Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 10.05.2024

Give/Given/VoiceJason Wee, Will Harris and Nicholas Y. H. Wong

Jason Wee

Jason Wee is an artist-curator, writer and researcher based in Harlem, New York and Singapore. Jason’s practice considers polyphony and ‘powerless’ minor poetics within architecture, infrastructure and history. Founder of Grey Projects, Singapore, he organises residencies and the island-wide open-studio tour Walk Walk Don’t Run. Recent projects include undesirable literatures in Malaya, Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2022) and queer secrecy choreographies, Asia Society Triennale (2020). A 2005–06 Studio Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program, Jason’s sculptures and photographs exhibit internationally, and he teaches poetry, design history and alternative publishing.

Jason Wee is currently the 2023 Asymmetry PhD Scholar in ‘Advanced Practices’ at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Will Harris

Will Harris is a London-based Indonesian-British writer. He is the author of the poetry books RENDANG (2020) and Brother Poem (2023). He co-translated Habib Tengour’s Consolatio with Delaina Haslam in 2022, and helps facilitate the Southbank New Poets Collective with Vanessa Kisuule. Siblings, a conversation between Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan, Harris and Nisha Ramayya, is published by Monitor Books.

Nicholas Y. H. Wong

Nicholas Y. H. Wong is an assistant professor in the School of Chinese at The University of Hong Kong. He teaches Chinese-English translation and writes on extractive capitalism and Southeast Asian Chinese writing. His translation of Ling Yu's poetry collection, Daughters (2022), is forthcoming from Balestier Press. As Zhou Sivan, he has published three poetry chapbooks, which address poetic form (Zero Copula, Delete Press, 2015), Malaysia’s policies on refugees and migrants (Sea Hypocrisy, co-published by DoubleCross Press and Projective Industries, 2016), and trees as metaphor (The Geometry of Trees, Sputnik & Fizzle, 2022).

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