My experience at “2nd Beyond Pressure International Performance Art Festival” in Yangon, Myanmar. Published in Off The Edge, Feb 2010.
In December 2009 I found myself in Myanmar again, attending the 2nd Beyond Pressure Performance Art Festival. I was there for… Read more
Review of Liew Kwai Fei’s solo exhibition “Paintings for All Ages/Paintings with Extended Space”. Published in Off The Edge, Jan 2010.
If you attended public primary school in Malaysia, maybe you’ll remember a particular type of exercise book whose pages were divided in half – the top was… Read more
Performed at the 2nd Beyond Pressure Performance Art Festival in Yangon, Myanmar. On the benches of Sein Lan So Pyay garden, I laid out instructions and a pair of chopsticks. Taking volunteers in the audience by the hand, I led them each of them to a bench and bade them sit down. The instructions asked people to… Read more
Sapporo, the capital of Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, is one of the most livable cities in the world. In 2009, I spend 2 months there under the Japan Foundation’s JENESYS Creators’ Programme. The city has a wide river running through it. Each day I crossed its main bridge, Horohira-bashi, to get from my apartment to… Read more
Profile in Options, the lifestyle pullout of business paper The Edge Malaysia. A cover story featuring four women in the arts, including Bernice Chauly, Soraya Yusof Talismail and Yau Bee Ling. Read more
My experience at “1st Beyond Pressure International Performance Art Festival” in Yangon, Myanmar. Published in Off The Edge, April 2009.
The first time I heard about Beyond Pressure was when I met Moe Satt in February 2007, during his short residency in Malaysia… Read more
Illustrations for short stories, in collaboration with Zedeck Siew and Fahmi Fadzil. Showing total disregard for our last names, we credited the project like this: Zedeck Fadzil wrote the stories (in his very own handwriting); Sharon Siew drew the pictures (with her very own color pencils); and Fahmi Chin made the neat envelopes to put them… Read more
A conversation with Gabrielle Bates, published in the catalogue of my solo exhibition “Pendatang/Arrivals”.
Gabrielle Bates: Let’s start with the title of the show. I know that you struggled with finding a theme that would tie together all your concerns during this residency. Can you tell me how you came to settle on ‘Pendatang’… Read more
