Performance

INTERVIEW | Erica Zhan

INTERVIEW | Erica Zhan

Erica Zhan is an interdisciplinary artist and writer born in the southeastern hills of China and currently based in Chicago, US. They employ performance, moving images, installation, and writing to explore games, sports, competitions, and playfulness in the context of consumerism. By using low-tech language and parodic methods, Zhan wants to scrutinize the zones of freedom in human society.

INTERVIEW | Xintong Qin - OT

INTERVIEW | Xintong Qin - OT

OT is the creative force behind Xintong Qin, a London-based frog witch who wanders and sometimes farm crawls between city and nature. She has resided in a range of small farms while learning and practicing permaculture. Using found objects as well as natural materials to craft occult artworks, she is on a quest to build her own tiny, whimsical world, one where she is free to relax and explore the hidden realms of nature.

INTERVIEW | Demian Shipley-Marshall

INTERVIEW | Demian Shipley-Marshall

Demian Shipley-Marshall works with multiple methods across the fields of art and design but considers himself a storyteller at heart. Through his work, he endeavors to explore if older values toward the individual and environment can add new perspectives to conflicts humanity is facing in the contemporary world. Demian is influenced by world folklore, particularly stories around animals.

INTERVIEW | Yi-Han Chou

INTERVIEW | Yi-Han Chou

Yi-Han (Audrey) Chou is a Dancer, Researcher, and Multimedia Artist originally from Taipei and based in New York. With a focus on storytelling through bodily movement, her work is a testament to the intricate interplay of embodiment, cultural identity, and diversity.

INTERVIEW | Xinyi Qin

INTERVIEW | Xinyi Qin

Xinyi Qin is a Chinese artist currently based in Hong Kong. In Xinyi's paintings, she relies on her intuition to select different types of plants as her subjects - they are tiny, peculiar, faded, blooming, or rotten. She focuses more on their temperament, allowing the diversity of plants to unfold naturally without limitations or definitions.

INTERVIEW | Chu Ling-Jung

INTERVIEW | Chu Ling-Jung

Chu Ling-Jung, born in Taiwan in 2000, is an artist focused on feminism and consciousness. Her works often explore the unease in women's body shaping and gender perception under a patriarchal society and present these themes through deliberate bodily transformations. Chu Ling-Jung 's creative forms are diverse, including performance art, video, and found objects.

INTERVIEW | Maryam Nazari

INTERVIEW | Maryam Nazari

Maryam Nazari is a Tehran-born multidisciplinary artist, based in London. Her artistic practice spans performance art, sound design, video art, and installation, with a focus on the intersections of memory, identity, and cultural narrative. Maryam’s work is deeply informed by her Iranian heritage and explores the impact socio-political tensions on personal experience and artistic expression.

INTERVIEW | Sharon Rose Benson

INTERVIEW | Sharon Rose Benson

Sharon Rose is a multidisciplinary expressionist artist who delves into the essence of 'humanness' and community amidst an increasingly automated and dehumanized state of the world. Through mixed media creations, she fosters collective engagement to challenge societal norms, prompting revolutionary thoughts. She combines performance, theatricality, fashion, installation, sound and poetry.

INTERVIEW | AMIANGELIKA

INTERVIEW | AMIANGELIKA

AMIANGELIKA is an award-nominated new media and experience artist based in London.  Her practice revolves around exploring the interconnection between image and sound as well as machine-human interaction, resulting in performance-based and installation-based works. She creates fully generative, real-time rendered pieces that react to live inputs through audio or motion tracking sensors.

INTERVIEW | Hanna Tzong-Han Wu

INTERVIEW | Hanna Tzong-Han Wu

Hanna Tzong-Han Wu is a Taiwanese choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles, California. The dance language that lies between Western contemporary, hip-hop, and martial arts punctuates her signature style. Hanna is most interested in creating works that reflect on humans and humanity and believes that arts are the reflection of society. In her work she blends arts, culture, society, humans, and self.

