by Sharon Chin

Picks from my walk around the Malaysian galleries at Art Expo.

Totally non-objective, so come over (until 7.30pm today, Sun and 5pm tomorrow, Mon) and make up your own mind.

by Sharon Chin

Ever since ARTERI began I wanted to do a photo gallery of Star Enterprise. It’s the stationary shop and stuffed treasure trove I’ve been digging in since I was a little kid.

by Chris Chong Chan Fui + Yasuhiro Morinaga

Konichiwa! As we anticipate the theatrical release of Chong’s acclaimed debut feature, Karaoke, in our local cinema this 26 November, the prolific director/visual artist writes in from Japan, sharing with us his latest project, HEAVENHELL (2009), on reshooting the slum scene from Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963).

by Eva McGovern

KL graffiti collective TLG is getting some love from ARTERI. Here’s a shout out on some of the video documentations of their work in this fair city of ours.

by Silent Wall Project

A group of passionate people started The Silent Wall project to document the famous Pudu Jail murals. They managed to capture the entire wall before demolition works started, which they also recorded.

In their own words and images, they talk about the wall and what it means to them.

By ARTERI

Ok ok the Malaysian Art Dictionary or M.A.D is back after a brief hiatus! Thank goodness I hear you all crying. And today’s letter is the fabulous, foolish, foppish, fishy letter F.

by Zedeck Siew

This week on Sightings:

Pray n’ spray. Graffiti in Bangsar celebrates personal salvation of the radical kind.

by Zedeck Siew

This week on Sightings:

Parliament’s sudden take-over by a burst of bad taste. Democracy, how do I love thee? Let me count the flags.

One, two, three, four, five, six … ah, forget it.

by Dill Malik

I am proud of my grandfather. So proud of him that I wanted to be just as great. News then broke out – he no longer remembers me.

Koge does not remember me.

by Zedeck Siew

Sightings is a new series of posts based on curious specimens of visual culture collected around Malaysia.

First up: the strange manifestation of an Internet celebrity’s big blue thing! What does it say about Google’s forays into the real world?

by Tan Zi Hao

Inside: a photogallery of handwritten signs, advertising agencies, and abstracted pictograms affixed to household grills!

Part two of a local boy’s typographical adventure to decipher the visual language of the New Village.

by Tan Zi Hao

Never underestimate the vernacular!

Whether it is a commercial message, spiritual, abstract or instructive, these forms of typographical communication attest to the villagers’ expressiveness that were, in the past, suppressed and left unnoticed.

by Latif Kamaluddin

A circumvention of Liew Kung Yu’s recent series via an uninterested exercise of visual ethnographic deconstruction.

Photos by Jun Kit
Words by Simon Soon

So much is achieved in one grueling, enlightening and fun-filled week of championing sexuality rights over at the Annexe gallery. Here are some photographic evidences.

by Sharon Chin

On 1 Aug 2009, I joined 20,000 other Malaysians in a peaceful protest march against the Internal Security Act, a law that allows for detention without trial for indefinite periods of time. Here are two videos documenting the day.