Perspectives
By: edited by Nur Hanim Khairuddin, Beverly Yong, Yap Sau Bin and Simon Soon
Series: Narratives in Malaysian art -- v. 4
Publisher: RogueArt
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9789671001189
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Malaysian Art
Description: "This fourth and final volume of the Narratives in Malaysian Art series considers how we look at Malaysian art, and the forces and motivations that have shaped our understanding of its role and development. Perspectives brings together the voices of members of the public, activitists, art workers, critics, curators, academics and artists in a collection of commissioned interviews, conversations, essays and short reflections. It seeks to stimulate alternative ways of thinking about art and its significance in the past, present and future."--Back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Art and the public; title: Go forward now: conversations with "Uncle Rajah"; title: Voxpop: some views on art and its usefulness Part 1; title: Playing to the gallery: the Malaysian "public"?; title: A lonely affair: musings on art writing in the mainstream Malaysian media; title: Voxpop: some views on art and its usefulness Part 2; title: Building communities with art; title: Voxpop: some views on art and its usefulness Part 3; title: The tent is big enough: art in everyday activism; title: Para-sites and common spaces: three projects in the city; title: Voxpop: some views on art and its usefulness Part 4; title: Art and place-making for social change: an interview with labDNA; title: Art for the youngest generations: a conversation with Janet Pillai, founder of Arts-ED; title: Voxpop: some views on art and its usefulness Part 5; title: Navigating art censorship; title: Between practice and discourse: curatorial frameworks and agendas; title: Between curating and art history: an interview with T.K. Sabapathy; title: A prolegomena to the curatorial or, the "barest hints in each situation"; title: Maps and currencies of the curatorial: locating Malaysian art from the outside through exhibitions in the 1990s; title: Converging extremes: exhibitions and historical sightlines in 1990s Malaysia; title: Bodies, gender, processing modernity: a conversation with Laura Fan; title: Picturing the nation: an interview with Valentine Willie; title: Three kinds of curator: an interview with Nur Hanim Khairuddin; title: Curatorial practice in Malaysia post 2010: motivations, approaches, ideals; title: The writing of art history; title: Looking back ; Marco Hsu's A Brief History of Malaysian Art (1963) ; Dolores Wharton's Contemporary Artists of Malaysia: a Biographic Survey (1971) ; Syed Ahmad Jamal's Rupa dan Jiwa (1979) ; Ismail Zain's 'Seni dan Imajan' (1980) ; Redza Piyadasa and T.K. Sabapathy's Modern Artists of Malaysia (1983) ; On Vision and Idea: Relooking Modern Malaysian Art (1994); title: Prospecting new grounds ; Performative narratives relooking Malaysian cosmopolitanism ; Painting Malaya professionally: re-evaluating the role of Lai Foong Moi and the 'Colony Artists' ; Orphic ontology: the epistemological uncertainty of new media ; We need a revolutionary image.