Pangrok Sulap
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Pangrok Sulap is an Indigenous artist collective comprised of members from the Dusun and Murut clans of Malaysian Borneo. Pangrok means ‘punk rock’ and Sulap means ‘hut’, which colloquially refers to a resting place for farmers in Sabah, Borneo. The collective includes visual artists, musicians, and social activists who employ DIY strategies and spirit to provide local rural and disenfranchised communities with the tools to enact resilience and resistance. Their slogan is Jangan Beli, Bikin Sendiri or ‘Don’t Buy, Do-it-yourself’. Initially established in 2010 by Rizo Leong, Jirum Manjat, and Mc Feddy, the group worked to assist marginalized groups through charity means. With growing membership since 2012, the collective uses print-making techniques in a collaborative effort with their local communities, spreading the power of large-scale prints as a means of activating social agency in a part of Malaysia that is of little familiarity with contemporary art. Since 2013, their primary medium has been woodcut prints that incorporate performative and process-oriented production. Typically their prints are cut by the collective, while the actual printing of the image is a community effort. The collective often invites audiences to dance on top of the woodcut blocks to imprint the ink on the canvas, while local bands play music. Committed to the need for education, the collective also raises awareness of locally-relevant social and political issues such as illegal logging, corruption, and the mining of historical memories.
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Pangrok Sulap is an Indigenous artist collective comprised of members from the Dusun and Murut clans of Malaysian Borneo. Pangrok means ‘punk rock’ and Sulap means ‘hut’, which colloquially refers to a resting place for farmers in Sabah, Borneo. The collective includes visual artists, musicians, and social activists who employ DIY strategies and spirit to provide local rural and disenfranchised communities with the tools to enact resilience and resistance. Their slogan is Jangan Beli, Bikin Sendiri or ‘Don’t Buy, Do-it-yourself’.
Initially established in 2010 by Rizo Leong, Jirum Manjat, and Mc Feddy, the group worked to assist marginalized groups through charity means. With growing membership since 2012, the collective uses print-making techniques in a collaborative effort with their local communities, spreading the power of large-scale prints as a means of activating social agency in a part of Malaysia that is of little familiarity with contemporary art. Since 2013, their primary medium has been woodcut prints that incorporate performative and process-oriented production. Typically their prints are cut by the collective, while the actual printing of the image is a community effort. The collective often invites audiences to dance on top of the woodcut blocks to imprint the ink on the canvas, while local bands play music. Committed to the need for education, the collective also raises awareness of locally-relevant social and political issues such as illegal logging, corruption, and the mining of historical memories.