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Let them eat cake!

Compiled by Nick Choo

September 13, 2010

Too much cake: fewer people, more share.
Too much cake: fewer people, more share.
Afra Taidin – now you can have your cake and eat it, too.
Afra Taidin – now you can have your cake and eat it, too.
Faiq Syazwan Kuhiri, Fahmi Fadzil and Grace Wong of PopIN, with the Fairly Current Show logo.
Faiq Syazwan Kuhiri, Fahmi Fadzil and Grace Wong of PopIN, with the Fairly Current Show logo.
Artist-director-performer-educator Mark Teh and Sharyn Lisa Shufiyan, who is Tunku Abdul Rahman’s great-granddaughter.
Artist-director-performer-educator Mark Teh and Sharyn Lisa Shufiyan, who is Tunku Abdul Rahman’s great-granddaughter.
Chi Too, organiser no. 2, loves cake.
Chi Too, organiser no. 2, loves cake.
Tsiung Han See, organiser no. 1 of the event, with his share of cake.
Tsiung Han See, organiser no. 1 of the event, with his share of cake.
A lot of cake, a lot of love, not enough Merdeka.
A lot of cake, a lot of love, not enough Merdeka.

WHILE celebrations of Merdeka Day seemed to be more muted than usual this year, conceptual artist Chi Too decided to mark the country’s independence with even less pomp and circumstance but no less significance.

“It’s Merdeka, everyone wants a piece of cake” was the greeting on the Facebook page inviting Malaysians to participate in merdeka + cake = <3 that Chi Too co-organised. The plan was simple: show up at Dataran Merdeka on 31 Aug 2010 to meet and greet, picnic together, and commemorate the day with cake.

Chi Too, who is also a filmmaker, told The Fairly Current Show host Fahmi Fadzil that the idea of using public spaces came out of an informal gathering with a few friends on Merdeka Day last year. Even when people got together to “do nothing”, he realised that meaningful events could be commemorated in an intimate, but no less meaningful, way.

Chi Too was also behind the Everything’s Gonna Be Alright gathering held on 9 Jan 2010 in the wake of the “Allah” controversy and arson attempts on churches. He is also the organiser of Main Dengan Rakyat, an attempt at reclaiming public spaces by inviting Malaysians to come together to play.

All pics and caption information above are courtesy of Chi Too.

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Filed Under: Multimedia, Pictures Tagged With: cake, chi too, Dataran Merdeka, Everything's gonna be alright, Fahmi Fadzil, Fairly Current show, Main Dengan Rakyat, Merdeka, Nick Choo, photo gallery, public spaces

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  1. Melissa says

    September 13, 2010 at 10:27 am

    Alamak, I’m so bummed that I didn’t hear about this :(( This sounds absolutely brilliant! Cake, check! Scenic location, check. Cool ppl, check!

    Bummer 🙁 But yes, great idea and kudos to Chi Too for another great effort 🙂

  2. GP123 says

    September 30, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    Ha ha – how clever. Not many have heard the phrase “let them eat cake”.

    http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/let-them-eat-cake.html

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