1–19 Jul 2026
Various timings and locations in the CBD
Moving Encounters activates the Momentary Pulses public art trail through live interventions, guided explorations and conversations that open up new ways of sensing and inhabiting the urban environment. This programme series brings together movement, histories, architectures, and everyday rhythms to reveal the city as both setting and participant.
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Programmes
Dis.connected Body
by Sigma Contemporary Dance
Wed & Thurs, 1 & 9 July 16–24 Nov | 10am–7pm
12–12.30PM @ Asia Square | 6–6.30PM @ OUE Link
Free
Conceived as a duet by independent dance collective Sigma Contemporary Dance—the team behind the contemporary dance platform 12.ance Festival—the work follows two performers who remain in continuous physical contact, bound by a shared costume that renders them as a single yet internally divided body navigating urban space. Through a language of movement grounded in repetition, stillness, weight-sharing, and touch, the work reflects on interpersonal bonds within the business district.
Despite being physically connected, the performers are not unified; instead, they navigate friction, misalignment, and dependency. Their shared body becomes a site of negotiation—where balance is unstable, direction is contested, and autonomy is continuously compromised.
Dis.connected Body exists as a moving encounter. Audiences encounter the work incidentally and may choose to follow the performers along the route or pause briefly to observe. The performance integrate into the flow of people while subtly reframes our experience of a routine journey.
Wuwei Performance Series – In the CBD
Curated by Jeremy Hiah, featuring Arrvin Raj, Boat Sutasinee Kansomdee, Ezzam Rahman, He Libin, Ilyas Hiah Weihan, and Yen Phang
Fri, 3 Jul, 4–7.30PM @ Raffles Place MRT Exit E |
Sat, 4 Jul, 5–6.30PM @ Shenton House L5 Carpark
Free with Registration
What unfolds when movement and performance art meet the urban environment? Through durational, site-responsive engagement, The Everyday Museum collaborates with Wuwei Performance Series, curated by interdisciplinary artist Jeremy Hiah. This 10th edition brings together performance artists from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and China to respond to the urban landscape of the CBD.
Presented over two days, Day 1 (3 Jul) unfolds as a series of performance in situ, across selected sites along the trail of Momentary Pulses. Day 2 (4 Jul) gathers participating artists in a single location for an improvised performance, drawing these individual practices into a shared space of convergence and collective presence.
Through these encounters, the series reflects on how bodies inhabit and respond to conditions of public space. Drawing from Lao Zi’s “无为而无不为,”—which can be understood as action through inaction— this performance series explores the tension between stillness and movement, considering how restraint, duration, and subtle gesture can generate meaning and open space for reflection and dialogue.
Urban Pasts, Present Streets: A Heritage Walk with The Urbanist Singapore
Sat, 4 Jul | 10–11.30AM
Raffles Place MRT Exit E
Ticketed: $12 per person
Unfolding along the Momentary Pulses public art trail, this tour foregrounds overlooked histories, evolving landscapes, and hidden narratives encountered along the trail, inviting participants to engage more deeply with the city’s layered identity and rediscover the CBD as a living archive of memory and change.
Led by Yong from The Urbanist Singapore, the tour draws on his background in urban geography and over a decade of experience leading heritage walks. Following a successful first series of CBD tours held in January for Story Scape (co-presented by The Everyday Museum and StoryFest Singapore), Yong returns with a refreshed route that includes two new works on the trail: Clock of the Everyday by Yang Jie, and LOOP — The Resonance of Motion by Zul Mahmod.
Tides of the City: Navigating the CBD with Jerome Lim
Sat, 11 Jul, 10–11.30AM | 18 Jul, 5–6.30PM
Raffles Place MRT Exit E
Ticketed: $12 per person
Led by retired naval architect and heritage enthusiast Jerome Lim, this tour guides participants through the Central Business District, offering an opportunity to experience the Momentary Pulses artworks against a backdrop of overlapping histories of place, memory, and rapid transformation. Through this journey, participants are invited to consider how art, architecture, and everyday spaces intersect in the evolving urban landscape.
As the author of Uncommon Ground: The Places You Know, The Stories You Don’t and co-author of Secret Singapore, Jerome Lim has devoted years to documenting Singapore’s changing urban and cultural terrain, uncovering traces of the past that often remain unseen.
Curator's Tour for Momentary Pulses public art trail
Fri, 10 Jul | 6–7.30PM
Raffles Place MRT Exit E
Ticketed: $8 per person
Embark on a guided journey across the sites of the Momentary Pulses artworks, where contemporary art becomes a lens through which to reconsider the city’s lived environment.
This tour offers an introduction to artworks in Momentary Pulses through curatorial lens, sharing insights on how each artwork responds to the district’s shifting rhythms and evolving urban forms. Framed by the CBD’s transformation from port to financial centre, the tour foregrounds how the commissioned works engage with material traces of the past, the movement of bodies through space, and the subtle textures of everyday time. Walking amongst buildings and along walkways, the tour invites participants to consider how art draws attention to the often-overlooked textures of the district, opening moments for reflection on memory, change, and the lived experience of the urban environment.
