Gallery Children's Biennale 2025 Dance, learn and create with art

Singaporean contemporary artist Wyn-Lyn Tan's interactive art installation Dance Dance Chromatics invites you and your kids to create abstract digital paintings through movements at the Gallery Children's Biennale 2025.

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Upon entering the space, you are greeted by a looping sequence of Tan's nature-inspired abstract paintings.

Now, step and wave to activate the feet and hand sensors, à la the classic arcade game Dance Dance Revolution. This allows you to trigger up to eight visual effects, such as snowfall, misty clouds and aurora borealis.

Those who discover a specific dance sequence will be rewarded with a hidden "portal" effect onscreen — and the bragging title of dancing king or queen.

Originally trained in Chinese ink painting, Tan is inspired by the natural world and its unseen forces. Her artworks have been exhibited in Singapore, Norway, New York and Hong Kong.

"I've always likened my process of painting to dancing as I move around the canvas," the 50-year-old says of her interactive artwork. It is the composite of more than 1,000 images of her canvas paintings from the past decade, and put together with an artificial intelligence software.