Category : Artists

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 […]

Ma Ran is the associate professor at the international programme of ‘Japan-in-Asia’ Cultural Studies and the programme of Cinema Studies (eizogaku), Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan. Her research interests include East Asian independent cinemas and film festival studies, for which she has published several journal articles and book chapters, including the two recently co-edited special issues titled ‘In/visibility in post-war Okinawan images’ for the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema (2021). Ma is also the author of Independent […]

Sun Ge is a research fellow at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a distinguished professor at the School of Japanese Language, Literature and Culture of Beijing International Studies University. She received a PhD in Political Science from the Faculty of Law at Tokyo Metropolitan University. She has served as Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Hitotsubashi University, Kyoto University, Ritsumeikan University, University of Washington, University of Heidelberg […]

Sing Song-Yong earned his doctoral degree in cinematography from the Institute of Performing Arts, University Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense, France. He teaches as a professor in the Department of Filmmaking, and the Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. He curated (Not) Just a Historical Document: Hong Kong-Taiwan Video Art 1980-1990s in 2018, Rewind_ Video Art in Taiwan 1983-1999 in 2015, The Eclipse of Documentary: The Transdisciplinary Intersection of Images in 2012. His research […]

Mori Yoshitaka is the professor in Sociology and Cultural Studies at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai). He received BA in Economics, Kyoto University, MA in Media and Communications and PhD in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, London. His research interests are postmodern culture, media, art, city and transnationalism. His publications include: The Philosophy in the Streets (2009); Popular Music and Capitalism (2005/2012) and ‘Culture=Politics: The Emergence of New Cultural Forms of Protest in the age […]

Sun Ge is a research fellow at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a distinguished professor at the School of Japanese Language, Literature and Culture of Beijing International Studies University. She received a PhD in Political Science from the Faculty of Law at Tokyo Metropolitan University. She has served as Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Hitotsubashi University, Kyoto University, Ritsumeikan University, University of Washington, University of Heidelberg […]