Domestic Smuggling
A conversation (and some memes) about carrying culture across East and West Malaysia with artist Jesse Joy Read more
Category Archives: Writing by Me
River, Key, Door
An essay about Ayuh, Merapat! Assemble, Now! – a proposal for a decentralized collective decision-making model for the visual arts community in Malaysia. Published in SEARCH vol.1: Independence in December 2021. Read more
Make Money with Money, Make Art with Art
An essay for Chong Kim’s Chiew’s solo exhibition ‘Make Money with Money, Make Art with Art’, 24 Sep – 17 Oct 2021 at A+ Works of Art. Read more
Am I Chinese? – Notes on Chong Kim Chiew’s Isolation House (2005 – 2017) at A+ Works of Art
Disclosure: the proprietors of A+ Works of Art have previously purchased my work Chong Kim Chiew, Isolation House (2005) at Rumah Air Panas ~ I’m late. Sentul, like Cheras or Kepong or Shah Alam, makes me anxious – a result of mere unfamiliarity, which I suppose you could say defines the Malaysian condition. Waze sends… Read more
Notes on Liew Kwai Fei’s “Siapa Dia Tong Sam Pah? 我的名字哈苏丹。You Look F**king Funny Lah!”
I’ve known and loved Kwai Fei’s works for almost a decade. Painting Suite (2008), a triptych* of his earliest minimalist geometric paintings hangs in my bedroom. [* A triptych is a set of three separate works that are meant to be seen together as one complete work. A diptych would be a set of two separate… Read more
