HIN BETWEEN FESTIVAL 2025

12- 21 September 2025

12:00pm - 10:00pm

Hin Bus Depot

*Free event. 

As part of the Hin Between Festival, this photographic intervention, 𝗔 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝗻 surveys ten years of revitalization at Hin Bus Depot, framing an inquiry into temporality, site, and memory. Since January 2014, Thum Chia Chieh has documented the space with sustained attention, producing a body of work that becomes an archival record and aesthetic investigation. This longitudinal practice reveals incremental shifts in materiality, usage, and social relations, rendering visible the subtle processes of transformation that might otherwise remain obscured within the flow of quotidian experience.

For this exhibition, selected photographs are printed and installed in situ at the precise locations they originally depicted, generating a visual palimpsest that stages the co-presence of past and present. This juxtaposition activates questions of preservation, erasure, and urban agency: how photographic index and site reciprocally inform one another; how collective memory is materially inscribed in architecture and program; and how the ostensibly stable object of the “𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦” is continually reconstituted through practice. Visitors are invited to negotiate these layered temporalities, to read the prints as both documentary evidence and critical dispositif, thereby attending to the ways histories of place are produced and reimagined.

12- 21 September 2025

11:00am - 5:00pm

Suka Suka Store

Hin Bus Depot

*Free event. 

COVID-19 disrupted the rhythms of everyday life, preventing people from socialising freely, moving casually through public spaces, and living in ways once taken for granted. During this period of isolation, Queen Lee found herself confined at home—sometimes helpless, sometimes doubtful, sometimes calm, and at moments even embracing the quiet.

What sustained her was a daily routine she devised and repeated over 24-hour cycles, blurring the distinction between days. This rhythm became both anchor and companion, offering structure in uncertain times and allowing her to complete a body of work within a self-imposed timeline. Through this intimate relationship with routine, Lee uncovered a sense of calm and continuity amidst the disorientation of the pandemic.

Suka Suka Store,vited to encounter these works as traces of repetition and resilience, to consider how solitude reshapes perception, and to reflect on the ways routine itself may emerge as both discipline and solace in times of rupture.

12- 21 September 2025

10:00am - 7:00pm

Bricklin Cafe Bar by RBC,

Hin Bus Depot

*Free event. 

Kimberley Boudville is a visual artist who works across a range of mediums, including painting, ink drawing, installation, and assemblage. Her works are deeply intimate, drawing from her own experiences and emotions; in particular, her recent works have explored the complex subjects of grief, death, and memory.

The 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗧𝗮𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿 is an assemblage of a collection of bread tags that were passed down through three generations; from her grandmother, to her mother and aunt and finally to her. The continued family tradition passed down over the generations reflects a poignant visual archive of time, transforming an ordinary object into a record of routines and life. The work highlights how something as fleeting as a bread tag can hold deep personal and historical significance; reminding us that time only moves forward and moments will become memories.

12- 21 September 2025

10:00am - 10:00pm

Hin Bus Depot

*Free event. 

Time moves in silence, yet it marks all things; softening edges, altering forms and reshaping even the idea of existence itself. What we see today may fade, fracture or become something unrecognisable tomorrow. To question being is to stand before time’s current, asking whether existence is only what lies before us, or if there is something more that lingers beyond its silent changes.

12- 21 September 2025

12:00pm - 7:00pm

LUMA & Nood Nood,

Hin Bus Depot

*Free event. 

From celebrating MYWriters Fest and the launch of first 𝗡𝘂𝘁𝗠𝗮𝗴 zine at Hin Market in 2016, to the current monthly critiques at LUMA, the Malaysian Writers Society has found a home in Hin Bus Depot. As gear up towards the 10th anniversary anthology, titled 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀, Malaysian Writers Society would like to take readers through a journey of their annual publication and other activities and how these have changed over the years to meet the needs of writers.

Meet the writers, editors, artists, and other partners past and present and discover what it takes to put a zine together. A special preview of the upcoming anthology will also be showcased!

12- 21 September 2025

12:00pm - 10:00pm

Hin Bus Depot

*Free event. 

“𝗔𝗺𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲” speaks volumes. It could be a question about what time really is, or how much time we intend to invest in a certain moment – this project will invite people, to disrupt their scheduled routine to take part in this interactive painting with the artist and disconnect with the concept of time and be intuitive on how they feel and how they can transform it into a visual form.

