Durian Without Duri

The name Durian is derived from the Malay word ‘duri’ (thorn), and the suffix -an denotes a multitude of thorns...

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Don't Cry My Friend

The Lee Chong Wei and Lin Dan rivalry (2004–2018) is hailed as one of the greatest in the history of Badminton...

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Let Them Eat Salmon

“...In Southeast Asia, salmon is a luxury good and its consumption bespeaks the Western lifestyle aspirations of a rising global middle class...”

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How To Dance Like a Mudskipper

One way to understand an animal is to move like one. The common intertidal amphibious mudskipper, known locally as ikan belacak, used to be a sought-after local delicacy...

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I Enjoy Being A Girl

This photo-video essay is part of an ongoing project which looks how two childhood friends explored gender identity through photography ...

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Jalan Jalan Japan, Tobi Tobi Haze

This exhibition was the outcome of the Minatomachi AIR Exchange 2021, part of the Assembridge 2022 programme, a music and art festival in Nagoya, Japan...

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The World Is Your Restaurant

“...Hoo turns to Chinese culinary and dining culture in The World is Your Restaurant to consider not only the gamut of the visual lexicon that lends the banquet its whimsical qualities, but also the historical development of the local Sino-foodscape alongside the economic rise of KL...”

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Mud-chihoko on Komtar

Whether or not the Shachihoko 鯱鉾 is derived from the Makara मकर, the ancient Vedic hybrid sea creature, or Chiwen 螭吻, the Chinese dragon on imperial roof decorations, it is arguably one of Nagoya city’s most recognisable cultural symbols...

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Riding The Waves In Search Of
The Great Bird

The disappearance of Flight MH370 in 2014 inspired scientific excursions and occult ritual performances alike, including one by a local shaman, the so-called Raja Bomoh...

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Wu Ma of Thieves Market

As I was tidying up my studio during the current movement control order, I found a pile of paintings by Wu Ma, a self-taught artist who used to run a stall at the Acheen Street (Lebuh Acheh) flea market...

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The Mistress, the Sex Worker and
the Nyonya of George Town

Wah Fong photo studio was a household name at George Town, Penang, in the 1960s and the 1970s...

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Biro Kaji Visual George Town

BKVGT is a visual observation unit that focuses on various visual culture practices in George Town...

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Tak Seorang Pun Yang Ditinggalkan

This collaborative dubbing project invited members of the local Bulukumba (Sulawesi, Indonesia) community to voice over some scenes from popular Chinese films...

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Kopi Jantan Series

Locals have found a way to appropriate coffee culture, creating a more conveniently consumed and affordable tonic drink infused with vernacular remedies, especially Tongkat Ali...

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Selamat Tahun Baru Cina Babi

This woodblock print was made to commemorate the Year of the Pig. Both an auspicious cultural symbol...

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我餵人人人人餵我
I Feed The Masses While The Masses Provide For Me

This installation features “My Earthy Taste” (a music video), “My Earthiness, Your Tenderness” (a woodblock print) and other ancillary components...

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我的土味 / My Earthy Taste

This music video is a collaboration with the singer-songwriter Tseng Zi-Yi, charting an attempt to inscribe the lowly regarded tilapia fish into the popular domain of the internet...

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Chowdry Stall

This project intended to study Bangladeshi material culture through the sundry stores located outside of Hin Bus Depot by reappropriating a mobile food cart into a vending stall...

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Karma Karma Chameleons

‘Karma Karma Chameleons’ is a series of found photographs of female nightclub entertainers of the 80s...

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Now Everyone Can Jump

Recently, some government representatives told unhappy Malaysians to emigrate if they were displeased with the incumbent administration...

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Into the World of Palpable Objects
and Fruitful Delight

By assuming the role of a modern day amateur antiquarian and anthropologist and informedby earlier figures of 18th and 19th centurytravelers and amateur naturalists...

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The Blue & White Collection

This work responds to the Willow Pattern invented by English craftsmen in the late eighteenth century...

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You Say Jelly, I Say Agar

Jelly moulds were common exhibit in the batteries de cuisine of stately homes within the European milieu...

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From Yellow To Red

...like many other East Asians, I develop Asian flush after alcohol consumption...

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