Inside Story: Sarawak’s roads to development
It is impossible not to think about roads when traveling in Sarawak’s interior. In 2012 I wrote an article about Sarawak’s rural roads for Inside Story, the excellent journal published […]
Tag Archives: Sarawak
Digitizing the Photo archive of the Sarawak Museum
My research at the Sarawak Museum, during which I repatriated a collection of photographs to the rural Indigenous communities in Sarawak where they had been taken by museum staff in […]
Teaching activities: Sarawak Press
In March 2010 we went on an excursion with our design students to the Sarawak Press in Kuching. It was the printer for one of the biggest newspapers, the Sarawak […]
Research / fieldwork in Long Nawang
In May 2012 a friend invited me on a trip together with members of his Long Moh community and others from Long Makabar to a Kenyah Lepo’ Tau cultural festival […]
Photo Elicitation
Photographs are interesting objects to work with and research. It’s because they can be interpreted in so many way, on the simplest level. It’s also because they evoke so many […]
The Ulu and the Museum exhibition
The exhibition “The Ulu and the Museum” opened in April 2012 at the Sarawak Museum Art Gallery. On exhibition were photographs from the museum collection taken between 1951 and 1978. […]
Baram Regatta 2010
In 2010 research for my PhD brought me to Marudi for a great biannual event which has taken place there since 1899: The Baram Regatta. The event was first celebrated […]
Birds nest processing
On my first trip to the rural north of Sarawak in preparation for my PhD research, I stopped over in a few longhouses in the Long Lama area, Long Sungai Dua […]
The Words Around Us exhibition, June 2009 at the Sarawak Museum, Kuching
Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, is a great place to live. There is, however, a shortage of engagements with art and design, in particular of the contemporary […]
100 Best Posters exhibition at the Sarawak Museum, April 2009
The “100 beste Plakate” (100 best posters) exhibition was held with financial backing of the Goethe Institute and the German Embassy in Kuala Lumpur and the Sarawak Museum. The exhibition was part […]
Christine Horn 