Malaysian Art

5th Lecture and Tutorial 7 July 2015

Dance. Is not just about the steps, the formation but is about using the body movement within a space to tell the story. This definition is like WOW! Totally agree with it. Art is just that beautiful.
Recall back to the short movie of Chilayu...Melayu....Malay....Chinese....Cina....DLL....Indian...
I was pretty amazed after Dr Carmen actually explained the composition in the show then only realized the power of art. Ok...perhaps I'm not contextual enough to understand it in prompt.
In dance, movement and expression will be our common vocabulary as formal.
Likewise, contextual tells story content based on cultural or artistic.

Somehow, we have racial bogotry, xenophobia and racial prejudice to certain people. This is actually come from our personal; suppose not to act on it or show it out.
So...
We cannot say that it is racism until we institutionalized racism which means government organization or etc giving negative treatment to a group of people based on their race. So-ya!
(Correct me if I'm wrong)


What event is so significant that Malaysia artist should feature in their artwork? 
Basically, I have no idea. Perhaps something like what Zunar did will be fine? So daring yet so true.
But it must be having historical sign which is value for future la.

Is there the responsibility of Malaysia artist to create Malaysia artwork?
Yes it is because even what Marion D'cruz and Ramli Ibrahim do are still practicing Malaysian artwork. They are very much confidence and understand their own culture before stepping out from it. So when globalization allows culture to flow free through national barriers, Malaysian art is still surviving. But if we don't take this responsibility, who will?