About the Authors:-
As artist and musician, the work of bani haykal (b. 1985) revolves around human-machine relationships / intimacies, examining and reflecting on how tools and technologies have shaped and continue to shape our experiences from commuting to communicating, navigating places and people. His music and spoken word have been performed, recorded and collected into ten albums to date. Manifestations of his research culminate into works of various forms including site-responsive installations, poetry and performance. In his capacity as a collaborator and a soloist, bani has participated in festivals including Other Futures (Netherlands), MeCA Festival (Japan), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Media/Art Kitchen (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Japan) and Liquid Architecture (Australia / Singapore) among others.
David Wong Hsien Ming (b. 1988) discovered poetry as a child while at a Sunday lunch. His work explores the dualities, contradictions and absurdities of being, and has appeared on platforms like PR&TA, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Mascara Literary Review. His first collection, For the End Comes Reaching, (2015) is a meditation on the loss that accompanies each having.
Izyanti Asa’ari (b. 1988) a writer and co-founder of Fellow Design. Her works have appeared in anthologies such as This is Not a Safety Barrier (Ethos Books, 2016), to let the light in (Sing Lit Station, 2021), New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy, 2022) and The Opening Act (Layl Ash-Shayr, 2024). Her practice explores how narratives and environments shape our inner lives—probing the gestures the body makes, willingly or otherwise, in response to place, memory and myth. blood/work is her debut in print.
Praise:-
· “blood/work is inheritance as pulse, as wound, as shadow curling in on itself. Everything labours under the weight of what has come before, buckling under the memory of the body. These poems loop: tenderness leads to grief, which leads to reckoning, which leads to reflection, which leads to the flesh line inscribing itself into history.” – Zeha
· “blood/work offers poems as exposed nerve, gathered from the edge of death, grief, and righteous fury. Vulnerability crystalises into power and the future begins again.” – Diana Rahim
