Rebecca Pan was born in Shanghai in 1930 as Pan Wan Ching, relocated to Hong Kong in 1949 and has established herself as a cross-cultural pioneer of Chinese popular music. Known to be the first singer combining Chinese tunes with Western lyrics, Pan began her professional singing career at the age of 27, recorded her first LP within two years and has released 16 records. In 1964, Pan became the first Hong Kong singer to sign with EMI London. As […]
Eugene Leung is a Hong Kong musician graduated from the University of Cambridge and obtained a Master of music in ethnomusicology from Goldsmiths, University of London. He is active in the promotion, performance and education of traditional music from Central and West Asia. Having studied with musical pioneers like Alisher Alimatov and Guzal Muminova, Eugene can play multiple instruments from the region with a specialty in the two-stringed lute dutar from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Leung took part in numerous performances […]
Presently concluding his doctoral research at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, Lionel is focusing on new technological approaches to different design disciplines such as fashion and product design. He is proficient in various domains such as additive manufacturing, using exotic, interactive textiles and materials, generative algorithms, and computational form-finding. Prior to this, Lionel has more than a decade of design experience working at international companies such as Asusdesign Singapore and Hasbro Inc. USA. He also taught at […]
Pamela Leung is a Sydney-based multidisciplinary Hong Kong artist. She graduated with a Master of Fine Art from the National Art School in 2016 and was awarded the Emerging Artist Prize at the 65th Blake Prize in 2018. Leung has exhibited in Australia and internationally, and has completed artist residencies in the UK, Taiwan, and Australia. Her work is permanently held in the Casula Powerhouse Art Centre art collection and in private collections in multiple countries. Leung’s work spans video, […]
Ibiye Camp (she/her) is an artist whose work engages with technology, trade and material within the African Diaspora. Ibiye’s work utilises architectural tools to create sound and video, accompanied by augmented reality and 3D objects, and highlights the biases and conflicts inherent to technology and postcolonial subjects. Camp co-founded Xcessive Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary design collective exploring data through immersive technologies and public installations. Xcessive Aesthetics run a BA Studio titled Digital Native at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Ibiye also tutors at the Royal College […]
After years of experience as classical and pop musicians, Jovin Lee and Atlas Iu, also known as BURN and telvanni26, have joined forces to form the Producer DJ duo JVSY, debuting as techno producers in 2021. Known for their cross-genre explorations with elements from house, techno, electronica, drum and bass, nu jazz and more, they incorporate organic instruments and found sounds into their compositions to make their signature cinematic sound. Giving a strong nod to their background, they also put […]
Kenyan-born Clifford (Cliff) J Pereira is a historical geographer, researcher, museum curator and heritage consultant with a portfolio of global projects. He is a world authority on the subject of Zheng He and Africa. Pereira has contributed to numerous publications, radio and documentary programmes. He is best known for his work on Africans in the Indian Ocean World, especially the ‘Bombay African’ narrative and on the Panos de Terra textile of the Cape Verde Islands. Pereira was recently featured on […]
You Mi is a Beijing-born curator, researcher and professor of Art and Economies at the University of Kassel/Documenta Institute. Her academic interests lie in the social value of art, new and historical materialism, as well as the history, political theory and philosophy of Eurasia. She takes the Silk Road as a figuration for re-imagining networks in her long-term research and curatorial project, and has curated exhibitions and programmes including the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020-21), the research/curatorial platform ‘Unmapping Eurasia’ (2018-) with […]
Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective devoted to the area East of the former Berlin Wall and West of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Since its inception in 2006, the collective has shown a keen grasp of polemical issues in society, clearing new paths for contemporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic form of knowledge production: including popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories, modern myths, as well as scholarly research. The collective’s practice […]
Kokonja is an artist who was born in Aqmola oblysy, Zhalgyzqaragsai in 1996. Based in Almaty, she studied Philology and Interpretive Sociology, and now uses textile and sound art as her languages to create lucid expressions of decolonial practices and experiences. From the generations of traditional craftswomen in her maternal line, who felted, wove and sewed, Kokonja has found the meaning in continuing this mastery as a way of releasing the voices of Kazakh female practitioners’. She also sees sound […]