Making Mamak is a toolkit for all cultural workers, social organizers, and community members. The toolkit is devised to help commit to local, community-based forms of creating and gathering. Learning from arts collectives in the urban centres of Malaysia, one can develop kinships with one’s own community, formulate mutual aid, appropriate collective spaces, and start(...)
2024
Making Mamak: Collective Ecologies of Urban Space
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Making Mamak is a toolkit for all cultural workers, social organizers, and community members. The toolkit is devised to help commit to local, community-based forms of creating and gathering. Learning from arts collectives in the urban centres of Malaysia, one can develop kinships with one’s own community, formulate mutual aid, appropriate collective spaces, and start(...)
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Connecting Collectivity
PH1981:0589:064
architecture, topographic
between 1860s and 1880s
View of Penang (now Pinang, Malaysia) with the harbour in the background
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PH1981:0589:064
architecture, topographic
PH1981:0589:065
architecture
between 1860s and 1880s
View of houses, rooftops and harbor of Penang (now Pinang, Malaysia)
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PH1981:0589:065
architecture
ARCH255204
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sketch plan
17 May 1984
Datuk Dr. Chen House, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Schematic sketch plan, level 1
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ARCH255204
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sketch plan
ARCH78122
circa 1994
Making Mamak, Emerging curator 2022-2023, Malaysian art collectives, south east asia, commoning
25 August 2024
Field Notes: From an Island to a Peninsula, and Back to Another Island
Clarissa Lim Kye Lee reflects on the findings from Making Mamak
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articles
25 August 2024
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This project, by the CCA’s 2022-2023 Emerging Curator Clarissa Lim Kye Lee, engages with collectives in the Malay Archipelago with aims of developing a shared toolkit for art and cultural workers globally. Through a series of workshops held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2024, this project looks to Malaysian collective ecologies and their relationship to their urban environments for ways to reinscribe a concern for the social in contemporary art and architecture.
Making Mamak: Collective Ecologies of Urban Space
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This project, by the CCA’s 2022-2023 Emerging Curator Clarissa Lim Kye Lee, engages with collectives in the Malay Archipelago with aims of developing a shared toolkit for art and cultural workers globally. Through a series of workshops held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2024, this project looks to Malaysian collective ecologies and their relationship to their urban environments for ways to reinscribe a concern for the social in contemporary art and architecture.
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photographs
PH1981:0620:078
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- A hand-written table of contents accompanies album PH1981:0620:001-081.
landscape architecture, topographic
between 1855 and 1877
View of a fan-shaped palm tree, probably in Penang (now Pinang, Malaysia)
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PH1981:0620:078
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- A hand-written table of contents accompanies album PH1981:0620:001-081.
photographs
between 1855 and 1877
landscape architecture, topographic
photographs
PH1981:0620:079
Description:
- A hand-written table of contents accompanies album PH1981:0620:001-081.
architecture, landscape architecture
between 1855 and 1877
View of a lotus pond and buildings, probably in Penang (now Pinang, Malaysia)
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PH1981:0620:079
Description:
- A hand-written table of contents accompanies album PH1981:0620:001-081.
photographs
between 1855 and 1877
architecture, landscape architecture