Please join us for the
book launch of

MDA: A Capsule publication
at Banner Repeater
Saturday 17th October 3-6pm.

kindly supported by British Council.

 

MDA: A Capsule is initiated and designed by Rose Nordin and edited by Heiba Lamara, with an introduction by Jac sm Kee and Ezrena Marwan of the Malaysia Design Archive.

 

The publication features work by Fauzan Fuad, Gogularaajan Rajendran, Izzuddin Ramli, Priya Jay, Syarifah Nadhirah, Xavier Pillai, Zarifah Ahmad Zamri and Zikri Rahman.

 

MDA: A Capsule is a publication developed through a series of creative engagements with the Malaysia Design Archive. Acting as an incomplete index of the archive, it brings together responses from artists, designers and writers across a diverse range of Malaysian and UK-based practices.

 

The publication supported by British Council forms a [time] capsule, an extension of the existing MDA in a format that can circulate and create an opening for further encounters and responses to the archive. In the spirit of Stuart Hall, the archive is approached as a living thing that comes to life through interaction, while Saidiya Hartman’s practice of critical fabulation offers a way of working with the archive as a point from which to imagine, fabulate and produce new knowledge.

 

Each artist and writer responds to a collection from the Malaysia Design Archive through the concerns and methods of their own practice.

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