Title: Chin Chai
Authors: Sharon Chin and Lydia Chai
Publisher: Lydia Chai
Price: NZ$10 from website (retails at bookstores NZ$15)
ISBN: 978-0-473-13867-7
Dimensions: American letterhead size, 20 pages.
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From the Pulse series by Lydia Chai, motorised sculptures
Chin Chai is the accompanying text to the art exhibition of the same title by Sharon Chin and Lydia Chai held at 67Tempinis1 Gallery in Kuala Lumpur in August 2008. It features essays about the exhibition by KL writer Simon Soon and Auckland artist Kah Bee Chow. In addition, poetry and fiction by the artists.

"In the exhibition catalogue, Chin's exquisite poems and Chai's poignant fable celebrate the ephemeral nature of a friendship whose gaps and fissures mark a distance that can never be bridged; but this apart-ness is not a debilitating, destructive separation. The space-between is a distance that nourishes dialogue and engagement; Chin and Chai's work as a team lends credence to the idea that friendships are forever unfinished, constantly evolving and imperfect."

-- Carmen Nge, Off the Edge



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