Sudden Death, performed as part of the final Improv Lab @ Findars’ Space, took place on Thursday 6 August 2009.

Mark Teh’s letter of invitation to friends who came to participate in this event notes, ‘Many people continue to be deeply outraged and troubled by the circumstances of Beng Hock’s death, as well as that image of him lying on the roof.  Some of us who went to the Kelana Jaya rally that weekend came away even more disturbed.  Many of the Pakatan speakers politicised his death (what else were they supposed to do?) because they saw it in a long line of events that included Kugan, Altantuya, Khir Toyo’s house, PKFZ., etc.  

‘But somewhere between the sloganeering and easy equations (“vote BN out at the elections!”), and the spin by mainstream media, Teoh Beng Hock really stopped existing.  He became abstracted, like the other 1,804 people who have died in custody since 2003.  (Read Zedeck’s article: http://www.thenutgraph.com/seeking-justice).

‘Instruction cards & candles will be provided.  The entire ritual will take 20 minutes, if the security guards don’t chase us away (Chung Wei will be on standby).  We’ve made the candles to last for about 4 minutes, so we hope to get different waves of people to perform this simple act of protest, remembrance and paying respect.’

ARTERI would like to invite those present at ‘Sudden Death’ to share their experience with our readers in our comments section.

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Photos courtesy of Grey Yeoh