Mistranslations from a Future Vernacular

Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰 is a poet, editor and translator from Singapore. He is the author of A Book of Changes and Anything but Human, a finalist for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. He conceptualised and co-edited two anthologies: Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet, which won a Special Award at the 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, and The Second Link, which invites Singapore and Malaysian writers to reflect on the unique relationship between the two countries. He also translated Short Tongue, a collection by the Singaporean Chinese poet Wang Mun Kiat. He won the Young Artist Award in 2023, Singapore’s highest award for young art practitioners.

Lynette Quek makes project- and site-specific works. She responds to the spontaneous impulses of a space, trusting its cues to guide her creative process. With a foundation in sound, her practice embraces playfulness and improvisation, often incorporating performances with objects and toys, sound design and installations made from found materials. Her works have been presented in Singapore, Taiwan, across the United Kingdom, Europe, and Central America.