Steven Wong, art practitioner, independent social researcher, art historian, Malay Archipelago specialist, founded MAPP (multiple autonomous platforms presents) as a platform for ideas. Working significantly for his practice, from a global perspective staying in Los Angeles, New York, London, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong (curated the first contemporary art exhibition after the handover), constantly traveling between, a move. which seeks to interrogate the dominant episteme from non fixed viewpoints. In this he has absorbed and mapped the many strategies employed by institutions of dominance.