Elizabeth Mak, Scarce City, 2025. Photography by CRISPI

Exhibition

Scarce City

Rainshadow Studios Limited

11 January 2025 to 30 March 2025

Fridays to Sundays.  Half hour time slots during these times: 10.30am-1.00pm, 2.30pm-5pm, 6.30pm-9.30pm.  Please visit www.scarce-city.rainshadowstudios.org for time slots and booking details.

Ticketed

Standard Ticket for Admission: $32.00 per ticket, Concession Ticket for Students & Senior Citizens for Admission: $27.00 per ticket, Group Discount Ticket for Admission: $25.00 per ticket for purchase of 4 tickets and above.

Wheelchair accessibility

Synopsis

Scarce City is an interactive arts x tech experience that fuses serious games and immersive theatre to explore the psychology behind climate change and what it means to have enough. Audiences navigate a light-based resource management game involving body tracking technology and a 3D-printed environment made from recycled plastic. Inspired by Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, the experience asks: What is enough? What happens when our society is driven by a predominant narrative of scarcity? An intimate post-game discussion invites participants to reflect on what it means to win and draws connections between their in-game psychology and their real-world implications for the climate transition.

Participating artists/curators:

Elizabeth Mak, Artist, Singaporean
Leong Kei Sheng, Artist, Malaysian
Shawn Low, Artist, Singaporean
Leanne Tan, Artist, Singaporean
Jevon Chandra, Artist, Singaporean

Michele Lim, Producer, Singaporean

Public programmes:

Scarce City is excited to offer a series of talks, panels, activities, and workshops in collaboration with our supporters and partners. Please follow us on Instagram @scarce_city.sg for live updates on these complementary programmes.

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