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London-based experiential artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast has just been announced as the museum’s 2026–2027 ArtScientists-in-Residence, bringing with them a trio of immersive, tech-fuelled works that promise to have you contemplating topics like breathing, whales, fungi, and humanity’s oddly fragile relationship with the natural world.
This residency is part of the broader ArtScience Residency programme, launched in 2023 as a platform connecting local and international creatives, artists, designers and entrepreneurs through interdisciplinary exchange and experimentation.
If Marshmallow Laser Feast’s name rings a bell, it’s because the collective has already previously wowed Singapore audiences with We Live in an Ocean of Air in 2022, an immersive VR installation that used real-time biofeedback and sensory visuals to turn breathing into a shared, interactive experience linking humans, trees and the wider ecosystem. This new residency however, marks a much deeper collaboration – and their most extensive engagement in Asia to date – with three major presentations landing across 2026 and early 2027.
Led by artist-directors Robin McNicholas, Barnaby Steel and Ersin Han Ersin, Marshmallow Laser Feast is known for fusing art, science and technology, fostering collaborations with ecologists, neuroscientists and technologists from around the globe. They take invisible systems – from the air moving through your lungs to whale communication to the underground intelligence of soil – and make them feel startlingly tangible through cinematic visuals, spatial sound and immersive environments.
First up is Evolver: An Immersive Journey of Life and Breath, on view until August 16, 2026. We’ve seen it – this award-winning multisensory and VR installation invites you into a dramatic journey of oxygen moving through the human body, from mouth to lungs. Spread across Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy and the museum’s dedicated VR Gallery on Level 4, the experience reframes breath not just as a biological necessity, but as a shared connection between humans and the natural world through the cycle of respiration.
Then comes Seeing Echoes in the Mind of the Whale, launching on June 6 as part of Into The Ocean: Journey Beneath. Instead of simply admiring whales from afar, this massive three-screen installation will drop you directly into the sensory realities of cetaceans – including bottlenose dolphins, humpback whales and sperm whales. Drawing from footage provided by OceanX, real whale vocalisations, marine science and real-time computing, the work offers a poetic deep-dive into how these marine giants navigate, communicate and experience the world through sound.
Rounding out the trilogy later this year is Poetics of Soil: Fly Agaric I, an immersive audiovisual work that shines a spotlight on the underground ecosystems quietly holding life together. Through cinematic imagery, spatial sound and mycological insights, the work explores fungi, microorganisms and living soil networks beneath the forest floor.
Beyond the exhibitions themselves, the residency includes a slate of public programmes designed to pull back the curtain on the ideas and processes behind the works. On June 13, 2026, Ersin Han Ersin will lead a public symposium titled Immersive Ecologies: Sensing the Unseen, gathering guest speakers from Singapore’s oceanographic research, environmental science and ecological thought spaces for a multidisciplinary exchange on how we understand the invisible systems shaping life.
For more information, visit their webpage here.
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