Seni Tiga #11: Dulu. Saat Itu.

Dexter Lim is a KL-based theatre practitioner with an interest in acting, movement, and devising. He received his theatre and movement training in California, United States. He is interested in creating works that create a realm that humanizes experiences, and reveal the rawness and the essence of the human emotions. On top of performing, he plans to venture into directing and drama education. Selected credits: indicinelive!6, Scenes from an Execution, The Seagull, Koulan, and Simultaneously Futura. Education: B.A. in Linguistics (Language & Society) - University of California, San Diego.

Aisha Hassan is a Malaysian writer. Her fiction, which focuses on exploring gender and narrative memory, has been published in international literary magazines. Previously, Aisha worked as a journalist for Quartz in New York and for Harper’s Bazaar in Malaysia. Aisha is also the co-founder of Dia, an e-commerce and content platform that showcases Southeast Asian artisanship. In addition to Dia and writing, she works for a philanthropic foundation in Malaysia. Aisha has a bachelor’s degree in English Language & Literature from the University of Oxford, and a master’s degree from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. This is her first performance.

Jackey was born in 1988 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is a recurring nominee at the BOH Cameronian Arts Award for lighting design. To pursue his artistic dreams, he enrolled in New Era College’s Diploma in Performing Arts and was fortunate enough to meet his mentor, Caecar Chong. Under Caecar’s guidance and mentorship, he started developing an immense interest in theatre design. Unfortunately, Caecar passed away shortly after. However, Caecar’s guidance, particularly this principle, has impacted Jackey as an artist at a fundamental level: “You may be learning to design a space, but you’re not just designing with stone, brick, wood, and steel. You’re using the meaning within each layer of the space to create and construct the life within a human heart.” Since learning this, Jackey decided he wanted to be a set designer.

Still breathing, with lungs that rather be elsewhere.

She is one of those former architecture people who no longer want to do architecture, instead exploring graphic, installation and set design. Having met Biji-biji Initiatives, that dreamy illusion of upcycling is habituated; collecting things here and there to give them another purpose in the effort of tolerating the world better.

She also enjoys teaching and discussing deep ugly sad stuffs with her imprecise use of language. Terribly scared of people, but she adores them too. In love with stories a place can tell.

And thank you for joining/reading/watching. For seeing what she cannot see. For being a part of her she would carry till her lungs let go.

Iwaz is an electronic music producer, visual artist, and design lecturer based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is notable for infusing traditional Southeast Asian music with ambient electronic soundscapes. He has collaborated with many musicians and visual artists including the likes of Musa Kanda, Pipin Ulya Jamson, Fahroni Hamdan, Motiofixo Visuals, EEELab, Filamen, Saishogen and many more. He recently released his debut album ‘SUSUR MASA’ (2019) and is currently exploring visual programming and creative coding.