Relocations featured the electronic art of Niranjan Rajah and Hasnul Jamal Saidon, both multidisciplinary artists that made a strong impact on the Malaysian art scene in the nineties with their new media contributions.

Curated by Roopesh Sitharan, the exhibition was a bid to highlight both artists’ electronic works that have played a crucial role in the development of electronic art in Southeast Asia.

Featured were a selection of the artists’ works from the early nineties onwards, particularly those encapsulating local themes and global concerns; Niranjan Rajah’s footage of 9/11 was juxtaposed with works that employed snippets from Bollywood movies, whilst Malay proverbs and Van Gogh made up some of Hasnul Jamal Saidon’s works.

Relocations boosted both artists’ reputation for establishing a distinctively new strain of electronic art beyond the established Western canon and the exhibition was accompanied by a comprehensive publication featuring essays by the curator and interviews with the artists.

Relocations was part of the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA) organized by the Singapore Management University.