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 Tan Zi Hao

It was all very scattered and uncertain but the good intentions were there from the beginning. Artist Chu Yuan sent me an e-mail asking me to get involve in Entry Points, the inaugural 1948 Artspace project in Serdang.

by S.M.K. Seri Kembangan Fighters

Finally, our fight caught the media’s attention, Deputy Education Minister Datuk Wee Ka Siong has come to see us, our actions can be viewed in YouTube. Cool. We are the SMKSK rockstars. The ‘victim’ is a science stream student, we are the filthy-faulty-frantic delinquents from the art stream.

by Tan Zi Hao

I’ve been in Serdang since I was a toddler.

Serdang didn’t spare much democracy in aesthetic sensation. The basic spatial structure was either moulded by the past colonist or the insensitive modern developers. It is called forced architectural identity, also a malady of creativity. But it hasn’t been an issue; artists Perng Fey and Wing are both creative persons from Serdang. This was pretty new to me two years ago, I was delighted.