ArtScience Encounters: The Space Remembers You by Syafiq Halid with Norhaizad Adam

Name: ArtScience Encounters: The Space Remembers You by Syafiq Halid with Norhaizad Adam
Start: 2025-11-15T20:00:00+08:00
End: 2025-11-15T20:45:00+08:00
Location: ArtScience Museum

Schedule

Sat Nov 15 2025 at 08:00 pm to 08:45 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

ArtScience Museum | Singapore, SG

𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝘆𝗮𝗳𝗶𝗾 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗺
📅 𝟭𝟱 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (𝗦𝗮𝘁), 𝟴𝗽𝗺 – 𝟴.𝟰𝟱𝗽𝗺
📍 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝟬, 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝟯
🎟️ 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: $𝟱
For one night only, sound and movement converge in a living ceremony. In this collaborative performance, sound artist Syafiq Halid activates his 14-channel installation in Another World Is Possible exhibition with the presence of dance artist Norhaizad Adam, extending his sonic philosophy into the moving body.
Loops, fragments and resonances become more than music. They are rituals of return. Norhaizad’s gestures call forth arrivals and departures, presences and absences, summoning the unseen energies that linger within the space. Together, the artists craft an encounter with inheritance and care: datang tempat orang, beradap dan hormat. jaga diri — to enter another’s place with respect, care and awareness.
The performance invites us into a shared ritual where sound becomes ceremony, memory becomes movement, and the space itself seems to remember us. A celebration and a listening, a marking and a gathering, The Space Remembers You opens a moment in which past and future inhabit the present, where we are called to witness, honour and enter gently into another’s world.
Presented as part of Soundworks from Worlds Not Yet Born, a programme within Futures Festival: Worlds in the Making that explores memory, speculation and the futures emerging through sound.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀
𝗦𝘆𝗮𝗳𝗶𝗾 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱 is a sound artist, experimental percussionist and electronic musician whose practice traverses the intersections of tradition and contemporary experimentation. His work spans multidisciplinary collaborations as performer, composer and sound designer, presented across platforms including the Esplanade, National Gallery Singapore, ArtScience Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Nusasonic, Goethe-Institut, *SCAPE and Bus Projects, as well as projects in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Australia.
Drawing on the sounds, aesthetics, metaphors and experiences of the Malay world, Syafiq deconstructs, reimagines and reassembles them into an experimental sonic language rooted in Southeast Asia. His explorations speak to the complexities of living and being Malay in the region, compelling audiences to confront how cultural memory, heritage and identity are continually negotiated through sound.
𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗺 is a Singaporean dance artist and performance maker. Trained in Malay folk dance, he has developed a post-dance practice that interrogates how nationalism and traditionalism shape the Malay body. His works blur the rules and transmission of Malay folk forms, subverting dominant frameworks through which minority identity is constructed and sustained.
Norhaizad is the Artistic Director of P7:1SMA Ltd, where he continues to expand the possibilities of performance as a site of cultural resistance, embodiment and reimagination.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗬𝗲𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻
What kind of futures become possible when sound is treated as a medium of memory, transformation and ontological speculation?
Soundworks for Worlds Not Yet Born invites us to listen closely, curiously and with the imagination wide open. Across installations and live activations, the programme explores sound and music as portals into speculative futures that emerge from memory, myth and dream. In this programme, sound is not merely heard but inhabited. It reverberates with ancestral knowledge, unsettles linear time, and opens space for alternative worlds to take root.
Through reimagined traditions, ambient architectures and sonic fictions, artists use sound to dissolve boundaries — between past and future, self and other, centre and margin. The works do not offer destinations. Instead, they tune us to shifting frequencies of becoming.