Tuesday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m.

$8 general, $6 students/seniors, $5 members

Tropical Seasonings
Tropical Seasonings
Tropical Seasonings
Tropical Seasonings
Tropical Seasonings
Curated by Siew-Wai Kok, this is a special KLEX screening program featuring video works from South East Asia. The program will include works from video artists from this region and foreign artists who have traveled to the region and make work about it. It'll be interesting to see how South East Asians experience their daily lives, alongside with the visitors' experience when they explore the region. Participating artists include Taiki Sakpisit, Wuttin Chansataboot, Koji Tambata, Azharr Rudin, Wong Eng-Leong, Lim Chee-Yong, Kok Siew-Wai, Au Sow-Yee and Andrew Stiff.

KLEX is a fully independent artist-run grassroots international festival of experimental cinema fouinded in Malaysia in 2010. KLEX aims to serve as a platform to introduce contemporary experimental cinema from the region and around the world to the Malaysian audience and to cultivate understanding, learning, friendship and exchange among local, regional, and international experimental film communities.

KLEX: www.klexfilmfest.com / www.facebook.com/klexfilmfest
Taiki Sakpisit: www.taikisakpisit.com
Wuttin Chansataboot: wuttinchansataboot.com
Andrew Stiff: www.stiff97.com
Au Sow-Yee: vimeo.com/user5197614

Siew-Wai Kok is a video artist, improvising vocalist, and independent artist-organizer. She received her B.A. in Media Study at SUNY Buffalo and M.F.A. in Electronic Integrated Arts at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, USA, where she lived from 1998-2005. Siew-Wai has shown her videos and performed locally and internationally since 2001 in USA, Canada, Europe, and Asia, participated in festivals such as Busan International Video Art Festival 2013 (Korea), Video Art Attack! 2013 (Belgium), Bangkok Experimental Film Festival 2012, Malaysia-Japan Video Art Exchange 2009-2010, Kuala Lumpur Contemporary Music Festival 2009, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007, Les Rencontres Internationales 2007 (France), Choppa Eclectic Improvised Music Festival 2008 (Singapore), Beyond/In Western New York Biennial 2005 and more. Siew-Wai is the co-founder of alternative artist collective SiCKL (Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur), co-director of Sama-sama Guesthouse Mini Alternative Art Festival 2010 and co-coordinator of Notthatbalai Art Festival 2007. As festival director & curator of the Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film & Video Festival (KLEX) since 2010, Siew-Wai has been actively connected with the international experimental art communities, and has curated special KLEX screening programmes to be shown locally and internationally in Belgium, France, Korea, Germany, Thailand and USA. She is currently teaching at the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, Malaysia.

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