Hi, I'm Yun Teng. I'm a curator, arts producer, and writer.

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A keen alignment to the material world and embodied processes of making underlies my practice. I work closely and collaboratively with artists to develop long-term, interdisciplinary, and research-based projects, ranging from the visibility of space debris to tropical technologies. I'm deeply invested in processual ways of making, and my background in fine art practice and art history influences my artist-centred approach.

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I've just completed an MA in Material & Visual Culture (Anthropology) at UCL. My current research is situated at the intersection of material culture, sculptural/object-based practices of making, and digital technologies, and engages with London-based artists working in this future-oriented space. This dissertation is titled "Conjuring Forms: Digital Translations, Material ‘Truths’, and Speculative Futures in Post-Digital Contemporary Art Practices". I have also been invested in developing an anthropological shift in my curatorial practice grounded in material culture studies, and as a practice of intersubjective correspondence and engagement with social, political, and ecological urgencies.

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​I'm working to make available some of the writing I've done recently on a new platform, Making Material. On this platform, I publish essays, conversations, and reflections that unravel the ways that material objects shape—and are shaped by—the people and societies that create them. Some of my other research interests include: the cultural and social history of technology; digital infrastructures; affective modalities in contemporary art; artist-co-operatives and independent artist-run spaces in Southeast Asia; weaving and textile histories, craft practices, and critical craft discourse.

 

With an interest in alternative formats of exhibition-making and interdisciplinary collaborations, I have worked curatorially and produced across a range of exhibitions, events, and platforms. These include Appetite, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Supernormal, Feelers, and Constance Howard Gallery and Goldsmiths Textile Collection London, amongst others.

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I also write in a freelance capacity, specialising in exhibition reviews, artist interviews, catalogue essays, and critical pieces.