INXO INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY

Lee Mok Yee born in Kluang, Malaysia. In 2010, he got his Diploma in Fine Art from Dasein Academy of Art and BA Fine Art from Middlesex University, London. His work always deals with the language of the materials which include the physical materials, conceptual materials and cultural context. Using the readymade objects, he attempts to interpret and reconstruct the characteristic and the utility of the objects and at the same time, reflecting his point of view on his own cultural and political background. His work involving a variety of mediums such as installation, sculpture, painting etc.

Mahen Bala is a critically acclaimed Malaysian documentary photographer, filmmaker, and artist. His primary interest is in investing the human experience, and how memory shapes personal and communal constructs of history.

In 2017, he represented Malaysia on an expedition to Antarctica, which then resulted in a photography exhibition at the National Art Gallery. In 2018, he published ‘Postcards from the South’, a comprehensive documentation of memory and history of the Malaysian railways. His upcoming photographic exhibition, cēb bah hēp, explores the relationship of a small indigenous tribe and the Malaysian rainforest.

Teo Wey Herng writes and makes art in Malaysia with a focus on the experiental and experimental. She is interested in the aesthetics of the minor, fragmentary, and the extraneous. She feels strongly about anti-capitalist feminism, picture books and small animals. Wey Herng is the text collaborator on Toccata Studio’s Project “2020”, and “I’m Here Where You Are”. She is also a co-founder of Toccapoly, an immersive arts program for children. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in English Literature at Universiti Malaya.

Yujin Kim is a theatre director, writer, dancer and performer, based in Seoul. She studied English Literature (BA) and Theatre Studies (MA), and got trained in jazz dance, modern dance, contact improvisation, somatic methods and voice trainings with various artists. Interested in the aesthetics of post-dramatic theatre, she has collaborated with different groups of people and created performances including Native Speaker (2016) and Study of Butt Font (2018-ongoing). She was awarded with ARKO Young Arts Frontier 2015 and invited as International Forum Fellow of Theaterffen 2017. Her thematic focuses are language, identity, cross-culturalism, and artistic interests are community-based research, body-mind integration, and interdisciplinary research.

Ng Sze Min is a sound artist interested in expanding documentary and participatory forms. She expresses text, concepts and experiences into audio works, participatory performances, and one-on-one live art shows which have been selections at the 15th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (USA), Poetry Festival (Singapore), George Paton Gallery (Melbourne, Australia). She is also the Creative Producer of Artwave Studio, a Singapore-based music studio dedicated to composition and sound design across film, theatre and literary works.

His past work is based on our ordinary lives. Sometimes he doesn’t choose a theater for his production. He has danced at many places; for example, at a guest house’s roof, at public bath before open hours, and at his own house. He does not only dance. He also makes songs for theater and exhibition. He creates theater pieces with a story. And he collaborates with many artists such as sculptors, musicians.

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