by Eva McGovern
KL graffiti collective TLG is getting some love from ARTERI. Here’s a shout out on some of the video documentations of their work in this fair city of [...]
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Following art wherever it goes.
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 by Zedeck Siew This week on Sightings: Pray n’ spray. Graffiti in Bangsar celebrates personal salvation of the radical kind. [...]  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. [...]  By ARTERI A round up of this week’s exhibition openings and closings in KL. So many works, shows, and people to see, get yer skates on, its going to be a busy 7 days for the Art World! [...]  By ARTERI Talk with local and international graffiti artists as part of Art and Knowledge Tour 09. Sunday 5 July, 8-10pm, Annexe Gallery. Organised by the Young Muslims Project, and the British Council, [...]  By Eva McGovern With names such as They, The Kioue, Tha-B, The A80s, The Damis, Mile09, F-code, Jo Tribe, Phobia Klik and Vector Crew to name a few of the pyseudonyms, graffiti artists in KL are committed to their practice. The largest and longest and perhaps most well know ‘gallery’ of their work used to be the along the banks of the Klang River by Pasar Seni LRT. Beginning in 2006 it soon became an organised project with artists being invited to contribute which eventually led to 300 meters of artwork on display by over 30 artists. [...]  By Eva McGovern Graffiti. Is it art or is just vandalism? Perhaps by now, after numerous articles in the popular media have posed this question some answers need to be provided. Even better, a realisation that this is actually the wrong question to ask. A more interesting one could be to consider whether or not graffiti is strong enough as an art form to function within mainstream contemporary art. Or is its recognition and respect only to be found within its own alternative sub [...]  by Simon Soon Some nights ago, traveling back from another night out in town, the train took me on the wrong direction. Changing tracks at an outer burrough stop, I listened to an animated young boy, who couldn’t have been older than 20, talking to a stranger, who sat beside him, about his kids. When the train arrived, it took us mid-way through a tunnel beneath the river and stopped dead on its tracks for a good half hour. That was where, with no devise in mind, I let time slip through, bearing much irritation and [...] |
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