1993 APT1 Conference : Identity, tradition and change

modernism when a whole way of life is changing. This has been made by a Malay artist ............ from ............... The Chinese ......... for the first time ................ paint of the Chinese community in Malaysia. These is a kind of constitutional division between what i s ...............and th e .................which is the non........... This is a problem that is very sensitive and it will eventually have to be confronted head on must probably in the next ten years or maybe next fifty years but it is a problem that has to be solved but already there are inklings of a kind of second or third generation Chinese beginning to emerge in this painter ..... The message on the T-shirt is to know Malaysia is to love Malaysia. It was a theme song for a recent Malaysia year but in all those little slots are pictures of Chinese identi-card faces so in a sense you can say these are the beginnings of a kind of poster art. I am very cautious you know. Maybe I am getting old and belong to another generation. I would not like to call it a construction, post-modernism. I would just like to say things are happening in Malaysia in our context in our time. Please forgive me but I do not understand the construction, when we are only 50 years old what is ..... I have not constructed yet. This is another painter a very interesting young painter Wong Hoy Cheong who is a leader of a number of important ar tist..... social kind of connection very much like. They are a very seminal group in terms of this kind of art. Here he takes to task the ultimate myth. The holy command policy in the country is based on the second basic assumptions which after 30 years have become somewhat simplistic. The assumption is the Malays are all poor, the ......... people are all poor, the rich are probably the Chinese or the Indians but in recent years you will find because of the new economic policy success after thirty years the Malays have come out. They are very rich. It it not unusual to find 3 BMW’s parked in a garage in front of the house but here you will find a kind of parody for the middle class. You will find on the right the Malay middle class and on this side it is the Chinese middle class but find very interesting the Filipino maid, white elephant and the charming............... Here in a sense is also the reality that has to be questioned because in this structuring of a national vision it has been somewhat idolised not taking into considerations the more complex realities which are not just ethnic, religion but also economic and this can cause problems because at the present time the largest numbers of economically dis