http://www.arterimalaysia.com Following Art Wherever It Goes | Sama-sama Ikut Seni Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:48:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2010/02/12/musings-on-malaysian-blackface/ http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2010/02/12/musings-on-malaysian-blackface/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:00:42 +0000 editorial http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=6582 In America the use of blackface is cringe-worthy and condemned. In Malaysia it pops up everywhere...but what does it mean?]]> http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2010/02/12/musings-on-malaysian-blackface/feed/ 2 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/10/02/failing-history/ http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/10/02/failing-history/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:13:41 +0000 admin http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=4632 by Simon Soon A visit to Galeri Petronas's Changing Phases: Relative Spaces proves to be a disappointing encounter with a bland and politically correct account of modern Malaysia. They have failed history. ]]> http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/10/02/failing-history/feed/ 12 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/07/26/the-storyteller/ http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/07/26/the-storyteller/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:42:33 +0000 admin http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=3595 by Zedeck Siew Obituary: Yasmin Ahmad, 1958 - 2009 The dreamer, her films I didn't like, and why we will miss her.]]> http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/07/26/the-storyteller/feed/ 4 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/06/14/hot-shit-the-rock-kaka-thing/ http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/06/14/hot-shit-the-rock-kaka-thing/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:39:56 +0000 admin http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=2807 by Zedeck Siew On 4 June – or was it 3 June? – two gentlemen walked into Valentine Willie Fine Art KL. Their target: Fahmi Reza's Najib's Head Stolen From Billboard. Fahmi's Najib was behind yellow police tape. “So, basically it means that our PM is behind a crime scene, is it?”]]> http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/06/14/hot-shit-the-rock-kaka-thing/feed/ 5 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/05/30/how-clean-is-your-toilet/ http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/05/30/how-clean-is-your-toilet/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 05:57:08 +0000 editorial http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=2380 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 missing.]]> http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/05/30/how-clean-is-your-toilet/feed/ 1 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/05/29/regardant-la-peinture-secher-with-english-subtitles/ http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/05/29/regardant-la-peinture-secher-with-english-subtitles/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 17:15:58 +0000 admin http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=2297 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. ]]> http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/05/29/regardant-la-peinture-secher-with-english-subtitles/feed/ 14 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/05/25/pinned-labdnas-box-of-ideas/ http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/05/25/pinned-labdnas-box-of-ideas/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 18:42:59 +0000 admin http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=2183 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 ideas!]]> http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/05/25/pinned-labdnas-box-of-ideas/feed/ 1 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/05/08/worlds-ends-jovian-lims-voyages/ http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/05/08/worlds-ends-jovian-lims-voyages/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 11:39:15 +0000 admin http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=1663 by Simon Soon The Voyage To The Ends Of The World is an internalisation of the mythical heroic journey (think Joseph Campbell's idea of the monomyth), using the photographic medium to convey the emotional weight associated with an abstract passage towards self discovery. ]]> http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/05/08/worlds-ends-jovian-lims-voyages/feed/ 2 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/07/artist-the-meaning-purveyor/ http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/07/artist-the-meaning-purveyor/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:50:36 +0000 admin http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=920 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/04/07/artist-the-meaning-purveyor/feed/ 0 http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/03/23/question-time/ http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/03/23/question-time/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:23:35 +0000 admin http://www.arterimalaysia.com/?p=490 By Eva McGovern I would like to take the opportunity to use my inaugural contribution to contribute an editorial of sorts since I have very kindly been accepted as contributing editor for Arteri. This entry therefore is about a question. A question I have been trying to understand so I can posit it in a more sophisticated way. ]]> http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/03/23/question-time/feed/ 12