Zikri Rahman

Zikri Rahman has consistently embarked on collaborations with diverse arts, cultural and activist groups in various socio-political projects. Currently, Zikri is the Program Coordinator for Pusat Sejarah Rakyat, an independent archival research and documentation focusing on Malaysia and Singapore’s people’s history. Through Buku Jalanan; a rhizomatic network of street library movement he co-founded in the year 2011, it focuses on decentralizing and democratising the modes of knowledge and cultural production. With LiteraCity, he initiated Kuala Lumpur’s literary and cultural mapping project. Zikri is also a writer, translator, independent researcher and curator with an MA in Social Research and Cultural Studies from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Through multiple projects and selected publications, he dwells into oral history of Malaysia’s protest movements, critical pedagogy, art and cultural movement / intervention, regional based censorship documentation to the networks of theater practitioners in the inter-Asian context. His works can be accessed on: zikrirahman.xyz