Saturday, August 21, 2010

Ezzam Rahman's performance "We Are What We Had Lost"

Video by Kok Kai Foong.

The Abang Guard + Zai Kuning + Yandsen @ Karabau Rock Bar (Part 1)

Video by Kok Kai Foong.

The Abang Guard + Zai Kuning + Yandsen @ Karabau Rock Bar (Part 2)

Video by Kok Kai Foong.

Festival Photos & Video

Hi,

Below are links to some of the festival photos, please take a look!
Thank you for all the photographers!
If you also have some photos to share, please email it to kokbuffalo@yahoo.com
Enjoy!

Article & photos by Clifford Narcis & Mikie Yap.
http://www.totipero.com/art/2010/08/the-arts-collective-at-sama-sama-guesthouse/

Photos by Clifford Narcis & Zack Tay:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=468393&id=901480374



Festival by Akiko Yanagida & Urich Lau:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=529771156#!/album.php?aid=197874&id=529771156&fbid=419217271156&ref=mf


Rahmat Haron's performance video by Juliana Yasin:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=420380581079&ref=notif&notif_t=video_tag

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Video: Mini Opening Ceremony

Short video of mini opening of the festival, with Ika Huang's lovely singing of “小城故事” (Stories of Little Towns), originally sung by internationally well-known Taiwainese songtress Teresa Teng (1953-1995).
Video by Kok Kai Foong.

Lyrics of 小城故事 (Stories of Little Towns)

A little town has many stories

Full of joy and happiness

If you visit the little town, you'll gain a lot


*Some are talking, some are chatting

The stories of the little town are really not bad

Please invite your friends to come visit

Be our guests in this little town*


Looking at it, it looks like a painting

Listening to it, it feels like a song

Humanity with innocence, kindness and beauty

You can find all of these here


*repeat




Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Sama-sama Guesthouse Mini Alternative Art Festival 2010 (Melaka)


Mini Opening Ceremony @ Sama-sama Guesthouse: 6th August, 6:00pm

Visual Arts & Performances @Sama-sama Guesthouse: 6th-8th August, 3pm-9pm

Live Music @ Karabau Rock Bar: 6th & 7th August, 9pm-11pm

(For details of the schedule, please refer to festival programs)


Location: Sama-sama Guesthouse, Jalan Tukang Besi, Melaka; Karabau Rock Bar, Jalan

Hang Lekir (3rd Street)

Organizer: Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur (SiCKL)

Sponsors: Sama-sama Guesthouse, Voyage Travellers Lounge, Karabau Rock Bar

Contact: kokbuffalo@yahoo.com / yandsen@yahoo.com (012-9198031)


Come join us for this unique DIY mini art festival with no budget but lots of “big hearts”!


Support your local revolution!


SiCKL presents a colorful weekend celebrating creative and irrepressible contemporary works in visual art, music, dance, poetry, video and performance on 6-8 August 2010 in Melaka! This DIY, mini alternative art festival takes place at non-conventional venues: a cozy guesthouse inhabiting a heritage building, and a local bar. Featuring established and emerging artists that are open to art experimentation, the festival has gathered 50 over artists, dancers, musicians and performers from Kuala Lumpur, Melaka, Singapore, Japan, Scotland and USA to join the art feast! Visual art, dance, video and performances will happen throughout days and nights at Sama-sama Guesthouse, and night music gigs will take place at Karabau Rock Bar.


SGMAAF 2010 is a truly grass-root, DIY, “no-budget” mini art festival. It is solely supported by the enthusiastic and selfless souls with a desire to make something humble but excellent happen in the community. The festival does not obtain any official funding. Enthusiastic individuals provide in-kind supports such as venue and equipment sponsorship in a completely voluntary, non-profit manner. All participated artists have been amazingly generous to contribute time and energy to create work for the festival without allowance. These selfless artists are the backbones of SGMAAF 2010. Our effort proves that it is possible to produce an excellent art event with quality content, without surrendering to established authorities and big budgets.


There will be paintings, drawings and installation works exhibited at Sama-sama Guesthouse by visual artists such as Wong Perng Fey, Ragazza 88, Hee Chee Way, Lim Keh Soon, Wong Eng Leong, Wong Min Lik, Tuan Nini Farhana and more. Artist Tey Beng Tze will be doing “dream drawing” where he’ll create drawings real-time as a performance, throughout the duration of the festival. A room dedicated to Yong Ching Sui (1975-2006) will be installed, as a tribute to a talented artist and a good friend. Singaporean artists Urich Lau, Jeremy Chu, Wong Yip Kai, Raymond Yap and Ezzam Rahman will present us with video art, installation and performance. The festival will feature local video artists Au Sow Yee, Kok Kai Foong, Alison Khor, and artists from Japan - Katsuyuki Hatori, Eiji Azuma, Koji Tambata, Aki Nakazawa and Kotaro Tanaka, in which Tanaka will be performing live with local improvised musicians and dancers. Adding to the fun is poet Tshiung Han See; singer-song writers Azmyl Yunor, Jerome Kugan, Melaka very own Ika Hwang and the violently melancholy SCAM; one man band Silent Keat, and the hilariously rebellious Ciplak. The highlight will be The Abang Guard, featuring some “father figures” in the punk/sound/noise scene with Joe Kidd, Bullet and Zai Kuning (Singapore). Local dance troupe Lapar lab will present dance piece “The Campus Thought” while David Lim and dancers “inhabiting” different corners of the guesthouse throughout the days; and alt THEA invites us to join their “experiments in light”.


