Just when you think you ve checked off all the boxes on your list to rediscover Singapore, the city is peppered with an exciting line-up of exhibitions and events to pique your fancy this month. From a fine jewellery-themed afternoon tea sessions for midweek wind downs to an immersive art experience at the Gardens By The Bay by renowned American artist Dale Chihuly, there s more than meets the eye in May s calendar.
We round up the top events below.
(Image: Charles Lim Yi Yong and STPI Creative Workshop and Gallery)
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Wikicliki: Collecting Habits on an Earth Filled with Smartphones
What Featuring six artist-curator pairs, including Heman Chong with Selene Yap, and Debbie Ding with Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, this new exhibition by the Singapore Art Museum explores the ways of collecting contemporary art in the digital age even more so with the array of images and data that increasingly govern our everyday lives.
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Urban infrastructures provide comfort to inhabitants and mitigate the risks of disasters such as flooding. Underground systems specifically conceal urban infrastructures from public view and are configured as real mazes under the streets. The distribution of drinking water, urban drainage, sewage, and even electrical wiring and fiber optics in some cases, pass under our feet without us noticing. To this end, the industry developed precast concrete parts for about 100 years that provided construction speed, adequate resistance to force, and durability against time. Concrete pipes with circular sections, in many diverse diameters, are perhaps the most used conduits and are ubiquitous around the world. But there are also those who use these apparently functional elements in creative architectural contexts as well.
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Urban infrastructures provide comfort to inhabitants and mitigate the risks of disasters such as flooding. Underground systems specifically conceal urban infrastructures from public view and are configured as real mazes under the streets. The distribution of drinking water, urban drainage, sewage, and even electrical wiring and fiber optics in some cases, pass under our feet without us noticing. To this end, the industry developed precast concrete parts for about 100 years that provided construction speed, adequate resistance to force, and durability against time. Concrete pipes with circular sections, in many diverse diameters, are perhaps the most used conduits and are ubiquitous around the world. But there are also those who use these apparently functional elements in creative architectural contexts as well.