Here’s the complete list of lighting installations in Awakening Bangkok 2022

Artist: Alt+r

Location: The East Asiatic Building

A good future is defined by a healthy state of mind, which, in this installation, is somehow guided by a fortune-telling game. Experience design studio Alt+r projects interactive mapping art on the facade of the historical East Asiatic Building to give you a peek into your tomorrow. Press a button and the dancing Lucky Rabbit (the sign for 2023) will foretell what lies ahead for you next year—work success, luck in love, lots of money, or charming skill.

Artist: Jularuk Mongkol and Issyaporn Sunwanphet

Location: O.P. Place

Twin phone booths, despite looking similar to other phone booths, serve unique purposes. One allows you to speak to people living in the future, while the other allows you to receive messages from the past.

Artist: XD49

Location: Marine Police Lodge

Since 1960, there have been global efforts to revive near-extinct animals, from Amazon parrots to Mongolian wild horses, and increase the numbers of these near-gone species. Reports reveal that, in Europe, the number of grey wolves has increased by 1871 percent and that of Eurasian otters by 294 percent since that year. Digital art collective XD49 celebrates these impressive numbers and ambitious acts of conservation using inspiring data art.

Artist: tomorrow.Lab x COTH Studio

Location: Marine Police Lodge

Through a row of lighting pillars, tomorrow.Lab x COTH Studio imagines the future of the forest wherein trees have been left dead, are bereft of leaves, and are nearly uprooted.

Artist: tomorrow.Lab x COTH Studio

Location: Marine Police Lodge

Mankind is the greatest threat to nature, particularly due to our overproduction and overconsumption. These “mountains” of plastic waste depict what could possibly be in humanity’s foreseeable future if we don’t change our undesirable behavior.  

Artist: tomorrow.Lab x COTH studio

Location: Marine Police Lodge

Dive into the world of scientific experiments and see an alternate reality through microscopes in this immersive exhibition.

Artist: COTH Studio x tomorrow.Lab

Location: Marine Police Lodge

Draw your wishes for the future and wait for random lights to shine on them.

Artist: COTH Studio x tomorrow.Lab

Location: Marine Police Lodge

Marvel at geometric art inspired by the intertwined connections between multiple cultures in Charoenkrung.

Artist: COTH Studio

Location: Swan Hotel

Inspired by the hidden forces behind our fast-moving world, COTH Studio has created an interactive light installation that aims to capture the moment of now, providing a sensory point in which light, color, space, and time interact with the human senses.

Artist: 27 June Studio

Location: Swan Hotel

Artist duo 27 June Studio, inspired by that year-end moment when we decide to let go of things and move towards the future, invites you to make a digital lantern for yourself and  “float” it in a pool, thus also allowing the misfortunes and tragedies of our past sink into the water.  

Artist: P-NUT

Location: Swan Hotel

We all need some empathy and encouragement, both in the present and in the future. P-NUT has conceptualized a digitized television that allows you to send and receive good wishes at the same time.

Artist: XD49

Location: Warutti

 The vertical installation made of repurposed Johnnie Walker bottle is a nod to the surprising growth of Antarctic sea ice extent in the past three decades.

Artist: XD49

Location: Charoenkrung 34 Shopshouse

This light installation is a nod to the Montreal Protocol, the 1987 international treaty that ensures the protection of the ozone layer through the reduction of CO2 emissions, the decreased usage of coal energy, and the development of clean energy throughout the world.

Artist: 27 June

Location: Yellow House

This immersive lighting installation invites you to “keep walking” down Johnnie Walker’s road of sustainability and towards the brand’s net zero waste goal.

Artist: 27 June

Location: Yellow House 

Reusing, or finding new use for old items, is one of the easiest ways to practice sustainability. And this light installation celebrates it.

Artist: 27 June

Location: Yellow House

Walking is the most environmentally-friendly means of mobility, and helps cut your carbon footprint—drastically. This installation is intended to encourage everyone to just keep walking. 

Artist: 27 June

Location: Yellow House

Wander through a field filled with tiny flowers that glow in the dark through solar energy.

Artist: 27 June

Location: Yellow House 

Taking inspiration from sea debris, which has damaged marine ecosystems, 27 June Studio imagines a future where a sea of plastic bags is bigger than the natural sea itself. This interactive installation also attempts to instantiate the sea breeze using used plastic bags.

Artist: 27 June

Location: Yellow House.

This installation depicts the sun using Johnnie Walker bottle caps and shines sustainability-inspired lights onto dark corners.

