About the speaker

Ngo Tjer Hong is a Penang-based performing arts writer, researcher and curator whose practice is rooted in playwriting and has expanded into site-responsive performance and spatial audio walks. His research across East and Southeast Asia addresses imperial legacies, overlooked narratives and contested histories. He initiated Ka-kī Baca, a weekly play-reading platform dedicated to archiving and analysing local playwriting from the 1960s.