PROGRAMMES /

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ILHAM Art Show 2025

 

November 2025

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Artist Walkthrough
with Gan Chin Lee, Tiga Tawai, Ang Xia Yi, Anwar & Umar Sharif

8 Nov 2025, 11:00am

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Talk & Staged Readings: Artist Lee Joo For

8 Nov 2025, 3:00pm – 5:30pm

Visual artist Lee Joo For was one of the most prolific playwrights in the 1960s writing over 30 plays with such eclectic titles as The Campus is Not a Baby Land, Nero Has Arisen in Malaysia, When the Sun Sets in the Shade of the Jambu Tree. Today he is best known as a boundary-pushing visual artist but in the 60s he was part of the theatre movement, writing plays, designing brochures, creating sets alongside Syed Ahmad Jamal. 

Adele Tan, Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore, will share the work and life of the fascinating and eccentric Lee Joo For and talk about his visual and theatrical legacy. There will be a staged reading of some of his absurdist theatre after the talk.

In collaboration with the Instant Cafe Theatre as part of their month-long research & performance festival What The Elders Left Us.

 

December 2025

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Artist Walkthrough
with Dr. Kendy Mitot, Arikwibowo Amril, Emran Beams Shaqif, Afiza Abubakar & Kim Ng
moderated by Ellen Lee

6 Dec 2025, 11:00am

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Performance & Talk: Teenagers Eating Ice Cream Cones

6 Dec 2025, 3:00pm

Join us as a group of Malaysian teenagers perform Molly Haslund’s Teenagers Eating Ice Cream Cones which gathers young people at the entrance of an art museum, silently connecting through gestures, movements, and fleeting glances. Their shared act of eating ice cream reveals how easily bonds form-and how inclusion and exclusion unfold in social encounters. This will be followed by a talk with the artist Molly Haslund.

Ice cream provided by Sōfte.