Singapore 2010

Map of lightworks at iLight Marina Bay 2010 (URA).

Promoted as ‘Asia’s first and only sustainable light art festival’, iLight Marina Bay was developed by Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), to attract crowds and international attention to the nation’s major new waterfront development precinct.

The URA commissioned Mary-Anne Kyriakou, with key members of the Smart Light Sydney 2009 team (including Sharon Thomas, Davina Jackson and Anthony Bastic), to work with local curators Kelley Cheng and Randy Chan and logistics experts Agility (Kwa Eng Kiat) to create the first event, held 15 October–7 November 2010.

Themed People, Place and Time, the inaugural iLight Marina Bay provided more than 433,000 visitors with a ‘smart light walk’ exhibiting 24 luminous installations from Singapore, Asian and international artists, including some works created for the Smart Light Sydney festival in 2009.

The key sustainability policy was the ‘Switch Off, Turn Up’ campaign, where owners of 16 major commercial buildings agreed to reduce their electricity consumption from lighting and air-conditioning, allowing the organizers to offset estimated consumption by the festival artworks, producing a total estimated power saving of 41,000 kWh during the entire festival.

ARTWORKS

Additive Reflection 1, 2, 3 Jeppe Aagaard Andersen

All of Us Zymryte Hoxhaj

A Blue Mirage in the City of Light WY-TO Architects

A Living! Project Sun Yu-li, Allan Lim, Kenny Eng

C/Ɔ Angela Chong

Digital Origami Tigers LAVA (Chris Bosse)

Doves that Cry Mary-Anne Kyriakou, Joe Snell

Fire Flies Francesco Mariotti

Flight to Light Mary-Anne Kyriakou

Hammerhaus Kurt-Laurenz Theinert, Hanfreich

Human Tiles OCUBO (Nuno Maya, Carole Purcelle)

I C U Ingo Bracke

Jellight Pascal Petitjean, Aamer Taher

Lumenocity Singapore Sasha Crocker, Andrew Daly

My Public Garden TILT

Positive Attracts Edwin Cheong

Rainbow Mark Hammer, André Keckes

Singapora Flora Warren Langley

the light within Vellachi Ganesan

The River Merchants Aw Tee Tong, Studio KYbra

The Whirlpool Martin Klaasen, Shane Richardson, Pascal Petitjean

Touch. Do Not Please The Work Of Art. Cornelia Erdmann

Wall Piercing Ron Gilad (with Flos)

Wattfish? Meinhardt Light Studio (Dan Foreman, Cherry Wang, Zi Chang Lee)