New Practices for Tidal Attunement (Art Installations)

New Practices for Tidal Attunement: Guided Walk

Superlative Futures (Singapore)

Art Installations

Opening Dates & Hours:

22 Aug to 6 Sep

Mon Closed

Tue - Sun 7.30pm to 11pm

Venue: Arts Resource Hub (Courtyard, Level 1), 42 Waterloo Street, S187951

Co-presented by The Listening Biennial, a highlight of The Singapore Night Festival

Superlative Futures takes the site of 42 Waterloo Street as a point for creative departure. The installations prompt more careful attunement to the weathering world, bringing the shifting tidal edges of the island into the city. We speculate with meanings of wetness to evoke a different imagination of dry, interiorized city centers, through the sounds of monsoonal downpours, mangrove ecologies, urban floods, architectural leakages, and not least the slippery and soaking grounds of former coastlines or padi terrains—or whichever watery landscapes that Beras Basah (which means “wet rice”) conjures in its namesake.

Three artworks trace alternative urban practices for attuning with tidal temporalities, weather wetting and drying, soaking and draining, eroding and sedimenting, to recall the intertidal zone’s shapeshifting temporalities of land-water transformations. The sound-based installations conjure the ghostly natures of tidal landscapes that are revealed in the moon-lit night. Alluding to the experience of walking in the dark as one trespasses into a mangrove forest at night, we hope you find yourself getting lost in all this weathering madness, and for a moment—however brief—forget the tempo of the surrounding city.

Becoming Coral (2025), a tactile coralline ground

Courtyard, Level 1

Weathering the Blue House (2025) , sound installation

Building Facade, Level 1

听潮 [the sound of impermanence]: Finding Putuo , map and sound work.

Lounge, Level 2

[Public Programme] New Practices for Tidal Attunement: Guided Walk

Superlative Futures (Singapore)

Join the artists for a one-night only guided intertidal walk at 42 Waterloo Street.

Facilitated Experience

Fri, 29 Aug, 7.30 PM - 10.30 PM

Arts Resource Hub (Courtyard, Level 1), 42 Waterloo Street, S187951

30 min per walk

Register here: https://superlativefutures.eventbrite.sg

About the Artists

Superlative Futures is a transdisciplinary design and research agency in Singapore and is co-founded by Wong Zi Hao and Liu Dian Cong. The research practice centers on creative modes of representation to advocate new ways of seeing landscapes and speculate alternative social imaginaries and futuring practices for cities to relate better with more-than-human worlds. They see their design output as a practice of care. They have exhibited at NUS Museum and were supported by Singapore Art Museum’s inaugural Design Research Fellowship, 2024-2025. Wong received his PhD in Architecture at the National University of Singapore in 2023, having completed a design-led research on intertidal practices of care. Alongside his research practice, Wong teaches at NUS’ Department of Architecture, and the University of Arts (NAFA)’s Design Practices program. Liu currently practices as an architectural designer, after completing his Master of Architecture at NUS in 2024, exploring sedimentation and alternative conceptions of “ground”.

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This installation and programme is presented at 42 Waterloo Street with venue support from the Arts Resource Hub. The Arts Resource Hub supports arts Self-Employed Persons (SEPs) and freelance practitioners in Singapore to unlock new opportunities and grow meaningful careers.

Please note that our photographer may be taking photos and videos. By visiting this installation and attending this programme, you consent to be photographed or filmed.

About The Listening Biennial

Since 2021, The Listening Biennial has sought to foster research and discussion on listening, recognising its transformative power as key to enriching personal lives and social initiatives, and which supports ethical and political practices. As part of the Singapore Night Festival, the artists of The Listening Biennial invite you to enter the space of Third Listening, to listen out for a plurality of life-forms as well as pathways of interconnection between seemingly irreconcilable differences.

Read more: https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-edition

Singapore Edition: https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/