2009 KLUE Urbanscapes

The City All-Day Arts Festival

Urbanscapes is organised by Klue and is the first and only all-day “user-generated” creative arts festival. Bringing together communities and participants from the fields of music, arts, fashion/ lifestyle and film under a single banner, Urbanscapes aims to showcase the best of the local scene.
(Text Resource: Urbanscapes Official Website)

Because They Wear Black on May 7th

Lostgens’ was invited to participate in this event with a sculpture installation artwork. This interactive performance artwork is a response to Perak constitutional crisis in year 2009. The 2009 Perak constitutional crisis was a political dispute in Malaysia regarding the legitimacy of the Perak state government formed in February 2009. The Coalition for Free and Fair Elections (Bersih) urged Malaysians to wear black on 7th May, to protest the “ongoing Perak coup” by the Barisan Nasional government. Bersih launch of the 1BLACKMalaysia campaign on 5th May.