瘋狗弒主，變天吧！ happy rebirth to malaysia :P

主餓了？
狗愛主，
狗敬主，
狗護主，
為糊口，
為棲身，
為仗勢。

溜溜狗，
看看狗，
走走狗。

主餓了！
主餓了！
天垮啦！

To Be Teoh Lee Lan In 1 Minute

We almost forgot what happened to Beng Hock and his family. It has been 3 years and not much has been done.
Will Beng Hock get his justice? The Prime Minister's silence says a thousand words.

I do not blame you, Maharaja, for hitting an innocent man. For, cruelty comes quick to the powerful.  

Yudhisthira to Virata (The Book of Virata)

http://teohbenghock.org/

May 13, 1969

Lie Detector

Construction of Memory

Flag of Memory

Nothing on the mainstream media today about May 13. I thought I should remind myself what it was all about.

The Ghost of May 13, 1969

Umno used May 13 to cocoon Malays

Remembering 13 May

In one's home town

"The idea first came to me when I looked out of my window one morning, seeing how beautiful the morning light reflected in the water and on the boat located directly opposite my house in the canal. I wanted to do something with this. Secondly, I went and cycled in neighbourhoods where I normally don't go and I realized that most people on the street were not white. I had the feeling I had entered a different city, another country. I realized that one is ready to go along any path, take any side street when one is on vacation, but one is less likely to deviate from one's routine in one's home town."

Johan van der Keuken talked about his documentary "Amsterdam Global Village"

Departure, Pantai Remis, 2012

They need the seat more than we do.

Never forget Beng Hock, Apr 28, 2012

Lynas Out + Angry Lobster, Apr 28, 2012

Group of Macik, Apr 28, 2012

Don't lie, Apr 28, 2012

Do you really care?, Apr 28, 2012

The Idea of Oneness, 428

We talk about it, we think of it. We believe in it.

Our history deserves a better ending.

See you there.

別怕。我們已經長大。

something from Pahang growing in my garden

After a frustrated day, nothing was more comforting than seeing the small lorry parked in front of the Mamak stall when I was walking home from Seputeh KTM station. The vendor who was a sly man always tried hard to convince me to pick some old and unsold durians. Still, I bought my durian, normally only one, and walked up the hill with smile. I was happy. The durians, whether D24 or Musang King, as the vendor told me, were collected from the orchard in Pahang.

One day, I decided to keep three seeds from what I ate and planted them at my balcony in Seputeh. Like most Malaysians, I have been eating durian long before I learned how to speak, but I haven't had any chance to see a durian tree growing from zero. So, here are the photographs of these curious and beautiful plants.

吃過文冬的榴櫣，就是喝過彭亨州的水。希望那里的土地可以長久養生。

HANCUR LYNAS - Solidarity with People in Pahang.

Between dirty money and trees,
which green do you prefer?


There is no return.

春望 2012， 恭喜！恭喜！

Hao Qing at balcony, Pantai Remis, 2012

Happy Chinese New Year to you.

To 2012, a year of political changes!

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!

Upside-down Democracy

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 always claim how much they love this land and their people.

In the name of love, save the country!

The Weaver at the Melaka Art and Performance Festival

"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 the end of love was pronounced in anger, and the fear found no comfort in the empty bed. It is like a movie, I know. It is not real, I know. It is Death. Somehow, the maternal instinct is determined to bring death to life. 

Like Psyche, a journey to the Underworld seems inevitable...

digital print on fabric, embroidered and sewn by artist, 3.5 x 1.5 m

shots captured during sewing process

把死生回來，黃錦樹在他的小說中建議。 現實中流產的生命和愛情，就在藝術的想像里回魂吧。 

the Individual and the collective

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.

Saturday composition

- 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

A step further toward the visible

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

去趕集的小動物

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.

Photoquai 2011 - Artist's Complete Selection

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 view

In 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 alongside the musée du quai Branly and in the museum’ gardens from 13th September to 4th December 2011.

Three Malaysian photographers (Minstrel Kuik, Khee Teik Pang, Tan Chee Hon) are selected after having encountered with the Curator Françoise Huguier in Kuala Lumpur early this year.

Below is the complete selection that I have proposed to Photoquai. The choice of diptych was originally not a formal consideration but to provide the audience a more complete narrative by showing more images extracted from the series "mer.rily, mer.rily, mer.rily, mer.rily" that I have been working on since 2007.

Online Reviews:

http://zhuangwubin.posterous.com/photoquai-2011

http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photoquai-2011-paris-photography-exhibit-musee-bra/

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2011/10/2/lifearts/9536439&sec=lifearts

http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/archives/by_date/2011-09-14/3755/malaysia-minstrel-kuik