Lumba (2022)
14 Jan–3 Feb 2022
10am–midnight
Esplanade Park, Queen Elizabeth Walk
Lumba (2022) is an interactive light installation inspired by the small sailing boats in kolek lumba — a sea sport once held during the New Year Regatta in the Civic District during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring five standing sculptures modelled after these boats, this creation by interactive designer Alina Ling invites all to observe how the sails billow in sync with the wind. When night falls, viewers can walk through the spaces between the structures and see how their movements affect the dancing of light along their frames to evoke a celebratory mood.
Lumba (2022) is presented as part of Curiocity: Places & Perspectives, an initiative of the National Library Board’s Libraries and Archives Blueprint 2025 (LAB25) that aims to nurture a stronger appreciation of the Singapore experience, in partnership with Light to Night Festival 2022.
Alina Ling is an interactive designer who creates experiences and interfaces that explore new dimensions of sensory perception. A graduate of the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University, Ling pursued a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interaction Design. Incorporating technology with different modalities (including visual, sound, tactile and haptic), her works manipulate the physical and the intangible to help create a deeper understanding of the constructs of space and perceptual experience.
