New Practices for Tidal Attunement (Guided Walk)

New Practices for Tidal Attunement: Guided Walk

Superlative Futures (Singapore)

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

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

Attuning to the low spring tides in August, audiences are led through an imaginary intertidal walk within the grounds of 42 Waterloo Street. The artists, playing the roles of “intertidal guides” will lead groups of participants in 30-min walks to search for imaginary edge-worlds where the sea, its tides, and monsoonal wetness, blow and seep into urban and architectural interiors. The walks are guided experiments that pose another view of the city through slow and deep time.

Participant Notes:

• Wear comfortable clothes and shoes.
• This is a rain or shine event. You may wish to bring along an umbrella or a raincoat or a change of clothes.

New Practices for Tidal Attunement: Guided Walk

Art Installations

Superlative Future’s "New Practices for Tidal Attunement" explores the forgotten tidal landscapes of urban settings, particularly emphasising the historical significance of the term "wet rice" (Beras Basah) and the area's past of tidal flooding, during confluences of springing high tides and monsoonal weathering.

Their three sensory artworks trace different imaginations of the intertidal zone, encouraging attunement with more-than-human worlds. Alluding to the experience of walking in the dark—a trespass into a mangrove forest in the night—there is no given order to see the artworks. The artists invite you to get lost in the landscape, and for a moment, however brief, forget the tempo of the 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

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/