Gerai Tai Tai
Gerai Tai Tai
Gerai Tai Tai
‘Gerai’- Stall or booth usually found in market. ‘Tai tai’ – Chinese colloquial term for a wealthy married woman who does not work.
Gerai Tai Tai is an exploration of informal architecture as personal structure.
Drawing from the Malaysian gerai, a temporary street stall found in night markets, the installation repositions a familiar, everyday typology as a spatial device for intimacy, exchange, and belief.
Gerai Tai Tai is an exploration of informal architecture as personal structure.
Drawing from the Malaysian gerai, a temporary street stall found in night markets, the installation repositions a familiar, everyday typology as a spatial device for intimacy, exchange, and belief.
Gerai Tai Tai is an exploration of informal architecture as personal structure.
Drawing from the Malaysian gerai, a temporary street stall found in night markets, the installation repositions a familiar, everyday typology as a spatial device for intimacy, exchange, and belief.
Gerai Tai Tai was selected the grantee for the Krishen Jit Astro Fund 2015. Conceptualized as a pop-up gerai at an actual pasar malam (night market), the interactive installation revolves around the Tai Tai, who provides a one-to-one bespoke experience to her customers, in this case fortune-telling. The multi-sensory fortune-telling booth is covered on its sides and top, providing privacy in the otherwise busy setting of the night market; allowing customers to share their deepest secrets and qualms.
Gerai Tai Tai was selected the grantee for the Krishen Jit Astro Fund 2015. Conceptualized as a pop-up gerai at an actual pasar malam (night market), the interactive installation revolves around the Tai Tai, who provides a one-to-one bespoke experience to her customers, in this case fortune-telling. The multi-sensory fortune-telling booth is covered on its sides and top, providing privacy in the otherwise busy setting of the night market; allowing customers to share their deepest secrets and qualms.
Gerai Tai Tai was selected the grantee for the Krishen Jit Astro Fund 2015. Conceptualized as a pop-up gerai at an actual pasar malam (night market), the interactive installation revolves around the Tai Tai, who provides a one-to-one bespoke experience to her customers, in this case fortune-telling. The multi-sensory fortune-telling booth is covered on its sides and top, providing privacy in the otherwise busy setting of the night market; allowing customers to share their deepest secrets and qualms.
Divided by a window of coloured agar-agar made from ingredients sourced from the night market, each customer rolls six dices and then offered three different jellies by the Tai Tai. As one takes a bite of each jelly, the Tai Tai will do her readings, with different flavours, textures and colours representing facets of his/her past, present and future.
Divided by a window of coloured agar-agar made from ingredients sourced from the night market, each customer rolls six dices and then offered three different jellies by the Tai Tai. As one takes a bite of each jelly, the Tai Tai will do her readings, with different flavours, textures and colours representing facets of his/her past, present and future.
Divided by a window of coloured agar-agar made from ingredients sourced from the night market, each customer rolls six dices and then offered three different jellies by the Tai Tai. As one takes a bite of each jelly, the Tai Tai will do her readings, with different flavours, textures and colours representing facets of his/her past, present and future.
From the humble beginnings at SS2 Pasar Malam, this installation has brought us to work with the likes of Sime Darby Arts Festival, Urban Decay, Dior and ultimately the Venice Art Biennale.
From the humble beginnings at SS2 Pasar Malam, this installation has brought us to work with the likes of Sime Darby Arts Festival, Urban Decay, Dior and ultimately the Venice Art Biennale.
From the humble beginnings at SS2 Pasar Malam, this installation has brought us to work with the likes of Sime Darby Arts Festival, Urban Decay, Dior and ultimately the Venice Art Biennale.
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