The Koboi Project is a photo-performative instantiation of identity across the discontinuities of a multi-generational diasporic experience.
Ochlocracy: A form of government in which politics is effected by disordely mobs. Not prevalent in Malaysia, but there have been instances – for example, when Barisan National (BN) supporters attacked the Asia Pacific Conference on East Timor (APCET II) in November 1996, in defiance of the BN government’s demand not to proceed. All conference delegates were detained by the authorities after they were attacked by the Mob.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/conference-east-timor-attacked
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9 Kuncu Kuncu, Koboi Balik Kampung, 2015
This image is about the associations in Malaysian life that transcend race and religion. Be it in the realm of politics or that of business, and even in crime and corruption, Malaysians come together across these primordial divides. One might say, every Mahathir has his Ananda or every Anwar has his Nalla, or even, every Najib has his Jo low. This image celebrates my own Malaysian cabal. Particularly, it commemorates my own friendship with the late Suflan Shamsuddin. My other close friends in this photograph are Lim Chee Min and Thomas Vanniasingam. Here is an extract from a letter I wrote to Suflan posthumously as a way of remembering him.
https://koboibalikkampung.wixsite.com/series/suflan-shamsuddin
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