05.
TANDA
NHAWFAL JUMA'AT X VALERIE LIM
TANDA (to mark) is the evidence to a witnessing, captured and etched by imagination. For a space forgotten, for a place celebrated. For a space as she is. The obvious curves of the district, her signs, symbols, myths, legends. Her face. All to be encarved and mapped out as the eyes trace out what the mind remembers. Tanda is to whisper,
Fragile at first when we met,
You must know that
there's no regret,
I'm in debt for the times
we have had,
If you remembered you weren't that bad when we first met,
Your clairvoyant eyes
sees through me,
Poignant and alluring though
I hardly know thee
It is heartwarming, working with people and especially in a creative project. Fills up my jar of empathy and bridges the gap of lesser strangers in our lifetime. I felt that every point of participation in this project was full of unravelling of memorable moments which are new and that I am truly happy with.
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Nhawfal Juma'at
And I Hardly Know You, 2020
Cloth artwork dipped in cement
Textiles & painting workshop
with MKAC participants
at Rumah P7:1SMA
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"All over my skin...
all over again…"
7 marked fabrics by
MKAC participants
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The dancing lights
Of sabers and fairies
Morph and shift
Figures twisting and twirling
Out and Into darkness
What happens when two aliens make their mark on Geylang Serai? Prompted by tanda, we decided to do a series of light paintings exploring our alien yet transitory relationship to the space.
Valerie Lim
Tanda, 2020
Dance film shot
at land between Joo Chiat Rd and Joo Chiat Terrace
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Tanda
It was fascinating to discover that visual artists all carry with them a sketchbook that whenever inspiration hits, they take it out to draw / sketch / doddle. It is such a wonderful practice to have! I also enjoyed improvising and dancing in open spaces in public. It was such a joy to respond to architecture and soundscape that occured in public spaces.
- Valerie Lim
COLLABORATORS WORKSHOP
Documented by Koh Maan Lin
Somehow, many of the participants chose the textiles that were responding to their soundtracks - Majmin chose Norliza’s textile, Anwar chose Liyana’s textile, and Firdaus chose Umairah’s textile. It was an almost magical moment for Iskandar and I because we had been attending the workshops from the start, and to see it all come together like this without the participants even knowing was so powerful. The moment really embodied the idea behind 7KaliBah, which was the passing on of intangible things like sentiments and memories from person to person through physical objects. Read more >
Documentarian Notes
ASSOCIATES REHEARSAL
Documented by Syarifuddin Sahari
Then the other image also there’s this idea of…because we’ve been talking a lot about old-new, past-present and dirty-clean, but in that image what’s interesting is that the golden thing, was still old, and the underneath thing that is the construction is actually the new but then the old is the one, the glittering and then the new things are the one that look uglier, or dirty. So I think it’s like if you want new things you also gotta go through a lot of shit and dirt and to have all that construction happen, and that happens underneath, you don’t see it. You want to see just the shine, you want to see the construction, that labour that happens. - Sonia Kwek
Collaborators for TANDA
Artist Collaborators
Muslim Kidney
Action Association
(MKAC) Participants
Mihrul Nisa Pakeer Malimar
Hatri Kamsuri
Mohd Rifa’ie Abdullah
Md Fawzi Daud
Firdaus Mohd Abdullah
Ahmad Anwar Umar
Majmin Mohammad Noor
Koh Maan Lin
Syarifuddin
Sahari
