Okui Lala
Introduction
Okui Lala an artist and cultural worker based in Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia. Her work revolves around themes of identities, migration, and labor. Her projects tend to take on a collaborative or participatory approach, involving everyday people in her vicinity, including her family members, friends, cultural workers, activists, and migrant workers. Consequently, her practice encompasses a wide range, spanning from video production and performance art to community engagement.
Related Engagement
Discussions
Event #4 - Practicing Beyond the Institution
Across the artworld today we see an increasing number of artists whose practices engage and collaborate with the non-artworld, in spaces with communities beyond institutions of art (such as galleries, museums and biennials.) Bringing together artists whose work engages migration, labour, land, language, ecology, exchange, and collective experiences, this discussion explores how contemporary art moves between institutional frameworks and wider social worlds.