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Short Bio

Dr Chieng Wei Shieng graduated with a PhD in Cultural Studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2023. She is interested in pursuing the question, ‘what are Asians thinking’, and to what extent could these kinds of thinking and thoughts be potentials for decolonial options to other ways of doing, thinking and being in today’s world. More specifically, she pursues these potentialities through her research interests, which include thinking about Southeast/Asian knowledges and imaginations of ‘otherwise’ and futurities that include nonhumans, such as technologies, ghosts, monsters, spirits, plants and animals. She enjoys thinking about these by mostly engaging with visual and popular cultures, including contemporary art, film and literature, and whatever that may be considered funny, quirky or strange.

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Publications

Peer-reviewed

• Journal article, Decolonial Potentialities in Darkness and tersirat through nor’s Past and Present Lives (submission to positions journal, pending peer-review) 
• Book chapter, “When APAD Meets Nanyang: A Reorientation”, for Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Singapore, Duke University Press, eds. Cheryl Narumi Naruse, Joanne Leow and Faris Joraimi (Accepted, publication date pending)

 

Non-peer reviewed:

Wikipedia entries (part of Asia Art Archive’s ‘Art+Feminism: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon’) 

– Thai female curator, Gridthiya Gaweewong, March 2023  

– The late Balinese female contemporary artist, IGAK Murniasih, March 2024

– Indonesian female performance artist, Marintan Sirait, November 2024 (pending edit)

Vulture magazine, Singapore 

– Op-ed, Strange(r) Horizons, Issue 28 (October 2022)  

– Disobedience Travels: An Interview with Ong Keng Sen, Issue 27 (Sept/Oct 2021)  

– Op-ed, Being Human Alongside COVID, Issue 25 (Sept 2020)   

– Op-ed, Rediscovering (Hidden) Stories of Space, Issue 23 (March 2019)  

– Op-ed, The Strange(r) Other, Issue 22 (September 2018)   

– The Relational Artist: An interview with Rirkrit Tiravanija Issue 21 (March 2018), with                            Clifford Loh

 

Visual Commentary on Scripture website project

• Gomer, My Sweet Magnolia (Curation of three artworks, accompanied by commentaries on these artworks, alongside a biblical text from Hosea, chapter 2).

 

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