Meder Akhmetov is an artist, architect, curator and member of the MUSEUM art group based in Central Asia. His artwork ranges from hand drawings and photo collages to outdoor public art. Akhmetov curates and organises workshops and public art events. Much of his work is based on working in a participatory workshop genre. During the pandemic in 2020, he initiated the self-organised online platform ‘art bazaar’ on Facebook.
Anvar Musrepov is a curator, artist, editor-in-chief and art publicist who lives and works in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He graduated from the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and New Media and is currently studying for a master’s degree at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Musrepov works in different directions and uses new media to develop the decolonisation of future narratives. As a curator, he works sustainably on educational projects focusing on the evolution of the emerging contemporary art scene and […]
Born and based in Bangkok, Siributr employs weaving and embroidery in his artworks to weave and stitch unofficial individual stories about conflict between religious and political beliefs which are often overshadowed by a grand narratives. Recently, he has conducted workshops and realised collaborative works with communities of stateless people in South Thailand so that their voices can be heard. Siributr participated in important international exhibitions including Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, U.S.A […]
Enoch Cheng is an artist whose practice spans moving image, installation, curating, dance, events, theatre, writing, fashion, performance, and pedagogy. His works explore the boundaries and connections between various disciplines and traditions, with recurrent themes of belonging, travel, care, cross-cultural history, fiction, memory, time, migration, and extinction. His most recent works include TO ARRIVE (2022, Hong Kong City Hall 60th Anniversary Performance), Handle with Care (2022, Museum of Arts and Design, New York) combine elements of Chinese opera, fashion and […]
Ibiye Camp (she/her) is an artist whose work engages with technology, trade and material within the African Diaspora. Ibiye’s work utilises architectural tools to create sound and video, accompanied by augmented reality and 3D objects, and highlights the biases and conflicts inherent to technology and postcolonial subjects. Camp co-founded Xcessive Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary design collective exploring data through immersive technologies and public installations. Xcessive Aesthetics run a BA Studio titled Digital Native at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Ibiye also tutors at the Royal College […]
After years of experience as classical and pop musicians, Jovin Lee and Atlas Iu, also known as BURN and telvanni26, have joined forces to form the Producer DJ duo JVSY, debuting as techno producers in 2021. Known for their cross-genre explorations with elements from house, techno, electronica, drum and bass, nu jazz and more, they incorporate organic instruments and found sounds into their compositions to make their signature cinematic sound. Giving a strong nod to their background, they also put […]
Kenyan-born Clifford (Cliff) J Pereira is a historical geographer, researcher, museum curator and heritage consultant with a portfolio of global projects. He is a world authority on the subject of Zheng He and Africa. Pereira has contributed to numerous publications, radio and documentary programmes. He is best known for his work on Africans in the Indian Ocean World, especially the ‘Bombay African’ narrative and on the Panos de Terra textile of the Cape Verde Islands. Pereira was recently featured on […]
You Mi is a Beijing-born curator, researcher and professor of Art and Economies at the University of Kassel/Documenta Institute. Her academic interests lie in the social value of art, new and historical materialism, as well as the history, political theory and philosophy of Eurasia. She takes the Silk Road as a figuration for re-imagining networks in her long-term research and curatorial project, and has curated exhibitions and programmes including the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020-21), the research/curatorial platform ‘Unmapping Eurasia’ (2018-) with […]
Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective devoted to the area East of the former Berlin Wall and West of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Since its inception in 2006, the collective has shown a keen grasp of polemical issues in society, clearing new paths for contemporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic form of knowledge production: including popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories, modern myths, as well as scholarly research. The collective’s practice […]
Ayrat and Zafar Nalibayev are the duo behind the cryptographic art of NoolOdin. They were born in Uzbekistan and currently reside in the European Union. Using the jester persona as a means to express their ideas, they believe that art is the most effective way to address sensitive topics without being intrusive. They create their art by coding messages and embedding them in interactive environments. NoolOdin’s art encourages the spectator to think critically, leaving the final interpretation up to the […]
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Date: 26-30.03.2024
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