Week 6

What do you learnt from Tan Zi Hao’s talk?

A guest was invited to give a lecture to us on last lecture, his name is Tan Zi Hao. Wow! So similar to my name! Haha~

Before he gave the lecture, I actually visited to his website. I didn’t read all those articles in details but just go through a few posts of his. Those posts are full of texts and I really couldn’t pay attention on it or maybe the moment when I read the posts I felt so sleepy (because I read it in the midnight lol), so I don’t really understand what are all about. Maybe read them later later later…

Overall, I quite don’t understand the concept of his art. Maybe I haven’t been to that level? Or maybe it’s to “artistic” to me? Or maybe it’s too abstract to understand? One of his events is like use one thing that you think has a high bumiputera value to trade with the soil. He said somebody used saliva, pubic hair and even sperm to trade. WHAT?! But one that is interesting is that someone used water, and what the person explained is: because tanah needs air to become tanah air (nation). Play with the words huh. Haha good one~

What I learn from Tan Zi Hao is that in order to create art, the first thing you must have is courage. Like what he did the performing art in his classroom, he followed his lecturer for the whole day to observe the reaction or expression of the lecturer (Is it the main idea for that activity?  I don’t really remember.). The main thing is if you are shy and introvert you won’t be able to continue the activity. And you might even need to bear the consequence after doing certain art that not everyone could understand.

Then Tan Zi Hao talked about one thing, Xenophora. Xeno means foreign while phora means carrier. After that he conducted an activity asked us to find a thing that you think is similar to xenophora. Until now, I couldn’t think of a thing that can represent Xenophora yet. Maybe I will update this post again when I think of it?