i Light Singapore 2023: A New Wave – Sustainable light festival at Marina Bay

By Dejiki on May 31, 2023 in Art+Culture

Discover i Light Singapore 2023‘s new light installations at Marina Bay, including the Lightwave: Turning the Tide ticketed experience.

About i Light Singapore 2023

1 – 25 June 2023
7:30PM to 11:00PM daily (extended to 12:00AM on Fridays and Saturdays)

Themed ‘A New Wave’, i Light Singapore illuminates the Marina Bay area with blue – the thematic colour for the 2023 edition of the light festival. Similar to last year’s i Light Singapore, there is a ticketed experience, and also the lifestyle festival GastroBeats happening at the Marina Bay Bayfront Event Space.

Expect weekends to be more crowded as the festival coincides with the June school holidays and travel season. Event hours are extended on Fridays and Saturdays.

i Light Singapore 2023 Highlights Video

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Lightwave: Turning the Tide – presented by Alibaba Cloud

The ticketed Lightwave experience returns for i Light Singapore 2023, this time taking place at The Promontory. Featuring three multi-sensory light experiences, this year’s Lightwave offers a variety of underwater environments for your Instagram and Tiktok videos.

While it was envisioned to bring across an important message on protecting our oceans, as an installation… it didn’t feel as exciting or interesting as the Lightwave Isle in 2022, which had much nicer lighting effects.

Nonetheless, it still offers some interesting spaces for photos, and a feel-good pledge activity in the final area.

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i Light Singapore 2023 – Light Installations

This year’s sustainable light festival features 14 installations around Marina Bay, with South Beach and Millenia Walk participating in the event for the first time. It can take about 2 hours to leisurely walk around and explore the light installations.

Let’s start from Millenia Walk – a new location for i Light Singapore. Over at ‘The Great Hall’ of Millenia – you can see the massive Prism (Jun Ong), which feature colourful geometric spokes that seem to mirror the grand atrium intersection of the mall where this piece is sited.

Continue your journey towards the Helix Bridge to see the largest installation this year: Glacier Dreams (Refik Anadol), projection-mapped onto the facade of the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands.

The work is created with visual materials and data processed through machine-learning algorithms.

Walk over to the Event Square at the other end of Marina Bay Sands to find the Tree Man (ENESS).

Blumiwave (DP Design) at the Mist Walk.

Gastrobeats is also back, and it’s free admission this year. Step inside to see Moooooootion (XD49), an interactive installation where you can see yourself being part of the artwork by interacting with the cameras facing the stage.

You can find Symphony 1 (The Grand Lowlife Orchestra) hanging off the other side of the Mist Walk.

See housing blocks twist and swerve – as you dance – at the interactive Block Party (Plug & Play) projected on a wall at the Marina Bay Link Mall entrance.

The Things Left Unsaid (Brigette Teo) – feelings and thoughts that float with the wind at the Breeze Shelter.

Walk around the ethereal Light Anemones (Studio Kebbel) near the Lightwave tent at The Promontory.

Over at Résonances (Louis-Philippe Rondeau and ELEKTRA), you can experience ephemeral art as you momentarily flash and fade at this interactive installation at OUE Bayfront’s Open Plaza.

A symphony (or cacophony) of sounds and light awaits you in the garden of Trumpet Flowers (Amigo & Amigo) at Clifford Square .

Draw your own marine creature and see them come alive in Aquatics (Philipp Artus) under the Esplanade Bridge near Merlion Park.

Over at South Beach Avenue, you can find Bleached (Berenice Chao Zong Xin, Nicky Josephine Tjandra) – a seabed with glowing bioplastics.

And just a short walk away, Show III (Chen Jiawen, Lai Ling Ling) offers a dry-for-wet experience of rumination under virtual showers.