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The Pulse Within

Gallery: With The Pulse Within, Sopheap Pich has looked deep into himself – and also into the psyche of Cambodia – to investigate the troubling currents swirling beneath the surface of daily [...]

Event: KL PHOTOAWARDS FLASHBACK!!

By ARTERI

Sat 6 Feb: In the run up to the KL PHOTOAWARDS 2010, we bring you a reunion of the photographers who participated in last year’s competition, the finalists, the judges and much much [...]

Perhaps It Was Possibly Because

Gallery: To truly discover the camera one must, in Wawi Navarroza’s words, “unlearn the ropes,” start from scratch, the utter violence of beginning once again. [...]

This ain’t no beauty pageant!

By Eva McGovern

Is contemporary art in KL just a beauty pageant of images? [...]

Menyulam Sejarah (Quilting History)

Galeri Seni: “Menyulam Sejarah” menampakkan citraan yang bersumber dari fragmen foto-foto arsip masa-masa awal republik Indonesia. Ia menggunakan jalinan benang yang dirajut / disulam membentuk siluet potret para tokoh perjuangan dan juga kejadian-kejadian pada masa pembentukan republik [...]

Love worth declaring

by ARTERI

The lack of open adoration for filmmakers, films, scenes, dialogue, masked by a desire for objectivity and impartiality in critical writing is perhaps what Love Letters hope to undo, with contributors coming out to simply write little vignettes of affection. Mawkish, tender, amorous, [...]

POLL TER-CUN TER-BEST TER-AWESOME Pt. 1

oleh ARTERI

Panas! Panas! Panas sekali! Marilah kita bersama-sama mengundi poll2 khas yang disediakan untuk para pembaca ARTERI untuk menentukan siapa dan apa yang ter-kool dalam dunia seni kita [...]

Follow the Sound, don’t let it escape

by ARTERI

Listen! SiCKL Open Lab is back and features a line-up you won’t want to miss this Friday, 29 Jan @ 9pm.

We speak to Kok Siew Wai who reminds us why experimentation and openness will massage your spirit and your eardrums. [...]

Dia Nabi Isa

‘poem’ by Hamba Allah

Sing-a-long!

Bermain-main dengan tuhan, nabi, ratu dan rock: re-thinking and re-imagining the popular 90s Search song [...]

BANG or Whimper?

by Simon Soon

If the local art market has played such a crucial role for the past ten years, its future as an influence on the creative direction of the country remains uncertain. As we enter a new decade, we need to ask, ‘Can the market remain relevant to contemporary art?’ [...]

Reviewed: The emergence of Malaysia

by Yusuf Martin

Whether it is Zulkifli Yusoff’s abstract expressionism or his latterly Pop Art influenced works, there is a delicious thread of humour, or downright cheekiness, which seems to unite what, otherwise, might appear as a disparate collection of the artist’s [...]

A Letter from Burma

poem by Maung Day
photos by Sharon Chin

Hello brother, how are you
And how is your work?
For me everything is fine [...]

SENTAP returns

by ARTERI

We can hardly contain ourselves! SENTAP, Malaysia’s coolest magazine on contemporary art, returns after two years of hiatus. Here’s where you can procure a copy of your [...]

Copycats?

By Eva McGovern

How and where do we draw the line between appropriation, recycling and derivation from other sources in Malaysian Contemporary Art? [...]

Plastic Fantastic Kisses

By Eva McGovern

Looking at Indonesian photographer Angki Purbandono’s work at Richard Koh Fine Art many months ago inspired me to think about how photography expands and challenges fixed notions about [...]