Mark














I am a writer and curator based out of Singapore with close to a decade of experience working in varying capacities across cultural institutions and museums (Indian Heritage Centre, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, The Private Museum) and art galleries (Wetterling Teo Gallery, Hatch Art Project) in Singapore.

My interest lies broadly in contemporary art vis-å-vis the politics of aesthetics, with a recent focus on thinking through/of cultural institutions as dis-imagination machines (Didi-Huberman, Giroux). I’m also hoping to keep up a sustained interest in the adversarial (trojan horses, adversarial examples, generative adversarial networks or GANs, obfuscation and subterfuge) and networks of confluence (entry points, nodes, intersections, arena, forum boards, second life).

I was a participant in the curatorial workshops, Staging and the Exhibition (2018) hosted by Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Singapore in partnership with the Department of Visual Culture, Goldsmiths University of London; as well as the Workshops for Emerging Arts Professionals (2020) hosted by Para Site, Hong Kong.

I’ve written for a few artist catalogues and books, as well as for/in journals, platforms, and institutions such as Singapore Art Museum, Yavuz Gallery, Sullivan+Strumpf, National Gallery Singapore, and So Far. Most recently, I was the co-curator of the digital exhibition Many Beliefs, One Future 2.0 (2022), the digital billboard art festival Crossroads (2022) and the exhibition Poor Imagination (2019).






















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WRITER AND CURATOR BASED OUT OF SINGAPORE. (....)
Mark