Shika, besides being an artist who has shown at the Singapore Biennale, a Nippon Foundation API (Asian Public Intellectual) scholar, a transgender activist, and a prolific blogger, designer, illustrator, and graffiti writer, is also lead singer for the Ting Tong Ketz. I watched them play a couple of weeks ago. ‘Pulang, marilah pulang, ke pangkal… Read more
When I think about last year, my mind turns to mash – I can’t remember if I did a thing five months ago, or two years ago. So I’ve been putting this off, because I don’t want to think about what that formlessness of time might mean. Why do the days of 2015 seem like… Read more
Here is a bumper pack of antidote drawings I didn’t manage to post before the year ended. I made one for the first day of the new year, and it’ll be the last one. They’ve served me well, now it’s time for something else. This was during the terrible slog of trying to produce the draft… Read more
This is an illustrated story documenting my time at Bersih 4, a street protest which took place from 2pm on 29 Aug 2015 to midnight the next day in Kuala Lumpur. It’s drawn in india ink on different kinds of paper, including a hotel letter and song sheets I saved from the protest. The original… Read more
Deadlines Deadlines Deadlines Deadlines Deadlines Deadlines No time no time no time no time. Late late late late late. Falling behind. Not keeping up. Stuck. What if you just let it take the time it takes? Where would it go if you let it go where it needed? ~ Antid Oto – italian for antidote… Read more
Thoughts about the exhibition ‘Be Careful Or You May Become The Centre‘ by Chong Kim Chiew, O, Kim and TOPY at Wei Ling Contemporary, 25 September – 30 November 2015. Update 23 Oct 2015: Check out Art KL-itique’s take on the show here. ~ (Shopping) Centre I went to Wei Ling Contemporary for the first… Read more
These are a collection of notes about Au Sow Yee’s exhibition ‘Habitation and Elsewhere‘ at Lost Generation Space in KL, from 1 – 23 Aug 2015. ~ Video Art I was dreading the show a little, and saw it on the last day. I don’t… like video art. 1) I find it boring and 2) I face… Read more
I drew this after the May Day rally in Kuala Lumpur, where I met Edward Low from MTAAG+. Now is a good time to post it because it was announced on 5 Oct 2015 that agreement has been reached on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement or TPPA. The TPPA is controversial because it’s being negotiated… Read more
