| Filed under: News | Tags: announcements, art + design, collaboration, collage, conceptual art, creation of meaning 
by ARTERI
Announcement: The Box of Ideas is packaged and priced as a cigarette box. But instead of 20 nicotine fixes, you get 100 ideas from artists, activists and other agent provocateurs. It will be promoted via luscious cigarette girls+boys embedded in social events throughout Kuala Lumpur from 27 June 2009.
Submit your ideas!
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: collage, Control, drawing, Female, Nadiah Bamadhaj, Paper, State, Valentine Willie Fine Art 
By Eva McGovern
How aware are we of the influences of State urban planning on the creation of identity? Like it or not the positioning of infrastructure – housing, hospitals, schools, transport and government networks all inform individual and public consciousness. Where we live, where children go to school, where we shop and who we do all of this with is a carefully crafted construct designed by public and private individuals.
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: collage, kitsch, local poetics, Malaysia 
by Simon Soon
I’m convinced that the fascination with kitsch is driven by a complex feeling that displays just as much affection as repulsion for the subject. Liew Kung Yew’s one man show in Petronas gallery, Cadangan-cadangan untuk Negara Ku, is no exception – and I was trying to get this out of the artist.