Winter Sonata, Summer Mookata
19 Jan–8 Feb 2024 
7.30pm–midnight 
The Arts House, Façade Winter Sonata, Summer Mookata takes you on a surreal and mind-bending journey that explores the intricacies of human existence and spiritual consciousness with trippy visual imagery. Drawing inspiration from pop culture, comics, films, anime, science fiction and philosophy, and using a combination of digital and analogue animation techniques, the artists invite viewers into a strange and captivating world that shifts between the tactile and the intangible.
Credits:
Storyline, direction, concept art, illustration and risograph: Knuckles & Notch
Animation and sound design: Nikami Studio
Music produced by Beautiful Distance
Projection Mapping Consultant: Safuan Johari
Starring: Summer Cute Cute, Mother Universe, Intergalactic Spiders
Stunt double: Mochi
Established in 2013, Knuckles & Notch is a creative studio and risograph press founded by Goh Yun Jin (Marl) and Djohan Hanapi, known for their uniquely colourful and bizarre aesthetic. Their productions reflect fantastical elements in their everyday lives and reinterpret the mundane. They believe in hands-on processes, which create unique outcomes with idiosyncrasies that are relatable to their audience. They persist in using analogue means for artmaking and continually explore new and innovative ways to harmonise traditional techniques and mediums with contemporary ones.
