KISAH Futures Anthology
began as an Instagram account soon flourished into a website, and then an app. Within months, we were getting noticed by other local arts faculties in Malaysia: OUR ArtProjects slid into our DMs, Ilham Gallery wrote a feature about us on their newsletter, Cult Creative reached out for an interview. By connecting these two communities — the struggling artists among young, online-savvy KLites with those from humbler and more peripheral backgrounds — we figured we could ecologise the scene on a profound level. It would be a symbiotic relationship, linking urban artists with rural veterans who had to tough it out in their respective kampungs. Our platform created a community to make art in all forms — from cheap souvenirs to auctioned prints —more sustainable and eco-friendly. Our platform proved that the way forward was through collaboration and informal education, from conversations and understanding. Fighting fish are extremely territorial, and flare up when they perceive a threat to their immediate environment. But they can also live peacefully with other docile fish, and are stimulated by their surroundings. That’s what this felt like, making this. We’d proven that in times of duress, the arts can fight to survive.
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