YOKO ONO

(Source: Studio One, NY, USA)
Bed Peace (1 hour 14 minutes video, format: DVD)
Content (quote from GG's introduction text in SOC guildbook):
"The Liberation exhibition presents significant work that Ono produced during this crucial time. The Bed-In will be projected on the wall of the gallery at the War Remnants Museum. The video documents the events following their 1969 wedding, where John and Yoko used the publicity surrounding the event to promote world peace. The couple spent their honeymoon together in bed for a week in a hotel in Amsterdam, inviting the world press to visit. The Bed-In happening was repeated two months later in a hotel in Montreal where the film was shot, and where they recorded the song Give Peace a Chance."
Exhibition venue: WRM
Reason of refusal: unknown

TRẦN LƯƠNG (VIETNAM)

Flowing-Chay (11.30 min., 1998, format: DVD)
Source: artist
Exhibition venue: WRM
Reason of refusal: unknown

Po Po (Myanmar)

Identity Lost (installation, photograph, video, 2000 – 2006, format: DVD)
Statement:
"when I make digital graphic design,
sometime I apply the affect of overlapping technique,
for example; multiply, colour burn, saturation, etc ...
i intended to get the new one from overlapping of two pictures,
sometime good, sometime not.
strong colours and deep tones are committed and
weak colours and soft tones are lost.
and i interested in the identity of people and the facts determined on it.
i talked about it with my friends for many days.
all of them said terribly that, they think, they lost their identity many time.
I decided to do ‘ identity lost ‘ project.
today, some people say globalization
which is, I think, overlapping of multiple cultures.
here again, I wanted to know,
what are committed and what are lost in this situation.
i met one hundred people of different countries (almost local people)
and made conversation with them
about their view on identity in local and global context.
i recorded not only their voice in their mother tongue, but also their portraits
(four persons in one frame, using multiple exposure technique).
the people that you see in my photographs are not real.
they are the out come of overlapping.
i have to say two things about meeting with 100 people.
first, I intended to get the strong volume out of many people as symphony orchestra.
second, I intended to give new experience to the audience all the time.
i think, voice of one hundred people will be never repeated for the audience.
even if s/he comes for third time, it can not be happen the same situation."
(Po Po)

Exhibition venue: WRM
Reason of refusal: Myanmar language (censor committee didn't understand), inappropriate exhibition venue)
Final exhibition venue: SOC

MELLA JAARSMA (Netherlands/Indonesia)

This place is mine (installation, video, format: DVD)
Source: artist
Content (quote from GG's introduction text in SOC guildbook):
"For the Liberation chapter, Mella Jaarsma will exhibit a new work entitled This place is mine, based on her experience of the recent Yogyakarta earthquake. It will consist of assembled garments, sculpture, photographs and video. Three costumes, resembling shelters and tents will be placed on piles of earthquake rubble in particular spots where a household once was. These charged ‘flexible housing’ sites are documented in photographs.
For the exhibition in Saigon, Jaarsma will extend the project by placing the ‘flexible houses’ in front of places that have been rebuilt after the war, and then film them on video. By incorporating the debris of a past catastrophe, Jaarsma’s work asks how, with everything destroyed, can we rebuild our existence? Do we want to replace the old, or do we have the ability to improve?"

Exhibition venue: WRM
Reason of refusal: unappropriate exhibition venue
Final exhibition venue: SOC

JUN NGUYỄN HATSUSHIBA (USA-Japan-Vietnam)

(Source: Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
1. Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas (15min, 2003, format: DVD)
View video, plz click here: Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Exhibtion venue: WRM
Reason of refusal: political sensitiveness, unappropriate exhibition venue
Quote from 1 member of censor committee: "Those videos of Jun should be only shown in Youth Cultural House, for ENTERTAINMENT purpose, not here, in the serious place of exhibition!"

