writing




writing for personal survival and articulation >>> writing to prove something, to demonstrate academic intelligence >>> writing to expand the world through speculation, prophecy, prayer, meditation, confession, mutation of language




Selected Writing


poetry

slow dream machine

debut poetry collection about being a vessel for writing, a body for the machine

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A suite for damp rot

three poems for REFUSE, an inter-media exhibition about The Observatory at the Singapore Art Museum

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January 2021

published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

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And Yet Eyes Resemble Oysters

runner-up for the Bi'an Award, poetry category; published in Stand Magazine

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Untitled

published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore; included in anthology Quiet Loving, Ravaging Search

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fiction

氵pasang

an audio walk made in collaboration with ila for Natasha, Singapore Biennale 2022. It meets, meanders along, and mourns the ghost rivers that once wound through our city.

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speculative texts

for An Organic Terminus, an audio trail about Tanjong Pagar by The Everyday Museum

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The Horse's Mouth

a semi-historical, semi-speculative account written from the POV of an envoy of the Han Dynasty

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Edible Life

a prologue to a longer science fiction piece about food systems in 2030s Singapore

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Tentacle

a short story about a woman who wants to be pregnant

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plays and performance texts

Lovers Text Lovers (development ongoing)

a bilingual script on romance, East Asian pop culture, and the Englishes and Mandarin Chineses of Singaporean Chinese identity

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Lizards

a prize-winning script dedicated to women who have gone mad

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Flicker

a hallucinatory dream featuring an ensemble in search of one another

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essays and reviews

I, Robomancer

an essay about Japan, Buddhism and Artificial Intelligence

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Touch Skin

an essay for Networked Bodies (exhibiton) by Supernormal

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an untitled essay

comprising multiple texts for The Open Workshop (exhibiton) by Supernormal

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Empty Orchestra Heart

a view of karaoke culture and aesthetics through Monzoom.xyz's Total Eclipse Plumage

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Loving Anarchy

a review of No Poetry by poet Che Qianzi

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interviews and features

The Future is Here

an essay on entering the metaverse with Keiken and Kathryn Lofton

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In the room next to yours

a snapshot of artist Juka Araikawa's practice and ethos

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editorial

Leonorana #5: Environments

co-edited with Isabel Carvalho

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