“KHABAR DAN ANGIN: Excursus on Faith in Kelantan” by Projek Dialog presents artists’ field-notes from encounters with various faith communities in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia.
Initiated by Projek Dialog team Ahmad Fuad Rahmat and Yana Rizal, it began with the idea of bringing artists on field-trip to the largely rural Kelantan to engage in a circumstance whereby religious conviction pervades everyday life under the watchful moral investment of the state’s long ruling Islamic political party. The project also wanted to reflect on the complex and dynamic coexistence of minority faith groups practicingvarious religions, cultural rituals, spiritual devotion, and cosmological notions in a place synonymous with Parti Islam Se-Malaysia.
Initiated by Projek Dialog team Ahmad Fuad Rahmat and Yana Rizal, it began with the idea of bringing artists on field-trip to the largely rural Kelantan to engage in a circumstance whereby religious conviction pervades everyday life under the watchful moral investment of the state’s long ruling Islamic political party. The project also wanted to reflect on the complex and dynamic coexistence of minority faith groups practicingvarious religions, cultural rituals, spiritual devotion, and cosmological notions in a place synonymous with Parti Islam Se-Malaysia.
Co-curated by Ong Jo-Lene and Yana Rizal, this exhibition presents works that expose the artist's individual modes of apprehending spiritituality and religion through its attendant issues.
Promotional Cards.
As the project and exhibition kept evolving and expanding in some ways, this too developed into a publication that can be read on its own as a document or as a post-event documentation.
Text and descriptions by Projek Dialog and Ong Jo-lene.
