Last Saturday, I ran a mask-making workshop at Balai Seni Visual Negara. Almost 200 young humans signed up for it, from national schools around Selangor and the capital. They came by the busload and crammed themselves into the foyer at the bottom of Balai’s spiral ramp, a copy of the Guggenheim’s in New York. I’m… Read more
Click image to enlarge and download. You’re free to share or print this image as many times as you like, for non-commercial purposes. ~ Ali Abdul Jalil is a student activist arrested under multiple charges of Sedition for allegedly insulting the Malaysian monarchy. He was arrested on 8 Sept, released later that day after posting… Read more
I’ve wondered what it was like to be grown-up during Operasi Lalang. I was 7 that year – truly a child of Mahatir, who came into power in 1981, and ordered the government crackdown on political dissidents and activists in 1987. Over a hundred people were arrested under the Internal Security Act, and many of… Read more
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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
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
Q & A between Sharon and Maryann about their collaboration ‘My Samsung, My Best Fiend’ for Samsung Masterpieces digital art platform. It was rejected based on legal grounds. Read about it here. Sharon: When I approached you with the idea of collaborating, I’d already done some research and found out about Samsung workers getting cancer.… Read more
