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Chan Chung Ki

Chan Chung Ki is a film director based in Hong Kong and London. He graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Chan produced special effects and telefeatures for RTHK, Scorpio film, STAR TV. He also produced documentaries for AXN, Phoenix Chinese Channel, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Tourism Board. In 2013, chosen among the best emerging talents in the industry, Chan was honoured as one of five innovative directors to create a […]

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Enoch Cheng

Artist Enoch Cheng received his MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, London. His practice spans moving image, installation, curating, dance, events, theatre, writing, fashion, performance, and pedagogy. His works explore the boundaries and connections between various disciplines and traditions, with recurrent themes of belonging, travel, care, memory, migration etc. His most recent works include TO ARRIVE (2022, Hong Kong City Hall 60th Anniversary Performance), Handle with Care (2022, Museum of Arts and Design, New York).

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Rebecca Pan

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 […]

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Yang Yeung (CA Research Group)

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, […]

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Eugene Leung

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 […]

Wong Zhen Jie Lionel

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 […]

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Pamela Leung

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, […]

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Yuliya Sorokina

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 […]

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Adilkhan Yerzhanov

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 […]

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Alexey Ulko

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 […]

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