
by chi too
ARTERI editor Simon Soon has taken on a new project as curator for a fortnightly photography column by Popwire, Malaysia’s hot new crowd-sourced news wire. W.Gallery debuts with filmmaker/conceptual artist chi too’s you and me put the ‘you’ and ‘me’ in ‘you and me’ (part two of many) aka where are you on a day like [...]

‘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 [...]

poem by Maung Day
photos by Sharon Chin
Hello brother, how are you
And how is your work?
For me everything is fine [...]

by Ribut di Kuala Lumpur
KUALA LUMPUR, 7 Jan – Wizards of the Coast (WC), creator of the once-popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering, has launched a new series of cards that it believes will reach out and tap into a new breed of [...]

by Varsha Nair
2nd Beyond Pressure Performance Art Festival: “The point… is that dreams never come true”. Drinking tea on street corners, the strangeness and familiarity of Yangon, explaining performance art to officials and pressure as part and parcel of life. [...]

by Joseph Ravens
2nd Beyond Pressure Performance Art Festival: I was to be the first performance artist from America to show work in the very first public performance art exhibition in Myanmar. I felt honored, lucky, and a little intimidated to take part in such a monumental [...]

by Sharon Chin
‘You ask Star Enterprise first. If you can’t find it here, it can’t be found’.
Here’s Part II of our feature on Star Enterprise, a well-known stationary shop in Taman Tun Dr Ismail. More pictures and a short interview with founder and owner Mrs. Tan, who seems to get younger every [...]

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

by Sharon Chin
Ever since ARTERI began I wanted to do a photo gallery of Star Enterprise. It’s the stationary shop and stuffed treasure trove I’ve been digging in since I was a little kid. [...]

by Mariana Isa
Conservation statement on Pudu Jail written as part of an MSc thesis. It outlines the historical and architectural significance of Pudu and touches on issues of legislation and real estate value. An invaluable document available for download here on ARTERI. [...]

by Silent Wall Project
A group of passionate people started The Silent Wall project to document the famous Pudu Jail murals. They managed to capture the entire wall before demolition works started, which they also recorded.
In their own words and images, they talk about the wall and what it means to them. [...]

By ARTERI
Ok ok the Malaysian Art Dictionary or M.A.D is back after a brief hiatus! Thank goodness I hear you all crying. And today’s letter is the fabulous, foolish, foppish, fishy letter F. [...]

by Zedeck Siew
This week on Sightings:
Pray n’ spray. Graffiti in Bangsar celebrates personal salvation of the radical kind. [...]

by Zedeck Siew
This week on Sightings:
Parliament’s sudden take-over by a burst of bad taste. Democracy, how do I love thee? Let me count the flags.
One, two, three, four, five, six … ah, forget it. [...]

by Dill Malik
I am proud of my grandfather. So proud of him that I wanted to be just as great. News then broke out – he no longer remembers me.
Koge does not remember [...]
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