- writing
A book is a collaborative fruit of labor. I have had the pleasure and honor to work with marvelous individuals to breath life into the pages, and together we birth our ideas, visions, and expressions into subtle yet brilliant creations.
Pengembara Molek – Cỏ Cắc Cớ – ꦏꦼꦝꦺꦪꦴꦃꦲꦤƖꦩꦸꦮꦒꦸ,: Exhibition Catalog
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
The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader
“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,
The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream (Booklet)
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
The Tongue Has No Bones
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
“Make a Big Quilt Out of It”: How Art and History Interweave in Dinh Q. Lê’s Crossing the Farther Shore
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