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Image Credit: Ribut (1983)

Explore our repository of articles, essays, reviews and interviews covering a wide range of arts and culture. The majority of these were commissioned and published on the online arts magazine Kakiseni from 2002 – 2010.

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Violent Symphonies

Listening to Gustav Mahler’s 6th symphony (a.k.a. “Tragic”) performed by the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra under…

Under Exposed

When setting out to review the inaugural Kuala Lumpur International Photography Biennale (KLip, 4 June…

Too Many Awards, Not Enough Movies

Talk about efficiency. For the entire first half of the 18th Malaysian Film Festival 2005…

No Silk Purse

Titiwangsa is a nice lyrical sort of name. The Titiwangsa Range itself conjures a sense…

Back to Africa

By Kakiseni Rey Buono chides me: “If you had told me you were going to…

Dematerialise Girl

Everyone knows this folklore, so there is no ending to be given away. On the…

Don’t Rain On My Painting

It was a very wet afternoon. Not the ideal time for a visit to the…

Renewal – A Short Story

All I had wanted to do after my retirement was sit in the patio -…

Fine Young Communists

As the elderly leader of the now defunct Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) points out…

Mat Salleh and the Temple of Brown

Getting Lost You may recall that two weeks ago I had the pleasure of reviewing…

Artists Without Borders

The idea of exchange is an interesting one in today’s world where technology, the internet,…

Waiting for the Next Generation

Not being a dancer or choreographer herself, Rogayah Shahariman doesn’t want to be known as…