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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 […]

Acell Shaldibayeva is an artist and DJ from Almaty, Kazakhstan. She is also the co-founder of the techno club bULt, which comprehends topics such as traditions and rituals, decolonial optics, queer feminism, and its place and role in the reality of Kazakhstan and Central Asia by regularly holding techno parties, film screenings of non-mainstream art films, supporting research and art projects, and conducting master classes, lectures, poetry readings and exhibitions. As a sound artist, Shaldibayeva was part of the ORTA […]