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Two Southeast Asian new media artists + filmmakers’ debut feature films will be screened at this year’s Cannes’s Directors’ Fortnight. Sabah-born Chris Chong’s elegiac KARAOKE will be the first Malaysian feature film in 14 years to be screened on the Directors’ Fortnight platform, while Singapore makes its fifth year of consecutive presence in the Cannes Film Festival with Ho Tzu-Nyen’s poignantly surreal feature, HERE.
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Pecha Kucha Night Vol. 6 last Tuesday (31 Mar 09) was great. The fun vibe and enthusiastic crowd were especially welcome coming straight from the relative sombreness of Galeri Petronas’ Art Appreciation Series. Of course, the two events are not to be compared, since Pecha Kucha was held at cute new hotspot Urbanattic, and featured two words so dear to people’s hearts: free beer.
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Open Call for ASEF’s upcoming 7th Asia-Europe Art Camp – Art Workshop for Visual Arts 2009 in Luxembourg
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Why so ssserioussss? Watching the late Heath Ledger perform that line as The Joker was surely one of the best moments in The Dark Knight. One day someone has to organize an exhibition with that title (along with ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’). With all that’s happening in the country these days (weird new PM, triple by-elections), there’s no better time to celebrate the fool in us all. There are some excellent events coming up in the next couple of days that you don’t want to miss. I’m going to indulge in some serious art-going and recommend you do the same, starting with:
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We want to thank readers for checking into ARTERI. It’s been a great first week for us and the blog. Me and Simon are very excited with the enthusiastic response, in fact the other day we were saying to each other that it’s worth waking up for in the morning!
Both of us are away for the weekend, so posting will be light. We have alot planned, including:
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Exhibition opening and party pics for Bambang Toko’s Titian Muhibah: Serumpun, Senada, Seirama. Celebrating Malaysia-Indonesia relations with Malay retro rock and bad fashion sense.
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Peter Barton Harold Harris, seminal founder of the Wednesday Art Group (WAG) in 1952, passed away on 14 March 2009. The Wednesday Art Group counted amongst its members Patrick Ng Kah Onn, Dzulkifli Buyong, Cheong Lai Tong as well as Syed Ahmad Jamal, who are modern art pioneers in Malaya.
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China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Yeap, these are the countries from which the Freeman Foundation will pick an artist per country as their next bunch of Asian Artist Fellows. Selected artists will travel to the Vermont Studio Center for a two month residency program, an excuse to get trashed and drunk with other fellow artists from all over the world!!!
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Application for Galeri Petronas’ annual artist residency program, currently in its second year, is closing on the 15 of March! This year’s program covers a fully-funded eight week residency to Selasar Sunaryo Arts Space, Bandung, Indonesia from 1 June to 31 July 2009.
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ARTERI is a blogging initiative that focuses on contemporary art in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Serving both as information portal and conversational forum, ARTERI is your one stop feed on exhibitions around Malaysia as well as a hub for promoting region-wide awareness of contemporary practices across a variety of media including performance, installation, video, painting, sound, web-based art, etc.