A selection of original written content, and other works.
DATA STORYTELLING
What’s in a year?, Kontinentalist, 25 April 2024
Jakarta’s roadside food sellers: Finding a path in a future of convenience, Kontinentalist, 13 Jun 2023
Making Sense of the Singapore Dream, Jom annual print magazine, June 2023
No Place to Work: The Risks and Realities of Migrant Labour in Singapore, Kontinentalist, 22 May 2023
Terraforming Singapore: Is the future made of sand?, Kontinentalist, 27 Apr 2023
Rise of the underdogs: How Asia left its mark on the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Kontinentalist Instagram, 13 Dec 2022
Mystical spaces in Asia, Kontinentalist, 15 Sep 2022
ARTS & CULTURE ARTICLES
An Inch of Space, for Air da Tohor, 16 May 2023
△ Power, transmission, triangulation △, for Air da Tohor, 16 May 2023
Singapore Arts Emerging from the “Great Pause”, ArtsEquator, 29 Mar 2022
WINDOW by ATTEMPTS: A click away, ArtsEquator, 25 Mar 2022
COVID-19 and the arts in Southeast Asia – 2 years on, ArtsEquator, 15 Mar 2022
The Substation: An unstoppable force and an immovable object, ArtsEquator, 9 Mar 2021
Coronalogues, pandemic spectatorship (and the critic), ArtsEquator, 29 May 2020
Is this thing on? Singapore theatre in the midst of a pandemic, ArtsEquator, 29 May 2020
COVID-19 and the arts in Southeast Asia, ArtsEquator, 27 Mar 2020
A house is not a home: Centre 42 and Arts Resource Hub, ArtsEquator, 3 February 2020
5 Singapore poems not to quote out of context, ArtsEquator, 13 October 2019
Translating Homeland: Tanah•Air 水•土: A Play In Two Parts, ArtsEquator, 9 October 2019
Seven Views of “Seven Views of Redhill”, ArtsEquator, 23 September 2019
Zulfadli Rashid: Abang of Singapore Malay theatre, Esplanade.com, 29 June 2018
Merging old and new in Malay music, The Straits Times, 6 September 2017
Contemporary ethnic music groups woo young audiences, The Straits Times, 4 July 2017
Singapore artists chart new waters at Venice Biennale, The Straits Times, 16 May 2017
Role of dance dramaturg more prominent in Singapore, The Straits Times, 31 January 2017
Arts producers strike out on their own to put on works, The Straits Times, 23 August 2016
Fired up by pottery, The Straits Times, 25 March 2016
Zentai walk participants attracts curious onlookers, The Straits Times, 12 April 2015
Modern-day explorers in Singapore who scout the old-school way, The Straits Times, 31 October 2014
George Town Festival presents a city that is comfortable in its own skin, The Straits Times, 8 August 2014
OTHER NON-FICTION ESSAYS
The Global South, AI, and journalism, Kawan Kontinentalist, 15 July 2024
What’s in an Asian year? Deconstructing how we think about time, Kawan Kontinentalist, 5 June 2024
Love in Singapore: When the third-party is the state, Kawan Kontinentalist, 2 March 2024
Essay, Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore, Ethos Books
Foreword, Potong: To Care/Cut, Ethos Books
Good Practices in Singapore Theatre: A Paper of Recommendations, Good Practices in Singapore Theatre Workgroup, 2021
London beyond the norm, Skyscanner, 16 September 2018
Finding cosiness in the freezing Swedish Lapland, The Straits Times, 26 February 2017
At one with nature in Inner Mongolia, The Straits Times, 12 July 2015
POETRY/FICTION
[Poem] ‘You Have Always Been Boundless’, Commissioned by SCENE SHANG, 2021 [Read]
[Poem] ‘NENEK IS LUCID DREAMING’, An Ekphrastic Series: Nabilah Said, National Gallery Singapore, 2021 [Watch]
[Poem] ‘Mindmap’, An Ekphrastic Series: Nabilah Said, National Gallery Singapore, 2021 [Watch]
[Fiction] ‘Dear You’, And you wander once again // Dan kau merantau lagi, Latiff Mohidin Symposium, National Gallery Singapore, 2020 [Watch]
[Poem] ‘Telling’, #NeverBeforeSG, National Museum of Singapore, 2020
[Poem] ‘Hair Apparent’, Say What Ah, Our Monster Tongues, Textures Festival, The Arts House, 2020
[Flash Fiction] ‘Thirty Minutes, Sir’, SingPoWriMo Issue #2, 2019 [Read]
[Poem] ‘Continental Drift’, Call & Response, Math Paper Press, 2018 [Watch]
[Flash Fiction] ‘Sweet Dreams’, Bubble Gum Death Metal Zine One: Sharing, 2018
