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Amir Muhammad: Maybe not dramatically, but psychologically. If we observe writers like Hamzah Hussein and A. Samad Said, they were formerly based in Singapore, and later moved here. This includes P. ...
A. Samad Said: There is a long poem written by Ahmad Kamal Abdullah. If I am not mistaken, the title is “Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur” and it was staged. So, to say that there are no (works talking abo...
Before I begin my presentation, I would like to play two short videos for the audience. The first video is “How do we meet? How can we meet?” (2016), a video I made during my residency in ...
Reading should be encouraged at all times, with an effort to promote books that are worthwhile and that enlarge the recruit’s facility to encounter the world of letters and great national proble...
What is numpang? A friend of mine has been living in a communal house for his whole life. Once he lived in and took care of the headquarters of an artist-run space in the south of Yogyakarta. He didn’...
From the depths of imagination and actual places traced by writers and theirs characters in literature, the city of Kuala Lumpur becomes alive, and will forever be so, with more 110 works of literatur...
…form and symbol of an integrated social relationship: it is the seat of a temple, the market, the hall of justice, the academy of learning. Here is where human experience is transformed into vi...
1. I like to use this symbol as a way to describe my art practice:
Relationship = self >< others
This can be read as a two-way relationship, a journey that travels back and forth. Often, I initi...
This is a monologue from Derek Jarman’s movie, Sebastiane:
Hail god of the golden sun
The heavens and Earth are united in gold
Comb your hair in the golden rays of light
In your hands the roses of ecs...
