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I’m Megan Miao, a learning experience designer, ceramicist, writer and educator based in Singapore. 



I’m currently building programmes and experiences for new technologies at NewCampus. I'm also a generally helpful person.

Reach out and let’s talk sh*t together about learning, design and art.



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ART PRACTICE



passing place


roads as human interventions into landscapes / roads are living works / what is a good road / roads as aesthetic objects / negotiating space with others / digital drawings as sketching / materials as storytelling 

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mixed-media
digital
drawing
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diy sex toy workshop


objecthood and subjectivity / discussion on taboo topics bringing people together / diy attitude helping us to make sense of things we own and things we make do with

@ telok ayer arts club 
@ substation 

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workshop
drawing 
food
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compactible 


making objects making meaning / things to be held in the palm of the hand / compact things provide us comfort / tactile objects relate to us on a personal level 

@ telok ayer arts club

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sculpture
ceramics 
drawing
charcoal 
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in danger of fading 


scans of paper offcuts at a print factory / xerox prints on really big machines / capturing the imprint of work

@ npe art residency

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xerox
paper 
sculpture 
printmaking
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blink and you’ll miss it


interactive digital installation making use of blink detection

@ singapore design festival
+ alistair norris 

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responsive
technology 
video
installation 
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marking spaces


site-specific interventions into public sites / bringing people on a journey through spaces / storytelling theatre and action 

@ keong saik road 

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participation
journey 
intervention 
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(house)plants


social engagement and space / turning community spaces into active places for engagement and reflection 

@ oh! open house 
+ joscelin chew

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socially-engaged
installation 
public 
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sg girl casting couch


interactive video installation / pick your own adventure game / male gaze and subjectivity / voyeurism and peeping behind the scenes / forced intimacy

@ SCOUT 
@ Central Saint Martins 

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video
installation 
interaction 
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invisible islands


long-distance artmaking / mythology of nation-building / what is kept visible and above the surface tells us more about whathas been invisible

@ SEA Arts Fest

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curation
installation
site-specific 
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the rest of the archive 

my curatorial projects, other interesting artworks and strange little interventions i tend to get myself into

honestly you can go deeper if you want but these are mainly for my own reference

have fun digging around, yes!
artworks
other arty projects
curating work
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Megan’s practice is multidisciplinary and process-orientated, often socially-engaged, collaborative and dialogical. Her process aims to articulate the ways in which people organise their memories, aspirations and beliefs within different types of community.

Identifying patterns in which people think and behave within a group, her work challenges commonly held beliefs and points out discrepancies in a humorous manner.

She is also a designer, educator, curator, occasional writer and a saikang warrior (translation: helpful person). 

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2020: Streets of Home, Singapore
2018: Tell me how they kiss you, tell me how you kiss, Telok Ayer Arts Club, Singapore
2018: In Between, NIE Art Gallery, Singapore
2018: a|edge, SOTA Art Gallery, Singapore
2018: Offcuts, NPE Art Gallery, Singapore
2018: Waning, Waxing, ION Art Gallery, Singapore
2017: Platform, Singaplural 2017, Singapore
2016: Pop-Up Noise: Soul Searching, Kreta Ayer, Singapore
2016: Urban Ventures vol. 2 and 4, LOPELAB, Singapore
2016: OH!pen Call, Potong Pasir, Singapore
2016: SCOUT, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2016: This is Home, The Recess, Singapore
2016: Elbow Room, NIE Art gallery, Singapore
2014: Becoming the Other, Iniva, London
2013: If On a Winter's Day, Deptford Society x Something Human, London
2013: Renji, The Ovalhouse, London
2013: MMXIII, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
2013: Investigation at House, SE15 1PT, London
2013: An Aesthetic Project, HOUSE, London
2013: In Between States, Mile End Art Pavilion, London

Curator

2019: a aedge, SOTA Art Gallery, Singapore
2018: Waning, Waxing, ION Art Gallery, Singapore
2016: OPEN PORES, Goodman Arts Center, Singapore
2015: Because the Internet, The Rag Factory, London
2014: Invisible Islands, Safehouse, London
2014: ♀, shop in Angel, London
2014: One to One: Charting the Personal Terrain, The Rag Factory, London
2013: Investigation at House, SE15 1PT, London

Other Art Activities

2018: "DIY Sex Toy Workshop" at Telok Ayer Arts Club (facilitator)
2017: NPE Art Residency
2017: Our Children at NAFA (performer)
2016: "DIY Sex Toy Workshop" for The School of Uncommon Knowledge, Substation (facilitator)
2016: I Am LGB, by LGB Society of the Mind, for Singapore International Festival Of Arts (facilitator/performer)
2016: "Reclaiming the Self" for Unseen: Conversations Across the Constellation, published by BRACK (writer)
2016: Economy of Need: Artist-Writers of Singapore, Panel Discussion with Michael Lee, Gillman Barracks, Singapore (panelist)
2014: Unmastered, Remastered, with The Blackburn Company, performed at CCA Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland (performer)

Education

2016: Postgraduate Diploma in Education, National Institute of Education
2015: BA(Hons) Fine Art, 1st Class Honours, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
2011: Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design