13 Jun 2026 (Sat)
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2pm – 4pm |  |
ArtScience Cinema, Level 4 |
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Ticketed Admission S$5 per participant |
London-based experiential art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF) works at the limits of perception, translating complex living systems into immersive experiences where bodies and environments converge.
As ArtScience Museum’s 2026 ArtScientist-in-Residence, Ersin Han Ersin (artist and director of MLF) anchors this residency-focused symposium, centred on two major works presented in the museum’s exhibitions this year: Evolver, featured in Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy, and Seeing Echoes in the Mind of the Whale, developed for Into the Ocean: Journey Beneath.
In his presentation, Ersin will reflect on MLF’s ongoing inquiry into living systems, exploring how immersive technologies can translate non-human perception into embodied experience. Moving between the sonic world of whales and the transformative potential of the human body, these works consider how life is shaped through processes of sensing and relation across species and environments.
Presented as part of Forms of Life: Beyond the Human, the symposium opens this inquiry into a wider interdisciplinary dialogue. Contributing perspectives from oceanography and acoustic research will ground these ideas in the lived realities of marine environments, revealing how ocean life navigates and communicates through sound. Extending beyond the ocean, the programme also draws on microbial ecology and philosophical thought to consider how life operates across distributed networks of sensing and response, and how concepts of interdependence challenge human-centred understandings of the world.
Spanning oceanic, ecological and embodied domains, these perspectives trace a continuum from organism to environment, inviting us to attend more carefully to forms of life beyond our own.
Image credits: Marshmallow Laser Feast, Seeing Echoes in the Mind of the Whale, 2024 – 2026. Image courtesy of the artist.
Marshmallow Laser Feast (Ersin Han Ersin, Barnaby Steel, Robin McNicholas) joins ArtScience Museum as ArtScientists‑in‑Residence, bringing their distinctive research-led practice and immersive, multisensory storytelling to the institution. The London‑based artist collective investigates the entanglements between human perception and the more‑than‑human world, creating environments in which data becomes tangible, ecological systems become intimate and the invisible processes that sustain life are made perceptible.
In 2026, ArtScience Museum presents a year-long season of exhibitions and programmes that explore the wider ecology of life beyond the human, attending to the multispecies worlds, systems, and intelligences that shape the planet alongside us. Rather than centering the human as the primary actor, Forms of Life: Beyond the Human considers how life is co-shaped by other living entities.
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21 Mar – 16 Aug 2026
Flesh and Bones traces anatomy as a shared language of art and science, where the body becomes medicine, cosmos, and a vessel for contemplating life, transformation, and afterlife.
6 Jun – 1 Nov 2026
Into the Ocean: Journey Beneath is a collaboration between ArtScience Museum and OceanX, making its world premiere this June. It invites visitors on a descent through the depths of the sea, from the sunlit surface waters to the darkest reaches of the ocean.