MEMBACAReading

KEMERDEKAANIndependence

Perpustakaan Hamzah Sendut 1, Universiti Sains Malaysia Hamzah Sendut Library 1, Universiti Sains Malaysia 12 - 31 Ogos / August 2009

MEMBACA

Reading

KEMERDEKAANIndependence

adalah sebuah pameran multi-dimensi yang meliputi catan, foto, cetakan, objek jumpa, fosil batu permata, manuskrip lama, pedang, perisai, pakaian perang, cetakan digital dan projeksi video. Ia memaparkan hasil karya Raja Azhar Idris, Nur Hanim Mohamed Khairuddin, Yasmin Al Kahari, Redza Piyadasa, Azman Yusoff, Mohd Shaparel Salleh, Yee I-Lann, Azmin Hussein dan instalasi video oleh USMart team: Afzanizam Mohd Ali, Mohd Firdaus Khairuddin, Aizuan Azmi, Shamsul Ikhmal Mansori, Nor Mohammad Abd Rahim, Adlan Redzuan, Rosli Hamzah, Noordin Ban, Salim Ibrahim, Azizi Yahya, Muhammad Husni Abd Latiff, Izrul Abd. Aziz, Mohamad Yazdi Yaacop, Noor Rashid Shabidi dan Ravi a/l Vansamy.

is a multi-dimensional exhibition of paintings, photographs, prints, found objects, fossil, gemstone, old manuscripts, swords, shield, body armour, digital prints and video projections. It features the works of artists Raja Azhar Idris, Nur Hanim Mohamed Khairuddin, Yasmin Al Kahari, Redza Piyadasa, Azman Yusoff, Mohd Shaparel Salleh, Yee I-Lann, Azmin Hussein and a video installation by USMart team: Afzanizam Mohd Ali, Mohd Firdaus Khairuddin, Aizuan Azmi, Shamsul Ikhmal Mansori, Nor Mohammad Abd Rahim, Adlan Redzuan, Rosli Hamzah, Noordin Ban, Salim Ibrahim, Azizi Yahya, Muhammad Husni Abd Latiff, Izrul Abd. Aziz, Mohamad Yazdi Yaacop, Noor Rashid Shabidi and Ravi a/l Vansamy.

Membaca Kemerdekaan/Reading Independence12 - 31 Ogos/August 2009Perpustakaan Hamzah Sendut I, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Pengarah Projek & Penyunting / Project Director & EditorHasnul Jamal Saidon

Kurator Bersama / Curatorial CollaboratorsMohd Firdaus Khairuddin, Aizuan Azmi,Nur Hafizah Ab. Aziz, Nor Mohammad Abd. Rahim,Shamsul Ikhmal Mansori, Noordin Ban, Rosli Hamzah, Muhammad Husni Abd. Latiff, Mohamad Yazdi Yaacop, Izrul Abd. Aziz, Noor Rashid Shabidi

Konsep Rekabentuk / Design ConceptAfzanizam Mohd Ali

Pembantu Penerbitan / Publication AssistantsNor Laila Abd. Rozak@Razak, Safinawati Samsudin

Pembantu Kewangan / Financial AssistantRohaya Sanapi

Promosi & Publisiti / Promotion & PublicityNurul Ashikin Shuib, Azizi Yahya, Adlan Redzuan, Salim Ibrahim

Sokongan Umum / General SupportsRadhiyah Abu Bakar, Salmiah Mohamad, Faridah Hashim, Ravi Vansamy

Pameran Atas Talian / Online Exhibitionhttp://mgtf.usm.my/exhibit/php

Membaca kemerdekaan = Reading independence (Exhibition) (2009 : Pulau Pinang) Membaca kemerdekaan : Perpustakaan Hamzah Sendut 1, Universiti SainsMalaysia, 12 - 31 Ogos 2009 = Reading Independence : Hamzah Sendut Library 1,Universiti Sains Malaysia, 12 - 31 August 2009. ISBN 978-967-10008-7-8 1. Art--Exhibitions. 2. Universiti Sains Malaysia. Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah. 709.595

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“Membaca Kemerdekaan” menggunakan beberapa prinsip kuratorial yang penting dalam mencerminkan anjakan transformasi

USM ke arah pameran yang bersifat rentas-disiplin dan mesra-pengunjung. Ia juga menggambarkan pendekatan penyegaran-

semula USM, terutama sekali dalam melakarkan penerokaan baru, mempergiatkan kelestarian dan berganjak dari paradigma

yang sudah lesu. Makna kemerdekaan dipersembahkan menerusi prinsip-prinsip seperti mudah-alih, ditakrif pengunjung,

pilihan, modular, saling-bergantungan, kontekstual, tidak berturutan, saling-tindak, serentak, percambahan, pertautan,

keanjalan dan percantuman. Koleksi seni tradisi, seni moden dan seni kontemporari USM yang meluas dan unik telah

digabungkan sebagai bahan antara-teks yang dapat mencetuskan pelbagai bacaan tentang kemerdekaan, yang melangkau

kelaziman naratif sejarah rasmi. Menerusi pendekatan sebegini, pameran ini menghidangkan ruang yang inklusif dan

kewacanaan yang menggamit pengunjung meluahkan pembacaan mereka tentang kemerdekaan. Ciri penyertaan dan antara-

teks dalam pameran ini membuka pembacaan baru, selain dari memindah makna kemerdekaan dari ditentukan oleh kerajaan

kepada ditafsirkan oleh rakyat.

“Reading Independence” employs several key curatorial principles that reflect USM’s transformative shift towards a transdisciplinary

and audience-friendly exhibition. It epitomises USM’s continuous rejuvenation mode, especially in charting new territories, advocating

sustainability and shifting from defunct paradigm. The notion of independence is presented through the principles of portability,

people-defined, choice, modularity, inter-independence, contextual, non-liner, interactivity, simultaneity, multiplicity, connectivity,

flexibility and convergence. USM’s unique and diverse collections of traditional, modern and contemporary art are brought together

as inter-textual materials that may trigger multiple readings of independence beyond the convention the official historical narrative.

In doing so, the exhibition serves as an inclusive and discursive space that invites the audience (library users) to express their own

readings of indepence. The participative nature and inter-textuality of the exhibited materials have also unveiled new readings, other

than shifted the notion of independence from government-dictated to people-defined.