Speaker Zi Hao Tan

Tan Zi Hao is a multi-disciplinary artist who works predominantly in installation and performance art. Hao’s works explore the discourses of power within the postcolonial setting and probe the disjuncture in the production and contestation of history. Language, multilingualism, and linguistic ideologies are subjects that inform most of Hao’s text-based installations. Hao completed his bachelor’s in international communications studies and master’s in international relations at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. Hao is currently completing his PhD in southeast Asian studies at the National University of Singapore. Aside from being an artist, Hao is a designer, researcher, writer, and zinester.