steeped in inequity.    

​​This exhibition is supported by the National Arts Council's Arts x Tech Lab initiative, with special thanks to BIG DUCK for curatorial support.