The Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź (CMT), Poland opened in 1960, and is located in a former textile factory of classicist architecture. The museum presents textiles across a broad spectrum of meanings and ideas, combining the rich history of Łódź’s textile industry with the artistic vision of artists who propagated textile art in the world. The museum runs exhibitions, educational activities and interdisciplinary research projects. It has an impressive collection of textile art, fashion and objects related to the […]
Krystie Ng is a curator and researcher, born in Malaysia and currently lives in Hong Kong. Her research interests include collaborative art practices, cultural activism and ethnic relationships in the post-colonial context of Southeast Asia. Her recent project is Carving Reality: Contemporary Woodcut Exchange Exhibition from East Asia at The Back Room, in Kuala Lumpur (2020). She is also the co-founder of research collective Inter-Asia Woodcut Mapping Group (2019 till now).
Lee Chun Fung is an artist, curator and researcher based in Hong Kong. His research interests cover self-organised art practices, grassroots activism and politics of aesthetics in inter-Asia context. He is the co-founder of community/art space ‘Woofer Ten’ (2009-15) and research collective Inter-Asia Woodcut Mapping Group (2019 till now).
Hsieh Feng-Rong is a curator at the Planning Office of New Taipei City Art Museum. He was a founding staff member and senior curator of Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai. Recent exhibitions curated by Hsieh include: Rehearsing the Future (2021), RAM HIGHLIGHT 2019: Before the Whistle Blows (2019), co-curated with Cosmin Costinas, Claire Shea and Billy Tang An Opera for Animals (2019), co-curated with Amy Cheng Tell Me a Story: Locality and Narrative (2018), RAM HIGHLIGHT 2018: Is It My Body? (2018).
Sasaki Gentaro has been working at Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (CAMK) as a curator since 2013. Sasaki is broadly interested in the cultural situation, history and society in the Asian region, with a particular focus on contemporary art in China. With the support of the Japan Association of Art Museums, Sasaki conducted field research on the state of contemporary art in Shanghai in 2017 and based on this research he organised Shanghai Beat: The Dynamism of the Contemporary Art Scene […]
Lee Yongwoo is a media historian and cultural studies scholar, currently affiliated as an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has taught critical media and cultural studies of modern Korea, visual studies, film theory and popular culture in East Asia, intellectual history of wartime Japan and post-war Korea, Korean contemporary art, postcolonial memory, historiography and translation at New York University, Cornell University and Sogang University’s Critical Global Studies Institute. He has served as guest […]
Mia Yu is a Beijing-based, globally active art historian and curator with keen interests on global exhibition histories, Asian geopolitics, decolonisation and the Anthropocene. Her recent exhibitions include Three Contested Sites—The Worldly Fables of the Long 1990s co-curated with Nikita Cai in Times Art Center Berlin (2022), Resonances of One Hundred Things in OCAT Biennale (2021), From Vladivostok to Xishuangbanna in Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival (2020), Photoethics: CHINAFRICA (2020) and Ni Jun: An Inconvenient Case (2019). Mia Yu […]
Cho Juhyun is currently a member and curatorial director of Drifting Curriculum, a hybrid platform that conducts multidisciplinary curatorial research projects and experiments with new forms of learning. She is also working as an affiliated professor of cultural media at the Yonsei University Graduate School of Communication and Arts and an associate research fellow at the Center for Anthropocene Studies, KAIST, Korea. Based on sharp contemporary discourse research through more than 10 major exhibitions, programmes and publications planned and overseen […]
Born in 1959, Tokyo, Japan, and currently lives in Chiba, Shimada Yoshiko is a visual artist and art historian. She received her PhD from Kingston University, London. Her research interests include art and politics in post-war Japan, alternative art education and feminism. She currently lectures on feminism and art at the University of Tokyo.
Pan Lu is the associate professor at the Department of Chinese Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She was the visiting scholar and visiting fellow at the Technical University of Berlin (2008 and 2009), the Harvard-Yenching Institute (2011-2012), researcher in residence at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (2016) and visiting scholar at Taipei National University of the Arts (2018). Pan is the author of three monographs: In-Visible Palimpsest: Memory, Space and Modernity in Berlin and Shanghai (2016), Aestheticizing Public Space: Street Visual Politics in East Asian Cities (2015), and her new book Image, Imagination and Imaginarium: Remapping World War […]