Stream time: Malaysian arts events to catch at home this weekend

VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: UNITY

Date: ends July 4

Unity is a 20-minute audiovisual installation that can be experienced from the comfort of your home. Instead of using a conventional screen, the selection of 20 audiovisual and silent videos from creatives (designers, artists and musicians) are projected onto a flipped pyramidal structure.

The team behind this experimental project examines how Covid-19 has underlined the conditions of being isolated, separated, and segregated from one another. Unity is presented by Filamen and supported by Cendana. It was made in collaboration with Epson Malaysia, NWCN, and Kongsi KL.

More info here.

THEATRE: DON'T LET HANTU KNOW

Date and Time: June 25-27, 3pm, 8.30pm

If you need your weekend spook fix, KLPac’s Don’t Let Hantu Know is just perfect with its seven spine-tingling ghostly works (presented in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin/Cantonese).

Be prepared for an ancient Chinese zombie attack, black magic, tales of reincarnation and a death goddess and even a musical about two pallbearers. Presented by The Actors Studio Seni Teater Rakyat and Muka Space, Don’t Let Hantu Know, ticketed, will stream on Cloudtheatre.

INSTANT CAFE THEATRE: WHAT'S NEXT?

Date and Time: June 27, 3pm

Instant Cafe Theatre’s co-founder and theatre veteran Jo Kukathas is presenting a virtual hangout with six performing arts practitioners – Ghafir Akbar, Ridzwan Othman, Ridhwan Saidi, Saleh Sepas, Masooma Sepas and Usen Leong – this Sunday, aptly called What's Next?.

This Facebook Live session will shed some light on how they have continued to be creative in the face of lockdowns, grief, loss, boredom, isolation, financial merry-go-rounds, and skateboarding.

KL NOIR: MAGIC - STORYTELLING SERIES

Date: ends July 11

Adapted from Malaysian indie publisher Buku Fixi’s KL Noir: Magic, this digital series is part of Singapore’s storytelling festival StoryFest 2021, which will stream (for free) on the festival’s Youtube channel till July 11.

Featuring seven videos presented by KL-based storytellers, actors and spoken word artists, KL Noir: Magic – Storytelling Series will be presented by Rajveer Singh, Mia Sabrina Mahadir, Nisha Nair, Ahmed Lafeer, Maya Zaharudin, May Chong and Deric Ee.

DOCUMENTARY: SKIN

Date and Time: June 25-28, 6pm

This lockdown season perhaps is the best time to reflect on the shell we call our body. Skin, an experimental documentary, examines the multiplicities of our bodies, its performative practices, and its relationship with femininity.

Funded by Cendana, the movement-based Skin is produced by artist duo Luvenia Kalia and Theyvapaalan S Jayaratnam in collaboration with Thinakkaaran Thamilchelvam, Quin Ooi and Santosh Logandran. Skin, ticketed, will stream on Youtube. A private link will be given upon purchase of ticket.

More info here.