Making Material is a platform for critical writing on contemporary art and material culture. Initiated in 2024 by curator Yun Teng Seet, it publishes essays, conversations, and reflections that unravel the ways that material objects shape—and are shaped by—the people and societies that create them.

Rooted in a process-oriented and object-centered approach, "Making Material" explores both the "making"—focusing on craftsmanship, techniques, and materials of creative practice—and the notion of "making material" abstract concepts. From textiles to technology; from anthropology to astronomy; and from phenomenology to public space, it grounds varied interdisciplinary inquiries in a study of materiality, investigating how the tangible and intangible converge in contemporary art and cultural artefacts.

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Yun Teng [Seet] is a contemporary art curator, producer and writer based in Singapore and London. A keen alignment to the material world and embodied practices of making underlies her approach. She works closely and collaboratively with artists to develop long-term, research-based projects, ranging from the visibility of space debris to tropical technologies. Current research interests include art-anthropological perspectives on technology, post-digital sculpture, digital infrastructure, architecture, affect, ecology, and weaving.  Click here for more information.

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