Buka Baju / Take IT Off : Discussions on performance art in Malaysia
and elsewhere
Feb 27 @ CHAI, 11am - 3pm

'Buka Baju' is an entree to the main meal, 'Buka Mulut' - a performance art event which will be held at a restaurant the next week. What is performance art? Is it a dance to music you can't hear? Is it when artists take their clothes off and make love to chairs? Is it using fake or real blood and shocking an audience that is half-afraid and half-fascinated? Is it an art movement that began in the west a few decades ago and then spread across to Asia and the rest of the world? Is it stuff you see at current performance art festivals like Freedom of Imagination (Singapore) and Asiatopia (Thailand)? Is it confusing your audience to the maximum level? KO! Powerup! Is it politics? Is it protest? Is it freedom? Is it giving out flowers to the public on the street or is it giving a pillow to the Prime Minister? Why is the art scene so boring right now? Can you get arrested doing performance art? Naked! Naked! Naked!

Let's whet our appetites by uncovering all this and more. Take it off!
Presentations, talks and open forum on performance art - what it is,
what it isn't, what people have done, what people would like to do,
what is possible and what is just... like dat.

PS. Please do not leave your clothes at home.

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Buka Mulut / Open Your Mouth: Performance Art Event
March 20 at 8.30pm - 10:00pm
Location: Dave's Pizza Pasta Wino, 1 Utama

Another month, another art space opens. Another night, another art
opening. But how open and accessible is Malaysian art? Can it be as
appreciated as Nasi Lemak or Char Kuey Teow?

We're moving art out of the gallery and into the public realm of the Malaysian stomach. Two nights of daring performance art in a shopping mall restaurant - is the public going to eat what artists have to offer? How digestible are their ideas? What's the fiber content? Vitamins and minerals in a candy coated shell? Artificial seasoning or the hard-boiled truth?

It's time to open your mouth. But will the audience open theirs?

Find out. Join us.