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 by Zahirah Suhaimi The recent controversy sparked by Chinese film, City of Life and Death by director Lu Chuan, has compelled me to mull over the challenges with establishing a universally accepted perception and use of the freedom of expression. In allowing alternative views and creative opinions, can we ever find a way to manage the precarious balance between censorship and [...]  by Alex Yong Possibilities of Maybes, 22 May – 21 June 2009 @ Threesixty Art Development Studio Sightings at the opening of this group show featuring Edroger Cassidy, Mohd Saharuddin Supar, Mohd Yusoff Erman Shah, Ahmad Syakir Hasim, Mohd Fuad Md Arif, and Nadhirah [...]  by Bilqis Hijjas This is a musical of how Prince Siddhartha became the Buddha — a figure whose contribution to humankind, according to the musical, was to teach them to turn away from transient and material happiness, towards more eternal themes. But when his tale of modesty is told with all the pomp and circumstance that can possibly be mustered, doesn’t the term “Buddhist musical” seem an [...]  by Bilqis Hijjas On the way to see director Loh Kok Man’s new version of his work now entitled Toilet, I was expecting lots of grit and grime, blood and guts all over the walls, grotesquerie and grimness. What I found was altogether different: light polished vignettes, all scrubbed and disinfected. And while I enjoyed the production in the end, I couldn’t help feeling that something was [...]  By Eva McGovern On the last day of a recent trip to Manila, we went to see Nilo Ilarde’s exhibition Cold Cuts at gallery/cafe Mag:net in Quezon City. Ilarde is a mid career conceptual artist and curator known for his artistic interventions of internal gallery architecture. [...]  by Chi Too There’s nothing like directing your first French film, which is the epitome of “serious” art house filmmaking. Produced specially for ARTERI, Chi Too’s Regardant La Peinture Secher (Watching Paint Dry) is humourously dedicated to the love of paint. [...]  by Simon Soon Paiman’s drawing installation begins with the discipline of a daily exercise, routinely selecting a verbatim from a published mainstream media source that would best represent the political development of the day. He then types them on the entry page of the appropriate date from an Islamic diary and pairs them with a doodle of his mutant comic figures that are largely devoid of any political [...]  by Alex Yong Sightings at the opening of Nor Azizan Rahman Paiman’s Malaysia-365 Days of 2008 Exhibition ongoing between 14 – 29 May 2009 @ Wei-Ling [...]  by Alex Yong Sightings at the opening of Natural, a show of new paintings by Munkao and Saharil Hasrin Sanin Exhibition ongoing between 14 – 31 May 2009 @ The Annexe [...]  by Sharon Chin Greetings from Sapporo! It’s one week into my 2-month residency at S-AiR, although it feels like months have passed. It’s amazing how much living you can fit into a few days when you’re away from your usual surroundings. The city is beautiful – full of parks, flowers, trees and big sidewalks where you can bike around without fear of being run over. The pace here is slow and gentle, although the wind is much less so – it feels like it’s blowing down from directly from the icy [...]  by ARTERI ARTERI & The Annexe Gallery are delighted to present a talk by Phoebe Wong from the Asia Art Archive (http://www.aaa.org.hk). In this informal talk, Phoebe will introduce the role that AAA plays as an archival organisation for contemporary art in Asia. Thu 28 May, 8pm; free [...]  by ARTERI Announcement: The Box of Ideas is packaged and priced as a cigarette box. But instead of 20 nicotine fixes, you get 100 ideas from artists, activists and other agent provocateurs. It will be promoted via luscious cigarette girls+boys embedded in social events throughout Kuala Lumpur from 27 June 2009. Submit your [...]  by Zedeck Siew In the spirit of sharing: If you are an observer in any capacity of the videogame industry, 2008’s Braid was hailed as a significant milestone for the games-are-art argument. It’s easy to see why: painterly visuals and ingenious, spare gameplay mechanics — which tie into the game’s primary meditation: time, or our longing to reverse past [...]  by Haseena Abdul Majid There is a quiet sense of resignation to reality and dissatisfaction with chaos in Haslin Ismail’s recent exhibition Exorcismus Persona at RA Fine Arts. His surrealist approach covers various mediums, from painting, assemblage, mixed media, installations and handmade [...]  By Nazim Esa Bernard Chauly’s cross-cultural approach to his artistic discourse spans across theater, film, television and now, the visual arts; in this podcast interview, he talks about love, his work in the recent Light Show 2009 exhibition, and cooking! Now with nifty photographic [...] |
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