Academic Writing

A selection of essays I wrote during the course of my MA in History of Art from SOAS University of London, for which I was awarded a Distinction.

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Masters Dissertation: Between Disruption, Witnessing, and Recording

For my Masters dissertation titled 'Between Disruption, Witnessing, and Recording: Three case studies examining the use of the Archive in Contemporary Art from the Malay Archipelago,' I examined how three contemporary artists, Yee I-Lann (Malaysia), FX Harsono (Indonesia), and Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore) utilised archival materials in their artistic practices to interrogate the construction of national and regional histories. I was awarded a Distinction. Image: Yee I-Lann, Picturing Power, 2013.
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Foregrounding the Lived Experience: How Modern and Contemporary Artists of the MENA Region Resist and Negotiate Cultural Standardisation

An essay written for the postgraduate class 'Discourses of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East,' which proposed foregrounding the lived experience of artists from the Middle East as a method of subverting cultural standardisation. Image: Nazgol Ansarinia's Residential building Belvedere garden on Resalat highway, Fabrications, 2013
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Curatorial Proposal for postgraduate module 'Contemporary Art and the Global'

For the postgraduate module 'Contemporary Art and the Global' at SOAS University of London, I researched the contemporary art of Singapore with regards the country’s ongoing urbanisation and featured artists such as Melissa Tan, Zul Mahmod, and Min-Wei Ting. I was awarded a Distinction for the assignment and the module overall. (Image Credit: Min-Wei Ting, http://www.mwting.com/albums/youre-dead-to-me/)