Yasmin At Kong Heng: Moving On

 Morning everyone! If you're not aware, I recently had another group exhibition ( with my classmates and seniors ) in Ipoh @Yasmin Ahmad museum also known as Yasmin At Kong Heng

I just had to post this picture in extra large way so you guys can see my name on the banner hahahaha

 Our exhibition in themed Moving On. I'm sure all of you know what it means. Yasmin used to say she didn't want people remember her but to remember her works and the values in each of her works. That's why we're here to continue her legacy in hopes that her values and spirit would live on. 

 To my fellow readers who are in Ipoh, if you're free this weekends do make a trip down to the Yasmin museum right behind Kong Heng! Actually it is located in between Kong Heng restaurant and the Container Hotel. The exhibition is extended until 3rd of July aka this Sunday aka this weekends will be your last chance!!! DON'T MISS IT.  

Who is Yasmin Ahmad? 

  She is a late Malaysian film director, writer and script writer. Also very well known for her touching and meaningful ads for Petronas. She's a very inspiring person with a big heart. This museum in Kong Heng is run by dedicated volunteers in memory of her, in hopes of continuing her legacy. 

  Few months ago, the museum had invited my college (fine art department) to have an exhibition at the museum. At first when I heard we're gonna have a group exhibition in Ipoh I was like.. HAH? really ahh!?!?! How convenient because Ipoh is my hometown! Since then I started making excuses to balik kampung all the time xD . 

  So on February together with my course mates and lecturers, we made a short weekend trip down to Ipoh to check out the museum space and also this awesomely famous town in Malaysia called IPOH. That was also my first class trip outside Selangor/KL . I know I love to balik kampung all the time but it feels so funny because it's like I'm going on a class trip to my home.

 Then they were like ' Andrea you from Ipoh mah show us around la !! ' Where this where that , I was like...omg pai seh...I don't really know how to show them around, I don't really walk around town or do exploration. So, there were alot of places which they visited the first time in Ipoh , was actually my first time too. HAHAHA 

Our first time visiting the Yasmin museum, checking out the space. ( from here, you can see the what the space looks like before our exhibition )

After checking out Ipoh and everything, we started developing on our ideas and artworks during the given months. We then made our second trip down to Ipoh on 27th May, a day before the launching of our exhibition to set up our artworks at that space. Our lecturers transported the artworks for us from KL.

It was a really busy setting up day. We had to move all the display to different places. It was quite alot of hardwork.

Most of the displays were hanged using strings so we had to climb pretty high up when we wanted to adjust and move the displays. 

By the time we finished setting up it was already night time and we're all pretty much dying of hunger. 

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The next day, finally it's the opening day of our exhibition!! Most of us came pretty early to do final touch ups. While waiting for visitors to come, we just chilled and took alot of pictures. 

You know what, all of us looked really messed up the day before our exhibition and now we looked very well maintained with *shing shing* effect HAHA. 

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A few hours later, visitors started coming and we had a group students from another college visiting the museum. 

Our lecturer starting making speech and explanations to the audience and he later invited us ( the artist ) to one by one explain our artworks. LOL.

 

It's so funny because in the mornng we're all like so chill and suddenly all of us started being really nervous. Some of them came to me and was like oh my hands are shaking. oh crap my hands are getting really sweaty. Even though it's funny, I was pretty nervous too @@ . Seeing us funny funny like this, my lecturer's wife started calming us down and gave us advise. When she try to cheer us up, it's like *shing shing* all the angelic effect. TvT

 Before the first group of students left, they got shouted at by their lecturer for not listening and making so much noise, just like those high school moments. It's quite embarrassing though to do this when there's outsider or people from other college around ( us ) so actually hor, I think I should not be writing this HAHA . Then I wonder if my lecturers feel happy that they never had to do this to us LOLOLOL. Since we're good students after all 

Later on, another group of people came to visit our exhibition. They're artist as well and it's actually only a few of them. Not as many as the first group so not as nervous already.

and there's me explaining about my artwork. 

Me and my artwork! My artwork needs audience to participate in it so I can only have or know the final outcome after the exhibition ends. Don't fret!!  I'll make another post about my artwork. I'll explain everything in that post SOON. I'm very excited to see the final outcome haha. 

