Five Arts Centre
In A Notional History, a performer, a journalist, and an activist excavate school textbooks, inherited memories, and video interviews of exiled revolutionaries – uncovering erasures, exclusions and questions around the Malayan Emergency.
They investigate and speculate on the possible histories for a different Malaysia, intersecting the personal, the national, and the notional.
Directed by Mark Teh, with impassioned performances by artist/activist Fahmi Reza, musician Faiq Syazwan Kuhiri and journalist Rahmah Pauzi this documentary performance calls for wider perspectives on history.
A Notional History is a companion piece to Punk Protest Propaganda: The Political Art of Fahmi Reza. The captivating free exhibition is showing at Nexus Gallery, from Thursday 19th October to Sunday 5th November.
Co-produced by YPAM – Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (Japan).
**Performed in English and Malay, with English surtitles
In a post-truth world, A Notional History clings on to its factual sources with tremendous empathy, pushing for old tales to emerge, and paving new stories for the future.
— Arts Equator
