MapsMark Teh“Look at what others have missed. There’s always something important tobe found. There’s no need to rush. Whatever road you choose in life, walkit with purpose.”

Advice given to 16-year old Miyamoto by his father, recorded in
Miyamoto Tsuneichi, The Forgotten Japanese (2010)“A map is a spatial representation of a place, thing, or concept, actual orimagined… A map can chart the path to a neighbouring village, to a
successful endeavour or a fortuitous event, or even to the next life; it canilluminate the relationships between various levels of existence orconsciousness, or between a previous or future age of the earth.”Thomas Suárez, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia (1999)“A map created a nation… its geo-body is born in a map, and nowhere
else… There are other knowledges of space, either residual or emerging,
operating to contend with the geo-body. The presence of the geo-body isalways subject to challenge.”
Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped (1994)“Performance was a historical technique used to map, record andtransmit information. Chant, dance, storytelling and oral poetry wereemployed to record and transmit the genealogy of extended families andclans, relay cosmological knowledge and re-enact signi cant events orexperiences.”
Janet Pillai, Cultural Mapping (2020)

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)

Yee I-Lann, Map (from Sulu Stories), 2005
Source: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/southeast-asian-paintingshk0355/lot.568.html

Tamnan map from the Traiphum manuscript, 1771
Source: https://kontinentalist.com/stories/how-maps-create-nations

Roslisham (Ise) Ismail, ChronoLOGICal, 2015
Source: http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/projects/chronological-2015

Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Myanmar Peace Industrial Complex No. III, 2018
Source: https://yawnghwe.blogspot.com/2018/12/myanmar-peace-industrial-complexnoiii.html

Related Links
Books & websites
1. Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation(Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994).
https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/siam-mapped-a-history-of-the-geo-body-of-anation/
2. Thomas Suárez, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia (Hong Kong: Periplus, 1999).
http://thomassuarez.com/sea.html
3. Miyamoto Tsuneichi, The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life andFolklore trans. Jeffery Irish (Berkeley: Stone Bridge, 2010).
https://www.stonebridge.com/catalog-2020/The-Forgotten-Japanese
4. Karen Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko & Cary Karacas, Cartographic Japan: A
History in Maps (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo21163223.html
5. Janet Pillai, Cultural Mapping: A Guide to Understanding Place, Communityand Continuity (Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research
Development Centre, 2020). https://www.gerakbudaya.com/cultural-mappinga-guide-to-understanding-place-community-and-continuity-second-edition
6. The Memorial Society of Nagakubo Sekisui. http://nagakubosekisui.org/en/

Videos
1. Janet Pillai lecture on cultural mapping and intangible cultural heritage (32minutes). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpvElr4GlGg
2. Nipan Oranniwesna interview about Neither Body nor Soul (2018).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IB8jZUgsHI
3. Cian Dayrit mini-documentary (2019). https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=PBvIr_NWyhM
4. Tiffany Chung interview (2019). https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=wzXzxD9QsFs
5. yang02, Urbanized Typeface (2009). https://vimeo.com/5854188

6. Gan Siong King, The Boy, His Bike & The Map (2015).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q76mi3WvyGE
7. Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina, Ring of Fire project (2019).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCo1-1DCRrU
8. Charles Lim, SEA STATE 5: drift (stay still now to move) (2013).
https://vimeo.com/74525323
9. Wu Chi-Yu, Asia Air (2018). http://www.wuchiyu.com/asia-air/
10. Farish Noor, My Southeast Asia (4 episodes, 2014) and Across Borders (6episodes, 2015). https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=UsT0Os9QasU&list=PL1s5VD_FCzZv7gONFs1ZR7tz_GS4aA7u8