Afterimages of the exhibition of #shrineshare we put up for Temu Pasor / Ipoh International Zine Fest, late July. (Folks who came to visit are still sending us photos)
ShrineShare: 16 artists from all over, in a neat little folder, which you can unpack into a complete art show.
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KONGSI KERAMAT / #shrineshare at Temu Pasor / Ipoh International Zine Fest, Day 2:
A selection of photos with folks when Sharon and I remembered to take them. Sorry we didn't get pics with everybody! (It's a tight space; when things get busy we get distracted and forget to document ...)
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Installation for #shrineshare in Ipoh: complete!
Before:
(The sign reads: "Association of Ipoh Central Market Malay Traders")
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KONGSI KERAMAT / #shrineshare at Temu Pasor / Ipoh International Zine Fest, Day 1:
Setting up, chilling out. Come find us, if you happen to be in Ipoh this weekend, 25-27 July 2025!
A zine and print-art exhibition featuring 16 artists from all over. Also ongoing: vendors, performances, workshops!
A tribute to the Folio Geografi we used to have to make in secondary school.
#shrineshare / Kongsi Keramat: 16 artists from Malaysia / Thailand / the UK / the US. Curated by Sharon Chin @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social & I. Supported by the British Council's Connections Through Culture Grant 2024.
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KONGSI KERAMAT!
The Bahasa Melayu version of #shrineshare is a comb-binded photocopied zine, courtesy of our local old school photocopying shop, Syarikat Perniagaan Jackson.
ShrineShare is in exhibition as part of Temu Pasor @ Pasar Besar Ipoh, 25-27 July 2025, organised by Kinta Zine Club!
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KONGSI KERAMAT!
ShrineShare, our group exhibition in a folder, continues to travel!
Next stop: Temu Pasor @ Pasar Besar Ipoh, 25-27 July 2025, by Kinta Zine Club. Now with bahasa translation!
#shrineshare : 16 artists from all over. Curated by @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social , Sharon Chin, and me!
CORRECTION: there has been *seven* public showings of #shrineshare .
Right now, the folio is on exhibition at the Exeter Phoenix Gallery, in the UK: exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/shrin...
Art made to travel easily. Shrines made to be shared.
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It isn't just us planning and putting together exhibitions of the folio:
#shrineshare in Penang was organised by Jamie Oon, one of the artists in the folio.
The PJ / Klang Valley show was mooted / hosted by KL art collectives Rogue Art and 293.
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Yet there has been six public showings of #shrineshare, in five places across the UK and Malaysia, each happening more or less organically: "Hey this seems fun and easy, let's put it up!"
Sharon's post presents photographs from all these events: smokesignals.sharonchin.com/shrineshare-...
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We didn't plan any public exhibitions of #shrineshare when Sharon and @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social and I conceived of and put together the folio---
But the point was always to make a folder of art that would travel easily, explain itself, and invite others to take it still further.
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"We designed it as an excuse for people to hold impromptu exhibitions, gatherings or parties. Watching #shrineshare unfold like a trail of confetti across time and space has been a dream come true."
Our little exhibition-in-a-folder is travelling!
smokesignals.sharonchin.com/shrineshare-...
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Home and recovering from our weekend of sharing #shrineshare with folks in the Klang Valley.
Tired, and filled. We had so many conversations: about homes and art, ancestors and hurts. We had so much help: with set-up, food, people building a fire.
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Welcome to #shrineshare !
A stamp-art exhibition about what we hold dear in times of crisis, by 16 + 4 artists from Malaysia, Thailand, the UK, and the US.
Where: 293, Jalan 17/6, Petaling Jaya
When: last day! Open all day until 5pm
Photos by Umar Sharif.
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Yesterday's set-up for the Section 17, PJ edition of #shrineshare , our travelling show about personal shrines.
At 293, Jalan 17/6
24 May (3pm till late)
25 May (10am to 5pm)
Pls come!
(Portable because everything you see here on the walls---the art, texts, etc---fits in a neat portable folder)
Ahead of this weekend, when we bring #shrineshare (an exhibition of shrines by artists from all over, presented as art stamps) to the big city ( Sharon writes about the stamp art that's inspired and seduced her, over the years:
smokesignals.sharonchin.com/shrineshare-...
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(Part of #shrineshare , a folio and art-exhibition-in-a-folder about sacredness in times of crisis, co-curated with Sharon Chin and @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social , with support from the British Council MY's Connections Through Culture grant 2024.)
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A rubber-stamp of a shrine by artist Hardeep Pandhal
A rubber-stamp print of a shrine by artist Hardeep Pandhal, depicted a chain of humanoid creatures, connected by their mouths.
This shrine by UK artist Hardeep Pandhal, titled "Shrine of the Rhetorician", is choreography---about how we talk and chain conversations; about what conversations are, as lines of thought and relation. About how hard it is to concentrate to have conversations.
#shrineshare
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A stamp-print shrine by @daniellocke.bsky.social , about the power in earthly places; about surrendering your hopes and worries to the land; about trust.
For #shrineshare , an art folio and exhibition-in-a-folder about the things we hold sacred in times of crisis.
(Happy bday Daniel!)
It felt right to her, to leave her beach-combing hat. It felt right to leave it under the tree, near its shrine.
#localhuman #localflora #localfauna #shrineshare
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