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Ulasan: Konser Imaji

oleh Nirwan Ahmad Arsuka

Selain deretan karya yang sungguh beraneka ragam dan dikerjakan dalam kurun dua dekade lebih dari mungkin perupa terpenting Indonesia saat ini, penghargaan memang harus juga diberikan ke pelaksanaan pameran, Still Crazy After All These [...]

Scandinavian Sambal: UNCUT09

by Sharon Chin

Interview with Amir Zainorin and Nur Hanim Khairuddin on UNCUT09: the first ever Malaysian Arts Festival in Denmark. Featuring workshops, dance performances, forums, screenings and an art exhibition (with paintings by National Laureate A. Samad Said @ Pak [...]

Making Art in the 21st Century

by ARTERI

David Pledger, who is currently on a residency programme in Instant Cafe’s spanking new art space, CHAI, will be holding 2 evenings of public [...]

Deconstructing Liew Kung Yu’s ‘Cadangan-cadangan untuk negaraku’

by Latif Kamaluddin

A circumvention of Liew Kung Yu’s recent series via an uninterested exercise of visual ethnographic [...]

Can’t get more Singaporean than that

By June Yap

After watching visual artist Brian Gothong Tan’s first foray into feature film-making, Invisible Children (2008), it took a while for me to pin down exactly what I felt about the work – a ordinary sensation, but remarkable [...]

D.I.Y – Doof it yourself – contest

by ARTERI

I wouldn’t call a Doof a beanbag, it might get mad at me. Say instead: the plushest, loveliest thing your body will come into contact with (except maybe another body). Here’s a chance to take one home for FREE with the GET DOOF QUICK SCHEME #2. Read on! [...]

Declare Independence :)

Photos by Jun Kit
Words by Simon Soon

So much is achieved in one grueling, enlightening and fun-filled week of championing sexuality rights over at the Annexe gallery. Here are some photographic evidences. [...]

Paper Moons, Dreams and Shoes for Walking

By ARTERI

An evening of magical realism, story telling, puppetry, total installation, suspension of disbelief and contemporary fairy tales by Iwan Effendi and Maria Tri Sulistyani at Valentine Willie Fine Art KL. [...]

A Case of Art Writing

by Simon Soon

Art writing in Malaysia gets its fair share of flak from informed audience all the time. Here’s one reason: Writers think readers are too stupid to understand so called ‘difficult [...]

Videos of Performance Lab on 7 Aug 09

by Simon Soon

Last Friday’s Performance Lab at Findars Space featured renown artist/poet Rahmat Haron and Poodien as well as Taring Padi member [...]

Walking against the ISA: two videos

by Sharon Chin

On 1 Aug 2009, I joined 20,000 other Malaysians in a peaceful protest march against the Internal Security Act, a law that allows for detention without trial for indefinite periods of time. Here are two videos documenting the [...]

Home is where the art is

by Sharon Chin

A visit to Instant Cafe Theatre’s new home – CHAI House, or Instant Cafe’s House of Art and Ideas. With white paint fresh on the walls, the airy one-storey bungalow in Petaling Jaya was glowing with optimism and possibility. Read on for a photo tour and more on the exciting things planned for this great new space. [...]

Project In Focus: Birdprayers by Sara Nuytemans and Arya Pandjalu

By Eva McGovern

Birdprayers is an ongoing multi site, multidisciplinary project that combines performance, exhibitions and talks by artists Sara Nuytmans (The Netherlands) and Arya Pandjalu [...]

Musings on exhibition making: a response to two

By June Yap

Two different exhibitions opened on the same evening and venue early August 2009: The Air Conditioned Recession: A Singapore Survey organised by Valentine Willie Fine Art, and Curating Lab: 100 Objects (Remixed) organised by the National University of Singapore (NUS) [...]

TLG Graffiti Gallery!

By Eva McGovern

TLG is a new graffiti art movement screaming through the streets of KL. It stands for talangjan which in this cases means producing the best of the best graffiti art in Malaysia that doesn’t imitate but innovates its own unique local style. ARTERI present a graffiti image gallery of the movement’s most recent work. [...]