Following January’s subTEXT inspired by the seventh edition of the Singapore Biennale (SB2022) and (very loosely) its theme of “Natasha”, this edition of subTEXT in March marks the closing of SB2022 at Singapore Art Museum (the last day being March 19). In the face of fresh rhythms and reflections on inclusivity, we welcome three poets from the anthology New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy, 2022) and one of the editors involved with Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore (Ethos Books, 2022).
Date: Friday, March 17, 2023 Time: 8pm to 9pm Venue: The Pink Containers, #03-07, Singapore Art Museum, 39 Keppel Road, Tanjong Pagar Distripark Admission: Free with registration at https://subtext-anythingbutnatasha.peatix.com (seats are limited on a first-come-first-serve basis)
Featured Writers:
Marylyn Tan Marylyn is a sensuous and queer writer-artist-reprobate. Her work aims to subvert, revert and pervert, to disrespect respectability, to take pleasure seriously, and to reclaim power. Her first child, GAZE BACK (Ethos Books, 2018; Singapore Literature Prize, 2020) is the lesbo trans-genre grimoire you never knew you needed.
Shawn Hoo Shawn is the author of the chapbook Of the Florids (Diode Editions, 2022). He is Translation Tuesdays Editor at Asymptote. Shawn’s poems can be found in New Delta Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Queer Southeast Asia, Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, and his translation of Lao She in the Journal of Practice, Research and Tangential Activities (PR&TA).
ila ila (@ilailailailaila_)’s research centres on peripheral narratives surrounding identity, space and histories that lie hidden, particularly kinship with the land and sea. She writes short speculative prose on @myheartisanelephant, an ongoing project about the city titled ‘pura-pura parade’. She does art sometimes.
Kristian-Marc James Paul Kristian (he/him/his) is an activist and writer. He is a member of climate justice collective SG Climate Rally. Apart from his work in climate activism, Kristian also facilitates intergroup dialogues, partnering with organisations like AWARE to run community discussions on masculinity and male allyship. He was also a contributing author for white: behind mental health stigma (2020), an anthology on mental health in Singapore.
Moderator: Yong Shu Hoong has authored seven poetry collections, including Frottage (2005) and The Viewing Party (2013), which both won the Singapore Literature Prize, and Anatomy of a Wave (2022). He is one of the four co-authors of The Adopted: Stories from Angkor (2015) and Lost Bodies: Poems Between Portugal and Home (2016).
