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Marcus Yee is an art writer and art worker from Singapore. In late 2022, Marcus extends on previous research on urban and environmental histories in Southeast Asia as a PhD student in History at Yale University and a Whitney Humanities Center Fellow in the Environmental Humanities. Within the field of visual arts, Marcus has previously worked on projects with National Gallery Singapore and soft/WALL/studs. Other pieces of art writing may be found in ArtAsiaPacific, Global Performance Studies Journal, and art-agenda, among others.



The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial

Solid are the Winds: Aeolian Encounters at The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (Part II)

By Marcus Yee (1340 words, five-minute read) This is the second of a two-part essay on the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial running at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, from 24 November 2018 to 28 April 2019. Read Part I here.   Wind Songs, Molecular Vibrations Four Winds Wind, you are a beast with four heads […]

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Solid are the Winds: Aeolian Encounters at The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (Part I)

By Marcus Yee (1259 words, five-minute read) This is the first of a two-part essay on the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial running at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, from 24 November 2018 to 28 April 2019. Read Part II here.   Since 1993, the Asia Pacific Triennial (APT) has been a gathering point for contemporary

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Railtrack Songmaps

“Railtrack Songmaps Roosting Post 1”: The Featherlight of Complexity

By Marcus Yee (970 words, 7-minute read) Tucked in Queenstown Residence Committee Centre is a heartfelt homage to Tanglin Halt and the nearby Rail Corridor, nexus of human and bird relationals,  collected by Railtrack Songmaps Roosting Post 1. Conceived out of a collaboration, or chorus between artist Lucy Davis, designer Zachary Chan, photographer Kee Ya

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Regional Departures: An Interview with David Teh on “Misfits: Pages from a Loose-Leaf Modernity”

Between 21 April to 3 July this year, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin hosted Misfits: Pages from a Loose-Leaf Modernity, curated by David Teh. The exhibition featured three artists from Southeast Asia: Fillipino filmmaker Rox Lee, who sowed the seeds of a nascent experimental scene; Thai artist and poet Tang Chang, known

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Tan Pin Pin’s “In Time To Come”: On the Edge of a Snow-Globe Starburst

By Marcus Yee (872 words, 8-minute read) A time capsule of a film on time capsules, Tan Pin Pin’s latest film In Time To Come is underpinned by a confounding observation: Singapore’s national obsession with time capsules, despite the nation-state’s short post-independence history. The otherwise plotless film follows three time capsules, the sealing of two time capsules

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Looking at Institutions Look at Themselves: NUS Museum & NTU CCA Singapore

By Marcus Yee (1530 words, 20-minute read) “What am I?” asks the museum. “If I am not to be metamuseum, interred within my own history, what do I do?”. —Lisa G. Corrin   Amidst the torrential stream of infrastructural expansion and bureaucratic densification that characterises the “arts ecosystem” in Singapore, several art institutions appear to

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Class Conflict: “Those Who Can’t, Teach” by The Necessary Stage

By Marcus Yee (904 words, 9-minute read) The Necessary Stage’s most recent production, Those Who Can’t, Teach makes a strange journey to its eventual arrival as a “play that salutes teachers”. For one, Haresh Sharma’s script distances itself from the conventional narratives of a teacher’s struggle over a difficult student, with the student’s future success

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Winner, Singapore Biennale 2016 Essay Writing Competition: To-Do List for the End of the World

Congratulations to Marcus Yee for winning AICA + ArtsEquator’s Inaugural Best Essay on the Singapore Biennale 2016 by an Emerging Art Writer Competition with this essay.   By Marcus Yee, (3040 words, 30-minute read) “A map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth glancing at.” — Oscar Wilde [1] 1. Find escape

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