Jason Wee
artist and writer
Jason Wee is an artist and writer. Recent projects use a choral libretto as an invitation to consider the design of a general assembly (for the Singapore Biennale 2019), queer secrecies in public spaces and shipping lanes (for the 1st Asia Society Triennial), and the history of “undesirable literatures” (for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022).
His art practice searches for polyphony and powerlessness in the figurations of Asia and Southeast Asia. His works move restlessly between art, design histories, poetry, publishing, geopolitics, sculpture, and photography. He is the co-editor of SOFTBLOW Poetry Journal. He founded and runs Grey Projects, an artists’ library and residency.
He is the author of two chapbooks and three poetry collections, including “An Epic of Durable Departures” (Math Paper Press, 2018), a finalist for the Singapore Literature Prize. His most recent, “In Short, Future Now” (Sternberg Press, 2020) was the Gaudy Boy Poetry Prize finalist.
