Mark Teh
Artist and Researcher in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mark Teh
Artist and Researcher in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mark Teh is a performance maker, curator, and researcher based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
His diverse, collaborative projects take on documentary, speculative and generative forms, and address the entanglements of history, memory, counter-cartography and the political. Mark's practice is situated primarily in performance, but also operates via exhibitions, education, social interventions, writing, and curating.
Mark is a member of Five Arts Centre and Southeast Asia Artistic Freedom RADAR, and is a regional advisor for The Substation. He graduated with an MA in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London, and was an inaugural recipient of the Prince Claus-British Council Fellows Award for Moving Narratives in 2024.
selected projects:
- Fragments of Tuah
-POLLINATION 4: the palms of y/our hands
- A Notional History
- Jalan-jalan di Asia walking dictionary
- The Breathing of Maps (Yamaguchi/Tokyo/Chiang Mai)
- Baling
- Version 2020
- Gostan Forward
- Ashes / Exiles
- Something I Wrote // album
- Save Our Placards
- "Sudden Death"
- Emergency Festival
selected interviews & texts:
- Eksentrika
- Histories, Hauntology, Hantu-logy
- Nusantara Archive / No Man's Land