Traditional Malaysian Arts Form - Batik

This is the only presentation or can said performance for this subject. Each of the group need to choose one topic that can represent for a traditional Malaysia art form. For my group, we choose 'Batik' as a traditional Malaysia art form. As we know that many formal event that held in Malaysia, the participants will wear batik cloth that present our cultural. There's lot of society have batik cloth to wear when they going to meeting or attending event. My dad have a lot of different colour batik cloth that he wears when going to his society events.

My group decided to make a video about Batik in our presentation. Because we can't demo how to make Batik inside the classroom. We do survey and going to record for our video. The first place that we visit is Ilham Gallery which located near KLCC. We going there to look around how the artist present the art on the batik. And also see some special batik that made to represent different characteristic. 

Capture and record in Ilham Gallery.

Batik can also transform to meaningful arts.

Batik also can represent different characteristic in mask form.

The cops to make batik.

 Group photo in Ilham Gallery. 

The second place we go is Jadi Batek Gallery. We going there to have interview with artist and also know more about the process of making a batik. In Jadi Batek Gallery, we can see how the artist drawing and colouring on the white cloth with they free hand. They draw the draft on a small piece of paper and start drawing out with wax on the white cloth. 

The art tools and colour that used by artist.

The artist is draw with wax by free hand.

The artist is colouring on the white cloth.

The artist is fixing the colour.

The last process is to cook the batik cloth after it fully dry. But we cant record it, because the process is not available on the time we visiting. 

When the time in our presentation, we mention that Batik in Malaysia is more on flower and leaf, not human and animal. And Ms.Raja and Ms.Ezzati told us about the taboo of Malay cultural. I learnt new thing from them and know more about the Batik in Malaysia.

Five Arts Centre - Baling

This is the second time going to the field trip for is subject. We are going to Five Arts Centre to watch theatre. This theatre is named ‘Baling’ which is directed by Mark Teh.

‘Baling’ is a documentary performance that reconstructs these historical negotiations between Tunku Abdul Rahman, David Marshall and Ching Peng, where various visions on building a new nation were imagined, discussed and discarded. Reading from publicly available transcripts, the performer-researchers relook at the meanings of freedom, loyalty, terrorism, reconciliation, surrender, sacrifice and independence, and consider how the phantoms of our history continue to haunt our present.

This is the first time I’m watching theatre in my life. It’s a quite interesting experience, because in this theatre we need to move around to different angle and going upstairs for another section. We are watching some video and the performance that present by the performers. 

Actually I'm not really understand the overall performance, because my knowledge of history is very bad. But I try my bst to understand what the performers trying to tell us. The psrt that I remember the most is tearing papers during their performance. I can feel their anger and desire while they are performing.

The most impressive section for me is the performing about Chin Peng. The whole room hanging with a lot of Chin Peng's photo, and also have an interview video that showing us. For the interview video, I feel that Chin Peng is too old, maybe he already forgot many thing that he had done in his young age, so he cannot answer what the interviewer was asked. Chin Peng needs a lot of time to think a question, but ended up still doesn't answer anything. In the Q&A section, I did not ask any question, because I really don't know what overall is about. I just sat quietly and listen to others.  

This is what I have observe in in this theatre. Lastly, coming with the group photo that we had took after the discussion section.