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Co-written with Lim Sheau Yun. Exhibition essay for That day, I was sketching on the street, a solo exhibition by Ong Hieng Fuong (9 July-31 July 2022, The Back Room) Tanjong Sepat, artist Ong Hieng Fuong’s hometown in southern Selangor, is organised by three main roads: Jalan Pasar, Jalan
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Co-written with Lim Sheau Yun as the curatorial statement for All the Lands Within the Seas. The doorway to dreams lies ajar, a sinuous road passes through. What will I find on the other side, where, with a shiver of fear, the bold would confront monsters? The void? – Henri Lefebvre
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All the Lands Within the Seas, co-curated with Lim Sheau Yun, was exhibited at The Back Room in Kuala Lumpur from mid-October to mid-November 2021. Anchored by archival and historical cartographic materials from a private collection, the exhibition was interwoven with new works by Amanda Gayle and Sabahan artist Bam
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Y2K: The end of the digital world. That was the doomsday prophecy of the millennium bug, one that could derail the seemingly upwards hurtle of Wawasan 2020. Unlike Wawasan 2020, Y2K was inescapable, urgent, and going to happen no matter what. It was a defensive operation, not an offensive attack.
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Originally published in Art & Market. Vivere pericoloso—living dangerously, borrowed from the Italian, was declaimed by Indonesian President Sukarno in 1964 on the 19th anniversary of the nation’s independence. It was only one year before the ill-fated 30 September coup which would dethrone the charismatic president, install General