28 Jan 2025; 430-530pm Malaysia Time

Kenneth WONG See Huat (ACC 2024) is a Malaysian independent curator, heritage consultant, and cultural researcher whose practice bridges contemporary art, heritage discourse, and community-based inquiry. Working across Penang and Greater Kuala Lumpur, he explores how everyday landscapes—through memory, food, walking, and informal social practices—can be read as social cartography, revealing layered histories and lived experiences often left out of official narratives.

Wong has developed place-responsive projects and public-facing formats such as Bangsar Heritage Walks and site-based conversations that activate streets, business premises and transitional urban spaces as platforms for cultural participation. In Penang, he co-developed Siam Reversed, a food-art performance that stages food as an archive of migration, intimacy, and vernacular heritage, inviting audiences to encounter place through sensory storytelling and collective reflection. Alongside this, he has been shaping a New Village cultural mapping concept in Jenjarom, currently at an early, proposal stage.

He is the founder of People Ideas Culture and serves on the Board of ICOMOS Malaysia (2024–2027). In 2025, he was an Asian Cultural Council Fellow based in New York, expanding his research into place-based curatorial methods and queer cultural memory across diasporic contexts.