Essays and Publications
A Love Letter of Translation
I have been thinking of you often. Of hazy skies, and air heavy with the smell of swear and the exhaust from a long day, layered over with the resignation of life - but the kind of resignation that intermingles itself with hope. You know what I mean? Possessing its own quiet resilience. The kind that understands how heartachingly…
A Response to Olivia Koh’s Episodes presented at SEVENTH Gallery, 2018.
For SEVENTH Emerging Writer’s Program (2020)
Care in Crisis
We are in a state of emergency. We are told to stay at home, to only leave for work if it is essential, to only go to the shops if it is for food, and even then, we must not be within more than a meter and a half of one another. We are in a state of emergency. […]
A Response to Bruno Latour’s protective measures post-crisis.
For What Could/Should Curating Do? (2020)
The Rise of the Neo-Environ-mental
As time passed with the continued ebb and flow of subsequent art movements, Land Art dissolved into the pages of art history. Nonetheless, traces of it remain in the minds of practicing contemporary artists today. As the planet persistently warms and climate cycles occur at an unprecedented rate in history, a new iteration of Earth art has begun to emerge. Too loose to be an actual movement, and too disparate to have any predominant collectives representing it, art practices are however undoubtedly responding in their own way to climate change […]
Published with The Climatized (2020)
On Collectivising
As a curator, the term derives from the Latin word cura, meaning “to take care,” and so I often think of this, but what I am witnessing is that many artists and practitioners are not being cared for by their institutions very well, if at all […]
Published with ART-BAZHAN Art Journal (2020)
Doing Globalism Better
…But contrary to the beliefs of those who mourn the phenomenon of globalism, it has never aimed to erase national identity. In fact, its goal was quite the opposite. Globalism is the child of contemporary society, a product of the cosmopolitan mind, the herald of a progressive future. Globalism aims to connect different identities. The coordination of nations has been dependant on having the ability to negotiate across seas and translate across cultures, and perhaps more than ever before, it will be at the centre of our survival […]
Presented at the 2017 International Centre for Undergraduate Research Symposium with Monash University, Warick University and Nanyang Technological University
