ILHAM @ HOME: YAP SAU BIN
Channel: ILHAM Gallery
Date: 28/05/2020

SPEAKER: Yap Sau Bin
MODERATOR: Khat Mirzan

Yap Sau Bin talks about the concept behind his installation work entitled “The Grand Phantom Narrates.” The piece suggests how institutional power - whether cultural, as with the museum, or political, as with the prime ministership - shapes and influences individual subjectivity. It was completed in 2004 and was a finalist in the Young Contemporaries competition organized by the National Art Gallery. The work is featured in “The Body Politic and the Body,” which was ILHAM’s most recent exhibition that was held in collaboration with the Singapore Art Museum. 

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Yap Sau Bin (b. 1974, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is one of the founders of the Malaysian collective Rumah Air Panas. Educated in Canada, Malaysia and the UK, he returned to Malaysia permanently in 1998, where he began his career as an artist and teacher. His practice encompasses installation, performance, writing and curatorial work. 

Recorded on 19 May 2020

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