Michael Lee | Friendly Strangers Party (detail), 2019 | laserjet print on paper | 27 x 20 cm per part (100 parts) | installation at Osaka Art Center | photo by Kiyohito Mikami
Michael Lee is an independent artist and curator based in Singapore. He researches urban memory and fiction, especially the contexts and implications of loss. He transforms his observations into diagrams, models, environments, events or texts. Among his curatorial projects is
what it is about when it is about nothing (2015) held in Mizuma Gallery, Singapore. He is currently observing the mood of Singapore’s art scene.
https://michaelleehonghwee.wordpress.com/
Joshua Ip is a Singaporean poet, editor and literary organiser. He has published four poetry collections with Math Paper Press, won the Singapore Literature Prize for his debut,
sonnets from the singlish (2012), and placed in three different categories of the Golden Point Award. He has edited nine literary anthologies, including the
A Luxury We Cannot Afford and the SingPoWriMo series. He directs Sing Lit Station, an overactive literary charity that runs community initiatives, including SingPoWriMo, the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry, and poetry.sg. He received the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council (Singapore) in 2017.
http://www.joshuaip.com/