Title
Post-colon…
Year
1993
Material
Single-channel
video (40:30)
Exhibition/Publication
- Students Exhibition, RPI, Troy New York, 1993
- "Malaysian Video Art Festival", National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, 1994
- "MTV@MALAY TV" at USM- ABN AMRO Arts & Cultural Center, Penang, 2006
- MJVAX - Malaysia-Japan Video Art Exchange, during a screening program "SMTVa" - Screening Malaysia Through Video Art, National Visual Art gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 2010
- "Absorbing Future Shock" in Contemporary Art Campus USM, during 1Malaysia Contemporary Art Tourism (1MCAT) 2010
Collection
Artist
“Post-colon” presents an
anthology of short videos addressing cross-cultural encounters as my comfort zone and identity were challenged when I was doing my MFA in the USA. I turned to
traditional Malay proverbs to express my negation with such position.
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| "Wash & See" in "Post-Colon...: A Series of Video Shorts" (1993) |
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| "The Brown Silhouette" in "Post-Colon...: A Series of Video Shorts" (1993) |
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| "In Your Own Circle" in "Post-Colon...: A Series of Video Shorts" (1993) |
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| "The Rescue of A Frog Under a Coconut Shell" in "Post-Colon...: A Series of Video Shorts" (1993) |
To sound 'clever', here is an excerpt from
Roopesh Sitharan (2007), "Relocations - The Electronic Art of Hasnul J Saidon & Niranjan Rajah".
"Hasnul Jamal Saidon has been rigorously exploring the video as a medium
for artistic practice, integrating the medium with other technological
and non-technological media in diverse artistic productions. He notes
of his early period,
“My initial studio performances were “mediated”
by the language of the video camera: the video camera became my
witness, my audience. Video became a mediated representation of my
journey across borders - within and without. The borders suggest
multiple reading and meanings - such as artificial demarcations or
boundaries within my thoughts and memories, within my own body, within
my emotion, between various artistic disciplines, between
nation-states, race and ethnicity, religion, culture, history and even
gender.”
He continues, to explain that his encounter with post-colonial theory and Said’s Orientalism had an impact and set him on a deconstructive journey. His response was to produce a series of video shorts combining studio performances, computer graphics, computer music improvisation and analog audio/video editing improvisation."
He continues, to explain that his encounter with post-colonial theory and Said’s Orientalism had an impact and set him on a deconstructive journey. His response was to produce a series of video shorts combining studio performances, computer graphics, computer music improvisation and analog audio/video editing improvisation."
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