Unlock Dancing Plaza is a contemporary dance company founded in 2002, with Ong Yong Lock as Artistic Director and Joseph Lee as Associate Artistic Director (having joined in 2020). Through their productions, they commit to pursuing innovative breakthroughs and theatrical liberation. In recent years, the company re-examines dance from the perspective of the individual. Defining dance through the uniqueness of the individual body and detaching from the institutionalised aesthetics of dance, Unlock firmly believes in the notion of ‘Everyone can […]
Hyun Seewon is a curator and writer based in Seoul, South Korea. Since 2013, she has been running the Audio Visual Pavilion, an exhibition space located in Seoul. After studying art history and Korean literature at Ewha Womans University, she received her MA in Art History from Korea National University of Arts with a thesis on post-Minjoong (post-People’s Art movement) which was vital to the Korean art scene in the 1980s. Hyun has published several books on contemporary art and […]
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Born in 1949, Lam Kwok Shing is the owner and in-house photographer of Sammy Photo Studio, an old-style photo studio located in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong. Lam began his career as a young apprentice in the 1970s, working as a dark room technician for the studio, previously called Jim Jim. In 1996, Lam took over the studio and renamed it. The studio continues to photograph portraits in film. Image courtesy of the speaker
Grassroots Future is a non-profit organisation based in Hong Kong that works to build capacity among refugees in this city and to support the development of refugee-led initiatives. Through well-being programs, education, community outreach and investing in the future (children’s education), they build capacity of the local refugee-led initiatives and grassroots organisations, and co-create events and projects with them. By doing so, Grassroots Future hopes to provide access to resources and give platforms to undiscovered talents to develop their skills […]
Beverly Yong is a writer, curator and editor based in Kuala Lumpur. Formerly a gallerist, in 2008 she co-founded RogueArt, a partnership specialising in Malaysian and Southeast Asian contemporary art projects and consultancy. She graduated in 1995 from Cambridge University majoring in History of Art and English Literature, and has a Masters in Asian Art and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. She has written extensively and edited a number of publications on Malaysian and […]
Nicholas Y. H. Wong (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on media and modernity in China and Southeast Asia, resource extraction literary politics, Chinese-English translation, transnationalism and diaspora, poetry and poetics. His book project, titled Resource Extraction and Decolonial Literary-Intellectual Chinese Thought from the Malay Peninsula , is a materialist and geoeconomic history of Mahua literature and […]