About

Yee I-Lann’s practice has consistently spoken to urgencies in the contemporary world, from the vantage point of where she lives and comes from, mining personal story, Southeast Asian cultures and histories, local knowledge, critical theory, and mass aesthetics and experience.

I-Lann’s work turns on two concepts: the tikar (woven mat) as a collective platform for community, storytelling and ritual, and the tamu (weekly market) as a meeting place for the exchange of goods, stories and ideas. It proposes ways of rethinking how space is made and shared, and ways in which art-making can activate …