Interview with artist Sharon Chin: What inspired this exhibition, Sharon? Fed up of book banning in Malaysia?
The Annexe programme director Pang Khee Teik gets up to his usual provocative self, when asked what he thinks of a show like this.
A visitor --- choreographer Bilqis Hijjas --- tries her hand at the interactive artworks that Pang talks about. Finding your way around the banned books graph line is no easy task.
Film critic Benjamin McKay finds Sensors is "aesthetically challenging" and "deals with a lot of contemporary issues for Malaysia".
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Tembak Shots: Sharon Chin's "Sensors: Banned Books & Other Monsters" by Veronica Shunmugam
Banned books in the hands of the congenial but sharply observant artist Sharon Chin?
No wonder there was quite a good turnout at the opening of the exhibition "Sensors: Banned Books & Other Monsters" ("Sensors") at The Annexe last Friday evening despite it having been buka puasa (breaking fast) time.
Smelling controversy --- which really isn't hard to find, given so many things are proclaimed sensitive and banned in Malaysia, Veronica Shunmugam decided to help spread the artist's thought-provoking message through our Tembak Shots as well as by recording the event on YouTube (and linking this to Kakiseni).
Sensors 1
Sensors 2
Sensors 3
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Veronica Shunmugam edits Kakiseni.
The outstanding "Sensors: Banned Books & Other Monsters" opened at The Annexe @ Central Market in Kuala Lumpur on September 21st, 2007, and runs until October 7th, 2007.
More details here. Sharon herself runs a blog of the exhibition.
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