2. Toward the Complex (13min, 2001, format: DVD)
View video, plz click here: Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Exhibtion venue: WRM
Reason of refusal: political sensitiveness, unappropriate exhibition venue
Quote from 1 member of censor committee: "Those videos of Jun should be only shown in Youth Cultural House, for ENTERTAINMENT purpose, not here, in the serious place of exhibition!"

NUR HANIM KHAIRUDDIN (Malaysia)

Se(rang)ga (12 min, 2003, format: DVD)
Source: artist
Statement:
"The role of messages is no longer information provision, but testing, polling, and ultimately control. The targets are the passive consumers of mass culture - the submissive instruments for manipulative discourses of Western hegemony.
The ugly theatres of propaganda performed by Western media agencies enormously traumatise the followers of Islam. Islamic masses have been appended with unruly ‘interpretations’ indicative of a civilisational conflict and cultural ignorance: beard, turban, chador, burqa, harem, Kalashnikov, jihad, mullah-primitive, dangerous, violent, enemies, beasts; orthodox, anti-feminism, sadistic, anti-modernism, terrorist, tyrant, militant. Being a Malay Muslim woman, I feel myself stuck in a dilemma. One part of me savours the modern world, some-times “westoxifying” myself. The other side within me tries very hard to stick to the principles of Islam and my culture. My video is a personal answer towards contemporary radical political dialectics and social discourse unleashing uncertainties, dilemmas, predicaments, and dissatisfaction towards the absolute truth of the Islamic faiths. These dynamic and existential factors perturb the communities; thus generating a crisis of identity, feelings of isolation and alienation, social ‘decentering’, de-signification, deconstruction of meanings etc.
In the introduction of the video, a self-portrait slowly surfaces that is gradually swarmed by ‘insects’ that finally compose an image of a burqa / purdah-clad feature. Music played by a collective underground band named ‘Kakabara’ is being per-formed throughout the video. A poem recited in Malay by emerging local poet Amirul Fakir entitled ‘Akulah Perang’ (‘I am in war’) echoes in the background. At the very end, my portrait re-emerges and recedes placidly. This is to show that no matter what happens, it is our soul that has to posses and maintain all the strengths in order to ‘live life long in peace with oneself’ through reconciliation of one’s own identity with globalisation.

`Serangga`means insect.
`Serang` means attack.
`Rangga` means label/status.
`Rang` means something like drumming sounds."
(Nur Hanim Khairuddin)

Exhibition venue: TDT
Reason of refusal: political sensitiveness (or I guess they don't understand)

GUY DEBORD (France)

Source: SOC
Society of spectacles (part 1,2) (87min, 1973, format: DVD)
Exhibition venue: SOC, TDT
Reason of refusal: naked fugures, political sensitiveness

CHRIS MARKER (France)

(Source: Chris Marker)
1. Jetée, La (28 min, 1962, format: DVD):
Exhibition venues: WRM, TDT
Reason of refusal: unknown
2. Sans Soleil (100 min., 1983, format: DVD)
Exhibition venues: WRM, TDT
Reason of refusal: unknown
3. La Sixieme face du Pentagone (28 min., 1968, format: DVD)
Exhibition venues: WRM, TDT
Reason of refusal: unknown
4. Grin without a cat (LE FOND DE L'AIR EST ROUGE) (180 min., 1977, format: DVD)
Exhibition venues: WRM, TDT
Reason of refusal: unknown
5. Loin du Vietnam (115 min., 1967, format: DVD)
Exhibition venues: WRM, TDT
Reason of refusal: unknown

NGUYỄN QUANG HUY (Vietnam)

Unknown women - Những người phụ nữ không biết (installtion, video, 5min. video, format: DVD)
Source: Artist
Directed and produced by Nguyễn Quang Huy
Poem by Nguyễn Minh Thành

Exhibition venues: SWM
SWM's note: headless buddah sculptures, 1 sentence in poem "Chased by policemen", low-class women images don't fit with sacred permanant exhibition of SWM
MCI-SG's note: religious sensitiveness