ISSUE #1 Nature & Ecology

A Drop in the Ocean by Isa Pengskul and Victoria Hertel

Tracing a droplet’s journey through monsoon currents, Mekong migrations, dams, and subsea data centers: elemental storytelling on water, contamination, and technological entanglement in Southeast Asia.

ISSUE #1 Indigenous Discourse

Indigenous-Eco-Futurism: Embodied Ecologies and the Making of Futures

by Wency Mendes

A framework for imagining ecological futures through Indigenous knowledge, collective practice, and lived relations with land and water.

ISSUE #1 Colonialism

Against the Colonial Camera: Counter-Archives and Posthumous Agency in Southeast Asian Contemporary Art

by Jaron Lua Jie Long

Counter-archives and digital reimaginings of colonial Southeast Asia through the works of Yee I-Lann and Agan Harahap.

ISSUE #1 Nature & Ecology

From Extraction to Kinship: Queer Ecologies and the Relational Technologies of Southeast Asian Art

by Kenneth Wong See Huat

Queer ecologies in Southeast Asian art transform extractive histories into practices of kinship and care.

ISSUE #1 Urbanism

Tropicalia Vulgaris: Radical Infrastructures for Tropical Worlds

by Annabelle Tan Kai Lin

Reimagining Singapore’s infrastructure as socio-ecological systems for collective tropical futures.

ISSUE #1 Labor & Work

The Lonely Machine: Marcos Kueh’s On Time with Hakan Demir & ah Wei ya (Vincent Wong)

by Elena Wise

Marcos Kueh’s installation reflects on labour, industrial time, and the ecological residues of global production.

ISSUE #1 Nature & Ecology

Ghosts in the Forest: Robert Zhao’s Counter-Anthropocentric Operative Images

by Yu Ke Dong

Operational images beyond the city: surveillance, colonial legacies, and forest ecologies in Robert Zhao Renhui’s work.

ISSUE #1

Editorial: Artist as Researcher