As part of the Jakarta Biennale 2021, titled ESOK, I collaborated with curator Grace Samboh to curate an exhibition about crossings: of languages and translation, of migration through plants and via screen, of a perpetually weird state when you are ready to shift and move anytime, yet always eager to dig down for roots. Titled […]
Pengembara Molek – Cỏ Cắc Cớ – ꦏꦼꦝꦺꦪꦴꦃꦲꦤƖꦩꦸꦮꦒꦸ,: Exhibition Catalog Read More »
“Who spoke of the modern? When was the modern written? How was it written? How was it received? This collection features texts spanning the late 19th to late 20th centuries, selected by a group of scholars as responses to questions such as these. They have been written by artists, critics, historians and curators in several
This booklet accompanies artist Trương Công Tùng‘s exhibition The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream and provides the curatorial essay written by curator Dương Mạnh Hùng, images and captions of the artworks, and information about every individual who has contributed their time, resources, and talents to bring this publication to prints. This publication can be
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For artist Tan Zi Hao‘s solo show at A+ WORKS of ART (6 – 27 July, 2024), titled The Tongue Has No Bones, I contributed an epistolary essay that offers a fictive lens through which one can approach the topics of lingual betrayal, the colonial history of tongues, and nationalist language policy that continue to
I contributed a dialogical essay, titled Make a Big Quilt Out of It”: How Art and History Interweave in Dinh Q. Lê’s Crossing the Farther Shore, for American Historical Review, Vol 128, Issue 4 in December 2023. In the essay, I detailed the conversation between me and late artist Dinh Q. Le, about his artistic