by Sharon Chin

A visit to Instant Cafe Theatre’s new home – CHAI House, or Instant Cafe’s House of Art and Ideas. With white paint fresh on the walls, the airy one-storey bungalow in Petaling Jaya was glowing with optimism and possibility. Read on for a photo tour and more on the exciting things planned for this great new space.

By Eva McGovern

TLG is a new graffiti art movement screaming through the streets of KL. It stands for talangjan which in this cases means producing the best of the best graffiti art in Malaysia that doesn’t imitate but innovates its own unique local style. ARTERI present a graffiti image gallery of the movement’s most recent work.

by Mark Teh

Sudden Death, performed as part of the final Improv Lab @ Findars’ Space, took place on Thursday 6 August 2009. We hoped to get different waves of people to perform this simple act of protest, remembrance and paying respect.

By ARTERI

The Malaysian Art Dictionary lives another day to bring you the letter E.

by CIPAN

For those of us who can’t get enough of the sun, theatre practitioner Ayam Fared shows us where and how to get the perfect tan line within our one hour lunch slot in the next installment of Suggestions For Lunch Time Activities In KL For Busy Government Workers

By ARTERI

M.A.D dares to deliver the dangerous ddddddd D! The next installment in our Malaysian Art Dictionary. Come and join in the fun la.

By ARTERI
M.A.D is brought to you today by the letter C and Pacman. Pacman looks like a ‘C’ ok? Pacman explained: surrealist story of an astronaut hooked on anti-anxiety medication in order to escape his survivor’s guilt which manifests as the ghosts of his deceased comrades blaming him for their deaths.

By Tintin Wulia

Blog entry by Indonesian artist Tintin Wulia sharing her 2009 performance project in Melbourne, ‘terra incognita et cetera’ which explores issues on territories, collective play and painting.

poem by Maung Day

I shouted to them
they looked puzzled and were staring at me
I shouted again
and they kept looking
their eyes were like those watery eyeballs of fishes…

By ARTERI

That’s right folks, the second installment of M.A.D the Malaysian Art Dictionary is here. Alternative meanings and new words and their definitions all welcome in the comments section. You gotta be in it to win it right? But there are no prizes here except self satisfaction, one of the greatest gifts of all.

by ARTERI

Ok so we are a little late in our first instalment of the most anxiously awaited piece of text collected in recent times: The Malaysian Art Dictionary (M.A.D). But better late then never. So as mentioned it works like this. We start the ball rolling with a selection of entries and then its up to you to add alternative meanings to the ones we have suggested and also contribute new words with your own definitions.

By ARTERI

There are a number of art dictionaries / glossaries / thesis cheat-sheets– but they are painfully boring. So, ARTERI presents the Malaysian Art Dictionary, a communal effort to list everything arty! Come on, you know you’ll love it!

by CIPAN

Suggestions For Lunch Time Activities In KL For Busy Government Workers is back. Take note, work-worn and culturally-deficient members of the civil service: more irresistably stimulating activities for you!

Ahem. Episode 2: Kite Flying in an Art Gallery.

by Sharon Chin

Greetings once again from Sapporo!

This post has been a long time coming. I feel like a coffee machine that has collected too many beans, but hasn’t poured out any coffee! Today’s a good day to do so.

by CIPAN

Suggestions For Lunch Time Activities In KL For Busy Government Workers: 1. Cycling in an art gallery

In order to promote the arts among government workers, CIPAN would like to suggest several exciting ways in which art appreciation can be combined with many of our nation’s favourite weekend activities.