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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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Pak Su Mat, 1939-2005

It is with profound sadness that I write this. I received a phone call last…

Postcards from the Edge

Demonstration at Putrajaya Sometime in October last year Noon. Putrajaya Position: Volunteer for KOMAS Job…

Taking On New Meanings

Passionately academic and handy with anecdotes about every dance practitioner in this country, Dr. Mohd…

The Classical Challenge

Decked with flowers and fruits in their hair to personify temperate seasons, the nymphs standing…

The Thinking Man

(Rapid Ear) Is there some strange community run by Neil Young, Johnny Cash and Bob…

Abducted Traditions

A grey cold April evening had descended on Exeter, England, along with the news of…

Return to Nature

The newly established Alpha Utara Gallery, 83 China Street, Penang has just opened its Inaugural…

Not About Winning Competitions!

There used to be a time when any intelligent discussion on choral singing would result…

The Taming of Ning

Subtitles not required A friend here in KL recently suggested to me that my view…

Tun Mamat Naik Lif

Tidak berapa lama dahulu saya telah diundang oleh geng Kakiseni untuk merewang ke Kampung Pinang…

Farewell My Contemporary

Saidah Rastam is not one of Malaysia’s best kept secrets. Her cutting-edge music has a…

Welcome to KLPac

This is what KLPac looks like as you approach it: An angular contemporary structure with…

What A Virgin Needs

One might expect celebration galore to usher in the very first audience members to the…