Comments on: Graffiti Heroes: Part 2 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/20/graffiti-heroes-part-2/ Following Art Wherever It Goes | Sama-sama Ikut Seni Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:46:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tha-B http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/20/graffiti-heroes-part-2/#comment-89222 Tha-B Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:02:35 +0000 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=1213#comment-89222 Thanks Eva for this post! Tha-B Thanks Eva for this post!

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]]> By: Daniel http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/20/graffiti-heroes-part-2/#comment-412 Daniel Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:11:58 +0000 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=1213#comment-412 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=747_1240832889 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=747_1240832889

]]> By: admin http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/20/graffiti-heroes-part-2/#comment-253 admin Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:11:09 +0000 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=1213#comment-253 yoyoyoyocheckcheckcheckcheckkkkkchekkkchekitititit Danny Lim's doco on an anonymous political tagger "18?": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Gk7i4VYg4 There was also the Sharpard Farley-ish Obeylah during this period. The latest issue of Juice magazine has a special on the local graffiti too and features a panorama pic of the klang river megamural Street to White Cube Fizzie counts as this Vincent Leong's Tropical Paradise, a series of sprayed stencil wallpaper based on cliched motifs of SEA countries : http://somethinginnothing.blogspot.com/2009/02/tropical-paradise-rp830-jakarta.html Ise's DEB sign made from loanshark stickers Shaun Gladwell did an exhibition at VWFA featuring videos of Bukit Bintang street dancers battling it out. Each team was displayed on a PSP console. Central Annexe made a pretty show for the C.Market old timers. I guess they are kind of half half now considering their location. White Cube to Street Sharon did a glass display piece at a VWFA 3 Young Contemporaries. Video? There were the LRTs decorated by Chong Siew Ying and Jai She then when out to do performance art stuff. SauBin can dump link that KTM project and Stella Maris school project? I'm sure there's a whole lot of other stuff where gallery artist from 'outside', came 'in', went 'out', and 'in' again. My short kakiseni piece :P http://www.kakiseni.com/articles/features/MTI3Ng.html/all I prefer to see graffiti as something that goes beyond the aerosol stuff. It makes the story more universal. Check out the dugung drawing from Gua Tambun http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/2008/08/08/the-rock-art-of-gua-tambun/ About the documenting project, I suggests Central's Market Annexe ground floor men's toilet. I hope you'll also feature simple, minor and anonymous pieces. For example the Tiub Pancit phone numbers. You might also cover wider areas too if you give a prize for graffiti spotters or set up a flikr group request. From what I've seen, I think that most of the 'professional' and 'contemporary' street art is here looks as if it is still stuck in the 80s. Here are some other graffiti or street art stuff to check out http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ this is my fave character http://cyanatrendland.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/andre-grafitti.jpg Julian Beaver does 3D street art with humble chalk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byCZYdlzDyI Reverse graffiti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lX-2sP0JFw Adbusting/Brand Jacking/Subvertising/Detournement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmq-FfH7C6E&feature=fvsr Light graffiti how to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioiMlDhC_IU a lot more other stuff at the Graffiti Research Lab: projector bombing, laser graffiti, led throwies & floaties, video murals, led buildings...really makes us here look primitive-electro-retro I like it when a work makes intelligent use of a local feature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6xCT2aTSo Owl shadow http://citizen.nfb.ca/owl-shadow?dossier_nid=1112 Flash Mobbing/Happening/Improv/Street Performance grand central spectacular: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwJjjchGLXc local imitation, good effort lah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e4o4F0DvaI (A for effort) Did anyone notice the Shepard Farley Obama poster being hijacked by a recent Tiger Beer ad in the Star (Since when were beer ads okay BTW)? Street Art is not in the Malaysian Contemporary Art circle but it did get sucked into commercial and governmental institutions fairly quickly. While this may be an inevitable development for now, I do hope they will remember their origin as the Robin Hoods of art and keep their best work for the nameless man/woman on the street. DC yoyoyoyocheckcheckcheckcheckkkkkchekkkchekitititit

Danny Lim’s doco on an anonymous political tagger “18?”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Gk7i4VYg4
There was also the Sharpard Farley-ish Obeylah during this period.

The latest issue of Juice magazine has a special on the local graffiti too and features a panorama pic of the klang river megamural

Street to White Cube
Fizzie counts as this

Vincent Leong’s Tropical Paradise, a series of sprayed stencil wallpaper based on cliched motifs of SEA countries : http://somethinginnothing.blogspot.com/2009/02/tropical-paradise-rp830-jakarta.html

Ise’s DEB sign made from loanshark stickers

Shaun Gladwell did an exhibition at VWFA featuring videos of Bukit Bintang street dancers battling it out. Each team was displayed on a PSP console.

Central Annexe made a pretty show for the C.Market old timers. I guess they are kind of half half now considering their location.

White Cube to Street
Sharon did a glass display piece at a VWFA 3 Young Contemporaries. Video?

There were the LRTs decorated by Chong Siew Ying and Jai

She then when out to do performance art stuff.

SauBin can dump link that KTM project and Stella Maris school project?

