Programme Information
Date: 5 Jun 2026 (Fri)
Time: 7pm - 7.45pm
Venue: Oculus, B2, ArtScience Museum
Free Admission with registration
* Please note that the programme is presented in an uncovered outdoor area. In the event of inclement weather, the performance may be delayed, stop-started or cancelled if it is deemed unsafe for the artist, crew and attendees.
Oslo-based Norwegian sound artist Jana Winderen activates ArtScience Museum’s Oculus as a resonant body attuned to the acoustic life of the ocean in a live performance.
Working at the intersection of art and scientific inquiry, Winderen draws on her background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology to access and render audible complex sonic ecologies. Using hydrophones, she records entire underwater environments: the crackle of crustaceans, the interactions of fish, and the vocalisations of marine mammals. These recordings, often captured in remote and extreme conditions, are sculpted through processes of close listening and spatial composition.
For this live presentation, Winderen mobilises this sonic archive within the architectural conditions of the Oculus, composing across its 360-degree system to produce a dynamic field of listening. Sounds that originate in ultrasonic ranges are transposed into an audible spectrum, allowing audiences to encounter otherwise imperceptible modes of communication. The performance does not simply reveal hidden worlds, but reconfigures the listener’s position within them.
At the same time, Winderen’s work foregrounds the fragility of these ecosystems. Human-generated noise permeates the oceans at an unprecedented scale, disrupting the sensory and communicative capacities of marine life. Within her compositions, these pressures are felt — as interference, saturation and the subtle erosion of acoustic space. Listening becomes an ethical act, attuning us to the far-reaching consequences of human activity across interconnected environments.
The performance invites audiences to inhabit the Oculus as a situated listening chamber that considers the relational dynamics between bodies, technologies and ecologies, and opens onto the ocean as an evolving, contested acoustic commons.
For more information, please visit: https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/programmes/artscience-encounters.html