Urban Explorations

The Urban Explorations project began in 2012 as an investigation on the ordinary happenings and encounters in the Singapore heartlands, narrated through the retrieval of sensorial data, collections and patterns. Employing a strategy called Urban Sensing, a team of eight explorers utilised custom-built instruments where recordings, observations and specimens were collected then visually translated into static or dynamic artefacts presented in a touring exhibition in Singapore. In 2015, the project travelled to Paris for its second iteration, Urban Explorations: Snapshot of Two Cities, conducted and exhibited in Paris as part of the Singapore Festival in France 2015. Here the project together artists from Singapore and France through an open call to participate in a five-week residency programme in May 2015 to take part in workshops and field trips, and to create and produce urban data-inspired artefacts for a group exhibition that took place in June 2015 in Paris and later in October 2015 in Singapore.