Name: Arkib di bawah Attap: talks series on the politics of visual culture and archival practices
Start: 2025-08-30T11:00:00+08:00
Location: Rumah Attap Library & Collective 亞答屋84號圖書館

Arkib di bawah Attap: talks series on the politics of visual culture and archival practices

Arkib di bawah Attap
Date: 30th and 31st August 2025
Venue: All talks will be held at Rumah Attap Library & Collective, @thezhongshanbuilding.
All are welcome! Sign-up link: https://forms.gle/a19Ubx9E9GxHmV116
Join us this coming Merdeka weekend for a series of talks about the politics of visual culture and archival practices!
We celebrate independence by asking questions about history, power, and memory in acts of archiving and research. How do we narrate complex lives and events that seem distant in the past but live on in the items that we keep? How do we interrogate the production of knowledge in and outside institutions, constantly mediated by process, context, and actors? Our speakers, from Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Australia, ponder these questions and more in their respective topics ranging from picture post cards circulating the early 20th century empire to fabricated images and speculative visions intimate to the legacy of the Malayan Emergency.
Schedule:
30th August, 11.00 am
Spectres of San Ba Lou 山芭佬: Inheriting the Malayan Emergency
By Eddie Wong, artist, researcher, educator
[English and Mandarin]
30th August, 3.00 pm
Re-temporalising Empire: Encounters with a picture postcard in the colonial port city in the early 20th century
By Jennifer Yang, PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Sydney
31st August, 11.00 am
From Strange to Stranger: Working on Ha Bik Chuen's Legacy
By Michelle Wun Ting Wong, researcher, writer, and curator
31st August, 4.00 pm
The Moral Economy of the Chinese Kongsi: and its Undoing in the Larut Wars and Mandor Rebellion
By Yvonne Tan, researcher and writer
“Arkib di bawah Attap” is a collaboration between Malaysia Design and Rumah Attap Library & Collective

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Rumah Attap Library & Collective 亞答屋84號圖書館, 82 Jalan Rotan, Kampung Attap, 50460 Bandar Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur