Menjadi rimau

This thesis investigates the concept of Bangsa Malaysia in terms of cultural aspects and the development of Malaysia’s national identity. This journey began with my exploration of the socio-political contexts of the lion dance throughout its historical development, leading to the ban of lion dance u...

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Main Author: Ng, Roger Wei Lun
Other Authors: Veronica Ranner
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1776692024-06-01T17:03:41Z Menjadi rimau Ng, Roger Wei Lun Veronica Ranner School of Art, Design and Media veronica.ranner@ntu.edu.sg Arts and Humanities Tiger Malaysia Plural society National identity Mixed-media installation Diasporas Post-colonial Mythology Southeast Asian futurism This thesis investigates the concept of Bangsa Malaysia in terms of cultural aspects and the development of Malaysia’s national identity. This journey began with my exploration of the socio-political contexts of the lion dance throughout its historical development, leading to the ban of lion dance under the historical context within which the 1971 New Culture Policy formed in Malaysia. The idea of tiger dance emerged from this historical background and prompted me to use Tiger as the subject in exploring diaspora identities, mythology and cultural belongings in Malaysia. This research derives from retrospection of my cultural background (Malaysian Chinese) and my particular interest in the dynamic nature of culture as a system of ever-evolving symbols. The outcome of this research is a mixed-media installation, Menjadi Rimau (To Become Tiger). Through this installation, I propose a socio-political and cultural imagination where the Tiger is presented as a supra-ethnic national identity. In this imagined space, the tiger ‘unified’ the people of the nation across their differences and their ‘lost origins’ caused by the history of enforced diasporas. By re-examining a collective historical and mythological narrative, Menjadi Rimau serves as an open dialogue on diaspora identities in Malaysia, prompting a reflection on our cultural belonging to Bangsa Malaysia. Between fiction and fact, the work hopes to dissect cultural pluralism as part of a colonial heritage, and to offer a critical and poetic exploration of post-colonial discourses, mythology and diasporas. Bachelor's degree 2024-05-30T12:26:25Z 2024-05-30T12:26:25Z 2024 Final Year Project (FYP) Ng, R. W. L. (2024). Menjadi rimau. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177669 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177669 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University
institution Nanyang Technological University
building NTU Library
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider NTU Library
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language English
topic Arts and Humanities
Tiger
Malaysia
Plural society
National identity
Mixed-media installation
Diasporas
Post-colonial
Mythology
Southeast Asian futurism
spellingShingle Arts and Humanities
Tiger
Malaysia
Plural society
National identity
Mixed-media installation
Diasporas
Post-colonial
Mythology
Southeast Asian futurism
Ng, Roger Wei Lun
Menjadi rimau
description This thesis investigates the concept of Bangsa Malaysia in terms of cultural aspects and the development of Malaysia’s national identity. This journey began with my exploration of the socio-political contexts of the lion dance throughout its historical development, leading to the ban of lion dance under the historical context within which the 1971 New Culture Policy formed in Malaysia. The idea of tiger dance emerged from this historical background and prompted me to use Tiger as the subject in exploring diaspora identities, mythology and cultural belongings in Malaysia. This research derives from retrospection of my cultural background (Malaysian Chinese) and my particular interest in the dynamic nature of culture as a system of ever-evolving symbols. The outcome of this research is a mixed-media installation, Menjadi Rimau (To Become Tiger). Through this installation, I propose a socio-political and cultural imagination where the Tiger is presented as a supra-ethnic national identity. In this imagined space, the tiger ‘unified’ the people of the nation across their differences and their ‘lost origins’ caused by the history of enforced diasporas. By re-examining a collective historical and mythological narrative, Menjadi Rimau serves as an open dialogue on diaspora identities in Malaysia, prompting a reflection on our cultural belonging to Bangsa Malaysia. Between fiction and fact, the work hopes to dissect cultural pluralism as part of a colonial heritage, and to offer a critical and poetic exploration of post-colonial discourses, mythology and diasporas.
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