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Hi! Sharon here. This website is a bit broken at the moment – if you click around and can’t find what you’re looking for, please know that I’m fixing it. For now, please head over to: https://smokesignals.sharonchin.com/ where I send out an email newsletter every few weeks. Read more
The author and illustrator of ‘Creatures of Near Kingdoms’, Zedeck Siew & Sharon Chin will share about how moving from the city to a smaller town brought them closer to animals and plants; at the same time, landed them 200m away from an oil refinery. Read more
Proposal for a Collective Decision-making Model for the Visual Arts Community in Malaysia < Draft 01, 17 May 2018 > This proposal calls for visual artists and art practitioners to assemble in self-organized groups based on affiliation or locality, known as Sidang Lokal (Local Assemblies), to discuss issues directly affecting them. It then calls for… Read more
I will be moderating a roundtable discussion called ‘Who Needs Curators?’ as part of “Sindikat Kurator di Penang”. “Sindikat Kurator di Penang” is a 2-day curatorial forum stemmed from the “Sindikat Campursari” exhibition under the umbrella project of “Condition Report” organised by the Japan Foundation Asia Center. Read more
Hell Heaven is a fund-raising exhibition for Sisters in Islam (SIS), an NGO which works in advocacy, law reform and promoting justice for women in Muslim societies. They run a legal aid clinic that helps women in need of advice on Islamic family law. I contributed a set of signs I made and carried during the Bersih 5 protest, held on 19 Nov 2016 in Kuala Lumpur. Read more
