PRESS | KUALA LUMPUR30 May 2023
Entangled Tikar: Yee I-Lann and the Politics of Mat-ness
Yee I-Lann
Spread across five locations throughout the capital, “Borneo Heart” began with “Tikar/Meja” at The Back Room, a “mat-ness” manifestation of the symbolic tension between tikar (the mat) and meja (the table). To this day, the Indigenous peoples of Borneo still value the tikar, which has many names and is weaved from a myriad of materials, as an object used for communal gathering and local hospitality.
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