Other participating artists include Alan McLean, Michelle Wong, David Wong, Clifford

Narcis, Mikie Yap, Rahmat Haron, Huvi Chan Seauhuvi, Jazmi Izwan, Ayisha Rahman, Siund, Azman Zulkiply, Nadia Mahmud, Leo Yap, Aidira Khaidir, Iylia Nordin, HKPT, Leng Poh Gee, Kathyn Tan Chai Chen, Lim Siew Ling, Chew Seck Nee, Lim Hooi Ming, Lim Shin Hui and Tan Shiao Por, Rainf, Manji Hwang, Jan Verbeek and Chris Brassington.


Support your local revolution! See you there!



Regards,

Siew Wai & Yandsen, co-directors of SGMAAF 2010

15 July, 2010.


Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Sama-sama 宾馆 迷你另类艺术节 2010 (马六甲)

迷你开幕仪式: Sama-sama Guesthouse, 6th August, 6:30pm

视觉艺术及各种表演: Sama-sama Guesthouse, 6th-8th August, 3pm-9pm

乐夜: Karabau Rock Bar, 6th & 7th August, 9pm-11pm

详细的表演时间和地点,请翻阅艺术节时间表)


地点: Sama-sama Guesthouse, Jalan Tukang Besi, Melaka; Karabau Rock Bar, Jalan

Hang Lekir (3rd street), Melaka.

办机构:吉隆坡蕉赖工作室 Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur (SiCKL)

赞助机构: Sama-sama Guesthouse, Voyage Travellers Lounge, Karabau Rock Bar

艺术媒介:视觉艺术,音乐,舞蹈,录像艺术,诗歌以及表演艺术。

询问: kokbuffalo@yahoo.com / yandsen@yahoo.com (012-9198031)


快来参加我们于201086日至8日,在马六甲举办的一场结合了视觉艺术、音乐、舞蹈、诗歌、录像和表演的盛会,让你度过一个七彩缤纷、镇压不住的现代艺术之旅。这个自助式的迷你艺术节将坐落在一个非一般的场所;一间惬意的古式建筑宾馆,以及一间摇滚酒吧。超过50位来自吉隆坡、马六甲、新加坡、日本、苏格兰和美国,涵盖已享有盛名和新锐的艺术家、舞蹈家、音乐家还有表演工作者,齐聚一堂呈现他们富有实验精神的作品。不论是白天还是夜晚,在 Sama-sama 宾馆里,你将被视觉艺术、舞蹈、录像和各种表演环环围绕着,而到了晚上,Karabau Rock Bar 将呈现音乐演出。

Sama-sama 宾馆 迷你另类艺术节 2010 (SGMAAF 2010) 是一个真正草根、零资金、自助完成的迷你艺术节。大家秉持着无限热忱与忘我情怀,为社群打造了这个谦逊但出色的平台。场地、设备等全部都由热心人士免费提供。所有参与的艺术家们,在完全不含任何津贴之下,慷慨奉献出他们的时间和精力,为此艺术节提供作品。他们都是SGMAAF 2010 的骨干。我们要努力证明,举办一场有素质的艺术活动,并不一定需要祈求权威机构大力资助才能成功。

快来参与我们这独特的零资金自助迷你艺术节,亲身体验如此宽裕的气息!

支持本土革命!



SGMAAF 2010: Performance Schedule

The schedule is subject to change, please confirm schedule with the festival organizer.

Date

Time/Venue

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS

Fri, 6 Aug

6:00pm-6:30pm

Sama-sama Guesthouse’s Lobby

Dance @ lobby area.

Lapar Lab

Fri, 6 Aug

6:30pm-7:00pm

Sama-sama Guesthouse’s Lobby

Mini Opening Ceremony

Fri, 6 Aug

7:00pm-9:00pm

Sama-sama Guesthouse’s Lobby




9:00pm-9:30pm

Sama-sama Guesthouse’s Lobby

Singer-songwriters Nite






Dance

Ika Hwang & friends

Jerome Kugan

Chris Brassington

Self Conscious Acronymed Man (SCAM)

Azmyl Yunor

alt THEA

Fri, 6 Aug

9:30-11pm

Karabau Rock Bar

Improv Nite

EMACM

HKPT

Sat, 7 Aug

3pm-7pm

(intermittently)

Sama-sama Guesthouse

Performances at random corners at the guesthouse.

David Lim + Leo Yap + Aidira Khaidir + Iylia Nordin

Sat , 7 Aug

5pm-5:30pm

Downtown Melaka: to be announced*

Performance Art with burung merpati

Rahmat Haron

Sat, 7 Aug

8pm-9pm

Sama-sama Guesthouse’s Lobby

Video-music Improv Nite

Jazmi Izwan

Urich Lau

The Ensemble wt Kotaro Tanaka

Sat, 7 Aug

9pm-11:30pm

Karabau Rock Bar

Electronic-Noise-Punk Nite

Ayisha Rahman

Alan McLean + Thsiung Han See + Michelle Wong

Silent Keat + Rainf

Ciplak

Ben’s Bitches

Abang Guard

Sun, 8 Aug

3pm-6pm

(intermittently)

Sama-sama Guesthouse

Performances at random corners at the guesthouse.

David Lim + Leo Yap + Aidira Khaidir + Iylia Nordin

Sun, 8 Aug

6-7pm

Sama-sama Guesthouse

Performance art

Ezzam Rahman

Fri –Sun,

6th-8th Aug

3pm-9pm

(intermittently)

Random points in Melaka downtown! Be alert!

Mobile Art!

- Electronic music duo

Silent Keat + Rainf + Manji Hwang

Fri –Sun,

6th-8th Aug

After 7pm –midnight

(intermittently)

Random points in Melaka downtown! Be alert!

Mobile Art!

- Mobile video projection in Melaka town with a moving vehicle.

Wong Eng Leong

Sun, 8th Aug

8:00pm – 8:30pm

Sama-sama Guesthouse

Closing Screening:

Documentary of SiCKL events 2006-2007