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Notes on contributor
Minstrel Kuik is a Chinese Malaysian artist born in Pantai Remis in 1976. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in Taiwan, she obtained her master’s degree in photography in Arles, France. As a social actor, Kuik continues to undergo tensions coming from different ideologies, social bounds, identities and interests. Not only these daily experiences help position herself between the political society and the authorities, they also shape her artistic practice. With a belief that the private space is the major battlefield of ideological, political and economic interests, she explores art as a historical trajectory where the personal mutation through the process of reading, thinking, making and revisiting is traceable, and hopefully, reflective.
Notes
1 This visual essay is only an extract from the second volume of Kuala Lumpur Trilogy, rather than the entire volume.
2 “Hic et Nunc, tableau n°2” is included in Guest Room, the second volume of my unpublished handmade artist books Kuala Lumpur Trilogy. The other two pieces are National Baby and Today in Memory. Kuala Lumpur Trilogy presents a set of photographs shot in 2007 that records my trajectories in Kuala Lumpur as a newcomer leaving a hometown to live in the nation's capital. In 2007, Kuala Lumpur was celebrating the nation's 50th anniversary of independence from the British colonization since 1957. The set was also displayed in a solo art exhibition “P for Place” curated by Singaporean photographer and researcher Zhuang Wubin and held in a non-profit art organization called Lumenvisum that is dedicated to photography in Hong Kong in 2017. “Hic et Nunc, tableau n°2” is an article originally produced in French between 2007-2008 through automatic writing. The text was later translated into English, and further into Mandarin for the audience in Hong Kong.