Publications + Essays
‘My Own Words – ‘Page Break’: Postscript’ (2023)
Reflections on Page Break, a curatorial residency at Singapore Art Museum, part of Singapore Biennale 2022 named Natasha
Published in Check-In 2023 by Art & Market
Recast (2021)
Zine accompanying the exhibition Recast
Strange Lines: The language of thread and textile (2021)
Essay on craft in contemporary art for Esplanade Offstage; written in conjunction with the exhibition Sewing Discord
Maybe we read too much into things (2021)
Digital catalogue with curatorial note and artist interviews
trying-to-find-the-right-words (2019)
Foreword for Genevieve Leong’s solo exhibition ‘Configurations’ at Supernormal
Deviations: A Group Exhibition (2019)
Exhibition catalogue
A City of Books (2018)
Three short essays in the companion book for A City of Books, part of #BuySingLit 2018
Co-written with Lim Su Pei and Nicolette Sim
Good OH! Holland Village (2017)
OH! Open House Journal No. 7
‘Telling Time in Potong Pasir’ (2016)
Essay written for OH! Potong Pasir: Now You See It, Now You Don't, OH! Open House Journal No. 6
Isle-to-Isle (2015)
Self-published catalogue of the Isle-to-Isle project; also containing the essay ‘Parallel Existences’
Academic Writing
Notes on an Anxious State: Overthinking Singapore’s Historical Narratives (2019)
MA Contemporary Art Theory Dissertation, Goldsmiths, University of London
The Past is Not Dead: On Ken Liu’s Novella ‘The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary’ (2019)
Where the Sand Meets the Sea, and Eats It: Contemplating Imageries of Land Reclamation in Singapore (2019)
Go Backwards to Go Forwards: Memory (Re)Construction in Shirkers (2019)
Experiments in Literary Cartography: The Isle-to-Isle Project (2014)
Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, Volume VI, Issue 3
Co-authored with Sher Chew
If the World Hadn't Changed: Nostalgia in the Singapore Biennale 2013 (2014)
Senior Thesis, BFA Visual & Critical Studies, School of Visual Arts
Forged and Deciphered Memory: A Discussion of Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ (2012)
Fiction + CREATIVE Non-fiction
Speculative fiction written for The Ocean As Archive Zine (2019) in collaboration with Farah Al Sidiky
Written by Farah, intervention by Berny
Written by Berny, intervention by Farah
The house my Ah Gong built (2018)
BGDM Zine One: Sharing, 2018
Ah Ma's Chilli (2015)
Junoesq Literary Journal, Issue 4
Also self-published in chapbook form
An Anxious Doubling (2012)
Ceriph Issue 6, 2013
On Homecoming (2012)
Interviews
Michael Lee, Serious Intent, Light Humor, Low Stakes (2022)
Asymptote, July 2022 Issue
Julie Wills, The Depth of Need Made Visible (2020)
Asymptote, January 2020 Issue
An Outside and an Inside: A Conversation with Naho Taruishi (2015)
Asymptote, July 2015 Issue
Every System Breaks: A Conversation with Ali Wong and Wong Kit Yi (2015)
Asymptote, January 2015 Issue