Present Encounters : Papers from the conference of the Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, 1996

WONG Hoy Cheong Wong Hoy Cheong was born i n Penang i n 1 960. He studied art, literatu re and education at Brandeis, Harvard and the University of Massachusetts in the USA before returning to Malaysia in 1 986. Although trained as a painter, he has also worked with video, i nstallation and performance . His recent works include installations whi ch explore the socio-cultu ral history of plants like lalang (a wild weed) and rubber, and d rawings which trace the h istory of migration and migrants into Malaysia. Works from h is Migrants series are exhi bited in the Second APT exhibition . 1 54