1993 APT1 Conference : Identity, tradition and change

satisfied Muslims are moving to the fundamentalist wing and that is a problem that this painting in some ways sort of becomes quite pertinent. I want to end with the works of a painter, Ismail Zain who died last year was a very good painter but there is a lot o f ........here that we have to also accept becoming a ......... also becoming an industrialised nation now having markets all over the place. We are searching for investment potentials. I think an Australian company has just been bought over, a plane making company making small planes. We have just bought over that company. We are taking the whole factory into Malaysia with all the Australian technical people at the top so we ourselves are becoming more expansist now but I do not know when you talk about colonialism and post colonialism there are more kinds of ......... also growing. But here we find in his picture he works with a computer, he makes illusions to take the certain images which have a kind of eye connect position within the sort of international stage, one of that is the juke box. Basically he takes the position of the juke box with the sacred image of the lotus in Buddhist art and there is this kind of interplay, a very subtle interplay in this sort of readings that one usually has this comforture that can come with placements of images clash; a similar thing is happening also from you will find the traditional images are a kind of joke on the folk image of the Malays and their love for collecting birds, these are a gentle people, nature's gentlemen. He has placed them against one of the central icons of European art movements...... The languid, lazy, tropical native set against back starved..... European. Thank you.