Sun Ge is a research fellow at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a distinguished professor at the School of Japanese Language, Literature and Culture of Beijing International Studies University. She received a PhD in Political Science from the Faculty of Law at Tokyo Metropolitan University. She has served as Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Hitotsubashi University, Kyoto University, Ritsumeikan University, University of Washington, University of Heidelberg […]
Sing Song-Yong earned his doctoral degree in cinematography from the Institute of Performing Arts, University Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense, France. He teaches as a professor in the Department of Filmmaking, and the Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. He curated (Not) Just a Historical Document: Hong Kong-Taiwan Video Art 1980-1990s in 2018, Rewind_ Video Art in Taiwan 1983-1999 in 2015, The Eclipse of Documentary: The Transdisciplinary Intersection of Images in 2012. His research […]
Mori Yoshitaka is the professor in Sociology and Cultural Studies at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai). He received BA in Economics, Kyoto University, MA in Media and Communications and PhD in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, London. His research interests are postmodern culture, media, art, city and transnationalism. His publications include: The Philosophy in the Streets (2009); Popular Music and Capitalism (2005/2012) and ‘Culture=Politics: The Emergence of New Cultural Forms of Protest in the age […]
Sun Ge is a research fellow at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a distinguished professor at the School of Japanese Language, Literature and Culture of Beijing International Studies University. She received a PhD in Political Science from the Faculty of Law at Tokyo Metropolitan University. She has served as Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Hitotsubashi University, Kyoto University, Ritsumeikan University, University of Washington, University of Heidelberg […]
Yamauchi Terue is an artist based in Japan. In 2010, during her existential journey of searching for and exploring the origin of her life, she came across an old photo of a naked Ama (sea women) diver that deeply inspired her to this day, as she continues to explore human nature and considers a world view nurtured by the sea. In 2013, she graduated from a Haenyeo school on Jeju Island, Korea where she learned traditional free diving fishery and […]
Wang Yiquan, born in Beijing in 1987, is an artist and curator currently based in Shanghai. With research interests including performance art, film, urban space and the relationship between art and economy, he has developed his art into a multi-dimensional practice over the past decade. As an artist, his works combine complexity with diversity. He has constantly challenged the traditional format of exhibitions by transforming multiple artistic mediums into performative settings to create participatory live events and narrative spatial configurations, […]
Wang Ya-Hui lives and works in Taipei. She holds a master’s degree in Arts and Technology from the Taipei National University of the Arts. She works across mediums including video, installation, photography and painting. Using mediums of imagery, her practice centres on the peripheral vision of viewers and the intersections of reality and imagery, proposing questions about virtual and real, interior and exterior, the essence of imagery, and viewing experience. Her motifs revolve around the Eastern natural philosophy and the […]
Wang Bo is an artist and filmmaker based in the Netherlands. His video works examine social and historical events in an artistic way. As an artist, his works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Guggenheim Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York, Garage Museum in Moscow, International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Visions du Réel in Switzerland, Image Forum Festival in Tokyo, Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art in Russia, DMZ Docs in South Korea, Times […]
Suki Seokyeong Kang studied Oriental Painting at Ewha Womans University, Seoul and Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. Her practice is inspired by jeongganbo, the traditional Korean musical notation system invented in the Choson Dynasty. Jeongganbo combines elements of musical notation, such as pitch and tempo, with the posture and movement of a performer in a visually balanced grid layout. Her recent exhibitions include the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), 12th Shanghai Biennale (2019), Black Mat Oriole, ICA Philadelphia (2018), Liverpool […]
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Park Jeehee Park Jeehee is a sculptor based in Seoul whose creative practice explores the nature of modern architecture in relation to biology, anthropology, physics and folklore. Her work shows an interest in non-human organisms, time, history and their entanglement in modern buildings, decentring anthropocentric events and meanings in the process. Park has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the MAK center, LA, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, and the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence programme in Scotland. She is […]