1 MALAYSIA CONTEMPORARY ART TOURISM: Sparkles in Penang
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- Author: Hasnul Jamal Saidon
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- e-ISBN: 9789671000816
- Book Type: E-book
- Format: Flipbook
Defining Contemporary Art
The term ‘contemporary’ connotes something that is modern, current, up-to-date, fashionable, present day and existing. The term ‘art’ here refers to many different forms of expression that are prevalent in the today’s visual art practice such as painting, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, photography including digital print, video art, new media art and installation art. Current practice of contemporary art also includes many diverse forms of alternative media, process and methodologies that include youtube video, web-based collaborative project, experimental and site-specific performance and installation, situational and instructional art, sound art, light art, artist’s book, graffiti, ready-mades, ephemeral art, intervention art, expanded painting, quilt, fax and mobile phone. There is also a tendency to combine various media, process and methodologies as well as to explore beyond the confine of gallery wall and its white cube paradigm amongst the contemporary art proponents today. Despite the emergence of non-conventional, experimental, multi-disciplinary and alternative new forms, traditional forms such as painting still persist. In fact, painting (in its many variations) has continued to play a central role as an important form of contemporary expression in the Malaysian art scene. It has to be noted that whatever that is contemporary today will become ‘historical’ in another ten or more years to come. Contemporary then, also connotes relevancy and sustainability of artworks in cutting across the time-space dimension. It is on this basis that several critical and seminal works that were produced more than ten years ago are also included in “SIP”.