About this Event
Hear how physical installations and metaverse environments intersect to challenge form, authorship, and responsibility in a rapidly changing world.
AfterForms: Metaverse amid Climate Grief & Memory examines how form disintegrates under the pressures of environmental collapse and digital acceleration. The exhibition understands form not as a finished state, but as something eroding, unstable, and continually reconstituted through memory, grief, migration, and technological desire.
Cultural Medallion recipient Han Sai Por’s Land Erosion presents a hybrid exhibition; a physical installation with corresponding metaverse environment. The work exposes ecological loss as both material reality and psychic condition. The forest’s disappearance becomes an index of human vulnerability, rendering climate grief spatial, tactile, and inescapable.
In Debbie Ding’s Drift Alley, the metaverse becomes a cybernetic underbelly inspired by Little India’s misaligned streets. Here, precarious digital labourers, side-hustlers, and NPCs occupy glitchy shophouse back lanes, revealing the informal economies and identities that haunt future virtual cities.
Spang & Lei’s The Wound is Bigger than Your Handyplast stages a virtual rainforest unable to heal, where breath alters the ecosystem and memory accumulates as debris. Climate grief becomes gameplay, implicating every participant in the wound.
LiteWerkz’s Memory Factory turns recollection into architecture, where diasporic homes, misremembered sites, and speculative artefacts reveal memory as a mutable digital terrain rather than a record of truth.
AfterForms, one of four projects selected for National Arts Council’s Arts in Virtual Spaces: Project Arts Metaverse under Our SG Arts Plan (2023 to 2027), positions the metaverse not as escape, but as a site where loss endures, and new forms of responsibility take shape.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Arts House, Blue Room, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore, Singapore
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