Dr Vivian Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia in Canada. Her work on film studies and heritage studies has been published in academic journals and collected volumes including Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Journal of Chinese Cinemas and International Journal of Heritage Studies. She is the author of Hong Kong Cinema since 1997: the Post-nostalgic Imagination and The Other […]
Pun Ngai is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong. She obtained her PhD from SOAS, University of London. She was honored as the winner of the C. Wright Mills Award for her first book Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (2005), which has been translated into French and Chinese. Her co-authored book, Dying for iPhone: Foxconn and the Lives of Chinese Workers (2020) has also been translated into German, French, Italian, […]
Hon Lai Chu is the author of the short story collections Darkness under the Sun and Homecoming, and novels such as Body Seam, Empty Face, Lost Caves, The Border of Centrifugation, Body-sewing, Grey Flower, Kite Family, The Water Pipe Forest, Silent Creature and Hard Copies. Her novel Kite Family was one of the 2008’s Books of the Year by China Times in Taiwan, selected as Top 10 Chinese Novels World-wide for the year 2008 and 2009 respectively, and won the […]
Anthony Aziz (b. Massachusetts) Sammy Cucher (b. Lima, Peru) Aziz + Cucher have been a collaborative team since 1991, after meeting as graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute. They are now members of the Fine Arts faculty at Parsons School of Design (New York) and based in Brooklyn. Their interdisciplinary work is project-based and idea-driven, with outcomes ranging from video and photography to printmaking, digital animation, sculpture and large-scale jacquard tapestries. The images, objects and installations they produce […]
Benny Leung initiated studio-m as an independent design studio that specialises in creative consultation, visual branding, typography design, art direction and graphic design. He has won a number of design awards, including iF Design Award, One Show Design Awards, The ADC Awards, New York TDC Awards, Tokyo TDC Annual Awards, HKDA Global Design Awards and 40 Under 40 Awards. His work was also selected in Asia Graphic Design Triennale in Korea, International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Golden Bee Moscow Global […]
Morgan Wong’s artistic practice unfolds his contemplation on time. Transcending a personal perceptual approach, his concerns are expanded to aspects like social-political issues or scientific notions in temporality. His selected solo exhibitions include: Time Isn’t Our Border (Goethe Institute Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2019), Our Feet Are Always Younger than Our Heads (Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, 2018), Mean Time (Centre A, Vancouver, 2016), The Dashes; The Laughter; The Reservoirs (Asia Art Center Taipei II, Taipei, 2016), Filing Down a […]
Cecilia Lai and Barnard Chan started working with the fibre arts and weaving from 2015. They co-founded Breakthrough Art Studio. Over the years, they have visited different villages in South East Asia to study various ancient weaving techniques. In addition to researching the weaving methods of various cultural and historical backgrounds, they have also rebuilt and explored different loom constructions and tools, including traditional backstrap loom, tablet loom, inkle loom, natural fibre weaving, frame loom and variations of the desktop […]
Wang Weiwei is currently the Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at CHAT. From 2010 to 2017, Wang was the curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (MoCA Shanghai). In 2017, Wang participated at the Curator-in-Residence Programme at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, and the International Researcher Programme at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea. Wang was then appointed as the co-curator at the 12th Shanghai Biennale and awarded an Individual […]
Beely Daily is a Hong Kong clothing brand focusing on natural fabrics, plant dyeing and daily wear. They want to make garments that can always be worn and last long and hope to bring better clothes with kindness to more people.
Dr Simon Shen is an international relations scholar and start-upper originating from Hong Kong. Graduating from Yale University (BA/MA) and University of Oxford (PhD) in international relations, Simon has worked in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Hong Kong as associate professor or adjunct associate professor, teaching courses on globalisation, Chinese foreign relations, external relations of Hong Kong, among others. He is also the […]