Izumi Nakayama Izumi Nakayama is a historian of modern Japan and East Asia. Using the gendered body as a lens, she explores interpretations of physiological, neurological, and sensorial experiences in the fields of labour, science, technology, and medicine. Her other research interests include biohacking and bioethics, food studies, and visual cultures and archives.
Kenny X. Li Kenny X. Li is a Hong Kong-based photographer and founder of YeP YeP, an independently published magazine featuring works by the city’s emerging creative talents.
Song Dong Song Dong is a Beijing artist who emerged from the early Chinese avant-garde art movement and became an important artist with international influence in the subsequent development of Chinese contemporary art. His artistic practice spans multiple fields such as performance, video, installation, sculpture, photograph, and painting. He explores the concept of impermanence and explores the transient nature of the human condition and creates his art and lives his life with the idea of ‘no boundaries’. Song graduated from […]
Yin Xiuzhen Best known for creating with used clothes, Yin Xiuzhen addresses social issues of globalisation and homogenisation through art. She assembles recycled everyday materials into sculptural documents of memory, alluding to the lives of individuals who are often neglected in the drive towards excessive urbanisation, rapid modernisation and global economic growth. Yin began her career after earning a BA in oil painting from Capital Normal University, Beijing, in 1989. Her artworks have been displayed in many international exhibitions, including […]
Scarlett Yang Scarlett Yang is a London-based artist and designer known for her revolutionary approach to conscious design and artistic work. Yang explores the evolution cycles of ‘hybrid matter’, where the analogue and the digital intersect and emerge as a life cycle. As a pioneer in ecological innovations, biomateriality and virtual materials, she brings forward a unique, multidisciplinary lens on the development and supply chain of new materials. Cross-referencing design systems, digital mediums and tactile experiences, Yang questions common understandings […]
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SHAO Chun Based in Hangzhou, Shao Chun’s creative practice includes multimedia installations, e-textiles, post-internet art and design fiction. She explores the intimate relationship between the human body and digital interfaces (‘digital intimacy’) and our emotional longings for the latter. Her recent research and experimental works combine traditional handicrafts with computer programming, exploring the new aesthetics of interaction while reflecting on our digitalised life. Shao graduated from China Academy of Art in 2010, received an MFA in performance art from the […]
Kobayashi Yuki Kobayashi Yuki is a visual and performance artist born and based in Tokyo, Japan. Kobayashi uses his own body as a neutral object, mainly in action-based performances, to question gender, disability and racial stereotypes and examine human relations. He has participated in stage and video works as well as contemporary art exhibitions. In an ongoing project New Gender Bending Strawberry, Kobayashi performs as an unidentified creature in multimedia installations. In another ongoing project Life of Athletics, he explores […]
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Yuki Kihara Yuki Kihara is an interdisciplinary artist based in Sāmoa. From a Pacific-indigenous perspective, Kihara challenges dominant and singular historical narratives through performance, sculpture, video, photography and curatorial practice. Kihara’s works have been presented in numerous exhibitions, including Gwangju Biennale (2023), the New Zealand Pavilion at Venice Biennale (2022), Aichi Triennale (2022), Bangkok Art Biennale (2018), Honolulu Biennale (2017), Asia Pacific Triennial (2015 and 2002), Sakahàn Quinquennial (2013) and a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2008). Her […]
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Based in his hometown Hiroshima, Iwasaki Takahiro sculpts miniature landscapes out of everyday household items, such as towels, toothbrushes and bookmarks. Many of his works are inspired by the turbulent history of the Hiroshima city, which was rapidly reconstructed after its destruction by the atomic bomb in 1945. Through art, he reflects on the fragility and transformation of modern urban landscape. Iwasaki received a PhD from Hiroshima City University and an MFA at Edinburgh College of Art. He represented Japan […]
Fyerool Darma A painter by training, Fyerool Darma is a Singapore-based artist who combines theoretical and historical research with art making. He integrates sound, video, new media, sculpture, text and craft into images, juxtaposing modernist aesthetics and ideology with Southeast Asian cultures, histories, aesthetics and politics. Darma has developed a complex visual vocabulary, drawing from sources such as tangible and intangible Malay heritage, archives, the internet, literature and popular culture. In collaboration with other artists and producers, he repurposes salvaged textiles, e-waste, found or […]