(Artist, Japan) Nishio Yoshinari lives and works in Nara. After obtaining a Ph. D. in Fine Arts from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2011, Nishio stayed in Nairobi, Kenya for two years as a grantee of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. He currently works as Junior Associate Professor at Nara Prefectural University. His works have consistently referred to relationships between fashion and communication, as he has developed art projects with the cooperation of citizens and students around the […]
(Co-Artistic Director, ZeroStation, Vietnam) Visual artist, independent curator, art critic and poet. His art practices concern about the relationship between present and past, and the intervention of different temporal-spatial dimensions. His works have been shown internationally in Japan, France, and USA. Nhu Huy has been writing, translating and publishing domestically and internationally on Vietnam contemporary art, culture, and art theory, and has been guest speaker for numerous international conferences. Huy is the founder and artistic director of ZeroStation, Ho Chi […]
(Partner, Inside Outside, Netherlands) Aura Luz Melis is educated as an architect at the Technical University of Delft and The Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in Sao Paulo. She joined Inside Outside in 2005 where her interdisciplinary approach was formed through the wide range of projects she has worked on, many of which connect architecture to interior design and landscape. These projects include the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the Rothschild Bank in London, the gardens for Qatar Education City Headquarters and […]
(Director, Bluecoat, UK) Marie-Anne McQuay is Head of Programme at Bluecoat, Liverpool (2014-), UK’s oldest contemporary arts centre where she curates across visual art, literature, music and performance programmes. She is currently Arts Advisor for the Granby Four Streets Winter Garden which will see Liverpool based artist Nina Edge work with local people, horticultural experts, and architects and Turner Prize winners Assemble to transform an empty plot in the Granby neighbourhood into a unique indoor garden. Previously McQuay was curator […]
(Curator, Learning and Community, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong) Curator of Learning and Community of Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile as well as a multidisciplinary artist based in Hong Kong. He graduated from Middlesex University (BA in Illustration) in 2004, Rmit University (BA in Fine Arts) in 2008 and Lingnan University (Master in Cultural Studies) in 2014. For the last few years, he has been actively involved in community art and community empowerment. Before joining Centre […]
(Pangrok Sulap, Artist collective, Malaysia) Rizo Leong is an artist who believes that a child is the father of the man. Born in Sabah as the third of eight siblings, he currently lives and works in Ranau, Malaysia. Leong is a self-taught artist known for delivering messages through wood block prints. Leong’s art mainly focuses on culture and traditions, the environment, and a touch of politics. His work displays a message uniquely and mostly reflecting social issues. He is actively […]
(Associate Director, Policy for Sustainability Lab, Faculty of Social Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Winnie Law specialises in community engagement, sustainable development and environmental management. Law is Associate Director (Policy for Sustainability Lab) and Principal Lecturer of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. Besides teaching at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels, Law leads a team of researchers conducting policy research, consultancy studies and knowledge exchange projects on community revitalization, sustainability assessment, social […]
(Designer, Germany) Sylvie Krüger comes from a family with a long tradition of producing textiles. After having studied textile design in Germany and the Netherlands she established a multidisciplinary design studio engaged in projects ranging from textile product design and textile interior design to exhibition design. For two years she managed the home textile studio of her family’s automotive and upholstery fabric weaving mill. Since 2006 she has been working as a freelance designer specialising on the use of textiles […]
(Associate Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University and co-founder of Mobile Co-learning, a local non-profit organisation aiming at facilitating co-learning outside formal schools in Hong Kong. His main research interests are education and cultural studies, cultural economy, history of capitalism and markets, and alternative development. Having co-edited the 6 volumes of Cultural and Social Studies Translation Series (jointly published by Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, and Central Compilation & Translation Press, Beijing), […]
(Artist, Head of the Fashion Design Master’s programme at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Netherlands) A Dutch-born artist and fashion designer based in New York and Arnhem. She is a graduate of the fashion department at ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem, along with five other graduates, among whom Viktor & Rolf, she showed as Le Cri Neerlandais, the first Dutch fashion designers to have a runway show in Paris. Gatzen produces and facilitates large collaborative projects using clothing as […]