WANTED: Someone to restore Arteri and give it 2nd life. Interested? Email: mail.sharonchin.com
Has it been six months??? Though ARTERI is still a wee toddler, we think it’s about time we have an office to call our own. Basically, what we thought is necessary, as the site grows by the day, is a space for meetings, interviewing artists, organising activities and various other projects we have in mind for next year.
So where have we moved to? Like all discerning cultural practitioners, we are part of the cultural exodus that is opting out of the hustle and bustle of KL into the leafy suburb of Petaling Jaya. As if KLUE’s (in their latest issue) prophesy about the art-ification of PJ has come true, we’re jumping on the bandwagon and setting up camp in MERAH.
MERAH (short for Mansion for Experimentation, Research, Arts and Horticulture) is a multidisciplinary artist studio/workspace/garden-farm/hang-out located in Seksyen 17. Once we saved up enough to buy a kettle for the house, we would love to invite everyone to come over and join us for a cuppa whenever you’re in the neighbourhood!
While our team and the other members of MERAH busy ourselves with making the place feel like home, here are some preliminary photos of the space!
The denizens of MERAH are a colourful bunch. One could even argue we’re a truly muhibbah lot. The three rooms upstairs are used as permanent studios by:
Here’s our new intern, Patricia Lajumin from Sabah! Patricia is an English major at a local college. Expect to see her out and about town over the next few months covering events, cosying up to artists and coming up with lots of exciting ideas for ARTERI.
Also, a photo of our ‘artist-in-residence’! Fahmi Redza will be staying with us until the end of the year. Konon-nye working on a super secret project, although this project is already announced on some other website -___- Anyway, we’re so happy to have a communist socialist with us!
Last but not least, a gotong royong picture! Chi Too is cleaning my computer while everyone looks on.
MERAH is located at:
44, Jalan 17/4
Petaling Jaya
46400
Other denizens not featured include the feminist farmers who will be heading the horticulture department of MERAH and house mascot, Munkao.
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lulz. next gen. go!go!go!
actually, we got kettle already. we just need friends.
but we don’t have coffee
CONGRATS MERAH geng!
Am excited!
Will bring some coffee.
The space looks promising! Sweet! :)
Ehh, takde cat merah, pun! Nampaknye hebat, tapi perlu di-canggih-fikasikan sikit. Minta orang graffiti dinding, lah. Dan bukanlah lebih patut MERAH bermakna Merayakan Anak Haram? :P
Seriously, can’t wait to visit and have some kaya toast!
dill malik, tasty nape!
Shao, the merah in merah is conceptual.
>sigh< there’s just no love for representation anymore :(
Just ask your artist-in-residence buatkan logo utk korang! Dia pandai buat logo :P
MERAH punya akronim bunyi sama macam CHAI je!!
graffiti? got anymore cliched or not? solid is the new graffiti…
shao long… just because you don’t see cat merah doesn’t mean there is no cat merah…
SHIOK!
love that retro look of the grill, terrazzo tiles! you guys painting the exterior?
jeles!
i think we are keeping it yellow because we want to promote ‘budaya kuning’.
-simon
Please keep retro and terazzo tiles!!!
Great that ARTeri has reached another milestone…. !
Congrats!
Good job Arteri!!
bila open house?? hehe
TANGLUNG PARTAYYYYYY
I hv ceased operation & am letting go of my stock (Derwent Color Pencils,Charcoal pencils, Plaka, Mural Colors,Watercolor Drawing Pad,Faber Castell Technical Pena/Pencils etc) at very low prices from RM1.Anyone interested?
I am interested!! where do we go for them?
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