2021.11.23 10:00-12:00

Turun Padang / Masuk Gelanggang: Art collectives and artist-run spaces in Kuala Lumpur and beyond

Speaker: YAP Sau Bin

 

Sau Bin Yap teaches at the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, Malaysia. He is a member of Rumah Air Panas [RAP], an artist initiative based in Kuala Lumpur. Yap received awards in the Young Contemporaries Arts Award by the National Art Gallery, Malaysia in 2000 and 2002 and has participated at the JENESYS Residency program in Japan in 2008. His practice encompasses conceptual work, installation, mapping and curatorial project with RAP.

 

Initiated in 2005, the MappingKLArtSpace is an ongoing mapping project that maps art spaces in the city from the past to the present. It had been featured in the 8th Havana Biennale in 2006; Migration Addicts in the 52nd Venice Biennale, and ShenZhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism & Architecture in 2007; The Independence Project at Galeri Petronas in 2007 and Gertrude Art Space, Melbourne 2008. Other collaboration includes Wasteland Twinning Network in Berlin 2011; Operasi Cassava in the Media/Art Kitchen exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, 2013 and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) in 2014. Recent curatorial project includes ‘ESCAPE from the SEA’ organised by the Japan Foundation, Kuala Lumpur in 2017.

 

The talk will be held online via google meet: meet.google.com/uoe-eciq-ghh