Mark Teh is a performance maker, researcher, and occasional curator based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His diverse, collaborative projects take on documentary, speculative and generative forms, and address the entanglements of history, memory, the political, and counter-cartographies. His artistic practice is situated primarily in performance, but also operates via exhibitions, education, social interventions, curating and writing.
Co-curatorial projects include the online resource Jalan-jalan di Asia - walking dictionary (2021); The Breathing of Maps (2018-2020), presented across Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, and MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai (2020); Cultural Mapping: Blueprints for Place, Community & Continuity (2014); and Emergency Festival (2008).
His performance projects A Notional History, Version 2020, Baling – all which deal with aspects of Malaysia's complicated histories – have been presented at OzAsia Festival, Adelaide (2023 & 2018), SPIELART Festival, Munich (2023 & 2017), Seoul Performing Arts Festival (2023), Bangkok International Perfoming Arts Meeting, Bangkok (2023 & 2018), YPAM - Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting (2022, 2019 & 2016), Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2022), Salihara, Jakarta (2019 & 2018), Fast Forward Festival, Athens (2018), MMCA Seoul (2018), Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017), and Bangkok Arts & Culture Centre (2017), amongst others.
He graduated with an MA in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is a member of Five Arts Centre, the interdisciplinary colletive of artists, activists and producers in Kuala Lumpur.
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