Besides that, my group of friends from college came to visit. I was really touched ( i think they sick and tired of hearing me keep on saying this already)  that they were willing to drive all the way down from KL to Ipoh to come and support. When I told them about the exhibition in Ipoh they were like okeh we go Ipoh support you! I thought they were joking but no, I'm just like omg really ah?

Then my best friends from Ipoh also came to support me hohoho. Thank you so much guys for coming! I really appreciate it. 

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Here are some pictures of the artworks being exhibited. 

ps I didn't post all of the artworks here so you may check out our fb album if you're interested. OR MAYBE drop by @YasminMuseum  this weekends! Last 2 days

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That's a wrap!! Everything turned out really well. Another good fight! Thank God for another great experience!!!!  and of course thank you to my lecturers for helping us out all the way!! It's a great honor to have an exhibition and create inspired by late Yasmin Ahmad.

We're on The Star newspaper last week! You may read it from here too. But it's a little disappointing that they used the wrong group picture ( some of the people in the picture are not the artist for this exhibition, some of the artist are not in the picture and it is not taken in the Yasmin museum ) Also they misquote the context of my friend's artwork, they got her name wrong as well lol. 

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Extras:

In the afternoon, after the guest left , we visited 2 art space in Batu Gajah. 1 of them is called Kapal Lorek while another is called Kotak Hitam. Their art was pretty impressive! Then we took group pictures. 

So, while we're taking this group picture, I just said to Sandy,

Me: Oh damn I think I blinked

Sandy: oh.....that's okay, It doesn't matter whether you blinked or not. ( I have slit eyes )

Others: OHHHHHH

YUP. I TOTALLY FEEL THE BURN GUYS. #lifeasmatasepet =____=" 

But then after the picture is out, I realized like wow...IT REALLY DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE LOOOOOOOOOOOOL. Sandy was right!!! Then it hit me that...omg....next time I don't have to worry if I blinked or not in a picture. OMG I'VE FOUND MY HIDDEN TALENT GUYS !!!  #themoreismilethelessisee.

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PS: I did not take some of those pictures,The credits appears when you hover your mouse on the pictures.

So, I asked Elise to pass me some of the pictures from her side...

wow.......thanks elise =___=

First Chapter

  Good morning! I recently had my first ever art exhibition on the May 5th. It is a group exhibition that I did together with my 3 classmates, titled 'The First Chapter'. Because it is indeed our 'first chapter'. It is to showcase our artworks that we did throughout the semester.

 To be honest, I feel kinda regret not writing this post sooner while my memory is still fresh. So this post is all about the exhibition and the challenges we went through to make it a success!

 We actually had our little exhibition in a classroom space because other major seniors were using the gallery hall for their exhibition. At first we were just like what........because it's like we're stuck in this crappy place. So we had no choice because no matter what our exhibition still have to go on and lecturer told us the most important part or the reason for this exhibition was for us to gain experience on how everything works. Ok la when he said that I can feel more willing to do it lmao.

  Also I learnt that when we're facing any challenges, don't complain but find a solution to it. Solutions doesn't fall from the sky, you gotta find it or figure it out. There is really no point in complaining ( I guess I'm saying this because I kept complaining lol )

 Since we're exhibiting in a classroom space, there were alot of furniture that needed to be moved. They were really heavy, then we had to paint the walls, clean the space, scrape the wall, pick up dead rats and all that =________________="  SO MUCH HARD WORK TO DO!!!

First set up

  This was what our first set up looks like. ( Ps it's still in progress ) HAHAHA we were so inexperience that all we did was just taking all the pedestals and PIACKK our artwork there.

We were supposed to have our exhibition on the 22nd of April because we want to tumpang audience from the MultiMedia course seniors' graduating exhibition, because the gallery hall is next to our classroom.

 So the day before 22nd April, we rushed like mad trying to prepare everything! Many things not done. Our posters aren't even out yet!!! until I received a call from my lecturer and he was like ' why not we have the exhibition on 5th of May, same date as the fine art seniors graduation exhibition '... I just jam there like ' are you serious? '  and he was like ' yeah I'm serious ' ...then I'm like okay.......thinking back, ITS OK, BEST DECISION EVER . 



  AND SO our exhibition was pushed to 5th of May, so this time we can tumpang audience from Fine Arts seniors' graduating exhibition because audience that would be coming on the 5th of May would be more suitable. We're fine art students after all!!

