NUS Arts Festival 2017

Held over three weekends in March, NUS Arts Festival is the annual flagship celebration of the arts, creativity and innovation in National University of Singapore. Showcasing the work of young student artists in collaboration with professional local and international artists and delving from the wealth of research from its faculties, the Festival has developed a unique reputation for its youthfulness, its social engagement, themes that concern this generation and bold experimentation.

In the final chapter on the continuum of time, NUS Arts Festival 2017 gazes out at the worlds of the future – the imminent, the impending, the yet to come. Inspired by Huxley’s then-radical dystopian ideas, Brave New Worlds presents immersive experiences, compelling performances and stimulating talks that excite and challenge perceptions of the future through the arts.


AC/E supports the participation of Karla Kracht & Andrés Beladiez with the public workshop "2026"
2062 is the result of nine months of research into forms of storytelling, shadow play, live video, sound, and animation. Everything heard and seen in this world is created from scratch by both artists – from the elements of sound, to animation, poetry, illustrations, and the narrative. Memory is a house of cards in a child's hand. Fragile, volatile. It is also a place lost in time. Deformed, blurred. It is us and our predecessors... It is also the future, but not yet, still… History repeats itself over and over again, nothing changes but everything is different. Meanwhile we continue being the same and give different name to the present, forgetting that in the past, our past, we already named it and we swear we would never repeat it again.