A NOTIONAL HISTORY

Director and researcher Mark Teh studied Art and Politics at London’s Goldsmiths University. He is a member of the interdisciplinary Five Arts Centre collective in Malaysia and works at the intersections of performance, exhibition, intervention, creative writing, curation, and education. His topics are history and memory in an urban context. His works have been shown at YPAM in Yokohama, at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, and elsewhere.
Mark Teh already guested at SPIELART in 2017, showing his work VERSION 2020 – THE COMPLETE FUTURES OF MALAYSIA CHAPTER 3.

Performer and musician Faiq Syazwan Kuhiri is a member of the Five Arts Centre collective and has already contributed to several projects, most currently to OPPY & PROFESSOR COMMUNITAS 2021. He recently released an album titled KAUM LEAKI with his rock band Terrer.

Kuala Lumpur-based Fahmi Reza is a graphic designer and political activist. He critiques the political narratives on Malaysian history through his political graphics, documentary films, and lecture performances on forgotten historical facts. He is a self-described ‘armchair historian’ and currently holds a seat at the administrative board for the people’s history centre Pusat Sejarah Rakyat in Malaysia.

Video journalist and documentary filmmaker Rahmah Pauzi studied Journalism and Documentation at the Arthur L. Carter Institute for Journalism at New York University. She produced works for PBS, Al Jazeera, Channel News Asia, and BFM Radio. Rahmah Pauzi mainly focuses on the themes of home and exile at the intersection of fiction and reality. She is a 2021 One World Media stipendiary and received the Support Award of the Freedom Film Fest for her film WELCOME TO MALAYSIA.

Wong Tay Sy studied Visual Arts at Central St. Martins in London and has been moving between visual arts, theatre, and film since 1999. She works with various collectives and production houses and is active as a production designer, curator, and producer. She emphasises collective work processes and interdisciplinary collaboration as well as the intersection of the arts and our social environments.

Syamsul Azhar studied Film and Digital Media at Australia’s Deakin University. As a lighting and multimedia designer, he works at the convergence points of theatre, film, and contemporary art, experimenting with technologies as performative elements. Syamsul Azhar is a member of both Five Arts Centre as well as sans, an interdisciplinary collective that produces performances as well as exhibitions.

June Tan studied Biology at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. June has been working in tour management, in production and in stage management for various local and international productions since 2015. She was the director at TPAM (Performing Arts Meeting) in Yokohama from 2018 until 2020. June is also a member of Five Arts Centre; her works have already been shown during panels and events in Bangkok, Melbourne, Mumbai, Munich, Tokyo, Saigon, Seoul, and Shanghai.

Armanzaki Amirolzaki studied Performative Arts at Subang Jaya in Malaysia and is a member of the interdisciplinary sans collective. He has been employed as a stage manager at various Malaysian production houses since 2010. Additionally, he is active as a scenographer and performer. Among his most successful productions are A DAY IN KUALA LUMPUR IN **2080, supported by Five Arts Centre, THE MISINTERPRETED FUTURES OF GEORGE TOWN: 2068 at the 2018 George Town Festival and ANATOMYLYTICAL 2022.