{"id":14124,"date":"2019-05-29T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T05:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=14124"},"modified":"2021-09-26T13:39:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T05:39:43","slug":"the-buddhist-bug-a-creation-mythology-anida-yoeu-ali-19-june-18-august-2019-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/the-buddhist-bug-a-creation-mythology-anida-yoeu-ali-19-june-18-august-2019-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buddhist Bug: A Creation Mythology &#8211; Anida Yoeu Ali | 19 June &#8211; 18 August 2019 &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-av_section-142ff43b7600746a6e970fde5cf91c57 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-14124'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"The Buddhist Bug: A Creation Mythology \u2013 Anida Yoeu Ali | 19 June \u2013 18 August 2019 \u2013 Works\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/the-buddhist-bug-a-creation-mythology-anida-yoeu-ali-19-june-18-august-2019-works\/\">WORKs<\/a> <a title=\"Patriots: by Malaysians for Malaysians \u2013 Group show | 24 November 2018 \u2013 6 January 2019 \u2013 Works\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/patriots-for-malaysians-by-malaysians-group-show-23-november-2018-6-january-2019-works\/\">|<\/a><a title=\"The Buddhist Bug: A Creation Mythology \u2013 Anida Yoeu Ali | 19 June \u2013 18 August 2019 \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/the-buddhist-bug-a-creation-mythology-anida-yoeu-ali-19-june-18-august-2019-press-release\/\">\u00a0PRESS RELEASE<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bio-CV-Anida-Yoeu-Ali-AYA.pdf\">CV <\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/buddhist-bug-e-booklet.pdf\">E-BOOKLET<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gu5lMGBmtdM\">VIDEO <\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?p=18535\">NEWS<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df{\nheight:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div '   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'open sans thin'; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 25px; letter-spacing: 1px;\">The Buddhist Bug: A Creation Mythology<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wei-Ling Contemporary is pleased to present <em>The Buddhist Bug<\/em><em>: A Creation Mythology<\/em><em>,<\/em> an ongoing interdisciplinary series that combines live performance, installation, photography, and video art by Anida Yoeu Ali, an American, Khmer, Cham, Malaysian artist, whose body of work probes the issues of displacement and belonging. Intersecting performance art, exhibition, and audience engagement, the series comes from the artist\u2019s personal spiritual and cultural turmoil, as a first generation Muslim Khmer woman born in Cambodia, where approximately 95% of the population is Buddhist. Created from a sense of play, <em>The Buddhist Bug<\/em> series utilizes a unique combination of humor and otherness. The series serves as a continuous exploration of Ali\u2019s diasporic identities, as she was raised in the US, where she currently resides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through this series, Ali performs as a creature, evoking Franz Kafka\u2019s famous novela, <em>The Metamorphosis<\/em> (1915) in which the protagonist metamorphoses into a human-sized Bug. Wrapped in an extensive orange garment that can span up to 100 meters long, Ali aims to converse with the public primarily through body language and gestures in various settings: indoor and outdoor, within urban and rural landscapes. <em>The Buddhist Bug<\/em> adapts to different spaces, dialoguing with the surrounding architecture and audience. More than a performance, it serves as a medium of storytelling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Ali, \u201cthe project is a culmination of thematic interests in hybridity, transcendence, and otherness.\u201d Ali considers the Bug as a displaced creature who travels and wanders amidst the \u201cin-between,\u201d referring to a space that exists between identity and surroundings. The artist commented that \u201cThe Bug is created as an assertion of paradoxes,\u201d in that the Bug longs for stillness while on a constant journey in search for home. The Bug is both a bridge and an obstacle; the linear body becomes a connector between different cultures, religions and identities &#8211; yet it also refers to the artist\u2019s longing and own attempts at reconnecting with her Khmer roots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After thirty years of absence, Ali returned to Cambodia on a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship in 2011. It was under the Fellowship that she documented her performances in Cambodia through photography and video art, which will be showcased in this exhibition. She spent exactly five years in Cambodia, the same amount of time she had spent before her family fled as refugees from the Khmer Rouge earlier in life. \u201cIt is my hope that as <em>The Buddhist Bug<\/em> exhibition travels, people will catch a curious glimpse of a contemporary Cambodia they do not expect to see, one that is shaped by complexities, imagination and performance,\u201d commented Anida Yoeu Ali.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Performing <em>The Buddhist Bug<\/em> in Kuala Lumpur is her first attempt of rediscovering her Malaysian roots. In addition, the artist hopes to raise awareness on the social issues that shape our time \u2013 mobility, migration, cultural hybridisation, and transnational identities \u2013 in a multicultural country such as Malaysia, where cultural identities juxtapose and constantly challenge the citizens\u2019 sense of unity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in Battambang, Cambodia (1974) Ali holds an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Aside from being an artist, she is also a founding collaborative partner of Studio Revolt, an independent artist run media lab initiated in Phnom Penh and the artist-in-residence at the University of Washington Bothell. Throughout her career, she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, namely in France, Australia, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, India, Korea and the Philippines. Among international fairs Ali has participated in are the 3rd Singapore International Photo Festival (2012), 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (2014), 8th Asia Pacific Triennale (2015), Dhaka Art Summit (2018) and Biennale Jogja XV (2019). <em>The Buddhist Bug <\/em>project started in 2009 and has since been exhibited internationally with upcoming exhibitions at the MOMA Warsaw, Haus der Kunst and MAIIAM Chiang Mai. This exhibition at Wei-Ling Contemporary is the most extensive showing of <em>The Buddhist Bug<\/em> series to date with all elements of the project on view.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018The Buddhist Bug: A Creation Mythology <\/em>is featured at Wei-Ling Contemporary from 19<sup>th<\/sup> June \u2013 18<sup>th<\/sup> August 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Wei-Ling\u00a0Contemporary\u00a0is\u00a0located\u00a0at\u00a0RT01, Sixth\u00a0Floor,\u00a0The\u00a0Gardens\u00a0Mall,\u00a059200,\u00a0Kuala<\/em><em> Lumpur, Malaysia.\u00a0Admission\u00a0hours\u00a0are\u00a0Tuesday-Sunday 11am-7pm.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Please call\u00a0+60322828323\/\u00a0+60322601106\u00a0or\u00a0email: <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"mailto:noel.weilinggallery@gmail.com\">noel.weilinggallery@gmail.com<\/a> for\u00a0more information.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; color: #666666; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-14124'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-61f1f3fb8a14755dafdb04b8bcedc67a av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_one_fourth  flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-61f1f3fb8a14755dafdb04b8bcedc67a av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_one_fourth  flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-61f1f3fb8a14755dafdb04b8bcedc67a av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WORKs |\u00a0PRESS RELEASE\u00a0| CV | E-BOOKLET | VIDEO | NEWS The Buddhist Bug: A Creation Mythology Wei-Ling Contemporary is pleased to present The Buddhist Bug: A Creation Mythology, an ongoing interdisciplinary series that combines live performance, installation, photography, and video art by Anida Yoeu Ali, an American, Khmer, Cham, Malaysian artist, whose body of work [...]","protected":false},"featured_media":14126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[20],"class_list":["post-14124","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/14124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/14124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14407,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/14124\/revisions\/14407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14124"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=14124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}