Cian DAYRIT Cian Dayrit is an interdisciplinary artist from the Philippines who investigates notions of space, power and identity as they are represented and reproduced in monuments, museums, maps and other institutionalised media. Through textile, installations, archival interventions and community-based workshops, Dayrit’s work responds to different marginalised communities, encouraging a critical reflection on colonial and privileged perspectives. While informed by the colonial experience of the Philippines, his work nonetheless defies being tied to a specific position or location. Instead, his work and […]
OH Haji Haji Oh is a Korean artist born and raised in Japan, now living in Australia. She utilises textile-making techniques, such as weaving, dyeing and unravelling, as well as photography, cyanotype, text and sound in her work. Drawing on her background as a third-generation Zainichi Korean (a Korean resident in Japan), she creates artworks that give expression to the untold memories – silent memories – of women and unnamed individuals. She explores the concept of ‘post-memory’ by sharing experiences […]
YEE I-Lann A native of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Yee I-Lann’s creative practice spans photo-media, video and textile, engaging with the complex legacies of colonial histories, global connections and socio-political dynamics of Southeast Asia. She earned her BA from the University of South Australia in 1992 and subsequently moved to Kuala Lumpur in 1994, where she became actively involved in the local art and film scenes. Since returning to her hometown in 2017, Yee has been collaborating with weavers from both […]
Rice Brewing Sisters Club Rice Brewing Sisters Club (RBSC) is an artist collective established in 2018 based on the members’ mutual interest in the processes of ‘social fermentation’ as an artistic form. With an experimental and participatory practice encompassing visual arts, performance, creative writing, oral history, ecological thinking and ‘auntie’s wisdom’, RBSC seeks to build sustainable relationships and synergy to co-create shared visions of the future. The work of RBSC has been showcased internationally, such as at Kaohsiung Museum […]
Mui Cheuk Yin Mui Cheuk Yin is active in both the local and international dance scene. Her work has a distinctive aesthetic voice and, while contemporary, often incorporates Chinese element. She is an internationally renowned solo artist and dance ambassador for Hong Kong. Her choreography has a distinctive voice and often mixes contemporary and traditional elements. With various international invitations, she choreographed Whispering Colour for Folkwang Tanzstudio in Germany and performed as a guest dancer in The Rite of Spring […]
Lau Tin Ming Lau Tin Ming graduated from the University of Hong Kong, majoring in Art History and Comparative Literature. He has over a decade of yoga teaching experience with dedication in planning and implementing arts education programmes. His practice aims at using yoga to explore the interrelationship between body, breathing and mind, and to promote mindfulness practices in diverse communities. He was the project director of the Jockey Club Dance Well Project, providing regular creative dance sessions for […]
BOLOHO BOLOHO is a transdisciplinary artist collective based in Guangzhou. Rather than targeting exhibitions and art institutions, their work addresses the undervalued art of everyday practices, such as cooking, gardening, sewing, housework, and child-rearing. The name of the collective comes from a Cantonese romanisation of the Chinese word for ‘jackfruit core’. People often discard the core when eating jackfruit, even though it can be a delicacy in its own right. Founded in 2019 by BUBU (Liu Jiawen) and CAT (Huang […]
Kingsley Ng Kingsley Ng is a media artist and designer with a focus on conceptual and site-specific projects. He believes that art helps us to mediate our environment, whether as a viewer or participator. His past projects include Twenty-Five Minutes Older, a commission by Art Basel in 2017 which took the audience on a moving tram, and After the Deluge, presented in an underground stormwater tank the size of 40 Olympic-sized swimming pools in Hong Kong in 2018. Ng received […]
Won Ju Lim Won Ju Lim is a Korean American artist whose multimedia practice is grounded in the interactions of sculpture and architecture. It revolves around the play of real and fictional spaces, drawing upon both empirical and imaginary constructs that we rely on to move between multiple scales of interiority and exteriority. Her work has been exhibited worldwide in 40+ solo and 70+ group exhibitions including those at Elgiz Museum, Istanbul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Jose […]
Amy Yao Amy Yao is a contemporary visual artist and educator. She works in many different mediums informed by ideas of waste and consumption. In 1993, Yao was a founding member of Emily’s Sassy Lime, an all-Asian American teenage riot grrrl trio from Southern California. Yao received a BFA (1999) from Art Center College of Design in California and an MFA (2007) from Yale University in Connecticut. She currently teaches at Princeton University. Selected exhibitions include the Institute for Fine […]