Through a research-based practice progressing to experimental interaction and integration, Leung Mee-ping’s works can integrate elements and platforms of theatre, design, commercial space and social space, in order to extend performance or action; those can be read as issue-based creativity. Her works concern the ethic, community and memories of the human living situation which are closely intertwined with her ongoing research into visual culture and globalisation.
Leung Mee-ping studied from France to America then to Hong Kong. She is professor emeritus of visual arts at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Kam’s research interests include prehistoric archaeology, archaeology and future studies, and future humanities. She is also a freelance curator of wide-ranging cultural projects not limited to music events, screenings, exhibitions, as well as conceptual event series.
Email: skam@uclmail.net
Majoring in Visual Arts, research on symbols and symbolic meanings, myths, psychology, philosophy, etc. are her creative interests and foundations. Paintings, handicrafts, sculptures and installations are her main creative forms. She likes to explore possibilities by using different materials and media to speak for the works.
Email: maklcgm@gmail.com
Annemarie Bucher (Dr. sc. ETH, lic.phil.I) Art and Landscape Historian; lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Senior Lecturer BA Fine Arts at Zurich University of the Arts, Lecturer MA Landscape Architecture, Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich; Co-Lead of FOA-FLUX, research and action lab; freelance researcher, curator, author, and consultant, with focus on art, society and ecology.
Dominique Lämmli (https://dominiquelaemmli.ch/) is a painter and philosopher working with situation-specific, collaborative and studio-based settings using rich media. Her PhD in Global Studies from Humboldt University of Berlin (2021) was on “Art in Action Research (AiAR)” (https://doi.org/10.18452/24144). She has conceived and co-organised numerous practice-based events, exhibitions and international symposia addressing the dynamic interrelating of art with society. She is a professor of Drawing & Painting at ZHdK’s MA Fine Arts (as of 2009) and co-runs the research micro-hub FOA-FLUX (https://foa-flux.ne) (as of 2008), which focuses on art & action & research in transregional settings (see also Art & Society https://artandsociety.net/).
Email: mail@dominiquelaemmli.ch
Mali Wu is professor at Graduate Institute of Transdisciplinary Art, NKNU, Taiwan. She received Taiwan National Award for Arts in 2016, and co-curated Art as Social Interaction—Hong Kong/Taiwan Exchange, 2013, and the 11th Taipei Biennale, 2018.
Email: wml.bali@gmail.com
Janet Pillai is currently a project-based consultant specialising in research and training in the area of arts education and socially engaged arts. Pillai was Associate Professor at University Sains Malaysia’s Department of Performing Arts from 1984-2013 and founded a non-profit organisation Arts-ED (https://www.arts-ed.my) in 2007, which provides non-formal arts, heritage and culture education for young people. Pillai’s research and practice in the field of arts education is available online in Arts Education Archive Malaysia (https://myartseducationarchive.com). She also researches and contributes as a resource person on socially-engaged arts in the region, and co-founded an informal online platform for Interrogating Community Engaged Arts in the Asian region in 2016 (https://ceaasia.wixsite.com/home).
Email: janetpillai@gmail.com
Gridthiya Gaweewong co-founded the arts organization Project 304 in 1996. She currently works as Artistic Director of the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok and is a guest curator of MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai. She co-founded the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival with Apichatpong Weerasethakul (1997–2007). Her curatorial projects have addressed issues of social transformation confronting artists from Thailand and beyond since the Cold War, including Imagined Borders ‒ 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018), Missing Links, Bangkok (2015), Between Utopia and Dystopia, Mexico City (2011), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen (2009), Politics of Fun, Berlin (2005), and Underconstruction, Tokyo (2000–2002). Gaweewong is a curator of ICI’s traveling exhibition Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity in Madness, Chiangmai, Manila, Hongkong, Chicago, Oklahoma, Taipei (2016–2020).
Dr. Felicia Low, a graduate of Goldsmith’s College has been a practicing visual artist and art educator since 1999. A Lee Kong Chian scholar of the National University of Singapore, Felicia obtained a PhD in Cultural Studies in Asia in 2015. She has also developed research and written a pedagogical guide on Person-centred Arts Practices with Communities, with support from the National Arts Council. Felicia is the founding director of Community Cultural Dimensions, which aims to provide a critical discursive platform for artistic practices that engage with communities in the region.
