VIDEO ESSAY: ARCHIPELAGHOST
DATE: Out there on YouTube
Archipelaghost, a video essay on Indonesian artists Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett by Malaysian arts practitioners Mark Teh and Faiq Syazwan Kuhiri, displays on the work 1001st Island – The Most Sustainable Island In Archipelago.
On this regional inventive challenge, supported by Goethe-Institut Indonesien, Teh and Faiq create a video essay in 5 fragments, impressed and knowledgeable by the works of Tita and her companion Irwan. The video zooms out and in of various facets and layers of their inventive follow – from Tita’s first solo work, 1001st Island – The Most Sustainable Island within the Archipelago (2015) – to their poetic, playful and pressing interventions in Jakarta, the fast-sinking metropolis they name house. It’s also about their decade-long engagement in and alongside the Pacific Ring of Fireplace, the place advanced points regarding humanity, migration, injustice, and ecology intersect.
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VIRTUAL TALK: MALAYSIA NOW: ARTS AND CULTURE MOSAIC
Date and Time: Nov 23, 6.45pm
A part of the British Council’s Companion South East Asia: Arts and Tradition Issues occasion, this digital speak brings audiences on a retrospective in addition to ahead wanting journey on the alternatives and variety of the humanities and tradition panorama in Malaysia and highlights collaboration pathways between Malaysian and British arts sectors and practitioners.
The primary a part of the session will shine a highlight on a multimedia, cross-disciplinary challenge. Within the second half, it would unpack two analysis experiences on Malaysia’s arts sectors and cultural cities, with the goal of additional figuring out areas of connections and collaborations between the 2 international locations.
The featured audio system embody playwright/researcher Dr Ann Lee, Immediate Cafe Theatre’s co-founder Jo Kukathas and Pusaka’s inventive director Pauline Fan.
Malaysia Now: Arts and Tradition Mosaic will stream totally free. Hyperlink to the streaming web site might be offered upon registration.
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VIRTUAL ART TALK: BAYU UTOMO RADJIKIN’S ‘BUJANG BERANI’
Date and Time: Nov 20, 10am
Sculptor/artist Mat Ali Mat Som will dissect Sabah-born artist/gallerist Bayu Utomo Radjikin’s Bujang Berani (1991) sculpture on this new version of Pendidikan Seni EDU@NAG, a Nationwide Artwork Gallery on-line initiative the place artists focus on influential Malaysian works regarding visible artwork and past.
Bayu’s works throw a pointy highlight on public and private id, social commentary and worldwide political tensions. His inventive self-discipline ranges from sculptures to figurativa portray.
Bayu, the director of indie artwork house Hom Artwork Trans, is among the founders of artist collective Matahati, shaped in 1989.
Appreciation Of Bayu Utomo Radjikin’s Bujang Berani might be streamed totally free on the Nationwide Artwork Gallery’s Fb web page.
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MPOPLAYSON: MALAYSIAN COMPOSERS SERIES – CHAMBER CONCERT
Date and Time: Limitless
The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra’s (MPO) Malaysian Composers sequence continues this week with its last chamber music providing by native composers.
Within the final half, which is out there now, catch Ilysia Tan’s Dependancy To Perfection (a bit derived from the aim of observing bodily and social considerations), Ainolnaim Azizol’s Fragments I (a piece written for the 2014 Asian Composers League Younger Composers Competitors in Japan) and Vivian Chua’s Dance Of The Wind And Sea (a fusion work of Malaysian melodic and rhythmic patterns with Western harmonies).
The Malaysian Composers Sequence is completed in collaboration with the Malaysian Composers Collective (MCC). Established in 2007, the MCC has been actively selling Malaysian composers at house and overseas.
The brand new sequence will be streamed totally free on the MPO TV Youtube channel.
Viewers can tour the Sabah Artwork Gallery now from the consolation of their houses. Picture: Handout
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: 36TH SABAH ANNUAL ART SELECTION 2021
Date and Time: Limitless
Head over to Sabah, nearly, and take a look at this state-wide artwork choice within the thirty sixth Sabah Annual Artwork Choice 2021 artwork present.
This 12 months’s theme is “Gunung Kinabalu” and “Sabah – Norma Baharu”.
Freandy Jose’s pencil work Posogit – Obiyai Koi Noh Oi Aki (Posogit – Ampunilah Kami Wahai Aki) gained this 12 months’s Sabah Annual Artwork Choice. It centres on a ritual to appease the mountain spirits on Mount Kinabalu.
The thirty sixth Sabah Annual Artwork Choice 2021 will be considered on Sabah Artwork Gallery’s virtual platform.
VIRTUAL SERIES: OPEN ARTS CLASSES
Date: Nov 20-21 (10am and 2pm classes)
The Open Arts Courses (OAC), a free digital studying sequence below Artwork In The Metropolis (AITC) 2021 concludes this weekend with 4 lessons.
On Nov 20, Paul Augustin, Penang Home Of Music director, will speak (10am onwards) about music preservation in Malaysia and the function and significance of music, tradition, and the humanities to society. This might be adopted by a session with Adiguru Zamzuriah Zahari who will highlight the normal artwork type of Mak Yong (2pm onwards).
On Nov 21, artist and cultural employee Eleanor Goroh will conduct a workshop (10am) about Borneo beads in up to date vogue and dance music. In a while at 2pm, gallerist Lim Wei-Ling will give an introduction to artwork accumulating, insider tips about how one can determine an actual artist, figuring out artwork values and figuring out sturdy artworks.
The OAC presents a uncommon probability to expertise a “class session” with the movers and shakers within the arts and tradition scene.
OAC might be streamed through Zoom. Every class within the sequence has a classroom measurement of 500 college students.
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