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Hao Qing at balcony, Pantai Remis, 2012 Happy Chinese New Year to you.

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To Malaysians: Happy 2012 ! 亂像是改變的前兆。 讓我們為2011年干杯，積極備戰2012年！ Disorder is the sign of change. A toast to 2011 and be prepared for 2012!

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Why do Malaysians need one voice and one vision if at the end this oneness will only lead us to the existential impasse? The strength and charm of our culture is in its diversity and differentness. Our country is 54 years old and still she can't walk. In another 50 years, she will die in regrets. Today, injustice rules our society and lies are mistaken as realities and truths. They

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"The Weaver" installation view at TTCLC in Melaka, 2011 My new work "The Weaver" was shown at Tun Tan Cheng Lok Centre in Melaka during the Melaka Art and Performance Festival last weekend (18-21 Nov). The installation draws heavily on the Maternity Home history of this Heeren Street site and the most private of trauma, embedded in both memory and body … The body still remembers how

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How does it feel to be part of them? They need me. Or perhaps, I need them more than they do. In either case, please do not separate us.

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- Raindrops vaporizing at different speed, Seputeh - Rectangular in perspective made of pig skin, Seputeh - Dusk drawing on broken glass, Rawang - Magnificent yellow hibiscus in NEC college, Kajang - Another angle of rectangular in perspective, Seputeh - Tropical fruits in Sotheby's auction catalog, Singapore - Interior Orchids in morning light, Singapore

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 To read "The Shape of a Pocket" by John Berger. Be a receiver.

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Motivated Gorilla. Who shall follow me? Animals on way to rally.  The Mimesis of Resistance.  “IF we cannot defend it in reality, we defend it in mime.” Stuart Hall By defending in mime, the reality becomes imaginable/possible.

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Museum du Quai Branly, Paris, France Workers from Côte d'Ivoire preparing the show before the opening"mer.rily" in the museum's garden, installation viewIn total, 13 diptychs are shown at a calm passage. M written on slate found in the garden.The 3rd edition of PHOTOQUAI biennial exhibition of world images organised by the musée du Quai Branly in Paris takes place on the quays of the Seine

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I can start to tell what are the two kinds of photographs that can be distinguished in the contemporary photographic scene. One is about VISION & TRUTH, the other is about VISUAL & TRICK. However, the latter seems to form a dominant majority.

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The photograph is taken at my balcony at Seputeh with a traveler's toothbrush, a seashell in a plastic container, a French can food, an Eiffel Tower 's key chain in a glass and a bottle of honey collected by the Corsican bees.  My tongue no longer misses the French cuisine.I am finally cured! Yeah, I should name the photograph as "The Mother Tongues Tower".  What do you think?

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  The One and The Three (Apples)     The Yellow Line and The Future   The Passport and The Tanjung Pagar Railway Station     The Elephant and The Colonizer Happy Birthday to Malaysia!

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Bersih! Bersih!Hidup Bersih!Bersih! Bersih!Hidup Rakyat!

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Artists condemn the police investigation of Datuk A. Samad Said, National Laureate for reciting a poem during the Bersih 2.0 launch on 19 June 2011 at the Chinese Assembly Hall. Malaysian artists and writers of all disciplines and ethnicities unite to condemn the police investigation of Sasterawan Negara

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re: VIEW KL, Constructing Urban Perspectives is a group photo exhibition organized by Datum from 3-18 July @ Map KL, including works from photographers Eiffel Chong, Erna Dyanty, Lim Thian Leong, Minstrel Kuik, Nadia J. Mahfix, Nikt Wong and Shafina Sheridan. Taman Seputeh, 2011 100x150 cm Hand with a Brick@minstrel kuik I am not architect.  I am photographer who lives in the space created

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OPEN STUDIO - STUDIO 18 Gertrude Contemporary presents work by our current Artist in Residence Liew Kwai Fei.DATE: Saturday 28 May, 11.00am – 4.00pmPLACE: Studio 18, Gertrude ContemporaryExhibition Title: am.a.teurWith work by guest artist Minstrel KuikLiew Kwai Fei’s residency has been supported by the Australia-Malaysia Institute (AMI) Visual Arts Residency Program.The artist would like to

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In the month of May, Melbourne's weather reminded me of Brittany with its four seasons in a day. Thus, there was very little possibility for me not to look at Melbourne with prejudices. But then, I was in the city for the first time in my life, deeply touched by the beauty of trees in the gardens and parks. In the Royal Botanic Garden, Egypt has been successfully relocated to the southern land by

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Please go to the website http://www.vwfa.net/3YC2010/ for further information about the show.Curator’s Note:minstrel kuik as a photographer continues to create a personal community of images that looks at individuality and collectivity as well as the past and present through the lens of Malaysian cultural identity. The March and Radical Chic Collar focus on such concerns through photography and

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..."We will know when we get there." You said. HOARFROST, Sonic YouthFAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPORARYThoughts on 4 Malaysian photographers & their Malaysiaby Pang Khee TeikWhat happens when a billboard is stripped of its promises of comfort or love or unity? Just a giant tablet in the sky demanding our reverence but offering us nothing? A blank billboard

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RROSE-A Story of Two Worlds will be shown at International Discoveries II of FotoFest Houston from November 5 until December 19 2009

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.John Berger Rrose is the orphan form that gives prominence to the origins, meanwhile, highlights the necessity for one to mutate due to the circumstances. It traces the birth of a photographer and the pursuit of equivalent form among incompatible beliefs and aesthetic codes. Indeed, there is not much in common between Arles, a

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my youth is cooked andboned like a dead fishin a too little platedrowned in a salty senseof humor, suddenly you saidMerde! the last bone of mydream in your bleeding tonguerefused to let go

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Context 1:Once upon a time, people sailed from ocean to ocean. At somewhere nearby the water, they dropped anchor and lived. Then, villages were built and cultures were rooted. Many years later, the sea was covered and cities sprouted like mushrooms.Among streets, we were born in protected rooms. Since the new land asked for a complete devotion, the otherness was considered a wrong. In return for

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In Kuala Lumpur, I have learned to cope with my anger and frustration accumulated in daily life. Leave and forsake; stay and create. Even now, my hate and love for this city is pretty much a Rojak kind of feeling. Watching my morning train going in the wrong direction and re-entered the station is a privilege. It doesn't happen every day in any city or country in the world but

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All the images of "rrose" could be seen at the weblink below:http://rrose-mothersays.blogspot.com

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I was born in 12 October on Columbus Day. I always wanted to see the world. One day, I managed to land on this new world with admiration. The air was fresh like blood. I wandered in the forest and I wondered what would happen if I had come across a red Indian. Shall we be friend? Shall we ignore each other? Or, should I have fired first before he had the chance?Nothing happened eventually in the

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Choses Légères - The Lightest Things was my first photographic work shot in colors during my days in Arles. Indeed, it was a painful yet productive experience for a painter to explore the world as a photographer. I was afraid of the real spatial and human confrontation. So I chose to shoot silent objects. To my surprise, they were as complexe as the human being. I found these objects in my daily

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Linguistically, a Schtroumfraphy means everything, then, nothing.I have started to pick up drawing and painting after the completion of my photographic studies in 2006. My apprenticeship in photography has taught me to get along with the machine. And now, I am more conscious of the habitual thinking and making that one could accumulate during the years. One day, I had this idea to find a

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