Prince Claus Fund: Endurance
Interview with Val Dechev of Prince Claus Fund about art, activism and being part of 2024’s CAREC (Cultural and Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis) programme. Published May 2025. Read more
Tag Archives: art + activism
Defend Lena Hendry
Lena Hendry is Programme Coordinator at Pusat KOMAS, a human rights organization that uses popular media to empower and educate communities. In September 2013, she was charged by the Malaysian government under the Film Censorship Act for screening a documentary, No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka. It’s the first time the law… Read more
118 White Elephant
My white elephant telegraphing poop remotely from Port Dickson for 118 White Elephant Street Action, happening NOW in front of Menara DBKL. Menara Warisan is a 118-storey ‘mixed development’ mega tower slated to begin construction soon on a heritage site that includes Stadium Merdeka, Stadium Negara, Merderka Park, graveyards and houses of worship. It will… Read more
New brog! One Person, Bersih3.0, and Using Art
Hello dear readers, I spent the weekend trying to write this blog so it could go up yesterday. You see, I had A PLAN. Mondays I would post updates from the frontlines of Making Art Happen – all the stuff that goes on in my head and heart. I would call it Makenarten Mondays. Wednesdays I would… Read more
Posters for Bersih 2.0
A series of posters designed to support the Bersih 2.0 rally held on 9 July 2011 in Kuala Lumpur. Zedeck Siew contributed to the text and Fahmi Fadzil to the Bahasa Malaysia translations. Bersih is a non-partisan coalition of NGOs advocating for free and fair elections in Malaysia. The movement has become a catalyst for widespread social change in the… Read more
