Games Night! Don’t Play Play~
People playing Art vs Art in 2024 during S-24, which was created in collaboration with National Gallery Singapore.
Image credit: The Artists Village
venueFront Courtyard, 42 Waterloo Street
DATE22 Aug, Sat
TIME6.30 - 9.30 pm
AdmissionFree with registration at citrusfest2026.peatix.com
SynopsisWhen is a game not just a game? In this playfully serious and seriously playful Games Night! Don’t Play Play~ hosted by The Artists Village, we invite you into three speculative worlds of art and everyday life.
The first game Art vs Art transports players to Singapore in the 1960s, where you lead an art society competing for relevance and recognition. Using open-source and open-call illustrations, the game asks: Amidst a rapidly changing landscape, what will you do in the name of shaping your society’s cultural influence?
Secondly, Panic! at the Kopitiam is set within a coffee shop, and explores precarity, inequality, and chaos. How will you adapt in the face of randomness? What meaning can or will you make?
Lastly, The Longest Night is an RPG that re-traces the night of 1 February 1974, when a faulty cable at the Pasir Panjang Power Station triggered the worst blackout in decades, leaving eight strangers stranded in Bras Basah. As the city comes to a sudden halt, how will their lives intertwine?
Please note:
Limited seats for each game at 6.30pm and 8.00pm–register now to secure a spot!
In the event of wet weather, this programme will be held within the sheltered areas of the rear courtyard and the Rest & Digest Corner.
About the Arts Workers
The Artists’ Village
The Artists Village (TAV) is Singapore’s first contemporary art group. Founded in 1992, the group is historically significant for its engagement with societal changes and issues. It continues to foster an ecology for artistic exchange, practice-sharing, experimentation, and collective learning today, across disciplines and borders.
Joey Leung Si Gi, Muhammad Amirul Adli & Wang Xi Jie
Artists-
Joey Leung Si Gi is an artist working across painting, sculpture, and installation, guided by design sensibilities that inform her approach to surface and spatial relationships. Driven by an interest in deliberate deceleration, her practice tries to reclaim stillness from a hyper-stimulated world. She translates things that demand instant speed and attention into forms where simplicity and stillness can quietly emerge.
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Muhammad Amirul Adli is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, sculpture, and installation. His work explores themes of absurdity, mischief, and human behaviour, drawing inspiration from Dadaist approaches that challenge convention and question established norms. Through a combination of image-making, objects, and installation-based works, he creates experiences that invite viewers to reconsider everyday assumptions and engage with uncertainty, humour, and contradiction as meaningful forms of artistic inquiry.
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Wang Xi Jie (b. 2001, Malaysia) is a Singapore-based artist whose practice explores the multiplicities of place, its agents, and the contextual residues it carries. Working across sculptural objects, video, and print, he uses conversations as a method to bridge embodied experiences, bodily labours, and the aesthetics of empathy. His current research interests engage with the notion of ‘tropical estrangement’, unfolding through the vocabularies of fruits, heat, and decay. This has taken the form of anthological narratives, exploring vernacularized agri-cultures embedded within small folk-towns across Southeast Asia. Tropical fruits in particular, are often used as vessels for narrative, serving as entry points to places such as plantations, where the rhythms of growth and labor are inextricably bound to the land, yet often rendered invisible by globalized extractive systems.
Panic! at the Kopitiam conceived and developed by (from left) Wang Xi Jie, Muhammad Amirul Adli, Joey Leung Si Gi
Woon Tien Wei
Artist and CuratorWoon Tien Wei is an artist, curator and allowed to teach. He lives and works in Singapore. He is a busybody and sometimes too kaypoh for his own good.
