Скачать или смотреть Props, Performing, Performance: Tracing Early Performance Art in 1990s Malaysia

This talk by art historian Sarena Abdullah explores a period of time in the mid-1990s when Malaysia witnessed the merger of interdisciplinary explorations between two main artistic fields, i.e. fine arts and performing arts. What started with the involvement of fine artists in prop-making, later evolved into various forms of collaborations and experimentation that can be considered the earliest examples of “performance art” in Malaysia.

Abdullah focuses on selected ‘visual-performances’ in collaboration with Five Arts Centre – among them Two Installations (1991), Alter Art (1991), Warbox, Lalang, Killing Tools (1994) and Skin Trilogy (1995). By highlighting connections between modern artistic practice, performance, and installation, this presentation examines these collaborative experiments and explorations within the context of recent Malaysian art history. Following her lecture, Abdullah is joined in discussion by Dr. Nora Taylor, Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.