Seni Tiga #05: Fabric
Drawing inspirations from Kuala Lumpur’s constant and rapid (re)development, the collaborative performance is the artists’ take on the city’s state of flux. The projections are animated at real-time from footages about people in the endlessly developing city and comics created prior to the show. Sound design and the field recordings performed live give a hint of city life as well.
In November 2019, Fabric was brought to an outdoor public area in the heart of Kuala Lumpur city centre, where most developments are happening. New footages taken on site and new drawings inspired by the site were added to include faces of the city, reflecting Kuala Lumpur on a building facade.
Seni Tiga #05: Fabric
Running time: 45 mins
Performance date: 29 Jun 2019 (KongsiKL, Malaysia), 23-24 Nov 2019 (Urbanscapes 2019, Malaysia)
Artists
Comic / Film : Chong Chin Yew
Projection Mapping / New Media : Nadhir Zuhair Nozi
Sound : Uzair Sawal
Volunteers
Producer : Loke Soh Kim
Assistant Producer : Low Pey Sien, Mah Jun Yi
Photographer : Low Pey Sien
Videographer : Lee Pei Ni, Teh Rou Ning
Graphic Designer: Low Pey Sien, Nadhir Zuhair Nozi
Usher / Crew : Fuji Loh, Moch Jack Zhong
Presented by Kongsi Petak
Venue sponsored by KongsiKL
KongsiKL is a project supported by KakiKongsi and EXSIM Group
Acknowledgements: Fono, KakiKongsi, MSR Sdn. Bhd., SB Tape International Group
Artist Profile
Chin Yew
filmmaker / comic artist
At the age of 24, Chin Yew called it quits at his full time job and painted 40 paintings in 30 days – via the 30dayartist.com. This leap of faith gave him the confidence to then launch, a picture book “The Boy Who Loved Clouds”, and held his very first solo exhibition.
Not limited to just painting and comics as a medium of expression, Chin Yew involved himself with commercial work by directing commercials and TV Shows – such as Geng Bas Sekolah and Kapten Boleh for Astro Ceria.
Illustration work came pouring in as well as people were intrigued with his unique comic style and he has worked on several books with notable individuals.
While Chin Yew gained recognition locally, it was also important that he built his network overseas and thus began a 5-year global trek, to gain experience. His journey began in Indonesia, which then led him on to USA, Angola, Czech Republic, UK, Colombia, Ger many and Belgium. Chin Yew did a mix of commercials, part time photographer, videog- -raphy and cameraman for TV Series.
The ultimate plan is to write and direct his first feature, and hopefully to win the first Oscar for Malaysia.
Apart from that, he is also working on commercials and short films, having co-founded a film production company, 2Men Productions.
Nadhir Zuhair Nozi
projection artist
“Nad.io” or “Nadhir Zuhair Nozi” a new media artist that consistently experiments on interactive audio visuals with digital and analog towards technology and arts development of interactive designs.
With a passion in interaction design and pulling inspiration from artistic technologies, the goal is to inspire the community and ultimately the humanity.
Nad.io are the Whiz-kid of Saishogen collective, The team consists of five individual artist: NULL, Furryhead, Nad.io, Syed Muhammad & Ashraf Omar multifaceted group from various creative backgrounds of graphic design, motion graphic, illustration and creative technology.
They have showcased their work at various regional and international festivals, including ‘NOISEx GIF FEST 2017’ in Singapore and joined ‘1 Minute Projection Mapping’ in Japan where they were selected at 38 out of 123 entries.Their most recent work was by an invitation from Maika Collective Studio, a creative agency based in Jakarta for a collaboration to provide visual content for their installation at ‘Soundrenaline 2018’ in Bali, Indonesia and Urbanscapes 2018 at Medan Pasar with their Dome Projection Mapping AVAI ( Audio Visual Audience Interaction ) and Audio Visual Show with VJ and DJ set curated by Filamen.
Uzair Sawal
sound artist
Uzair Sawak is a man that wears many hats. He was a TV director and visual artist before he runs Fono, a music-focused community space. As a DJ who performs all over the world, Uzair also manages events and makes electronic music. Apart from that, he is part of Public School, a purveyor of good vibes and a music collective based in KL, aiming to diminish barriers to music by making it accessible.
With over a decade of experience being involved in the creative scene, he is going all out with Seni Tiga, where he will be curating sounds and providing soundtracks to the set of visuals with a combination of live original music composition, DJ set and field recordings.
