In urban areas of Malaysia, there are multiple spatial socio-political conditions arts collectives are contingent on.
Collectives offer another perspective, to be engaged in the global conditions of cultural production, but also to
Interested in considering the cultural policy of the nation-state and to compare with the spatial conditions and use of spaces decided by collectives.
This means the site they build on, the architecture and the construction These contingencies include the multifaceted identity of Malaysia Collectives are constructing, many collectives are embedded into. Collectives instead offer constant spatial reconstruction of Malaysia through the cultural and social production of space through their arts practice. Concurrently on the national cultural policy level, there is a constant reach for a global standardisation of cultural production such as UNESCO world heritage standards. Such standards Collectives offer an alternative to build a vocabulary of multiple Malaysias.
but contend with international standardisation of cultural production and policy making, a constant yearning bounded by neocolonial thought
In tension with the contingencies and the maintenance of a certain worlding of each arts collective, there are specific ties to the spatial agencies that the collectives hold. Part of a community, beit, the physical and the like-minded people, there
Diasporic agencies
it seems like the city is unable to accommodate for real difference.
Some reference I will be using for this thematic will include commoning,