Still Afloat

Song-Ming Ang

Tanjong Pagar MRT Passageway to Exit G
Public outdoor work. Accessible at all times.

Artist impression, courtesy of artist

A music video set in Singapore 60 years from now, Still Afloat speculates on an image of the city and the aspirations of a future populace. Using a combination of text prompts and AI -generated content, the work imagines scenes in which environmental and economic changes have transform the landscape and way of life of its inhabitants. Still Afloat plays with the tropes of resilience and aspiration, adopting the familiar, uplifting characteristics of anthemic pop music while its lyrics convey less-optimistic depictions of a world that appears both nostalgic and futuristic, real and fictional.

Launched in two phases, a visual storyboard and weblink to the music serve as a teaser to the final music video which will be launched in mid-2026 through a series of guerilla screenings.

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About the Artist

Song-Ming Ang works between Berlin, Germany and his home country Singapore, bringing together his interests in the everyday, conceptual art and experimental music. Making art and music from the perspective of an amateur, his works moves across disciplines and diverse media, often adopting varied tones and styles to elude classification, while creating idiosyncratic ways of learning and making. Song-Ming represented Singapore at the 58^th Venice Biennale (2019) with the solo presentation Music for Everyone: Variations on a Theme. His work has also been presented at the 14^th Istanbul Biennial (2015), 4^th Aichi Triennale (2019), Camden Art Centre (London), The High Line (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin).