Hello, I am Phoo Myat.
A curator/ researcher/ aspiring designer passionate about arts & culture/ sustainability/ design.
I approach curatorial practice as an evolving process between myself and artists/ community members/ knowledge producers, often working together as co-creators. I explore emerging technologies, physical, virtual, hypothetical, unseen and unknown spaces, examining different principalities of my interests and trying to form concoctions in my works. My virtual curatorial works have been featured in Art&Market and ArtAsiaPacific, with notable projects including the AR exhibition on Instagram (@re_imagine_city), presented as part of The Wrong Biennale 2023/24 and AWE Asia 2024, Singapore. My essay "Can Augmented Reality Serve as a Tool for Decolonization and Revolution?" was presented at APARN 2024, Art as Research: Methods for Synthetic Reasoning.
Outside of curatorial work, my practice is at the intersection of arts & culture, design and sustainable development. My work is informed by 7 years of closely working with art practitioners in the Yangon art scene and my studies at MFA Design Program at Rangsit University, Thailand. I believe arts & culture and design can contribute to sustainable development of local communities and regional systems, often playing an integral part in the alternative worldmaking and collective imagination. I value decoloniality and indigenous knowledge, while making sure methods of inquiry are non-extractive, but provide values to the individual unique contexts.
My latest published work includes researcher position for Myanmar for the British Council research report “Arts and Technologies in ASEAN - Interconnected Parts.” I am currently working as a Research & Evaluation Associate at edgeandstory
Design & Curatorial Projects