Vuth Lyno’s artistic and curatorial practice is participatory in nature, engaging mutual and communal learning, experimentation, and aims to share multiple voices in the production of meaning. He believes in the potency of collectivity, storytelling, and the agency of cultural objects as potential pathways to reimagine our sociality.
Alongside his individual artistic practice, he is also a member of Stiev Selapak collective which founded and co-runs Sa Sa Art Projects, a long-term initiative committed to the development of contemporary visual arts landscape in Cambodia. Together with the collective, Vuth Lyno teaches, initiates, and innovates art programs facilitating a growing and critically conscious community.
Dominique Lämmli (https://dominiquelaemmli.ch/) is a painter and philosopher working with situation-specific, collaborative and studio-based settings using rich media. Her PhD in Global Studies from Humboldt University of Berlin (2021) was on “Art in Action Research (AiAR)” (https://doi.org/10.18452/24144). She has conceived and co-organised numerous practice-based events, exhibitions and international symposia addressing the dynamic interrelating of art with society. She is a professor of Drawing & Painting at ZHdK’s MA Fine Arts (as of 2009) and co-runs the research micro-hub FOA-FLUX (https://foa-flux.ne) (as of 2008), which focuses on art & action & research in transregional settings (see also Art & Society https://artandsociety.net/).
Email: mail@dominiquelaemmli.ch
Ika Yuliana (1992, Indonesia) Master of Anthropology, University of Indonesia. MA candidate in Anthropology & Museum Studies, Goldsmiths University London. Cultural worker, community researcher, writer, and documentary filmmaker. She lives between Jakarta – Jatiwangi – Yogyakarta, since 2017 she work for Jatiwangi art Factory, currently touring with LAIRmusik, a clay ensemble music group, on a world tour ”1000KM++ Terracotta Route,“ visiting Toronto (Canada), Oslo (Norway), Copenhagen (Denmark), Zurich (Switzerland), and participated at the documenta15 in Kassel, Germany.
Email: ika.yuliana@ui.ac.id
LIU, Mankun is a researcher, author, and editor of contemporary art history and criticism based in Hong Kong and Mainland China. As a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, she studies the transmission between indigenous spiritual-environmental mediumship, creative media, and contemporary art in East and Southeast Asia. Her broader interests include ecocriticism, ecologically and socially engaged art, and Asian indigeneity. She has presented at and organized multiple conferences including the 2nd International Environmental Humanities Conference and Art and Critical Ecologies: Multiscalar Engagement. Her review articles are seen in LEAP, Ocula, and Kinfolk.
Email: liumankun@gmail.com
Bùi Kim Đĩnh obtained two master degrees: one in Vietnamese Archaeology in Hà Nội, and the other in Management and Communication in Museums in Berlin. Experienced in different fields ranging from education, archaeology, antiquity to contemporary art, Kim Đĩnh is active as a researcher, curator and advisor between Vietnam and Germany. Since 2016, she has been working on her doctoral project at Georg-August University of Göttingen. The anthropological research is about Vietnamese independent art since the 1990s that examines the development of contemporary art initiated by non-state art practitioners in the post-socialist Vietnam, and its dynamics of social transformations.
Au Wahyan (區華欣)
Chiang Mai Social Installation (CMSI)
Christine Bouteiller
Festival Film Bahari, Cinema Cirebon
E-Lerng Project
Freedom Film Network
Felicia Low
Forum Sudut Pandang
Giant Puppet Project
Gubuak Kopi
Khonkaen Manifesto
Laurent Serpe
Lee Chun Fung (李俊峰)
LinDa Saphan
Mak Remissa
Nguyễn Trinh Thi
Nguyễn Huy An
Nguyễn Đức Đạt
Parastoo Theatre
Post Museum
Sa Sa Art Projects
Shirley Soh
Stéphane Janin
Sushan Chan (陳素珊)
Suos Sodavy
v-artivist (影行者)
Curatorial team of Yau Ma Tei Self-Rescue Project & Demonstrative Exhibition: Conversation with Neighborhood (殺到油麻地！地區自救計劃暨展覽示範：地區自救傾計會）