Assistant Professor, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology
Kendy Mitot is a Sarawakian indigenous artist from the Bidayuh tribe, Bau, Sarawak. Kendy's research areas as an educator, researcher-cultural & visual ethnographer, visual arts practitioner, and writer include topics related to traditional arts and culture of Borneo Indigenous peoples, particularly the Bidayuh, in Bau, Sarawak, Malaysia, on ritual ceremonies, belief, myths, and symbols as well as his interest in experimenting withdifferent mediums in his artworks. Since the emergence of world religions in Borneo (pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial times), urbanisation, and modernity, ancient knowledge is rapidly disappearing and becoming practically forgotten. As an artist, Kendy’s uses contemporary arts to disseminate, re-contextualize, and experimentation to pass down such knowledge and values to communicate narrative storytelling in bringing communities together and hopes of keeping these traditions alive.