The Mengkerang Project I:
A Day Without Sun in Mengkerang (Chapter One) (2013)
Mengkerang is a fictitious place created by the artist. A Day Without Sun in Mengkerang (Chapter One) invited participants of different ethnicity to participate in a “game” of exquisite-corpse, describing Mengkerang as they imagined. There are only two rules in the game, that is the story must happen in Mengkerang, and to use at least two of the three characters (characters that reach a high appearance in Malaysian primary school textbooks) provided.
Music: Sandra Tavali
Storytellers: Ayam Fared, Jo. Kukathas, Lee Ah Kew, Dawn Lee, Kathyn Tan
Special Thanks: Liang Ka En, Chua Teck Yeo
Mengkerang is a fictitious place created by the artist. A Day Without Sun in Mengkerang (Chapter One) invited participants of different ethnicity to participate in a “game” of exquisite-corpse, describing Mengkerang as they imagined. There are only two rules in the game, that is the story must happen in Mengkerang, and to use at least two of the three characters (characters that reach a high appearance in Malaysian primary school textbooks) provided.
Music: Sandra Tavali
Storytellers: Ayam Fared, Jo. Kukathas, Lee Ah Kew, Dawn Lee, Kathyn Tan
Special Thanks: Liang Ka En, Chua Teck Yeo
Single Channel Video . 27 minutes . Wooden Framed Documents
Excepts for The Mengkerang Project: https://vimeo.com/143883972
Installation View photograph by Lin Yu-Quan
Reviews:
https://talks.taishinart.org.tw/juries/frq/2015050402
https://sharonchin.com/notes-on-habitation-and-elsewhere/
https://jasper75.pixnet.net/blog/post/42924416
http://chongkimchiew2.blogspot.com/2015/08/blog-post.html
https://projectglocaltaipei.blogspot.com/2015/04/if-bahasa-jiwa-bangsa.html