NAZERUL
KHAIRY BEN-DZULKEFLIKENDURI/FEAST
Presented in Gail Russel’s Extend Cultural Research Expertise Unit, 2022.
Kenduri/Feast is an participatory installation work and an ode to the Javanese practise of making offerings to the dead, the spirits and tutelary deities, and the Singaporean folk Chinese practise of making food and monetary offerings to the wandering souls of the dead during the 7th lunar month also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival. Set in an imagined Singapore Housing Development Board void deck to highlight the ebb and flow of cultural practises through a permeable public space. A space that Nazerul is all too familiar with growing up in Singapore in the 90s.
In this participatory installation work, viewers take on the role of spirit mediums and read the lines assigned to each of the invited guests. The dinner party conversations revolved around the connections between their individual art practices, the theories and texts of the two invited academics Dr Terence Heng and the late Dr Catherine Bell.
Medium
Printed traditional Malay dishes, seven plywood altar, cup noodles, glass jar, pears, raku fired offering vessel,black candles, perfume oil from Jamal Kazura Aromatics (Singapore), Chinese funerary joss paper, printed images of Mike Bianco, Gabriel Chaile, Simone Fattal, Zarina Muhammad, Dr. Terence Heng, the late Dr. Catherine Bell.
Script coming soon
Printed traditional Malay dishes, seven plywood altar, cup noodles, glass jar, pears, raku fired offering vessel,black candles, perfume oil from Jamal Kazura Aromatics (Singapore), Chinese funerary joss paper, printed images of Mike Bianco, Gabriel Chaile, Simone Fattal, Zarina Muhammad, Dr. Terence Heng, the late Dr. Catherine Bell.
Script coming soon
