New Placement
JASON WEE RECEIVES PHD SCHOLARSHIP 2023
Goldsmiths, University of London
Original image courtesy of Jason Wee
We are delighted to announce the recipient of the Asymmetry PhD Scholarship for the ‘Advanced Practices’ programme, in collaboration with the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Singaporean artist and writer Jason Wee has been selected Asymmetry’s third PhD Scholar following an international Open Call earlier this year. Jason will begin his four-year placement in September 2023.
Jason is an artist-curator, writer and researcher whose practice centres polyphony and ‘powerless’ minor poetics within architecture, infrastructure and history. His works move restlessly between art, design histories, poetry, publishing, activism, sculpture and photography. Most recently, he is embarking on a multiyear project on the figuration and futuring of Asia and Southeast Asia.
The Asymmetry PhD Scholarship at Goldsmiths, an academic opportunity within the field of artistic practice and cross-cultural research, is aimed at practitioners who identify to any extent with Greater Chinese and Sinophone cultures and heritage, based in the regions or internationally. The Scholarship is one of four Asymmetry initiatives taking place across London in partnership with leading UK institutions, including Chisenhale Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, and The Courtauld Institute of Art.
Awarded to one successful candidate per academic year, the Scholarship covers full four years of the ‘Advanced Practices’ PhD programme, including tuition fees, monthly rent, and living and research costs.
Committed to supporting art professionals who identify to any extent with Sinophone cultures and heritage, we seek to situate our Fellows and Scholars at the helm of curatorial and academic thinking, supplying them with access to a global artistic community and the necessary tools to develop their creative practice within world-renowned academic institutions.
ABOUT THE PHD SCHOLARSHIP
The MPhil/PhD and M.Res ‘Advanced Practices’ programme at Goldsmiths engages with recent developments in how ‘research’ is operating in creative practices. Through an interrelated programme of teaching, projects and collaborations, the course encourages practitioners to respond to the growing importance of practice-driven research within knowledge production, public exhibiting, and cultural organising. ‘Advanced Practices’ is geared towards advancing the grounds for different forms of practice, from artistic to infrastructural. Animated by concepts that vary from anthropology as cultural critique, curatorial knowledges to the exhibitionary matrix, amongst others, the programme encourages applicants to invent new methodologies, reframing and expanding the notions of ‘practice’ beyond forms of making or performing.
Goldsmiths is a national leader in many subject areas and ranks in the top five UK universities for Art & Design in the QS World Rankings.
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ABOUT JASON WEE
Jason Wee is an artist-curator, writer and researcher whose practice centres on polyphony and ‘powerless’ minor poetics within architecture, infrastructure and history. His works move restlessly between art, design histories, poetry, publishing, activism, sculpture and photography. Most recently, he is embarking on a multiyear project on the figuration and futuring of Asia and Southeast Asia.
His recent projects include the choreographies of queer secrecy in parks and shipping lanes (Asia Society Triennale, 2020) and the history of publishing ‘undesirable literatures’ in Malaya (Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2022).
Jason founded and runs Grey Projects, an artists’ library and residency. Through Grey Projects, he explores organising as an artistic principle, producing Singapore’s first island-wide open studio self-guided art tour ‘Walk Walk Don’t Run’. He is an editor for Softblow poetry journal. He was a 2005-2006 Studio Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. In 2019, he curated Stories We Tell To Scare Ourselves With at Taipei MOCA. In 2015, he curated Singapur Unheimlich at ifa galerie Berlin and Stuttgart. He has written three poetry collections, including An Epic of Durable Departures (Math Paper Press, 2018), a Singapore Literature Prize 2020 finalist, and the Gaudy Boy Poetry Prize finalist In Short, Future Now (Sternberg Press, 2020).