Sky Cubacub is a non-binary queer and disabled Filipinx artist from Chicago, Illinois. As a multidisciplinary artist and the creator of Rebirth Garments, they are interested in fulfilling the needs for disabled queer life, with an emphasis on joy, making a line of wearables that challenges mainstream beauty standards through centring queer and disabled people of all sizes, ethnicities and ages. They are the editor of the Radical Visibility Zine , a magazine for queer and disabled people of all ages […]
Taeyoon Choi is an artist and educator based in New York and Seoul. He co-founded School for Poetic Computation in 2013, where he organised classes and taught experimental workshops. He is inspired by the poetics in science, technology, society and human relations. He works with computer programming, drawing and writing, in collaboration with fellow artists and community members. He believes in the intersectionalities of art, activism and education. He works with activists and scholars on disability rights, environmental justice and […]
Bindhu Malini Narayanaswamy, an Indian singer and composer, is one of the few artistes who has pursued training in both Carnatic (from South India) and Hindustani (from North India) classical forms, and yet has also constantly strived to explore avenues outside of her strict classical roots to other forms and traditions in search of the pure soul-stirring power that music has. This has given form to a light yet confident personal style for her as a performer. Narayanaswamy has composed […]
Tejaswini Niranjana is currently Professor and Head of Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong and Visiting Professor with the School of Arts and Science at Ahmedabad University, India. She is the curator of the India-China musical collaboration project, ‘Saath-Saath: Music across the Waters’, which began in 2016. Among her books are Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad (Durham, 2006), and Musicophilia in Mumbai (forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2020). Her edited volumes include Genealogies of the Asian […]
Kang Ya-Chu is a Taipei-based artist. Her work explores issues of identity, the relationship between human and nature and the social environment through mix-media sculpture, site-specific installation, land art, video, drawing, photographs, textile research and collaboration. Drawing inspiration from her travel experience and the rich weaving history of the world, Kang’s work often reflects themes of boundary related to life and death, yin and yang, identity and camouflage, private and public, known and unknown, artificial and natural. The materials themselves […]
Dr Ju-chen Chen is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her scholarly interests cover a range of topics and geographic locations: female migrant workers in China and their attempts to obtain better housing for their sons; Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong and their participation in beauty pageants as a way to achieve their dreams; and independent musicians and music event organisers from Hong Kong and Taiwan and their alternative lifestyles. […]
Miki Ho is an illustrator based in Hong Kong. Her Propaposter series about the local community, featuring playgrounds, street markets and street food, has been published by the local independent press, Artiquette Press, since 2015.
Mr Albert Chan is an experienced textile specialist with a long history of working in the textile industry. With a deep knowledge of materials, yarns, fabrics and traditional and digital printing, he is an active researcher on textile materials and fashion trends, as well as on innovative materials and finish treatments. He is currently an Advisor to the Mill 6 Foundation Limited and a business consultant of the ADAM Arts Creations Limited, a social enterprise established by Arts with the […]