Each person, each day, and each stroke will be recorded on the canvas – capturing the essence of constant change. The layers will tell the traces, the stories, the shifts, and the infinite possibility of evolution. Look at how our spaces and culture transformed from 1990 to 2025, with that short amount of time our world becomes so modern and so detached from nature and now there’s AI. With all that overflowing information that pings our minds, how it shapes our perspective, and how it controls what we think – possibly we will all lead to homogeneity.

This program will celebrate the imagination, the freedom to think, and the freedom to express and uniqueness. It will reconnect us to our very roots, and how to be in harmony with our soul.

12- 21 September 2025

12:00pm - 10:00pm

Hinconvenient Store,

Hin Bus Depot

*Free event. 

"𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹" is a video installation that explores how technology shapes self-perception, memory, and daily life. It centers on the quiet rituals of self-documentation—morning routines, meals, moments alone—and how these acts become performances under the constant gaze of the camera.

The work considers how contemporary life is lived in anticipation of being seen, recorded, and remembered. As the camera’s gaze is internalized, individuals adjust their movements and self-presentation—even in private. By filming the same actions from multiple angles, the installation fragments the idea of a fixed identity, presenting the self as something continually shaped by perception.

The artists examine the blurred line between authenticity and curation in digital culture. Edited and staged content is often received as real, revealing a tension between what we know and what we feel. The work surfaces this contradiction, showing how digital narratives generate intimacy while concealing their constructed nature.

Through non-linear editing, recursive framing, and disrupted sequences, ordinary normal highlights how digital media reshapes our sense of time and memory. What seems spontaneous is often rehearsed, and what feels linear is built from fragments. The work invites reflection on how technology not only mediates what we share, but how we remember, perform, and understand ourselves.

12- 28 September 2025

10:00pm - 6:00pm

COEX @ Kilang Besi, Hin Bus Depot

*Free event. 

𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗝𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗿𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗮 is a community mapping and storytelling project that explores the social, cultural, and historical layers of Jalan Gurdwara—where COEX and Hin Bus Depot are located. This street has long been shaped by movement and labour. Once home to a bus depot, rice mills, and mechanical workshops, it still carries traces of its industrial past. Beyond its physical changes, the street is remembered by different names: Jalan Gurdwara (official), Brick Kiln Road (colonial), Bakar Bata (Malay), Ceṅkal cūḷai Cālai (Tamil), and 風車路 Hong-tshia-lōo (Hokkien), each carrying different memories depending on who’s telling the story.

Through interviews, workshops, photography, and archival research, this project aims to collect stories from long-time residents, migrant workers, small business owners, and caretakers of sacred spaces. It maps not just the geography, but the lived experiences and connections that shape this neighbourhood. The project will result in a printed community map, a pop-up exhibition, and an online archive.

This exhibition marks the project’s early phase. We hope it sparks new connections and contributions toward a living collective archive of the neighbourhood’s evolving identity.

12- 21 September 2025

12:00pm - 3:00pm 

5:00pm - 9:30pm

COEX @ Kilang Besi, Hin Bus Depot

*Free event. 

𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗝𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗿𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗮 is a community mapping and storytelling project that explores the social, cultural, and historical layers of Jalan Gurdwara—where COEX and Hin Bus Depot are located. This street has long been shaped by movement and labour. Once home to a bus depot, rice mills, and mechanical workshops, it still carries traces of its industrial past. Beyond its physical changes, the street is remembered by different names: Jalan Gurdwara (official), Brick Kiln Road (colonial), Bakar Bata (Malay), Ceṅkal cūḷai Cālai (Tamil), and 風車路 Hong-tshia-lōo (Hokkien), each carrying different memories depending on who’s telling the story.

Through interviews, workshops, photography, and archival research, this project aims to collect stories from long-time residents, migrant workers, small business owners, and caretakers of sacred spaces. It maps not just the geography, but the lived experiences and connections that shape this neighbourhood. The project will result in a printed community map, a pop-up exhibition, and an online archive.

This exhibition marks the project’s early phase. We hope it sparks new connections and contributions toward a living collective archive of the neighbourhood’s evolving identity.