Marshmallow Laser Feast at Artscience Museum

Marshmallow Laser Feast, a pioneer in immersive, tech-driven art that explores human perception, science and the natural world, joins the ArtScience Residency programme with three major works

Evolver by Marshmallow Laser Feast

ArtScience Museum is delighted to announce London-based visionary experiential artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast as its 2026-2027 ArtScientists-in-Residence. Building on the strong success of their acclaimed work We Live in an Ocean of Air, presented at ArtScience Museum in 2022, this residency marks a deepened collaboration between the Museum and the collective.

As ArtScientists-in-Residence, the collective will present a trilogy of major works across the Museum’s 2026 and early 2027 exhibition programme – marking their most extensive engagement in Asia to date. Their practice is led by artist-directors Robin McNicholas, Barnaby Steel and Ersin Han Ersin, who work in close collaboration with ecologists, neuroscientists and technologists from around the world.

ArtScience Museum Marshmallow Laser Feast

From the breath within our bodies and the sonic realm of whales to the living intelligence of soil, their works bring invisible processes and systems into focus, transforming data into sensation through striking visuals and spatial sound. They allow vast ecological systems to be experienced on an intimate, human scale, inviting visitors to reflect on their emotional and ecological connection to the extraordinary more-than-human world.

“Marshmallow Laser Feast is redefining how audiences experience the world around them, and we’re thrilled ArtScientists-in-Residence. Following the extraordinary response to We Live in an Ocean of Air in 2022, this major residency allows us to deepen our collaboration and offer audiences new ways of experiencing the invisible forces that shape life – from within our own bodies to the wider natural world,” said Honor Harger, Vice President of ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands.

“Our work has always been about making the invisible felt, whether that’s the breath moving through our bodies, the sound-worlds of whales, or the living intelligence beneath our feet. Returning to ArtScience Museum as ArtScientists-in-Residence allows us to expand these explorations further into new depths, inviting audiences to experience the natural world not as something separate, but as something we are profoundly part of,” said Ersin Han Ersin, Artist and Director of Marshmallow Laser Feast.

Launched in 2023 as a collaborative platform for local and international creatives, artists, designers and entrepreneurs, the ArtScience Residency also engages diverse communities through shared ideas, innovation and interdisciplinary exchange.

Poetics of Soil Fly Agari by Marshmallow Laser Feast

Beyond the three presentations, the residency includes public programmes for audiences to engage more deeply with ideas and processes behind the works. On 13 June 2026, Marshmallow Laser Feast’s Ersin Han Ersin will lead a public symposium titled Immersive Ecologies: Sensing the Unseen, bringing together guest speakers from across oceanographic research, environmental science and ecological thought in Singapore for a shared exchange.

Evolver by Marshmallow Laser Feast within Flesh and Bone

On view until 16 August 2026, Evolver: An Immersive Journey of Life and Breath is an award-winning multi-sensory installation and virtual reality (VR) experience that takes visitors deep inside the human body. Tracing the journey of oxygen from the mouth to the lungs, the work unfolds across two connected presentations – as part of Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy and in the Museum’s dedicated VR Gallery on Level 4 – revealing to appoint them as ArtScience Museum’s second breath as both the spark of life and a vital link between the human body and the natural world through the shared cycle of respiration.

Marshmallow Laser Feast ArtScience Museum

Moving beyond the human body, Seeing Echoes in the Mind of the Whale invites visitors into the sensory realities of cetaceans such as bottlenose dolphins, humpback whales and sperm whales. Launching on 6 June as part of Into the Ocean: Journey Beneath, this large-scale three-screen work draws on footage from OceanX (a nonprofit initiative founded by Dalio Philanthropies), real whale vocalisations, marine science and real-time computing to offer a poetic exploration of how these animals navigate, communicate and perceive their world through sound.

Marshmallow Laser Feast’s final presentation at the end of this year is slated to be Poetics of Soil: Fly Agaric I, an immersive audiovisual artwork that reveals the underground ecosystems of soil, fungi and microorganisms that quietly sustain life on Earth from beneath the forest floor. The work blends cinematic imagery, spatial sound and mycological insights to reveal soil as a living, breathing network, and in so doing fosters a deeper ecological awareness of the unseen systems that sustain life on this planet.

The ArtScience Residency with Marshmallow Laser Feast and related public programming runs through mid-2027 and is funded in part by Dalio Philanthropies, which supports global initiatives across education, economic empowerment, arts and community, health and wellness, and the ocean.

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