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Captains Log: Day 28

By Eva McGovern

A Very Belated Exhibition Review: With no land in sight audiences ask where is the Art? Jason Wee at Valentine Willie Fine Art 6-23 May 2009 challenges the viewer to think about borders, memory and the definition of photography but are they up to the [...]

Hazy Recollections of the Imagined and the Real

by Perforashyun Peh

Cycling as time travel. Our contributor looks back at another place, at another [...]

Poetic percussionists miss the mainstream

by Bilqis Hijjas

Hands Percussion has built a reputation for its high impact and high energy shows, with strong production values. This is what makes their most recent offering, Dreams in November, such a departure from the norm. It wasn’t that Hands Percussion failed to deliver, but that it delivered a different show than [...]

MAP: Melaka Art and Performance Festival 27-29 Nov

By ARTERI

We only recently heard about the Melaka Art and Performance Festival happening this weekend 27-29 November. There is an international line up of 23 performers, a film programme, interactive art installations and workshops. So bursting with excitement we wanted to share the love with you all! [...]

Talk the Walk

By ARTERI

Publication Project Launch Long overdue, a group of editors and writers are coming together to produce a substantial book on modern and contemporary Malaysian art with the working title: “Narratives in Malaysian Art”. Come to Rogue Art’s space 19 Jalan Berangan on Sat 5 Dec at 6pm to talk more about it! [...]

Musing Spaces

by Ho Rui-An

On Lost In the City, National Museum of Singapore: The works that leave the deepest impressions are those that articulately interrogate and contest its immediate surroundings, effectively constructing a new understanding of the tensions between a nation undecided about its existence and the museum that assumes its existence and documents its socio-historical [...]

The Space Gambus Experiment

by Yusuf Martin

Out of the canon of Kamal Sabran’s musical enterprises, this CD offers what may be his most accessible compositions, with a more direct focus on instrumental melodies, intertwined with electronic abstract [...]

Art Expo: Kids are hilarious

by Suraya Warden

For curators there’s not much that’s more satisfying than seeing children think about art. [...]

The Art Thief

by Simon Soon

Danger lurks in halls of Art Expo Malaysia. A thief who is pilfering blackberries and all things small and portable from the exhibitor desks. How cheap. Our editor talks about stealing art instead. Now, that’s more like [...]

Art Expo: Picky Pics

by Sharon Chin

Picks from my walk around the Malaysian galleries at Art Expo.

Totally non-objective, so come over (until 7.30pm today, Sun and 5pm tomorrow, Mon) and make up your own mind. [...]

Art Expo: Things that make you go ‘Yeah!’

by Suraya Warden

Profiling some works for all of you out there to have a taste of what’s at Art Expo, but come out here as it will certainly be better in the [...]

Lost and Found: Setting up Arteri’s Suitcase of Stuff

by Sharon Chin and Eva McGovern

Check out our version of The Making of ARTERI’s Booth and Suitcase of Stuff at Art Expo Malaysia 2009! [...]

Art Expo: V.I.P. Preview Night

by ARTERI

Art Expo held it’s VIP Preview Night on Wed, 18 Nov 2009. The guest of honour was Datuk Mukhriz bin Tun Dr. Mahathir, Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry. I learned a few things from the VIP speech. Click to know [...]

Chris Chong’s Karaoke (2009)

by Yin Shao Loong

Recently ARTERI was invited to a screening of Chris Chong Chan Fui’s ‘Karaoke’, the first Malaysian film in 14 years to make it to the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Read on to see what we think of [...]

If Hannibal Lecter was Malay

by Shahril Abdul Rani

Theatre review: Bilik Ahmad Berdaki

Being slapped, strangled, bitten and eaten are displays of both violent and sexual [...]