Artist: 27 June

Location: Yellow House

This kinetic light installation made out of repurposed Johnnie Walker bottles reflects the brand’s sustainability initiatives, which help actual forests thrive.

Artist: 27 June

Location: Yellow House

Fireflies signify an intact and healthy natural ecosystem. This glow-in-the-dark hologram installation invites you to walk into a sea of digital fireflies and imagine a sustainable future.

Artist: Thanabodee 

Location: Grand Postal Building

Shaped like the number eight, a symbol of infinity and prosperity, this installation reminds us of our resilience in surviving hard times and our determination to move forward into the future.

Artist: XD49

Location: Grand Postal Building

Life can somehow be like a mountain. It’s rocky, steep, and full of unexpected challenges, and you need to walk with “bold steps” to ascend it. This interactive installation lets you imagine yourself climbing a mountain, encouraged by wishes and ambitions that you wrote for yourself—or written by those before you—until you reach the peak. And here is where your future is revealed. 

Artist: 305Stop

Location: Warehouse 30

In this digital art show, illustrator 305Stop talks about “new good mornings”.

Artists: Ping Lim &  Ian Grossberg

Location: Warehouse 30

Alone Together documents the experience of living in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Inspired by scenes in housing estates in Singapore, it takes a peek at people’s lives through small windows, and tells stories that resonate with anyone who has been confined to their homes at some point.

By capturing unforgettable and personal moments of adapting to the new normal, these vignettes reflect how the pandemic has impacted our daily lives. Through real-time interaction, this projection invites you to come together and be part of this shared memory.

Art: Johnnie Walker (BAR)

Location: Warehouse 30 

Johnnie Walker showcases its sustainability initiatives at this popup bar.

Artist: Vichan

Location: Si Phraya Pier

Lifeguard tubes help us survive strong currents and allow us to “float” on life’s turbulent waves.

Artist: Kotchakan Koompairot

Location: Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers

Inspired by mass shootings in Thailand and other countries, this immersive experience flames our hopes for harmony by replacing targets with colorful flowers. The future is about peace and not violence.

Artist: Soul Studio

Location: Royal Orchid Sheraton (Portuguese Garden)

When everyday boredom finds you restless and adrift, walk into this interactive installation to reignite self-awareness and reawaken a passion for new tomorrows.

Artist: From Object To Studio

Location: Krung Kasem Pump Station

Discover a future world where living creatures look different in this interactive digital showcase.

Artist: Khopfa Chanpensri

Location: River City Bangkok

Artist Khobfa Chanpensri interprets his hopes for a bright and enthralling future through a kinetic flower-shaped installation that lures butterflies with its scent.

Artist: FOT

Location: Feng Zhu 

Artist FOT takes over local dumpling shop Feng Zhu to exhibit a site-specific 3D projection mapping that explores the future of food and flavors. 

Artist: Heng Heng Heng

Location: Holy Rosary Church

This kinetic light sculpture features a glowing loop of infinity that calls to mind the concept of samsara (the cycle of death and rebirth) and the existence of things.

Artist: we wide wave x PLACEBo CLUB, weird stuff that helps x From Object To Studio

Location: Ring Kuek Shrine

Wondering what the future holds? Visit this interactive feline-themed fortune-telling showcase, a playful depiction of Talad Noi’s stray cats, and find out all the good things tomorrow has in store for you. 

Artist: Chattakan Vongsiri

Location: Patina Bangkok

Do we really benefit from perfection? They say there is no such thing as “perfect” and that everyone has their own concept of perfection. How would you describe yours?

Artist: AangWaang

Location: Baan Rim Naam

Fear is an emotion triggered by the perception of threats (including the possibility of a flammable gas exploding). This installation pursues the question on how humans cope with fear.

Artist: H-Lab

Location: Old Fiat Car

H-Lab depicts the unstoppable flow between days, months, and years into an infinite amount of time.

Artist: M.O.O

Location: Photohostel & Photocafe

M.O.O. illustrates an infinite future inspired by the wormhole theory in this interactive experience.

Artist: H-Lab

Location: Phanu Rangsi

Kinetic and digital art towers set in a peaceful garden of Talad Noi act as modern representations of unsung history, long-forgotten lives, and the diverse backgrounds of the people in one of Bangkok’s oldest communities.

Artist: From Object to Studio

Location: Chow Sue Kong Shrine

FOT discusses the multifaceted aspects of loneliness in this interactive digital art installation.