I’m sure there’s a whole lot of other stuff where gallery artist from ‘outside’, came ‘in’, went ‘out’, and ‘in’ again.

My short kakiseni piece :P
http://www.kakiseni.com/articles/features/MTI3Ng.html/all

I prefer to see graffiti as something that goes beyond the aerosol stuff. It makes the story more universal. Check out the dugung drawing from Gua Tambun
http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/2008/08/08/the-rock-art-of-gua-tambun/

About the documenting project, I suggests Central’s Market Annexe ground floor men’s toilet. I hope you’ll also feature simple, minor and anonymous pieces. For example the Tiub Pancit phone numbers. You might also cover wider areas too if you give a prize for graffiti spotters or set up a flikr group request.

From what I’ve seen, I think that most of the ‘professional’ and ‘contemporary’ street art is here looks as if it is still stuck in the 80s.

Here are some other graffiti or street art stuff to check out
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/

this is my fave character
http://cyanatrendland.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/andre-grafitti.jpg

Julian Beaver does 3D street art with humble chalk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byCZYdlzDyI

Reverse graffiti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lX-2sP0JFw

Adbusting/Brand Jacking/Subvertising/Detournement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmq-FfH7C6E&feature=fvsr

Light graffiti how to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioiMlDhC_IU

a lot more other stuff at the Graffiti Research Lab: projector bombing, laser graffiti, led throwies & floaties, video murals, led buildings…really makes us here look primitive-electro-retro

I like it when a work makes intelligent use of a local feature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6xCT2aTSo

Owl shadow
http://citizen.nfb.ca/owl-shadow?dossier_nid=1112

Flash Mobbing/Happening/Improv/Street Performance
grand central spectacular: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwJjjchGLXc

local imitation, good effort lah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e4o4F0DvaI (A for effort)

Did anyone notice the Shepard Farley Obama poster being hijacked by a recent Tiger Beer ad in the Star (Since when were beer ads okay BTW)? Street Art is not in the Malaysian Contemporary Art circle but it did get sucked into commercial and governmental institutions fairly quickly. While this may be an inevitable development for now, I do hope they will remember their origin as the Robin Hoods of art and keep their best work for the nameless man/woman on the street.

DC

]]> By: saubin http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/20/graffiti-heroes-part-2/#comment-252 saubin Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:17:06 +0000 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=1213#comment-252 i am a bit old timer lah, still nostalgic with those at the abandoned house along jalan raja chulan, by Fizzi(?), during early 2000's, i think. and those around chowkit area. Last year, SeiHon has invited some of the graffiti artist in one secion of the SusurMasa show at the National Art Gallery, i think it was They plus co, i hope i got my fact right. Images include a submarine and a cheque in French Francs in the millions. i am a bit old timer lah, still nostalgic with those at the abandoned house along jalan raja chulan, by Fizzi(?), during early 2000’s, i think. and those around chowkit area.

Last year, SeiHon has invited some of the graffiti artist in one secion of the SusurMasa show at the National Art Gallery, i think it was They plus co, i hope i got my fact right.

Images include a submarine and a cheque in French Francs in the millions.

]]> By: Shao Loong http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/20/graffiti-heroes-part-2/#comment-249 Shao Loong Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:20:55 +0000 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=1213#comment-249 E, I suppose its possible for mortal foes to work together for fun and laughs. ;-> Sometime after this week when it's less crazeee. E, I suppose its possible for mortal foes to work together for fun and laughs. ;-> Sometime after this week when it’s less crazeee.

]]> By: admin http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/20/graffiti-heroes-part-2/#comment-248 admin Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:09:41 +0000 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=1213#comment-248 Shao Loong! We meet again, muahhahaha. Want to bomb around town with me taking pics of all the graffiti works and help me interview artists??? Let's do it. Shao Loong! We meet again, muahhahaha. Want to bomb around town with me taking pics of all the graffiti works and help me interview artists??? Let’s do it.

]]> By: Shao Loong http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/20/graffiti-heroes-part-2/#comment-245 Shao Loong Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:41:12 +0000 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=1213#comment-245 Simon - I'm game. Simon – I’m game.

]]> By: Simon http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/20/graffiti-heroes-part-2/#comment-244 Simon Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:29:03 +0000 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=1213#comment-244 Hey Shao Loong, Eva's recruiting an army of archivist to document graffiti in KL ya know, perhaps you could be of help if you're so inclined? Hey Shao Loong, Eva’s recruiting an army of archivist to document graffiti in KL ya know, perhaps you could be of help if you’re so inclined?

]]> By: Shao Loong http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/20/graffiti-heroes-part-2/#comment-237 Shao Loong Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:06:59 +0000 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=1213#comment-237 Haha. I was toying with a piece on KL graffiti around October last year, then I read your piece in OTE, and shelved my idea as redundant. Didn't realise that was you until now. Damn you, Eva M! One day... ;) Haha. I was toying with a piece on KL graffiti around October last year, then I read your piece in OTE, and shelved my idea as redundant. Didn’t realise that was you until now. Damn you, Eva M! One day… ;)

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