Seni Tiga #04: BIND; a State of Mind
We ask where we are going next while reflecting on our past; but do we know where we are now?
BIND; a state of mind is a performance that explores the thresholds of time through different media.
Seni Tiga #04: BIND; a state of mind
Running time : 60 mins
Performance date : 17-18 May 2019 (KongsiKL, Malaysia)
Artists
Dance : Elena Laurel Moujing, Fahezul Azri Suhaimi (Romo), Rithaudin Abdul Kadir, Sueki Yee
Installation : Bonnie Cheong, Chua Hui Qin, Emily Chow, Lim Jing
Sound : Goh Lee Kwang
Volunteers
Producer : Loke Soh Kim
Assistant Producer : Low Pey Sien, Mah Jun Yi
Photographer : Mohd Nor Azmil, Nazir Azhari
Videographer : Low Pey Sien
Graphic Designer: Low Pey Sien
Usher / Crew : Alice Wong Yieng Zhu (MyDance Alliance), Lee Bee Hui (MyDance Alliance), UM dance students
Presented by Kongsi Petak
Venue sponsored by KongsiKL
KongsiKL is a project supported by KakiKongsi and EXSIM Group
Acknowledgements: KakiKongsi, MSR Sdn. Bhd., MyDance Alliance, SB Tape International Group
Artist Profile
Bonnie Cheong
installation artist
Bonnie currently is a final year Fine Art student in MIA. She just finished her internship at Lostgens Contemporary Art Space. She was born in 1996, and base in KL. Beside, she produced conventional artworks such as oil painting, she also produce installation art at the same time. Bonnie studies mainly on social context on her works by using multi techniques. Apart from this, the beauty of women figures always appeared as her main subject in her work.
Emily Chow Wen Qi
installation artist
Emily Chow Wen Qi (b. 1998, Malaysia) is a graduate from Malaysian Institute of Art, who explore different techniques and materials that she can get a hold of. She gets inspiration from social media which plays a big role in her life. She is really interested in the different way people think about a situation, which happens a lot on social media. For her works she tries to interpret the different kind of thinking by combining different kind of methods and material together. In most of her works, she goes against whatever rules that was made as an act of rebellious towards any rules or traditions. She once used wall filler in an incompatible way to the usual use of the material by creating an uneven and rough surface rather than fixing an uneven surface. To show how people uses social media to give their real opinion but probably won’t be giving the same opinion when they are communicating with other person face to face.
Chua Hui Qin
installation artist
Chua Hui Qin (b.1996,Pontian,Johor,Malaysia ).Most of her work talk about feminist and uses charcoal and soft pastels produced semi-abstract drawing.At the same time she explored on new media and non-conventional art materials as her installation works.
Lim Jing
installation artist
Lim Jing (b. 1998, Malaysia) is a multidisciplinary artist who based in Kuala Lumpur. Their early works mostly discussed about the ownerships and fluidity of identities in living space and cyber space. While they was attempting to coordinate and identify their roles in the society, they started to perceive that people and system are always consuming each other. Such vice versa relation, that ended up aiming nothing but itself like an Ouroboros, has became an aesthetics to them. By the way, Lim Jing prefers to use ‘singular they’ as their pronoun.
photo: Syahrin Yen Zaini
Rithaudin Abdul Kadir
dance artist
Malaysian born artist who hails from Sabah is active in the performing arts scene in Kuala Lumpur. Holding a degree in Performing Arts (Dance) from University of Malaya, Rithaudin strives to use dance as a tool to express a universal message to any audience and to make his work as edu-tainment. As an active committee member of MyDance Alliance Malaysia and also the vice president of Malaysian Performing Arts Society (Astana), he has been creating works that depict current issues and awareness which are performed at the local and international platform. Rithaudin believes that through dance, people can be holistically affected either with conventional or metaphorical means of movement. With a strong traditional dance background, his ventures in experimental and site- specific works, a coalition of western contemporary vocabulary fused with traditional movement philosophy is well-known. Rithaudin believes dance to be a cultural imprint on the body. Thus, any dance is a living proof of the culture of the beholder. Being from Sabah which is culturally multi-ethnic, he began his experiment mixing that traditional culture which he had been exposed to with what he had learned. With 20 years of experience and exposure, his work is recognized in the local and international dance scene, particularly in site specific work.
