Arts@SBG presents Giggling Greens: A public artwork created with visitors to the Singapore Botanic Gardens

Date: 15 - 31 March 2025

Time: 7:00am - 10:00pm daily

Venue: Green Pavilion (near Botany Centre drop-off/ Tanglin Gate)

 

Plants and people are connected in ways that modern urban life makes us forget. Our interactions with plants are at times limited to placing a bouquet of flowers in a vase to brighten up a room. But what if you were invited to brighten up a plant’s day by tickling, watering or spraying it?

Conceived by artist-scientist Isabelle Desjeux, Giggling Greens exhibits some of Singapore’s common edible and fragrant plants for a quirky and light-hearted interaction with the public.

In this public art installation, appreciate our everyday local herbs and aromatics such as galangal, Thai basil, curry leaf, ulam raja, pengaga, laksa leaf, lemon grass and more. Connect deeper and strike a chord with the plants – touching and watering them will elicit a chorus of giggles, contributed by the public during an earlier workshop.

Laughter is often the start of a meaningful relationship: hearing the plants giggle will remind you of their importance to human life, and help you to remember to recognise and care for them.

A public artwork co-created with visitors to the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

The Giggling Greens team gets together to create artworks that use technology to connect people with their local flora and fauna, tackle environmental concerns and inspire positive action.