I met Wu Ma at the thieves’ market in Georgetown. He’s 87. For the past 30 years, he’s been drawing pictures everyday. He rents a small shack where he lives alone. His neighbours watch out for him. When he dies, they will buy the coffin – ‘棺材! You know or not?’ – and burn his… Read more
I’ve been meaning to blog this forever. I spent the first 3 months of the year feeling stuck, and without a project to lose myself in, purposeless. So Zedeck and I started Activity Book, where I gave him things to write and he gave me things to draw, everyday. When Five Arts asked me to… Read more
I’ll be part of a dialogue session with artists Krisna Murti and Tad Ermitano this Sat, 9 Aug 2014, 2.30 – 4.30pm at Galeri Reka, National Visual Arts Gallery. This is one of the public programmes in conjunction with the Immaterial Frontiers 2.0 exhibition. (De)Coding Frontiers / Download App(reciation) In conjunction with the exhibition Immaterial Frontiers… Read more
In June, the Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur sent me and June Tan to Kinosaki for a symposium about reviving the Conference for Asian Women and Theatre, which was founded in Japan in 1992 but hasn’t seen any action since 2005. They asked us to write a report about our trip for Teman Baru, JFKL’s monthly… Read more
I’m showing my work ‘Pendatang/Arrivals: Pocket Seas‘ at Immaterial Frontiers 2.0, a group exhibition at the National Visual Arts Gallery. The work is from 2008, and was developed in Penang at the Malihom-RBS Artist in Residence programme. It’s never been exhibited in KL. I’m excited to put it together again and see what it means today!… Read more