photo: Matthew Chow
Elena Laurel Moujing
dance artist
Elena's passion flows through a little bit of everything, from event hostings, modelling, to performing arts. With rhythmic gymnastics and traditional dancing as her base, this Sabahan bred is excited to explore more of what her magical shell has in store for her. Last year, she was in Sharm Noh's piece "Langgar" for Short and Sweet 2018 and Romo Hernandez's "Tumau Om Vaig", a community dance film supported by MyDance Aliiance. She can also be spotted dancing in Yuna, Dato Seri Vida, and Sara Suhairi's music videos.
photo: Goh Lee Kwang
Fahezul Azri Suhaimi
dance artist
Fahezul Azri bin Suhaimi is a versatile dance artist and choreographer who works across genres and disciplines. He achieved the Best Male Dancer Award in Short and Sweet Dance Malaysia 2018, Borneo Arts Festival 2018, as well as 3 gold medals at World Championship of Performing Arts 2016, United States. He has danced with companies such as Pat Ibrahim Project Entertainment, Soubi Sha, Gila Panggung Dance Company, Terry and The Cuz, Tall Order Production and Enfinity Vision Dynamic, as well as choreographers Suhaili Micheline, Al Jabar Laura, Khairul Azhar Mokhtar, Rithaudin Abu Bakar, Dr Silvester Pamardi, Joseph Gonzales, Yeow Lai Chee and many others. His latest choreography work, “Never have I ever dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul” was presented at Dancebox 2018, International Choreography Festival 2018 and won champion at the Borneo Beatdown Dance Competition 2018. Another work “VoGiNaNg” also received awards in Short and Sweet Dance Malaysia 2017 for Best Glitz and Glam Award, Festival Director Award and Mercedes Benz Malaysia Creative Excellence Award. Originally from Kuala Lumpur, his interest in dance developed at a really young age as his father’s influence of being a Sabahan dance artist and lecturer. He graduated as a Diploma holder in Dance (Performance) and currently finishing his final undergraduate degree in Dance Performance Studies at ASWARA with his final thesis exploring "The audiences perspective and gaze on Butoh Performance in Malaysia".
photo: Goh Lee Kwang
SueKi Yee
dance artist
SueKi Yee graduated with First Class Honours for her Bachelor of Dance (Honours) from the National Academy of Arts and is currently a dancer at ASK Dance Company (ADC). Recent projects include Metamorphosis International Residency Lisbon working with Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, and D_Lab Dance in Asia programme in Indonesia. Her solo “But would you know if a fishbowl is just a fishbowl?” was awarded the Festival Director Award at Short + Sweet Dance and was subsequently selected for International Solo Contemporary Dance Festival “Cuerpo al Descubierto” in Mexico. Other projects include Un Yamada Co.’s People Without Seasons, Nibroll’s See/Saw, collaborated with Landscape Theatre, and has also performed at various festivals in Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and China. As a performer, SueKi is interested in the versatility of dance and performance, and is always excited to explore new possibilities.
photo: Taka Chang
Goh Lee Kwang
sound artist
Goh Lee Kwang is a prolific artist who wears many hats. He is a sound artist and composer. He also runs the the label Herbal Records. His own bandcampe page features a staggering 671 releases. He also organizes the Switch On Mini Festival, which brings together local and international sound artists in the hub of Kuala Lumpur. Goh Lee Kwang states that the medium of Sound as art relies upon the response created in the listener for its existence. Without the receptivity and response from a listener, the sound ceases to exist, does not take up any space. What I have observed and enjoyed most about Lee Kwang as an artist is the invitation by himself and his artwork to participate in a relationship. The dedicated listener may perceive new worlds, strange sound textures and maybe even find within themselves new and unusual experiences.
