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Follow the Sound, don’t let it escape

by ARTERI

Listen! SiCKL Open Lab is back and features a line-up you won’t want to miss this Friday, 29 Jan @ 9pm.

We speak to Kok Siew Wai who reminds us why experimentation and openness will massage your spirit and your eardrums. [...]

Bangkok: The Agony and the Ecstasy

By Eva McGovern

Thai artist Maitree Siriboon’s exhibition Isarn Boy Soi 4 at Whitespace Gallery. An intoxicating total installation or better yet a self reflective temple/bordello/nightclub for the artist to pause on issues of culture and gender [...]

Flower Power

photo gallery by participants

The eighth church attacked as we write. To neutralise this atmosphere of mistrust and hate, the young people of Kuala Lumpur decided to stage a rally tomorrow by distributing flowers to the public at a busy intersection in town, noon last [...]

Interpreters of Dreams

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. [...]

Morning of the neo-Dalangs

by ARTERI

Interview with Fahmi Fadzil and Azmyl Yunor

Many mornings and many dawns. Wayang, our stories told through light and shadow, given a contemporary [...]

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! [...]

Penunu bunsen & Tabung Uji, baybeh!

by Sharon Chin

Art as laboratory: SiCKL is Studio in Cheras KL, an experimental art space run by a group of multi-disciplinary artists.

I speak to SiCKL co-founder Kok Siew Wai about experimenting, playing and uncertainty – things I wish I saw more of in art, Malaysian or [...]

Found in KL: Playin’ With Da Peepz

by the nutty giraffe

Pendatang halal chi too wants to play anak ayam, kejar-kejar, konda kondi with the people over at Dataran Merdeka at the end of each month. Here’s him giving our new contributor a low down his latest projek, ‘Main Dengan [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Intersection Vietnam: New Works from North & South

By Kelvin Chuah

Exhibition Review: When was the last time contemporary Vietnamese Art was featured in its entirety in Kuala Lumpur? I must confess that I am no expert in Vietnamese contemporary art. In a way, I was looking forward to what this exhibition had to offer, in terms of contemporary practice. Man, was I blown [...]

terra incognita et cetera

By Tintin Wulia

Blog entry by Indonesian artist Tintin Wulia sharing her 2009 performance project in Melbourne, ‘terra incognita et cetera’ which explores issues on territories, collective play and [...]

Suggestions: 2. Kite Flying In An Art Gallery

by CIPAN

Suggestions For Lunch Time Activities In KL For Busy Government Workers is back. Take note, work-worn and culturally-deficient members of the civil service: more irresistably stimulating activities for you!

Ahem. Episode 2: Kite Flying in an Art [...]