[Poem] ‘DEMONS’, Bubble Gum Death Metal Zine One: Sharing, 2018
[Poem] ‘BFF’, SingPoWriMo 2017, Math Paper Press, 2017
[Poem] ‘Swallow’, SingPoWriMo 2017, Math Paper Press, 2017
[Poem] ‘Hair Apparent’, Unfree Verse, Ethos Books, 2017
[Poem] ‘Tectonic Shift’, A Luxury We Must Afford & A Luxury: Omnibus Edition, Math Paper Press, 2016
[Poem] ‘WTB’, A Luxury We Must Afford & A Luxury: Omnibus Edition, Math Paper Press, 2016
[Poem] ‘Logbook’, SingPoWriMo 2015, Math Paper Press, 2015
[Poem] ‘Hair Apparent’, SingPoWriMo 2015, Math Paper Press, 2015
[Flash Fiction] ‘Comfort Food’, Twenty-Four Flavours: Salted Vegetables and Duck Soup, Math Paper Press, 2014
[Flash Fiction] ‘Last Period’, Twenty-Four Flavours: Chicken Rice, Math Paper Press, 2014
[Flash Fiction] ‘For His Master’s Birthday on the Night of the Equinox’, Twenty-Four Flavours: Century Egg, Math Paper Press, 2013
[Flash Fiction] ‘Love Letter by Way of Bottle Post’, Twenty-Four Flavours: Dolphin Meat, Math Paper Press, 2013
[Flash Fiction] ‘Sandstorm’, Twenty-Four Flavours series: Sushi, Math Paper Press, 2013
REVIEWS
BIPAM 2021: Delight, despair, dialogue and the despot, ArtsEquator, 17 Sep 2021
Bird is the word: Peepbird by The Finger Players, ArtsEquator, 11 Oct 2020
À Ố Làng Phố: Less trick, more treat in Vietnamese bamboo circus, ArtsEquator, 2 March 2020
Hades Fading: Modern-day Ancients, ArtsEquator, 1 March 2020
Are You Ready To Take The Law Into Your Own Hands: Tongue Scrapes Against Cheek, ArtsEquator, 29 February 2020
Torch the Place: Shedding the Dead Weight, ArtsEquator, 27 February 2020
Everything In Its Right Place: The Body Politic and the Body, ArtsEquator, 22 December 2019
Monsters’ Ink: A Fiend’s Diary & Heather, ArtsEquator, 2 December 2019
Goodbye Lin Bo, we hardly knew ye, ArtsEquator, 17 November 2019
Raw Moves’ “Being & Organs” and the unbearable whiteness of Block O, ArtsEquator, 16 October 2019
Love me tender: “Eat Duck” by Checkpoint Theatre, ArtsEquator, 5 September 2019
Instructions for reheating: “Forked” by The Finger Players, ArtsEquator, 28 August 2019
Crashing realities: “Acting Mad” by The Necessary Stage, ArtsEquator, 22 August 2019
Looking away for clarity: First Fleet by Nine Years Theatre, ArtsEquator, 9 August 2019
Disrupting to stay woke: Awakenings at National Gallery Singapore, ArtsEquator, 29 July 2019
Pretty Displaced: Staging Sexual Assault in the Age of #MeToo, ArtsEquator, 7 June 2019
Blood Knot at Orange Tree Theatre, Exeunt Magazine, 14 March 2019
Inside Bitch at Royal Court Theatre, Exeunt Magazine, 7 March 2019
Letters to and from yesterday it rained salt, ArtsEquator, 4 February 2019
Exeunt’s Favourite London Shows of 2018, Exeunt Magazine, 18 December 2018
Cerita Cinta at Esplanade, ArtsEquator, 8 November 2018
Dennis of Penge at Ovalhouse, Exeunt Magazine, 5 October 2018
Arabian Nights at Hoxton Hall, Exeunt Magazine, 24 September 2018
Mouth Open, Story Jump Out at Unicorn Theatre, Exeunt Magazine, 22 September 2018
Misty at Bush Theatre, Exeunt Magazine, 18 September 2018
Unexpected Joy at Southwark Playhouse, Exeunt Magazine, 11 September 2018
Homos, Or Everyone In America at Finborough Studio, Exeunt Magazine, 13 August 2018
Silk Road (How To Buy Drugs Online) at Trafalgar Studios, Exeunt Magazine, 11 August 2018
Trojan Women at Southbank Centre, Exeunt Magazine, 6 June 2018
Isaac Came Home From The Mountain, Exeunt Magazine, 17 May 2018
Latiff Mohidin at Centre Pompidou, ArtsEquator, 16 May 2018
Black Men Walking at Royal Court, Exeunt Magazine, 26 March 2018
Good Girl at Trafalgar Studios, Exeunt Magazine, 9 March 2018
Returning to Haifa at Finborough Theatre, Exeunt Magazine, 7 March 2018
The Drill at Battersea Arts Centre, Exeunt Magazine, 10 February 2018
Poetics of the disquiet: Modern art at the Estorick Collection, Trebuchet Magazine, 2 February 2018
Borderline by T.H.E. Dance Company and Muscle Mouth, The Straits Times, 24 June 2017
Bi(cara) is a seductive, changeable animal that seizes the heart, The Straits Times, 22 January 2016
