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I. PETAMU Project and Nusantara Archive
The word “PETAMU” is taken from the colloquial use of “your map” (peta kamu) in the Malay language. In this project, we attempt to use the lingua fr...
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“Asia” has a multiplicity of perspectives distributed in its many corners and these perspectives continuously interact with one another over time. If one such corner represents the western- centric ...
“Bahasa Jiwa Bangsa,” a propaganda slogan that emerged in the 1960s aiming at advocating people to use Malay as the national language in Malaysia, resonates Adeline Ooi and Beverly Yong’s findings of ...
Founded in 1922 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Taman Siswa was an alternative school to the Dutch colonial education system. Its teaching method is called “Among” (means ‘education’...
The Sea
There are stories about the ocean as well as poems, songs, lyrics. The ocean as life enabling, as mysterious, as powerful. Full of resources. “All of this is now at risk, however, of dying, as...
The symposium “Reality in its Double Bind: Emotional Signifiers in the Undercurrents of History” held in Kuala Lumpur from December 8th to 10th in 2017 was an extension of the curatorial project of Th...
Theatre is a medium that accounts for memory and translates it to an audience. With every act of accounting, there is a necessary gap that occurs—it is studying the space in this gap that allows us to...
I, The History of the South Pacific According to the Japanese Empire
Before the Japanese invasion of Malaysia in 1941, a travelogue titled Nanpo no Kankaku (Sense of South), by writer Munetaka Terashi...
