MAP Arts Festival
MAP is opening its doors on the 27th of March 2010 with a 2-day arts festival. Activities include music, art, sculpture, performances, installations, talks, workshops and art markets alongside social and individual empowerment activities. The festival will introduce MAP’s two spaces: a 6,000 sq ft gallery and a 200-seater experimental theatre named the White Box and Black Box respectively.
In the works is an exciting program of community oriented activities that encompasses the widest possible diversity of creative content. MAP will provide opportunities for arts and cultural producers from multidisciplinary backgrounds. As a meeting point between artists, curators, critics and the public, it will serve as a catalyst for the exchange and exploration of contemporary ideas.
A performance art interactive with Lostgens’ installation – Open
Lostgens’ founder, Yeoh Lian Heng was invited as sub curate partner for Performance Arts in MAP Arts Festival opening in 2010. There were two artists who perform during this festival:
Aisyah Baharuddin
is a fine art graduate from UITM. She co-founded TIGA (Tindakan Gerak Asuh) which has three core members, all full time artists. Is This Love or Burden speaks of the unspoken bond of love between a child and mother.
Intan Rafiza
is a fine art graduate from UITM. She is well-known for her captivating live performances which focuses mainly on gender issues. Hukuman (Judged) explores the current issue of caning of women in Malaysia.
Date
27th – 28th March 2010
Venue
White Box @ Publika, Kuala Lumpur
Is This Love or Burden
by Aisyah Baharuddin
” When a child is born,
a bond ties and binds,
enfolds in a world
of joy and happiness.
Hope hitherto unknown. “
Every child that comes into the world is full of promise and hope. But that promise and that hope can only be realized through love.When a child is born, the tie that binds wraps in its folds a world of joy and happiness and hope hitherto unknown.
Take away that love and you will have a wayward child. Today, love is experimentation in human relationship, that’s why abusing children still happen in our society. They don’t understand love, maybe for them it is just a burden.
Duration: 30 minutes
Hukuman (Judge)
by Intan Rafiza
The whipping Malay/Muslim women in Malaysia is not a question of the law of God or religion, but the sensitivities of equality. In a system that is insensitive to equality between genders, there is an attitude of punishment, oppression and indifference towards individuals who should be restored and assisted, to create a mentally healthy community.
Duration: 30 minutes
