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. The photo deeply inspires 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 […]
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, […]
Ren Jie is an artist with a PhD from the China Academy of Art who now teaches at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Her research focuses on fibre art and contemporary art while her artworks, social projects, writings and teaching all reflect the broader context around these topics while touching on soft material art. She is the author of Soft Material: Flexibility in Contemporary Art.
Sakura is a design researcher, writer, and curator. She earned an MA in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies at the Parsons School of Design in New York in 2016. She is a researcher at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and a part-time lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design and Tohoku University of Art and Design. Her recent work, Takenobu Igarashi: A to Z, was released by Thames and Hudson in 2020.
Ian Lynam works at the intersection of graphic design, design education and design research. He is part of the faculty of Temple University Japan, as well as at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA in Graphic Design Program, Meme Design School in Tokyo and is a Visiting Critic at CalArts. He operates the Tokyo design studio Ian Lynam Design, working across multiple disciplines including identity, typography, and interior design. Ian writes for IDEA in Japan, Modes of […]
Lee Kai Chung conducts artistic research on history and historiography, systems and ideology. In his early years, Lee was inspired by the lack of proper governance over public records, so he developed his own archival research methodology as his key artistic practice. Through research, social participation and engagement, Lee’s work reflects upon historical narratives and demonstrates an individual’s transition between politics and art. Lee received the Altius Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council in 2020 and the Award for Young […]
Lau Ching Ping lives in Hong Kong. Currently, he is the chair of Hong Kong International Photo Festival and was the co-founder of photo art magazine Dislocation. He received the WYNG Master Award (AIR Project), and actualised the project in a photo art book titled Thin as Air. He hopes to capture the future of the world with the most optimistic aperture.
Lau Chi Chung graduated from The Surrey Institute of Art & Design University College (BFA on Interior Design) in 1999, and worked in the television commercial industry as an art director before becoming a full-time artist. Although he started out on short films, Lau has mostly worked in photography and has exhibited in various international photo festivals. His photography series Landscaped Artifacts in 2013 brought him the title of New Photography Artist of the year from Lianzhoufoto Festival 2013. Lau […]
Charles Lai is an architect as well as a researcher and writer of architectural history. He received his PhD degree in architectural history and theory from the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, and his diploma degree from the AA School of Architecture in London. His thesis focuses on the history, material culture and technology of a cement plaster called Shanghai Plaster in East and Southeast Asia, as well as the conservation of built historical heritages. Lai […]
Helen Jungyeon Ku is currently a curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. She received her MA in art theory from the Korea National University of Arts. She co-founded mediabus and The Book Society after working as a design curator at the ZeroOne Design Center. She co-curated the exhibition Artists’ Documents: Art, Typography and Collaboration (MMCA, Seoul, 2016) and has edited several publications including MMCA Artist Studies Series Im Heung-soon: Toward a Poetics of Opacity and […]