nor
nor’s artistic practice hopes to situate belonging and community within speculative timelines. Their works span the disciplines of photography, film, video, performance, text and spoken word poetry to engage with ideas of belonging and identity through frameworks of gender performance, ethnographic portraits and transnational histories. They presented a solo exhibition In Love at Coda Culture (2018, Singapore), and has shown at group exhibitions including An Exercise of Meaning in a Glitch Season at the National Gallery Singapore (2020-2021), MAT at the Objectifs - Centre for Photography & Film (2019, Singapore), My Body, Your Body, Their Body at Kawanishi Gallery (2019, Japan) and Minor Infelicites at Post Territory Ujeongguk (2020, South Korea).
PRESS
2022 Ethos Newsletter | In Your Image for International Women’s Day 2022
2020 sofar-online | Messages2Her: A Zoom Call Between Charmaine Poh and nor
2018 Frieze Issue 198 (October 2018): Nor Reclaims the Transgender Experience from Mainstream Media
2018 Object Lessons Space: Nor on Accessibility, The Performance of Love and Representing A Queer Narrative On Her Own Terms
TALKS/PANELS
2022 Breaking the Colonial Gaze at Singapore Writer’s Festival 2022
2022 Festival Gala: It’s the Cliches That Cause The Trouble at Singapore Writer’s Festival 2022
2021 Genre is A Drag at Singapore Writer’s Festival 2021
2021 Futurism and Mysticism: The Evolution of Malay Speculative Fiction in Singapore at Singapore Writer’s Festival 2021
2021 Pop Song Crit at Singapore Writer’s Festival 2021
2020 #thoughtsandprayers at Singapore Writer’s Festival 2020
2019 When Language Helps and Hurts at Singapore Writer’s Festival 2019
2019 Annotating Identities at Singapore Writer’s Festival 2019
2019 The Camera and The Violence Upon The Other with Nurul Huda Rashid and Mysara Aljaru
EDUCATION
2015 - 2019 NTU School of Art, Design & Media – BFA(Hons) in Photography and Digital Imaging
2010 - 2013 Ngee Ann Polytechnic – Diploma in Film, Sound & Video
RESIDENCIES
2022 - 2023 OH! Kampong Gelam Associate Artist Programme
2020- 2021 The 2020/2021 Jalan Besar Writing Residency
EXHIBITIONS
Solo / Duo
2019 Peninsular Session #8 at Peninsular, Singapore
2018 In Love at Coda Culture
Group
2023 - 2024 Archipelago Paradise Revisit at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
2022-2023 Dream of the Day at Ilham Gallery
2021 shifting between at Gillman Barracks (Singapore Art Week 2021)
2020 - 2021 An Exercise of Meaning in a Glitch Season at National Gallery Singapore
2020 Minor Infelicities at Post Territory Ujeongguk, South Korea
2019 My Body, Your Body, Their Body at Kawanishi Gallery, Japan
2019 MAT at Objectifs Centre for Film & Photography, Singapore
2019 Deciphering Clothes at Hatchart Project
2018 Malais A Trois at 233 Joo Chiat Road #03-02 by SIKAP Group for sobandwine
2018 Waning Waxing at ION Art Gallery
PUBLISHED WORKS
2022 What You Want? in Brown Is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore
2021 Semangat in practice in Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore
2021 Operasi Merdeka in EXHALE: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices
2021 The Beginning & The End in Singa-Pura-Pura