  BUT WE STILL HAD TO RUSH FOR 22nd APRIL!  Because my lecturer had invited guest to give opinion on our exhibition, they would be coming around noon. In the morning of 22nd April me and my classmates came really early to touch up,set up and print art labels. So in the morning we cant feel the 'heat' yet so we just dilly dally and do things at our own pace....

UNTIL...the guests were about to arrive and so many things not done yet. That moment was seriously hilarious because everyone was so stressed up, I was as well. But at the same time I kept looking at my classmates super stressed and panicky faces and thinking how funny they looked. Then we run here there, shout here and there it was like chaos!! and then Sabrina just dropped everything, stared her unfinished work then another unfinished work and shouted silently ' F********************KKKKKKKKKKK* and continues stressing with her unfinished work, LOL.

 (I didn't get to take pic of our completed first set up) We made it in the end but an hour late LOL. After discussion, it seems that there were alot of changes to be made! Pedestals had to go because there's too much of them.  Since this isn't a gallery but an art space, we can make it more 'fun' . Plus since it was only 22nd April and our real exhibition date is 5th May, we had time.

 This is a group pic that we took after we finish dealing with all the stress and rush preparing before the guests arrived. My friend posted this and I was like ' issit just me or all of us look like we're dying ' HAHA

YUPPP

Second set up. 

  Thinking back at our first set up, it was really hilarious. Aiman even joked that our exhibition, should be called ' THE PEDESTALS ' hahahaha

  We rested during the weekends and continued with second set up. Here's the progress of our second set up. Because of this we also had to 'level up' our artworks hahaha. From a small tiny work, we make it bigger and better. I feel like our artwork having some digimon revolution or something 

Sabrina resting a lil while haha 

Sabrina's artwork 'Concrete Jungle' in progress~

  We came to class to work on our artworks almost every day ( except weekends of course ). We would always make time to get together for preparations.

  There were funny moments, like when Sabrina sang in a high pitched Chinese opera voice and then Elise came running from the back of the class with her hands placed on her chest, with a panicky face and was like ' oh gosh..did you guys hear that!? ' HAHA we stared at her for a moment and started laughing like mad!

  And how the week before, Me, Aiman and Elise were stressing and Sabrina was so calm and all like don't stress ya guys I have more to do and I ain't stressed. But few days before the exhibition, you can see her stressed like crap. HAHAHA look who's stressed now. ( I think she would smack me when she read this hahaha )

  I'm also very thankful because Elise's mother, Mrs Tan had been preparing lunch for us almost everyday as we had to stay in class from morning till evening. PS Mrs Tan is a really good cook!!! Also during that period I was so broke because I used up most of my allowance buying art materials. So I'm even more grateful for all these delicious lunches!!  THANK YOU MRS TAN!!!

Ok, I assume you guys finished indulging on these delicious food picture. While there's funny and delicious moments, there's also...cough cough horrifying moments....but let me put a picture in between before I write down the horrifying moments.

Horrifying moments is just horrible. There are rats everywhere in this class....You know I don't care the rats BUT THEY DIE EVERY WHERE!! I wasn't joking when i wrote up there ' picking up dead rats ' 

Horrifying Rat-ifying moments 

1# Live Rat swimming on a toilet bowl, stuck there. Thank goodness Sabrina picked up 

2# Dead rat below the sink, cause of death: unknown. Thank goodness Sabrina picked up

3# Rat chewed on my artwork, so there's a hole and I gotta fix it

4# Rat vomit on the shelves DISGUSTING. 

5# RAT POOP EVERYWHERE!!!!

6# Now here's the most rat-ifying moment of all!! Apparently this lil rat was playing with my friend's artwork ( a heavy crown on a plastic plate ). Its on a pretty high shelf...and then...the artwork fell together with the rat and PSHHHHHHH GUASHHH the rat was squashed by the heavy crown and the guts exploded. like literally. oh gosh....

 Nobody noticed the gut exploded dead rat. But we were complaining about the smell and I even said to my friend 'HEY u better bring air freshener tomorrow, ur artwork place so damn smelly la '

 The funny thing is the rat played with his other artwork before its guts exploded. So the morning before we discovered the body, he messaged us this in group chat.

LOL!! it was so funny when he discovered the dead rat at the end of the day, he's like 'guys a rat just died on my artwork ' I was like ' hahahaha yeah right ' turns out he's not lying! 

