Bengkel Pemetaan Kampung Bandar Dalam
(Kampung Bandar Dalam Cultural Mapping Workshop)
Kampung Bandar Dalam community is the only remaining traditional Malay village in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Their daily life retains the vivid and rich traditional Malay culture. Most local residents, also the experts and scholars in the field believe that the community is a place that inherits the Malay national spirit and Malay traditions and should be preserved as a “Kuala Lumpur Folklore Culture Village” in order to inherit the heritage of Malay culture.
This project intends to combine Lostgens’ Contemporary Art Space (Malaysia) and the Department of Architecture of TamKang University (Taiwan) to jointly organize workshops to promote the community experience in Taiwan.
One of the curators of this project, Yeoh Lian Heng, the founder of Lostgens’ has been closely connected with Kampung Bandar Dalam community for many years. In December 2015, he co-curated “Transaction in the Field” master class program with the Goethe Institute Kuala Lumpur. More than 20 curators and artists from all over the world were invited to visit this community, opening up the opportunity for community residents to “imagine the future of the village through art”.
The co-curator, Lo Hsiu-Chih (independent curator, Taiwan) visited this community in January and promoted the idea of cultural and community exchanges. Meanwhile, the other co-curator, Huang Jui-Mao (the dean of the Department of Architecture at TamKang University, Taiwan) has many years of academic and practical experience in the community reconstruction.
Through the workshops, Taiwan shares and exchanges valuable experience on culture and art with Malaysia in creating the concept of “imagine the future of the village through art”.
Date
5th – 7th April 2016
Venue
Kampung Bandar Dalam, Gombak
Sub Project of
Topography of Mirror Cities
Curators:
Lo Hsiu-Chih (Taiwan)
Huang Jui-Mao (Taiwan)
Yeoh Lian Heng (Malaysia)
Acknowledgement
Kampung Bandar Dalam
Cikgu Haji Ishak Surin
Soleh
Madrasah Tarbiyah
Pemuda Madrasah Tarbiyah
All mapping workshop participants
Taking the village’s history, geography, culture, landscape, and resources as the background, along with field visits and “Curatorial Topography” as a method,
the host will talk about Taiwan’s experience and methodology. On the other hand, the local leaders and artists share the current situation, and both create “imagine the future of the village through art”.
Art and Culture Mapping Workshop
by visual artists and local community
This workshop includes a first draft of an art map and two drafts of a cultural map. Art Map uses “Curatorial Topography” as a method to discuss how to present local cultural characteristics through alternative artistic practices, and come up with the imaginary future community.
The cultural map has two parts. First part takes the local landscape and important fields as the protagonist, depicting the “Kampung Bandar Dalam Culture Map” with historical depth and imaginary future; the other part uses the “people, culture, place, scenery, local production, etc., outline the “Kampung Bandar Dalam Cultural Calendar” with a taste of local favors.
These three final results dedicated to all residents of Kampung Bandar Dalam, as the basic reference for the future “Arts and Cultural base”; at the same time serve as the foundation of cultural exchanges between Taiwan and Malaysia.