INTERVIEW | Lisha Liang

INTERVIEW | Lisha Liang

Lisha Liang is a Chinese artist currently living in Italy. Lisha Liang's artistic endeavors are deeply rooted in the exploration of gender dynamics and the pervasive issue of gender-based violence. Motivated by a growing concern for these societal challenges, Liang's work serves as a conscientious reflection and an invitation to engage with the feminist discourse.

INTERVIEW | Yueting Wu

INTERVIEW | Yueting Wu

Ada Yueting Wu is an interdisciplinary artist born in China and currently based in the United States. Through installation, performance, and sound, she creates visceral experiences that critically examine the production of silence and truth within systems of control. By subjecting the body to counter forces or exposing it as a malfunctioning circuit within various systems, she scrutinizes relationships of powers and disciplines.

INTERVIEW | Jiaoyang Li

INTERVIEW | Jiaoyang Li

Li Jiaoyang is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. She co-founded Accent Accent and the Accent Sisters Bookstore and currently resides in New York and New Jersey. Her cross-disciplinary works have been presented at various venues, exhibitions, and institutions internationally. Li Jiaoyang has taught creative writing at New York University, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Library, and New York Cultural Salon.

INTERVIEW | Melvin Ningyao Yen

INTERVIEW | Melvin Ningyao Yen

Melvin Ningyao Yen, a pioneering force in the fusion of digital media and theater, hails from the vibrant cultural landscape of Taiwan and now operates out of New York City. Their artistic ethos is anchored in the exploration of cultural narratives and the human condition, utilizing the dynamic realms of immersive theater and multimedia projects as their canvas.

INTERVIEW | Yukang Tao

INTERVIEW | Yukang Tao

Yukang Tao is an interdisciplinary artist who works in the fields of electronic arts, animation, video, and performance. While all of his artwork alludes to the concept of gender and observes the relationship between technology and humanity, it also encompasses themes such as surveillance and self-absorption of society in media. Art and technology, virtual and accurate, the boundaries begin to blur and combine to form a new utopia.

INTERVIEW | Mengmeng Luo

INTERVIEW | Mengmeng Luo

Mengmeng Luo (Momo) is a Chinese visual artist born in 1999 in Changsha, Hunan province, now living and working in London. Her artworks consist of visual images and sound effects. She specialises in creating scene-based fragments of cinematic space that combine to form non-temporal sequential narratives and are characterised by her own personal magical realism and black irony.

INTERVIEW | Tokie Wang

INTERVIEW | Tokie Wang

Tokie Wang is a Chinese choreographer, dancer, and visual artist currently based in Los Angeles. "RECORDING IN PROCESS" is a thought-provoking art piece that delves into the impact of surveillance systems on our daily lives. The project aims to recreate a "living space" by discreetly placing multiple hidden cameras to record performers while simultaneously live-streaming the recordings within the same space.

INTERVIEW | Qi Zhuang

INTERVIEW | Qi Zhuang

Qi Zhuang (1999, China) is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and animator based in London, United Kingdom. Her project 未知晓 Unknown is a semi-improvised live performance created with costumes as a starting point, combining visual art, dance, music, installation and performing art. The concept of the work comes from a conversation with a monk.

INTERVIEW | Hyoju Cheon

INTERVIEW | Hyoju Cheon

Hyoju Cheon is an explorer and interdisciplinary artist currently residing in New York. Her multimedia practice responds to the conditions of a site. Her work documents bodies as they move through space: drawing their trajectories and archiving the material traces left behind. Her recent works create surrogates and obstructions for her body, recording her movements as kinetic loops.

INTERVIEW | Fina Ferrara

INTERVIEW | Fina Ferrara

Fina Ferrara is a Mexican performance and video artist. Disturbed by how human boundaries are often penetrated through interactions with others, violence, hatred, and abuse are stepping stones in her performances. Through expelling these emotions, Fina questions life and social standards, highlighting our areas of discomfort. For Fina, performance is an ongoing act of collective self-evolution.