Trailer for kædæluwær§æk§§æk (A Xenographer's Index)
with Brandon Tay, Anonymous Network Unit, Runtuhh and Aqil Amal
kædæluwær§æk§§æk (A Xenographer's Index)
2025 - 2026
CGI, CAD alongside digital composites, with generated texts onto polyvinyl sticker on concrete.
Fontype: RTH Madjalah - Runtuhh
Models, sculpted with brozm. Texts by Anonymous Network Unit, with research and architectural advice from Aqil Akmal
Music by Cave Sex
Photographs by jonathan tan
2025 - 2026
CGI, CAD alongside digital composites, with generated texts onto polyvinyl sticker on concrete.
Fontype: RTH Madjalah - Runtuhh
Models, sculpted with brozm. Texts by Anonymous Network Unit, with research and architectural advice from Aqil Akmal
Music by Cave Sex
Photographs by jonathan tan
[CLASSIFIED: INTERNAL EYES ONLY]
Site: 1.3029N, 103.8599E
Year: Undated
kædæluwær§æk§§æk (A Xenographer’s Index) is a visual index compiled by xenographers from the Nusantara (or the Malay world), following their expedition to the parallel terrain of n**antara. A study of n**antara’s strata and archaeological findings reveals its civilization’s deep resemblance to the cultural world of the Nusantara – framed as a confirmation rather than coincidence: the Nusantara was never one world. It was always many. Yet, the n**antarans have transcended the categories that structure human life: humanly bodies and wider biospheres; intellect and intuition; lands, waters and the virtual. Their heritage and identity also undergo constant and, ongoing transformation.To describe this condition, the xenographers invented the term (pronounced ke-da-lu-waar-sakk-sakk), drawn from speculated nusantaran languages: the Javanese word kedaluwar (expiry), and proto-Austronesian word saksak (compressed).
Commissioned for the renovated @malayheritage and installed at its Fire Exit staircase, the work will be viewable until 2028 alongside its current exhibition 'Dari Rantau ke Rumah' / 'From the Region to Home'.
The work extends into XO (2026), a cinematic and virtual expedition into n**antara, a parallel Nusantara, shown at Padimai Art & Tech Studio's Islands in the Net.
Conceived with and alongside Brandon Tay, Anonymous Network Unit, (Fontype by) Runtuhh with architectural support and conversations with Aqil Akmal, the work proposes new forms that outgrew from the traditional, non-traditional and speculative Malay (non-malay, to its proximities and vernacular) architectural visual languages.
Site: 1.3029N, 103.8599E
Year: Undated
kædæluwær§æk§§æk (A Xenographer’s Index) is a visual index compiled by xenographers from the Nusantara (or the Malay world), following their expedition to the parallel terrain of n**antara. A study of n**antara’s strata and archaeological findings reveals its civilization’s deep resemblance to the cultural world of the Nusantara – framed as a confirmation rather than coincidence: the Nusantara was never one world. It was always many. Yet, the n**antarans have transcended the categories that structure human life: humanly bodies and wider biospheres; intellect and intuition; lands, waters and the virtual. Their heritage and identity also undergo constant and, ongoing transformation.To describe this condition, the xenographers invented the term (pronounced ke-da-lu-waar-sakk-sakk), drawn from speculated nusantaran languages: the Javanese word kedaluwar (expiry), and proto-Austronesian word saksak (compressed).
Commissioned for the renovated @malayheritage and installed at its Fire Exit staircase, the work will be viewable until 2028 alongside its current exhibition 'Dari Rantau ke Rumah' / 'From the Region to Home'.
The work extends into XO (2026), a cinematic and virtual expedition into n**antara, a parallel Nusantara, shown at Padimai Art & Tech Studio's Islands in the Net.
Conceived with and alongside Brandon Tay, Anonymous Network Unit, (Fontype by) Runtuhh with architectural support and conversations with Aqil Akmal, the work proposes new forms that outgrew from the traditional, non-traditional and speculative Malay (non-malay, to its proximities and vernacular) architectural visual languages.