Portraying Orang Ulu’s Culture in Belaga, Sarawak Through Participatory Art (Interactive – Video Mapping – Sound Visualization)

• Main Authors: Anuar, Ayob, Hasnizam, Abdul Wahid, Wan Jamarul Imran, Wan Abdullah Thani
• Format: Poster
• Language: English
• Published: FACULTY OF APPLIED & CREATIVE ARTS
• Subjects: NX Arts in general; T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43545/6/Portraying.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43545/

This research is designed to invite selected participants from community resided Belaga that is Orang Ulu ethnic; to participate, collaborate and engage interactively both through visual and sound in portraying their vanishing culture (tekna - traditional oral presentation, tattoo, sape, and ngajat dance) to be shared with public around Malaysia. It will also be an inclusive platform for them at large to share their unique culture and lifestyle which is hardly to be seen nowadays. Participatory art nowadays involved participation, interaction, social networks and processes that integrates technology and digital media in transforming and creating creative artworks to be shared with public either in small or large scale. It is a new avenue to develop practices that examine space and locality, community and communication, interaction and intimacy, proximity and distance, creation and co-creation between researcher and research participants. Presentation of video mapping technology and sound visualization to the public especially in portraying unique culture and identity of certain ethnic that is Orang Ulu in Belaga, Sarawak on public spaces hardly been found and definitely will be a good platform to showcasing it before the audience as this will definitely create an awareness to younger generation on how to preserve their own identity and culture.