Yoke-Sum Wong was born in Malaysia and completed her post-secondary degrees in Canada. She has taught in Canada and the UK in the departments of Sociology and History though her research interests span across academic and non-academic practices and disciplines – in short, whatever inspires and provokes. She has written on a vast range of topics including post-colonialism and south-east asia, the built environment, architecture, the visual arts, affect and hybridity. Over the last decade, she organized and co-organized a series of workshops that have explored experimental (anti)-academic methodologies involving interdisciplinary academic and non-academic practitioners. These workshops have often focussed on a broad theme that could require multi-textual research creation within a small number of days or conceptual connections and theorizing within a single day. The aim of the workshops is to bring together a disparate group of people from various backgrounds to respond to a specific theme while engaging with each other, the process of conceptualization, and the challenges faced in such (often unprepared) discussion environments. She is currently Associate Professor of Critical and Creative Studies at the Alberta University of the Arts (formerly ACAD) and resides in the Blackfoot Treaty 7 territory of Mohkínstsis (Calgary, Ab, Canada).