Chan Pei studied Costume Technology at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and was fascinated with dyeing when she was introduced to chemical dyes during her studies. In 2015, she started to work for Indigo 11.50, the first indigo studio in Hong Kong and unfolded her journey in natural dyes. In the summer of 2017 and 2019, Chan Pei followed veteran botanist and natural dye expert Michel Garcia to learn natural dyeing in the south of France and finished […]
Dr Julia Wilmott is a textiles designer, educator and researcher who has worked in the fashion and textiles industry for twenty years. After a decade working as a knitwear designer for many brands in the United Kingdom, Wilmott moved into academia. She began teaching knitwear design for fashion at undergraduate level while undertaking research into knitted textiles for sustainability concurrently. Wilmott has recently completed a practice-based doctorate in knitted textiles, specifically examining how knitted textiles methods can improve the tactility […]
The Dragon Boat Team of Madam Lau Kam Lung Secondary School of Miu Fat Buddhist Monastery was established in the summer of 2018. With the attitude of perseverance and fearlessness, the team won all the secondary school championships in the category for girls in 2019. Challenging the traditionally male-dominated Dragon Boat competitions, their performance has won the approval of the senior and experienced dragon boat rowers. After 3 years of the pandemic, the team is ready to make great achievements […]
Lee Shing Hung Casey is a young up-and-coming cheongsam tailor in Hong Kong, who has been learning the traditional craftsmanship from a number of registered Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) bearers and experienced master tailors. As a member of the Hong Kong Cheongsam Association, he participates proactively in the promotion and preservation of the Hong Kong Cheongsam Making Technique. Works of Lee have been exhibited in different cheongsam exhibitions in Hong Kong and some are even in the permanent collection of […]
Yang Yeung is a writer on art and an independent curator. She devotes herself to following how artists think, move and make sense of the world. She founded the non-profit soundpocket in 2008 and is currently its Artistic Director. She was co-curator for The Listening Biennial (2021). Her recent publications include ‘What Good is This?’ for After Hope at The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, ‘caring is a quality: on being touched by Alecia Neo’s Care Index’ for Dance Nucleus, […]
Yuliya Sorokina is an Almaty-based contemporary art curator, writer and lecturer at the T. K. Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts. Born in 1965 in Shchuchinsk, she graduated from the Artistic-drawing faculty of the Abai Kazakh Pedagogical Institute. In 1992, she also completed post-graduate course in Cinematography at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and courses in art-management in 1998-1999 at European Summer Academy for Culture & Management in Salzburg and at Institut fur Kulturwissenschaft in Vienna. Since […]
Adilkhan Yerzhanov is a film director and scriptwriter born in 1982 in Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. In 2009, he graduated from the Kazakh National Academy of Arts. Yerzhanov’s films have been screened and awarded at many international film festivals. He was a two-time participant of the Venice International Film festival (2020, 2022) and Cannes Film Festival (2014, 2018). He was the recipient of the ‘Asia Pacific Screen Awards’ for ‘Achievement in Directing’ in 2019 and the APSA Film Fund Development grant for A […]
Alexey Ulko is an Uzbek art critic and curator. He graduated from the Samarkand University as a teacher of the English Language and Literature in 1991 and obtained an MEd TTELT degree from the University of Exeter, UK in 2001. Since 2003, he has been working as a freelance consultant in culture, arts and language for a range of international organisations. In the mid-2000s, he started a new career as a contemporary art critic and curator and took part in […]
Eunice Tsang is a curator and artist based in Hong Kong. She founded and curates Current Plans, an alternative art space in Sham Shui Po that encourages cross-disciplinary dialogues through exhibition-making. Previously, she set up the Asian Artist Book Library in Tai Kwun Contemporary, focusing her research on independent publishing in Asia and modes of creative distribution. Her curatorial interests lie in how artists develop new languages and symbols in times of political change, and how to maneuver the liminal […]
Arystanbek Shalbayev is a Kazakh interdisciplinary artist who combines his creative work with his teaching career. After graduating from the Almaty State Theater and Art Institute in 1984, he started teaching at the Shymkent Art College after Kasteev. He worked as a head of the cycle of composition until 1989. From 1989 until now he has taught at the Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after T. Zhurgenov at the Department of Interior and Furniture Design. He is a core […]