Labels by Worklight Theatre: Good and bad labels, The Straits Times, 6 January 2016
The Duchamp Syndrome shrinks loneliness into a charming, bitter pill, The Straits Times, 15 January 2015
The Way We Go: Sensitive depiction of life lesson's in one's twilight years, The Straits Times, 21 November 2014
PODCASTS
Put Your Worth on the Table with Nabilah Said, Common Ground, 3 Aug 2023 [Listen]
Critiquing with Kindness, Dark Day Convos, 23 July 2022 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 100: Singapore Theatre Year In Review, 29 Dec 2021 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 100: Singapore Theatre Year In Review, 29 Dec 2021 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 99: The Mother and ________ Can Change, 12 Dec 2021 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 98: Love & Information by Young & Wild, 9 Dec 2020 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 97: Writer Wayne Rée talks about gore and slasher fiction, 31 Oct 2021 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 96: Writer Grace Chia talks about crime and The Arches of Gerrard Street, 31 Oct 2021 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 95: Three Sisters and _T0701_ at SIFA 2021, 19 Aug 2021 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 94: The Singapore Trilogy by The Second Breakfast Company, 19 July 2021 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 93: Girls & Boys by Pangdemonium, 18 July 2021 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 90: Critics Live: The Year of No Return by The Necessary Stage at SIFA 2021, 23 Jun 2021 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 86: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2021, 1 Apr 2021 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 85: Singapore Theatre, Year in Review, 14 Dec 2020 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 84: Traditional Arts: Dikir Barat, Kavadi Attam and Nanyin, 8 Dec 2020 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 83: Waiting For The Host by Pangdemonium, 30 Nov 2020 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 82: Who’s There & Two Songs and a Story, 21 Oct 2020 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 81: King and The Book of Mothers, 14 Sep 2020 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 80: Murder at Mandai Camp And Fat Kids, 23 Jul 2020 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 79: Asia TOPA (Part 2), 18 Mar 2020 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 78: Asia TOPA (Part 1), 12 Mar 2020 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 77: Fika and Fishy by Patch and Punnet, 27 Feb 2020 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 74: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020, 29 Jan 2020 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 72: ArtsEquator End-of-Year Theatre Podcast 2019, 27 Dec 2019 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 68: Critics Live! Wild Rice’s Merdeka, 13 Nov 2019 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 67: Urinetown and Lim Boon Keng – The Musical, 30 Oct 2019 [Listen]
ArtsEquator Podcast 64: The Orange Production 2019, 1 Sep 2019 [Listen]
EDITING/COPYWRITING
Climate Change: New Answers to an Old Question, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2024
AMBOI 20K, Fundraising Campaign strategy and communications, Teater Ekamatra, 2022
Kampong Gelam heritage markers, Commissioned by Malay Heritage Foundation, 2020
Women of Now: Digital Exhibition, TWorks Singapore, 2020
AMBOI, Fundraising Campaign strategy and communications, Teater Ekamatra, 2020
Serve And F_______ (book), Esmond Loh, Chan + Hori Contemporary, 2019.
Summer Secret Hideaway (blogpost), 2019. Commissioned by SCENE SHANG
Leader and Legislator – Seah Liang Seah (book), Shawn Seah, Ethos Books, 2019. Commissioned by Shawn Seah.
Heirlooms: Lives Told, Retold, Untold (e-book), 2015. Commissioned by SCENE SHANG
Lighting People's Cities (book), ORO Editions, 2013. Commissioned by ONG&ONG Design Studio.