I’ll be chatting with performance artist, writer and curator Intan Rafiza about ‘Mandi Bunga‘, my 2013 collaborative performance where I bathed in public with a hundred people. We’ll talk about: Observing and taking part in protest movements (focusing on Bersih 2.0 and 3.0 and other mass movements worldwide around 2011 – 2012) The importance the… Read more
My installation ‘Pendatang/Arrivals: Pocket Seas Series‘ (2008) is part of Afterwork, an exhibition about migration, class and labour in Asia. Afterwork 18 Dec 2016 – 16 Apr 2017 Ilham Gallery Levels 3 & 5, Ilham Tower No. 8, Jalan Binjai 50450 Kuala Lumpur Opening hours: Tues – Sun 11am – 7pm, closed on Mondays ~… Read more
Documentation of ‘Mandi Bunga/Flower Bath‘ is currently showing at National Visual Arts Gallery in Retrospektif Biennale, an exhibition of artworks that have been in included in biennales around the world. An art biennale (or biennial) is a large-scale exhibition/festival surveying contemporary art forms, trends and developments, occurring once every two years. ‘Biennial’ comes from the… Read more
I wrote ‘When Everyone Does Everything: Crossing Disciplines and the Predicament of Wearing Many Hats in Malaysian Art’ for Narratives in Malaysian Art, ‘a four-volume publication project that attempts to gather knowledge and perspectives on the history, practice and infrastructure of visual art in Malaysia.’ Narratives in Malaysian Art Volume 3: Infrastructures is edited by… Read more
‘Whalebone & Crabshell‘, a fable that Zedeck wrote in response to the Rohingya refugee crisis in 2015 is reprinted in two different anthologies, along with the illustrations I drew for it. The first is Dark Mountain: Issue 9, an anthology of uncivilised writing and art. Co-founded by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine in the UK,… Read more
Local Fauna (in progress!): Linocut Prints by Sharon Chin 23 July – 14 August 2016 Run Amok Gallery within Hin Bus Depot Art Centre 31, Jalan Gurdwara, 10030 Georgetown, Penang Open Tues – Sun, 12 – 7pm ~ A pair of elephants, departing. An eagle in a tree, yearning to be free. Terrapins with soup-bowl… Read more
Two-way Mirror: An exhibition of photography from performance art led by Daniela Beltrani. 22 July to 13 August 2016. Lower Gallery, Objectifs, 155 Middle Road S188977, Singapore. I am part of this intriguing exhibition about performance art and photography Read more
The third and final story for my illustrated journalism project ‘In The Land That Never Was Dry’ is now published on Medium. It is complex story about how people interact with land and water in a Sarawak village – from politicians and corporations to volunteers and visitors. The name is a strange, heavy gift. Like the unfinished… Read more
