1993 APT1 Conference : Identity, tradition and change

into that. This artist also is here, Kungyu Liew. He has used largely Chinese elements in to his installation set ups and also his performance type situations. Another artist who is also taking part in this exhibition is Zulkifli, you might want to see this artist's work, it is a large work in the show here. He has used the sort of tribal elements again very strongly constructing sort of ..... about power. The central leaf motif within his work as always a chair which appears again and again. Social commentary has now also geared to reconsiderations of the past and present. This is Ibrahim Hussein. An early work about 70's, his father is on the right and modernisation, his father is on the left and modernisation is on the right. He tries to record the shift that is happening. The limits of Malay art, it is a polite society, I think accommodation which there is sort of tantrums so we are surviving without racial riots without the centre falling apart but one of the prices we have had to pay is that for two generations artists also I think never bothered to be committed politically because .................. basically we have all types of laws. If a Muslim comes out saying kill the infidels he is taken in for two years. If a Chinese emerges and says kill the Muslims he is immediately taken in for two years and let to cool down. So I think there are pros and cons for situations like that but you may not agree the ties are automatic. The soldiers blow you up or you blow them up but we are getting more settled. Modernism so far as I see does not necessarily mean perpetual.........through violent revolutions in the nature of de la Crux paintings. We are more .... people but this is a beginning of modern poster paintings emerging. I think generally this has been expected within the art gallery context so they have not actually affected the public at large. The Government basically keeps quite and the Government even buys the paintings and makes them part of the National Art Gallery's Collections. So this is now in the National Gallery Collection, a painting b y .......... Indian painter making a commentary about the forest and the people of the forest, the P.... of Borneo. This is another painting by Chinese artist looking at the destruction of indigenous architectural heritage. The highway is converging and is about to take over the house at the junction. The arrow seems to point to two directions - where do we go but this kind of commands are coming through in the last five years. It is a phenomenon that is very new and I would like to see what is happening with this. A screen ................. of the .................... warrior in the age of