Between Passing:
A durational movement work tracing passage and transition by Kien Faye
Wed & Sun, 15 and 19 Jul, 5–7PM | Fri, 17 Jul, 6–8PM
Raffles Place MRT Exit E
Free
Between Passing by Malaysian movement artist Kien Faye takes shape as a durational, site-responsive work along the CBD Art Trail, emerging at the cusp of dusk as the city shifts between work and after-hours rhythms. Moving alongside commuters as they disperse and transition, the work attunes closely to the flows of everyday movement, responding in real time to its surroundings.
Grounded in improvisation and sensory awareness, each gesture surfaces as a fleeting trace, marking moments of passage between body, site, and time. In this in-between state, the work invites reflection on how we move through shared urban spaces, where encounters are brief, and presence is constantly in flux.
Magic Hour Walk and Dance: A collaborative movement walk exploring space, form and bodily response led by Kien Faye
Thurs, 16 Jul, 6–7PM | Sat, 18 Jul, 6.30–7.30PM
Various locations in CBD
Free
Following its initial iteration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Magic Hour Walk and Dance moves into Singapore’s Central Business District, inviting movement practitioners to journey collectively through the district during the liminal hours between day and night. Unfolding as a shared exploration of space, architecture, and embodied response, the programme allows improvisation to emerge through an ongoing dialogue with the built environment. Movement draws from and mimics architectural forms: bodies trace lines, mirror structures, and inhabit edges, revealing how space shapes gesture, rhythm, and interaction. Led by Kien Faye, movement artist from Malaysia, this programme invites movement practitioners across Singapore to explore collective movement and spatial improvisation, while being documented through photography to form an evolving archive of fleeting encounters between body, form, and urban space.
Taking place within the after-work rush, audiences may choose to observe or encounter the work in passing.
About the Artists
Dis.connected Body
About Sigma Contemporary Dance
Sigma Contemporary Dance is an independent dance collective from Singapore. Its members are from diverse backgrounds and experiences with a common interest in seeking jubilation through dance. Since 2011, Sigma has been creating original works that are relevant and relatable, immersive and thought-provoking, and that span across different platforms and spaces. The collective emphasises collaborative efforts in its creation process. It also constantly seeks to connect with individuals of various disciplines who enjoy the freedom to improvise within structures, thus creating works that are honest, intuitive and original
Wuwei Performance Series - In the CBD
About Curator Jeremy Hiah
Born in Singapore in 1972, Jeremy Hiah has been actively involved in the arts since 1993, with his works deeply rooted in the social system, exploring how individuals live and interact within society. Hiah obtained his Diploma in Visual Arts from Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore in 1995. He later pursued an Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy, under the mentorship of Ilya Kabakov in Theory of Total Installation Art (2000). In 2001, he completed his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne, Australia, in affiliation with Lasalle-SIA, Singapore.
Since 1995, Hiah has experimented with various artistic mediums, including installation, performance, and interdisciplinary collaborations. From 1997 to 2000, he expanded his artistic practice beyond Singapore, participating in residencies and exhibitions across Germany, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia, Australia, Thailand, South Korea, and China.
Notably, he was part of the UNESCO Artists in Residency Vienna and worked with institutions like the Hong Kong Art Centre and Vietnam Contemporary Art Centre. An active figure in Singapore’s contemporary art scene, Hiah is a longtime member of The Artists Village and Sculpture Society Singapore. He previously served as Vice President of The Artists Village (2001) and held the same role at Sculpture Society Singapore (2004).
About Yong The Urbanist
Ho Yong Min, who prefers to be known as Yong, first began leading heritage walks around Singapore in 2010 as a personal passion. Trained in urban geography at the National University of Singapore, Yong is deeply interested in the relationship between historic places, the built environment, and contemporary urban life. Through The Urbanist Singapore, he brings heritage and urban design to wider audiences through immersive walks, curated programmes, and digital storytelling that uncover the hidden narratives embedded within Singapore’s cityscape. Drawing from his background in urban and cultural geography, Yong’s work explores how traces of the past continue to shape the social and spatial fabric of the present, while making heritage engaging and accessible for younger generations and new audiences alike.
About Jerome Lim
Jerome Lim is a heritage enthusiast, a keen photographer, and a blogger who captures Singapore’s fast evolving urban and cultural landscape through the award-winning ‘The Long and Winding Road’ blog. The retired naval architect is also the author of ‘Uncommon Ground: The Places You Know, The Stories You Don’t’ and co-author of ‘Secret Singapore’ through which he brings out the stories that are hidden in many of Singapore’s lesser-known sites. Through Jerome’s collaboration with the Singapore Land Authority, he has led guided visits to State Properties under the agency’s care since 2017, including several that have featured in NHB’s Battle for Singapore and Singapore HeritageFest tour programmes.
About Kien Faye
Kien Faye (Faye) is an experimental contemporary trance practitioner and performer based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His work is deeply rooted in the rich traditions of Javanese and Malaysian trance cultures, exploring ritual forms and the use of natural elements to induce trance states. Through movement, voice, whip, water, flowers, kemenyan (incense), and mantra, he processes intense emotions and sensations, creating a connection between the land, people, himself, and the surrounding environment. Faye explores movement as he navigates life, whether in a forest or a train station, Faye’s practice transforms everyday spaces into stages for exploration and expression. He has performed across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Australia, participating in various festivals and collaborating with artists from diverse disciplines. Actively engaged in the festival community in Malaysia, he values artistic exchange and cross-cultural dialogue.
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