Operasi Cassava is a project that examined Malaysian’s cultural identity through a symbolic food/ plant that has very little known facts but many subjective memories especially for the Malaysians who had experience of the Japanese Occupation. Operasi Cassava is a wiki project which examine our cultural identity through this symbolic food/ plant that has very little known facts but many subjective memories and information of this little appreciated plant. In Operasi Cassava, we looking at the social and cultural significance of tapioca and respond to the evolution of the plant in its migratory process, and further on to contribute their subjective narratives in the context. All in all, Operasi Cassava asks how we can use this symbolic food as a tool for rethinking our past, present and future. Let its smells, its tastes, its sounds intoxicating all your senses, infusing you with its past, embracing you with its present and interlocking you with its future.

Artist : Lim Kok Yoong
Concept, Art Direction, Programming: Lim Kok Yoong
Hardware Development: Wee Jia Foong
Technical Assistant: Wee Jia Foong
Documentation: Wee Jia Foong