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  Sand Mag | Messages2Her 

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