Chiang Chung-Lun was born in Taiwan, and graduated from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Art, Tainan National University of the Arts. He specializes in using diverse forms to express individual life and history. His work mainly focuses on showing artistic landscape through daily actions and expressions, which enable mutual influences between daily life and art practice to reveal the quotidian force in existence itself that is different from spectacles. In 2009, he co-founded an art group, named Wonder Boyz, with Huang Yen-Yin, Su Yu-Hsien, and have been producing lighthearted, amusing, humorous and nonsensical ideas and creative works to dissolve and deconstruct barriers around art.
Born in Huwei, Taiwan, Hong-Kai Wang’s research-based practice confronts the politics of knowledges lost in colonial and diasporic encounters at the intersection of lived experience, power, and “listening.” Through experimental modes of sonic sociality, her multidisciplinary work seeks to conceive of other time-spaces that critically interweave the production of desire, histories of labor, economies of co-habitation, and formations of knowledge.
Born in Australia, sound artist Nigel Brown received his BA in Media Art and MFA from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia respectively in 2004 and 2006. Since 2004, he has focused on practices of sound and experimental music creation. His art practice involves modifying existing music instruments and other objects to explore sonic possibilities, with an emphasis on developing physical experimentation of material objects. His work is usually site-specific, for which he integrates local history, social background, environmental characteristics and acoustics to capture people’s attention and engaging them in the act of listening. In 2016, he relocated from Melbourne, Australia, to Tainan, Taiwan, and established Ting Shuo (Hear Say) Studio with Alice Hui-Sheng Chang to promote listening practice and experimental music.
Born in Hong Kong, Samson Young holds a BA degree in Music, Philosophy and Gender Studies from the University of Sydney, an M.Phil in Music Composition from the University of Hong Kong, and a PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University, where he was mentored by the computer music pioneer, Paul Lansky. A multi-disciplinary artist whose practice merges technology and new media art, Young’s work mainly focuses on sound art and the culture of listening. Using avant-garde compositional traditions and techniques, such as probability, aleatory music, musique concrète, and graphical notation, he shifts from textual sound to re-explore inherent nature of sound and practices the concept of “reduction.” Combining aesthetics, conceptuality and intriguing interactive experience, his work reveals the authenticity of artistic expression as well as the relations between cultural politics and sound.
Isaac Chong Wai is an artist from Hong Kong (born in Guangdong, China). He graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, with a BA in Visual Arts in 2012, and the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar, Germany, with an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies in 2016. Influenced by personal events, social issues and global phenomena, he employs a wide range of media, including performance, public art, video, installation and multimedia, to discuss and interpret issues related to public sphere and human rights, collectivism and individualism, diaspora, war and politics of time and space, transforming the tensions, intervention and interactions of human bodies into a microcosm of human relationality in social systems.
Karolina Breguła works in the fields of film, photography and installation. Her work explores the problems of the status of the artwork, the materiality of art objects and their functioning within the institutional frameworks. She explores the problematic of the social role of art and the myths that revolve around it. In her recent practice she often uses participatory methods. Her works have been exhibited at institutions such as Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw,Jewish Museum in New York, and International Venice Biennale, She received Views 2013- Deutsche Bank Award and Golden Claw Award at Gdynia Film Festival in 2017. In recent years she has been working in Taiwan and Poland, engaging in interdisciplinary artistic and academic practices.