Yeo Workshop

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLASS: SARAH CHOO JING’S DANCING WITHOUT TOUCHING

TEXT BY DR. KARIN OEN

"Sarah Choo Jing’s project is devoted to the heterotopic spaces created by the camera lens as a cultural mirror. Both an escape and a reckoning, Dancing Without Touching is a fleeting glimpse of worlds gone, worlds just out of view, and worlds to come."

YANGON – SITTWE – MRAUK-U

Essay by Maung Day

"During my trip which took me from Sittwe to Mrauk-U and all the small Arakanese towns on the way, I saw lighthouses, the purple Pa-dauk and a rich diversity of plants and flowers, new construction sites, war refugee camps, flooded plains and beautiful rivers, bomb pits on farmland (which reminded me of bomb ponds in Vietnam), military barracks, hills and magnificent lakes, amazing architecture from the 17th and 18th centuries, and gun-carrying men. I heard the music and laughter coming from the Thingyan-revelers, the songs of birds and the sound of leaves, local Arakanese speaking their language beautifully, local folk discussing the war and racial conflicts, the sound of friction coming out of the conversation between progressive youth and older generation. There I smelled the aroma of the famous B.O.B marijuana, the fragrance of flowers, the smell of earth, and the smell of tension and fear. I sketched down in my book things that hovered over my senses. I used more colors than before."