Asian Culture

INTERVIEW | Haige Wu

INTERVIEW | Haige Wu

Haige Wu is a Chinese artist and illustrator with a practice spanning London and China. Her work blends traditional techniques such as lacquer painting and woodworking with contemporary methods, exploring themes of regional culture, feminism, and identity. Currently experimenting with felt for its dual qualities of softness and strength, Haige’s innovative approach has garnered international recognition.

INTERVIEW | Jewan Goo

INTERVIEW | Jewan Goo

Jewan Goo is a research-based photographer who focuses on reexamining and reconstructing the fading history of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. His work is deeply connected to contemporary issues within institutional archives and history education, which are often biased and subject to political control or censorship by governmental or educational authorities.

INTERVIEW | Huey Lee

INTERVIEW | Huey Lee

Huey Lee is a ceramic artist from South Korea, dedicated to exploring the expressive possibilities of clay. After completing his training as a traditional Korean ceramic artisan, Lee honed his skills working in various pottery and ceramic studios. His artistic practice is deeply rooted in his cultural background, religious influences, and nostalgic memories.

INTERVIEW | Momo

INTERVIEW | Momo

Momo was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and a Ghanaian father. She expresses her identity as a mixed-race person with different backgrounds and her ideology of society behind her work. She explores her unique vision through artistic digital and analog fashion pieces, paintings, and performance shows. Since 2017 she has been living New York City, working as a model.

INTERVIEW | Raine Li

INTERVIEW | Raine Li

Raine Li is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of tradition and modernity, rooted in the vibrant heritage of China's Yi ethnic culture. With a diverse background spanning experimental animation, digital art, and traditional calligraphy, Raine's work seamlessly integrates traditional elements with contemporary expression.

INTERVIEW | Alina R.J

INTERVIEW | Alina R.J

Alina R.J. is a London-based multidisciplinary artist with a Central Asian background, currently pursuing her Master's degree at the Royal College of Art. Alina's recent research focuses on Eastern philosophies, Jungian psychology – specifically Individuation and The Self – as well as tools to reconnect with this part of our psyche, including meditation.

INTERVIEW | Han Yang

INTERVIEW | Han Yang

Han Yang is a distinguished visual artist and photographer. Her work masterfully combines abstract and surreal elements to evoke profound emotions and explore the complexities of human psychology. Central to Han's artistic vision are themes of femininity, the human body, gender, and technology, which she vividly represents through oriental metaphors. 

INTERVIEW | Fang Yutao

INTERVIEW | Fang Yutao

Fang Yutao is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist from China with a strong background in architecture. She reshapes traditional narratives by incorporating complex historical symbols that transcend cultural boundaries, drawing on premodern mythology that embraces pantheism and animism to redefine anthropocentric metaphors and dismantle traditional masculine narratives.

INTERVIEW | Jiayun Chen

INTERVIEW | Jiayun Chen

Jiayun Chen is an interdisciplinary artist who manifests ideas through forms of installation, ceramics, painting, and drawing. In searching for poetics and humor within failed translations, Chen investigates the aesthetics of failure in the experience of cross-cultural encounters. Having divided time nearly equally between China and America, Chen's artistic journey is heavily influenced by straddling the cultural divide between the two.

INTERVIEW | Xiaohan Jiang

INTERVIEW | Xiaohan Jiang

Jiang Xiaohan is a painter and poet from China, currently based in Chicago. Drawing inspiration from memories of the past and visions of imagination, Xiaohan paints the nostalgic bonds between her homeland's landscapes and nature; through her personal experiences, she explores the pursuit of faith and self-redemption against the backdrop of East Asian cultural and political contexts.

INTERVIEW | Zhiyan Cai

INTERVIEW | Zhiyan Cai

Zhiyan, a 3D artist and former architect, currently resides in London. Her creative endeavors delve deep into the intricate relationships between culture and technology, history and the future. Zhiyan takes pleasure in weaving together elements of Asian culture with futurism and science fiction themes, presenting a unique perspective through the lens of femininity.

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 | Jackie Jiang

INTERVIEW | Jackie Jiang

Jackie Jiang is a Chinese Designer and Multi-Media Artist whose work often features a unique blend of traditional paper-making techniques and contemporary ink and acrylic artistry. Through her evocative works, she masterfully merges Eastern artistic traditions with Western influences, forging a path that celebrates cultural heritage while embracing the spirit of innovation.

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 | Yun-Chin Wang - Raw2.2

INTERVIEW | Yun-Chin Wang - Raw2.2

Raw2.2 (Yun-Chin Wang) is a multimedia artist delving into the realms of Asiatic identity, consciousness and technology. Often in the form of videos, music, or performance, her works are surreal confrontations on the incoherence of consciousness steeped deeply in techno-orientalism and introspection. Both eerie and ethereal, her storytelling provides a dreamscape illusion of the paradoxical nature of realities.

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 | Xinyi Yang

INTERVIEW | Xinyi Yang

Xinyi Yang is a young potential artist and interdisciplinary designer. Her paintings, which combine ancient East Asian poetry beauty with the reflection of contemporary philosophy, primarily feature oil and watercolour, exuding vitality as they continually explore light within darkness, specifically reflected in the relationship between people and the environment.

INTERVIEW | Shiqi Xu

INTERVIEW | Shiqi Xu

Shiqi Xu is a womenswear/couture designer based in New York City. The timeless themes she consistently explores are femininity and vulnerability. With her work, she aims to focus on women to delve into the possibilities of fashion. She believes that femininity, on a silent level, is inherently delicate, yet vulnerability does not imply weakness—it holds a unique charm of its own.

INTERVIEW | Weiyun Chen

INTERVIEW | Weiyun Chen

Weiyun Chen, a graphic designer hailing from Brooklyn, New York, specializes in the dynamic realms of branding, exhibition, print, and editorial design. Currently serving as the creative director at Lucky Risograph, she has also co-founded Midnight Project Design Studio alongside Supatida Sutiratana. Together, they channel their collective focus towards branding, packaging, print, and typography design at Midnight Project.

INTERVIEW | Yu Pan

INTERVIEW | Yu Pan

Yu Pan is a visual communicator and multidisciplinary artist who works with a range of design instruments and media. Buddhist culture is where it all began for Yu Pan, who grew up in a Buddhist household. In his work, he employs methods including, but not limited to, graphic design, sound design, moving images, and performance art to influence the viewer and immerse them in scenarios they may have never been exposed to before.