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the recording of MacRitchie Treetops is part of an art installation titled Cryptocartography, where i retell an account of meeting a squatting community in the MacRitchie reserves who've developed a different way of communicating amongst each other and their environment, through smell and touch.

the exhibition at the time of writing is presently exhibited at UltraSuperNew Gallery Singapore, along Rowell Rd, Singapore. the story is part of a larger body of work titled 'isolated futures', which details imagined communities in the future who have reconfigured existing technologies to develop new approaches to survival, being and beliefs.

isolated futures #2 / MacRitchie Treetops

bani haykal experiments with text + music.

Encompassing several disciplines including installation and performance, his interest lies at the intersection of data politics, music and speculative fiction. Working with a broad range of instruments, from acoustic to digital, traditional and hacked, his projects revolve around modes of interfacing and interaction. He is a member of b-quartet and Soundpainting ensemble Erik Satay & The Kampong Arkestra.

As an artist and a musician, Haykal has participated in festivals including Media/Art Kitchen (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Japan), Liquid Architecture, RRREC FEST (Indonesia), da:ns Festival and The M1 Fringe Festival (Singapore) among others.

isolated futures #2 / MacRitchie Treetops

bani haykal

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