She set up SiCKL (Studio in Cheras Kuala Lumpur), an alternative artist collective with her peers, and organized many DIY video screenings and music events since then. After moving back to Malaysia in 2005 and realising the lack of alternative voices in the local art scene, Siew-Wai has decided to devote her time and energy as an artist-organizer. She feels that it is important to embrace the variety of unique expressions in the arts, especially not to discriminate works that are lesser known or that challenge conventional codes and expectations.
Siew‐Wai has a deep passion for the experimental and improvisational arts. Her video-text and improvised vocal performance piece “Language of Self” (2011) was collected by the He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, China. Siew-Wai has shown her videos, performed and presented her curatorial video programs in Asia, Europe, Canada and USA, including CTM Festival 2019 (Germany), allEars Improvised Music Festival 2018 (Norway), Hanoi New Music Festival 2018 (Vietnam), Nusasonic 2018 (Indonesia), KaoHsiung Film Festival 2018 (Taiwan), Choppa Experimental Music Festival 2016, 2017 (Singapore), Singapore International Film Festival 2015, Asian Meeting Festival 2015 (Japan), Asian Film & Video Art Forum 2015 (South Korea), Asian Experimental Video Festival in Hong Kong 2014, Video Art Attack! 2013 (Belgium), Bangkok Experimental Film Festival 2012, Malaysia-Japan Video Art Exchange 2009-2010, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007, Les Rencontres Internationales 2007 (France), solo exhibition & performance in Beyond/In Western New York Biennial 2005 (USA) and many more. in Electronic Integrated Arts at Alfred University in USA, where she based from 1998-2005. in Media Study at University at Buffalo, and M.F.A. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, KOK Siew-Wai 郭小慧 started out as a video artist, now active as an improvised vocalist and independent artist-curator & organizer. She received her B.A.
Javier Areal Velez (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Matt has invited those connected to both his and his father’s cultural networks to participate and respond to this presentation intertwining their own histories and performance practice into a new archive. His son, Matt Mottel, transforms a yet unexamined cultural history into a social and artistic happening through a collaborative process. This online broadcast is a public forum to present aspects of the Syeus Mottel photographic archive. FREE, $5+ suggested donation (100% goes to the artists)
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