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Everyone’s a critic, or so they say. But some actually take it up as a profession, and not just in London or New York, but even in this part of the world. Lee Weng Choy is the president of the Singapore Section of the International Association of Art Critics. He’s been writing art criticism for a quarter of a century. He’s also taught as a visiting lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the School of the Art Institute Chicago; he has worked as the Artistic Co-Director of The Substation arts centre, and done consultation work for National Gallery Singapore, NTU CCA Singapore, ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, and A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur. In this “advice column” for Plural, Weng Choy answers your questions about art, culture and life, with a lot of sincerity and just the right amount of sarcasm. (Profile pic by Len Finocchio)
Sumedhaa is a part-time contributor to and a full-time lover of the arts. When she's not attempting to be a somewhat competent traveller, she is busy trying to finish unfinished books, learn about new cultures and hold on to any semblance of fitness she once had.
Monika R is a creative writer and a loving cat owner. She is constantly thinking up alternative realities but only manages to pen down a few of them.
Ben Valentine has been working as an independent writer and curator for the last ten years and is currently based in Cambodia. Ben has published with Salon, Art Asia Pacific, The New Inquiry, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, to name a few. He also worked as a staff writer for Hyperallergic, and the San Francisco Arts Quarterly. He has spoken on contemporary art and visual culture around the world, including with the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, SAIC, and YBCA. During the last four years living in Cambodia, Ben has also worked at SA SA BASSAC and Sammaki Community Arts.
Eric Goh is an art writer, critic, and curator from Kuala Lumpur who is committed to the eco-critical turn in art history. He is interested in the intersection between economics, ecology, and contemporary art. He is currently interning at the Asia Art Archive in America and is set to begin his PhD in Art History at Cornell University in the fall of 2022. He earned his MA in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and BA in Economics from the University of Edinburgh. His master’s thesis “Abstracting Bodies, Materializing Disappearance: The Afterlives of Industry in the Work of Choong Kam Kow” will be published in the upcoming issue of peer-reviewed journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. A publication for Mutual Aid Projects, a curatorial experiment on friendship that he led at the peak of the pandemic, is forthcoming. His writing has appeared in Artforum and Heichi Magazine.
I like in-depth conversations over coffee or wine, and weaving soul into stories. I don't like referring to myself in the third person.
Elaine Chiew is the editor/compiler of Cooked Up: Food Fiction From Around the World (New Internationalist, 2015). She has won prizes for her short fiction and also been shortlisted in numerous other U.S. and U.K. competitions. Her most recent stories can be found in East of the Web and Unthology 10 (Unthank Books, 2018). She has an M.A. in Asian Art History at Lasalle College of the Arts and is currently based in Singapore.