Kenneth Wong See Huat is a Malaysian curator and writer whose practice engages queer ecology, cultural memory, and community-rooted storytelling across Asia. He is currently a Research Fellow with the Asian Cultural Council in New York (2025) and a board member of ICOMOS Malaysia.

His curatorial projects include Siam Reversed (2025), a culinary memorial of the demolished Last Siamese House in Penang; Savour the Canvas (2025), a proposed food-art festival on plantation afterlives; and the Kopisan Cultural Mapping Workshop (2019/2022), which centred rural voices in a post-mining town. His broader work, including the long-term River Cities project, bridges heritage, ecology, and contemporary art through exhibitions, walks, and participatory archives, with a focus on multispecies and queer perspectives.

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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.

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