{"title":"Rogue Art","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"yee-i-lann-at-the-table-essays-and-conversations-2011-2023-by-i-lann","title":"Yee I-Lann: At the table (Essays and Conversations 2011-2023) by I-Lann","description":"\u003cp\u003e(From the Introduction)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDear Reader,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book of propositions. It follows lines of thinking in an artist's practice, through different geographics and their landscapes, through economics and politics. It is thinking which draws from different languages and philosophies for living in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLet us consider three images, or visualisations, from Yee 1-Lann's work, and from her collaborations we will come to read more about later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first is a dramatic mise-en-scène. On the cover of this book, there is an image of an unruly woman seated at either end of a long formal table, barefoot and dressed in a batik sarong, her long hair hanging over her face. On the right, she is on a blue plastic stool, one hand firmly down on the table, the other waving a stalk of rice out in front of her. On the left, she is slouched back in an executive's chair, legs unbecomingly splayed open on the table. It is a picture of trouble, surely, of disruption, of confrontation, full of haunted rage and laughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second is an attempt to visualise an idea, emerging from I-Lann's conversations with her Dusun Murut weaver collaborators in inland Sabah. In the bamboo pus mats they have made together, there is a traditional basic weave, a simple step rhythm, called in Dusun tukad kad. For its look and feel, it is named for the ridges on the mouth's palate which become raised when they come into contact with heat or acidity. English readers may be reminded that the words \"text\" and \"texture\", like \"textile\", come from the Latin stem texere, from the PIE root teks-to weave, fabricate, make. We can read, understanding that to weave is to make is to create texture to react to a trigger, to create text. When the architecture of the mouth is used to describe art-making, we are reminded of its function as the space between the private and the public, a site of ingestion and expressio, We can see the propositions in this book as tukad had.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe third is a visual proposition. It asks us to think abo how we see and use architecture, and how we see and use power. Picture 60 tables on 60 mats facing you on a wall. The mats are woven by 1-Lann's weaver collaboration on Pulau Omadal in Semporna, on the coast of Sabah, each using variations of their many different heritage and contemporary Bajau Sama DiLaut pandanus weave patterns. They are richly coloured, mesmerising in their symmetries, their precise and rhythmic geometric expres sions. Into these colourful weaves are woven images of different \"tables\" in plain pandanus-office bureaus, school desks, dining tables, a speaker's podium, archal for reading the Quran- of various styles and designs. How do you see the tables in relation to the mats?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI hope the above images might serve as prompts or entry points as we follow the arguments and narrative of the texts to come.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50568330445113,"sku":"11845222","price":35.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0822\/6871\/7369\/files\/11845222.jpeg?v=1741942918"},{"product_id":"catan-sopan-by-jalaini-abu-hassan","title":"Catan Sopan by Jalaini Abu Hassan","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Jalaini Abu Hassan\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9789672807179\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RogueArt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeven poems, seven canvas paintings, and seven watercolours by leading Malaysian contemporary artist Jalaini Abu Hassan are brought together in this bilingual book to produce powerful commentary on Malay politics and society now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) for almost 30 years, Jai is always exploring different modes of creativity and expression. He describes this latest project: “As a hybrid form of expression, my new body of work called Catan Sopan (2022) combines poetry and painting using Malay fables and allusions in addressing contemporary socio-cultural, political narratives. As poetry, it functions in a variety of ways – as a form of storytelling, as social realist critique and expression, and as a reflexive monologue supporting the visual agenda of the paintings. It is directed toward a subtle criticism in the manner of the Malay sopan (courteous) approach.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems, written in Malay, have been translated into English by renowned poet and masterful translator, National Laureate Muhammad Haji Salleh, to preserve the artistic\/poetic essence of the work for a wider readership. In his welcome note, Muhammad Haji Salleh writes,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“His canvases take us to a nest of symbols that resonate with meaningful proverbs and traditional thinking, while defining our times. These paintings comment on what is happening in his society.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52088454152505,"sku":"11854501","price":80.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0822\/6871\/7369\/files\/11854501.jpg?v=1775560372"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.cziplee.com\/collections\/rogue-art.oembed","provider":"CzipLee Retail","version":"1.0","type":"link"}