Beverly Yong is a writer, curator and editor based in Kuala Lumpur. Formerly a gallerist, in 2008 she co-founded RogueArt, a partnership specialising in Malaysian and Southeast Asian contemporary art projects and consultancy. She graduated in 1995 from Cambridge University majoring in History of Art and English Literature, and has a Masters in Asian Art and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. She has written extensively and edited a number of publications on Malaysian and […]
Nicholas Y. H. Wong (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on media and modernity in China and Southeast Asia, resource extraction literary politics, Chinese-English translation, transnationalism and diaspora, poetry and poetics. His book project, titled Resource Extraction and Decolonial Literary-Intellectual Chinese Thought from the Malay Peninsula , is a materialist and geoeconomic history of Mahua literature and […]
Janet Tee first joined Muzium Negara in the late 1970s. By the 1980s, she had already gained experiences in various aspects of museum development, including an internship with the Education Services & Public Programmes at the National Museum of Singapore in 1983, as well as a three-month internship in marketing and public programming at the Peabody Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. She has also worked with several museums in New York, Santa Fe and San Francisco to realise many blockbuster and […]
Simon Soon teaches art history at the University of Malaya. He occasionally writes, makes art and curates exhibitions. His research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century art in Southeast Asia. In his spare time, he photographs roadside shrines and visits tiny temples. He is currently developing an introductory course in digital humanities and runs a digital art history study group. He also runs a personal homepage on his interests and research at bawahangin.cargo.site Image courtesy of the speaker
David R. Saunders is a historian of imperialism in Southeast Asia, with a particular interest in decolonisation, anti-colonialism, and the experiences of dispossessed minorities and sub-national groups. He recently completed his PhD at The University of Hong Kong, where he currently teaches courses on decolonisation and modern Southeast Asian history. David is currently working on a book manuscript that aims to reconceptualise decolonisation and state formation in Malaysia. Most recently, he has published in eTropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in […]
UUendy Lau is a local designer and artist. She creates works that provoke alternative speculations on nature. The main theme of her projects centres on ‘animals and nature’, a universal and inclusive subject permeating all emotions, cultures, languages and lifestyles. Discursive enquiries are made into unfamiliar associations and juxtapositions between the natural world and human-made inventions during the creative processes of researching, designing and making. Working across various mediums including objects, installation and illustration and kinetic modules, Lau conducts imaginative […]
Makie Chang is an indigo artist born and based in Hong Kong. She studied Textile and Fashion Design in Hong Kong Polytechnic University and her original indigo art was selected as a finalist in YDC (Young Fashion Designers’ Contest) in 2017. Chang believes in the natural, organic creation of art and appreciates imperfections by embracing Wabi Sabi aesthetics. Having established her personal brand Makie Mori, she hopes to bring indigo into people’s life. Image courtesy of the collaborator
Lilit Marcus is an American journalist currently based in Hong Kong. She is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) who was raised to be bilingual in American Sign Language and in English. Her reporting on Deaf communities and topics has appeared in CNN, The Atlantic , the Wall Street Journal , Condé Nast Traveler , Buzzfeed, and more. Image courtesy of collaborator