It's also very funny because Aiman boldly made that statement and in the end he dont even dare to go near it!!! actually me too...like ew....umm....soo......haha....ha......thank goodness Sabrina picked it up . She covered her hands with plastic but EWW RIGHT U CAN STILL FEEL LIKE EXPLODED BODY!! phew....sabrina saved the day again! After pick up the dead rat hor, there's still like rat intestines sticking on the plate ( since it got stucked in between the heavy crown n plate ) 

HAHAHAHAHA I like to keep saying this story to disgust everybody. HAHAHA I quite like to see everyone's disgusted reaction. very funny. I dunno how many time I repeat this story to my family and friends...hahahahahahahahahhaha

Even though I like to cerita it to disgust everyone, I feel like that's it. That's the limit of my endurance. I used to not care about rats but now, after the exhibition...i CANNOT see rats!!!! Whether fake or real, ....NO

Um let's get back to the main part of the story shall we? Finally, by hook or by crook , we made it for 5th of May!!! A lot of people came on that night because there were 2 exhibitions going on at the same time. 



Here's one of my before and after some digimon revolution the second set up!



Hohoho ma Potatoes~~ This artwork is titled Potato Head.
I think I will make another post with all the context of my artworks,if not this post would be too lengthy ( even though it already is ) Here are more artworks that we showcased during the exhibition!

Elise's artwork title Parable of Eggs

Also Elise's artwork Uniform~

Sabrina's concrete jungle

Concrete Jungle's view from the top.

Sabrina's Balance. This artwork is a game haha 

People having fun with that artwork during the opening night!

*picture credit to Aiman*

One of Aiman's artwork, Framing~

Another one of my artwork 矛盾 . Audience is allowed to drink from it la hahaha. Sorry to disappoint, it's not real alcohol, I replaced it with tea. I got alot of funny reactions to this artwork lmao!!

Me: Hey u wanna try and have a drink? 

A: No, I know it's not alcohol. When I came in I was like wahh! ( aka SHING SHING reaction ) but when I saw that it is opened I know its not alcohol. Cheat my feelings. 

Me: hahahahahaha 

Me: U wan drink I pour for u

B: oh no no. No thanks I dun drink alcohol

Me: hahah no it's not alcohol its tea!

B: sure anot? dun trick me!!!

HAHAHA! and then I heard other people wanna sabotage that artwork. They wan buy alcohol from outside, and throw away my tea and pour alcohol inside.LOLOLLOL

People chillin at my artwork~

There are a few more artworks that I didn't include in this post because I dont have proper pictures of them . I'm glad that we had quite alot of positive feedbacks from the visitors!! haha while working on this exhibition I feel like we're going all out of something lmao. 

Anyway, I'm very thankful and grateful to my friends that came for the exhibition!! hohoho  Sorry because didn't get to take picture with some of my friends.

Also, not forgetting, my OLDER brother that came from far far away to support! It probably bore him to death...paiseh

  To me the most exciting part of this exhibition was working together with my classmates even though it was pretty hectic and tiring. It was really great because everyone was just so cooperative. We would have discussion, figuring out solutions for each other, helping out with each other's artwork. I find this exhibition really meaningful to me because my friends were part of it. What I cherish most was working together behind the scenes. The teamwork we had actually amazes me hahaha. I kept thinking like wow I feel so blessed to have them as my classmates.

  Besides that, I'm also very thankful to my lecturer Zelin being so kind and helping us all the way! He even came to check on us during preparations even though he's not feeling very well. 

I look forward to our third year together! 

  Lastly I really thank God for helping me to overcome all the challenges that we faced throughout the exhibition haha. There are alot more things that happened but I don't want to make this post anymore longer LOL. You know at first when we had to showcase our artwork in the crappy classroom, I felt very reluctant and kept complaining lo like ughhh...nobody gonna come also. But turns out it is like a blessing in disguise. If we did not showcase in this classroom we would not have any 'opening night' , we wouldn't do as good as we did and we wouldn't have that much people coming to see our artworks. You know if our exhibition dates did not change, the pedestals would just be IT. There won't be second set up and our exhibition would be titled ' THE PEDESTALS ' .I also feel like God telling me ' HAH in your face! ' LOLOLOL.