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In the year 1841, a Malay-speaking scribe in Singapore named Abdullah Bin Abdul Kadir wrote about his visit to the Sesostris, a British ship laying in harbor on its way to China. In lively prose, Abdu...
The Creaturely
No aspect of everyday life in Southeast Asia is untouched by creaturely allegories and metaphors. In Bali, the world is said to be borne by the cosmic turtle Bedawang Nala;(註1) in Sumba...
We talk to Togolese rapper Elom 20ce who aims to bring his politics to the masses.
I can’t think of many rappers anywhere on this planet who pick their references as meticulously as Togolese rapper El...
In 2032, collective physical gestures are disappearing at an alarming rate due to our dependency on screen mediations to express ourselves. In an effort to preserve this rapid decline, we invite you t...
(An e-mail dated 5th July 2020, 12:27pm:)
“Broadly I am interested in ideological compositions. My research on the Makara and other composite creatures is an attempt at understanding how composites pr...
If we compare audio with video chat, we realize that the latter’s ‘visibility’ does not make two-dimension three-dimensional, or what might be called corporealization. On the contrary, due...
Rikey Tenn: I am conducting the interview in Open-Contemporary Art Center because the project “Nusantara Archive 2020: The Piracy, the Radio-wave, the Bubble” is a cooperation between OCAC and No Man’...
1. Relations among the islands of Malay Archipelago in a broad sense: the northern island, Formosa, as a departure point
The Malay Archipelago, in the traditional sense, refers to the group of scatte...
Esther Lu: Maybe we can start this conversation by introducing soft/WALL/studs’ origin, like how it began and how you met each other.
Luca Lum: soft/WALL/studs (s/W/s) began in 2016 with four a...
