Kenneth Constance Loe
Kenneth Constance Loe is mentee of Tonica Hunter.
Kenneth Constance Loe is an artist, writer, performer, and proofreader from Singapore, and currently based in Vienna. They are a co-founder of Monzoom.xyz, an online platform for emergent art practices and alternative education co-organised with Weixin Quek Chong, and soft/WALL/studs, a former collaborative project in Singapore involving several artists, writers, filmmakers, art workers, and researchers. They are also a collaborator of Holiday Poets Society, a Vienna-based poetry collective, together with Ari Ban and Claire Lefèvre. His practice revolves around material and sensorial fetishes of desire, poetics of hospitality, body memory, queer ecologies, and other tangential thoughts through a performative collocation of sculpture, video, movement, text, and olfactory objects.
Loe´s work has been showcased in cities including Vienna, Sofia, Yogyakarta, Tallinn, New York, Brussels, and Auckland. Performances have taken place at renowned venues and festivals such as brut Wien, Kultursommer Wien, VORBRENNER, steirischer herbst, Tanzquartier Wien, Belvedere 21, WUK, Wienwoche, and Kristianstads konsthall. They have also participated in residencies at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Web Residency »Algorithmic Poetry«), Raw Matters Vienna, and Dance Nucleus Singapore.
The diploma project Bua Cek / 破傘蕨 was shortlisted for the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2024, while their poetry manuscript sun-dried air was a finalist for the 2022 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. Recent poetry publications include “rivulet 10: sound barrier” and the anthology “New Singapore Poetries” (Gaudy Boy, 2022).