Agitprop > 2012

#bungaBERSIH

This started out as a yellow dress I made and wore during Bersih3.0, a momentous street protest calling for free and fair elections, held on 28 April 2012 in Kuala Lumpur. The dress was covered in hundreds of hand-sewn flowers, which I meant to give away during the rally. Before this could happen, authorities fired… Read more →
Press > 2012

Esquire Media Art Project

I took part in Esquire’s Media Art Project, for the Aug 2012 Artsty Farsty issue. My work for them was #bungaBERSIH, based on a yellow dress I wore during the Bersih3.0 street rally. Read more →
Objects, Installations & Videos > 2012

Patterns

A video poem made for 3.11: What is to be remembered?, a video art project by Spread Video Art 2 in Japan. All the video pieces were 3min 11sec long, in response to the 11 March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Zedeck Siew wrote the words: “The town that I live in is by the… Read more →
Press > 2012

Levi’s x ticTV Video

A cute video shot in my home/studio in Port Dickson, by Tongue in Chic. It’s a promo for jeans. (I got a free pair of jeans.) But I also talk about moving away from the city, art as play and personal style. Includes cameos of my cats. Read more →
Objects, Installations & Videos > 2012

Portable Sensors

An updated and portable version of “Sensors“, an interactive installation based on statistics of banned books in Malaysia. The buzzwires — central to the 2007 series — are now housed in sleek black boxes and powered by batteries. Each is fully functional; comes with a high-pitched buzzer and bright signal light; and is designed to… Read more →