DR. SIMON SOON SIEN YONG
Visual Arts Program
Faculty of Creative Arts
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Hello! Welcome to my profile page, where you get to learn a bit about the many many many things I do. You can find my academic writings deposited at my academic.edu page. You can make an appointment to see me by clicking here. MY RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY I then received my PhD from the University of Sydney under an Australian Postgraduate Award fellowship (thank you Australia Government!), where I wrote a dissertation on the spatio-visual practices of postwar left-leaning art movements in Singapore/Malaya, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines from the 1950s - 1970s under three awesome supervisors - Adrian Vickers, John Clark and Stephen Whiteman. Over and beyond research, each of them taught me many life-skills to find a home for myself in the otherwise cutthroat world of academia. I have a broader interest in Asian modernities as a discursive method and in the broader field of art historiography (e.g. how is history being written? By whom and by what means?). Principally, topics related to how social energies are expressed through visual forms interest me. I do have a strong interest in examining art or cultural phenomenon through understanding them as intersections of history, memory, and mythology. Then, there's also side interest of mine in modern architecture. Much more than critical thinking, I value imaginative scholarships on art and cultural histories that change our understanding of ourselves, the world and our relationships with one another. I'm also a big advocate of open-access knowledge and sharing research information. I've created a resource guide on digital resources on colonial history of the Malay World and a map of photo studios in Malaysia and Singapore. THE COMMUNITIES THAT I BELONG TO Funnily enough, I have also started making artworks! My works have been shown in Warsaw, Yangon, Hong Kong, Dhaka, Bangkok, Shanghai, and Manila. I find art practice to be an important avenue for me to pursue research on a different level - and my art project provides me with opportunities to collaborate with other makers. I tend to focus on the adaptive reuse of historical images found in the public domain to explore their myth-making and story-telling potentials. I think poetically about this as shoring up colonial fragments and debris to produce a new understanding of our place in the world. Check out my work here and here. PhD Studentship |
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Doing Public History And Making Public Domain For The Malay Gamelan |
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Constructing Decolonial Art History Of Southeast Asia |
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The remaking of revolutionary literature: a comic series on peasant uprising in the post-revolutionary era
Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma
Learning from the Region; Learning in the Region; Learning from the Internet
Descending into Foreignness: Datuk Fatimah and the Home of the Pendatang
The Modern in Southeast Asian Art. A Reader. Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Banned in KL, Astroboy Rides the wave to Sky Kingdom on a Grasshopper: Malaysia Melalyu Lima Belas Poskad
BEP 100: BEP Akitek Sdn. Bhd. 1921-2021
Sha'er Datok Keramat dengan Sang Mualim
Boria Everywhere in the World: A Penang Burlesque and the Politics of Heritage
Engineering the human soul in 1950s Indonesia and Singapore
Converging Extremes: Exhibitions and Historical Sightlines in 1990s Malaysia
Bearing witness to many private lives