How 'wayang' storytelling and loads of imagination can lift the spirits

‘I like it when things overlap, where there isn’t a fixed category for what you do, ’ says Fairuz, a multimedia artist. Photo: Filepic/The Star

Fairuz Sulaiman, a multimedia artist, is no stranger to incorporating traditional "wayang" storytelling with an experimental edge, often using digital art, videos, music and projection.

Alongside his genre-blurring Main Wayang collective, Fairuz turned an entire warehouse (KongsiKL) in Kuala Lumpur into a wayang wonderland with the Layang show in February 2018. Experimental musician Sudarshan Chandra Kumar and actor-director Ayam Fared were also part of this ambitious multimedia arts project.