Essay published in the catalogue of Amir Zainorin’s solo exhibition “Subject To Change”.
Amir is someone I’ve yet to meet in person. I know him only through email, blogs, Facebook and a parcel containing catalogues and a DVD of his work he… Read more
A collaborative performance project about health and the city, performed in Berlin, with fellow artists Karla Sachse, Varsha Nair, Deeksha Nath, Lilian Kim Lucas, Aaron Schwarnagel and Simon Troll. Presented as part of MERIDIAN | URBAN – Curatorial Projects on Health by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Images by Saskia Nagel, Christoph Scheierke and Susanne Ahne. From… Read more
A series of posters designed to support the Bersih 2.0 rally held on 9 July 2011 in Kuala Lumpur. Zedeck Siew contributed to the text and Fahmi Fadzil to the Bahasa Malaysia translations. Bersih is a non-partisan coalition of NGOs advocating for free and fair elections in Malaysia. The movement has become a catalyst for widespread social change in the… Read more
Profile in Esquire Malaysia’s June 2011 The Issue with Women, featuring eight women in different careers, including Azrina Jane Abdullah, Daphne Iking, Nandita Solomon, Tiara Jacquelina, Elizabeth Wong, Zainah Anwar and Faridah Merican. Words and photographs by Bernice Chauly. Read more
A discussion between Tony Godfrey, Tessa Guazon, Alan Oei, Agung Hujatnikajennong and myself, about art curating in the region. Published in Broadsheet Magazine (Issue 40.1). Read more
A series of drawings and collages to accompany my 2010 solo exhibition ‘All Together Now: Conversations Without End’. These works explore the conumdrum of language in Malaysia, and how these questions are embedded in the body. They express confusion, shame and loss. Read more
Article about my solo exhibition All Together Now: Conversations Without End. By Hari Azizan, published in The Star, 23 May 2010.
I invite people to have a drink with me. We use plastic cups, connected by string. After we have toasted each other, we stretch out the string and I tell them to scream or laugh as loud as they can into the cup. I listen to them through my end — if I hear them… Read more
