Intertwining discourses around labyrinths, social anxiety, and post-truth, Junshu Gu’s work is rooted in rhizome theory and draws from her 13 years of experience in interdisciplinary, culture-related media work and her profound expertise. Her practice incorporates painting, sculpture, and time-based media, appearing minimal and abstract, yet formally lithesome and precise.
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.
Zihao Zhou is a Chinese fashion designer based in London. His art explores the connections between the macro and the micro, revealing the hidden wonders of the world. In 2024, he took a leap of faith and launched his own eponymous brand, Illogic, in London. With a blend of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary aesthetics, Zihao aims to carve his unique mark in the fashion industry.
Tong Tong is a cutting-edge fashion designer and creative based in New York City. Tong's designs draw inspiration from a rich tapestry of influences, including personal memories, a profound passion for fashion history, and an adventurous exploration of materials. His collection Home Alone draws inspiration from a cherished childhood memory, the clandestine explorations into his parents' wardrobe.
Qibai Ting is an artist currently based in Beijing and London. Her practice mainly focuses on narrative objects and sculptural installations. Qibai is interested in stargazing activities, and she considers her works as “constellations”. Living very close to forests and mountains, she identifies with the philosophy of nature and practices within landscape.
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.
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.
Anna Skoromnaya is an artist who lives and works in Genoa, Italy. She works predominantly with installations and media based on moving images, such as videos, holograms and computer- and software-generated figures. Skoromnaya’s artistic practice incorporates both sophisticated, innovative media and intentionally contaminated materials, with a language that focuses on and magnifies the paradoxes present in our society.
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.
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.
Erika Thomas is a Brazilian artist, currently based in France since the 1980s. As an artist, Erika Thomas sees artistic creation as a profound connection to oneself, others, and the world. In her current presentation, she incorporates dance, exploring the body's relationship to space, poems that delve into language and its connection to meaning, and video, a crucial contemporary medium interwoven with music.
Yilin Du is a London-based digital artist and character designer with a diverse background in creating multimedia content. Her creations aim to provide insight into how digital technologies, new materials, and aesthetics could change our approach to design and thinking. Du's artistic endeavors culminate in a thought-provoking video, a poignant testament to the profound impact technology wields on our perceptions of selfhood.
Hall'Makwanda is a collective composed of Julia Hall and Matisse Makwanda, both of whom are transdisciplinary artists. Their individual work led them to explore artistic collaboration in 2016. With a keen interest in symbolism, experimental languages, and new media, the duo explores the realms of alchemy and active spirituality; each creation serves as an opportunity to delve into the multidimensionality of human existence.
In the past nine years, Jiang Jiaxin's works have been exploring the documentation and expressiveness of art, revolving around the representation of the narrative and the surreal nature of art. Both relying on images and videos for creation, his works are inseparable from his research on photography in the context of art. In terms of theme, he is interested in self-identity and cultural perception.
Jikke Lesterhuis is a multidisciplinary artist from the Netherlands, currently based in Amsterdam. She never stopped drawing from the moment she learned how to use a pencil. Jikke currently focuses on ways to bring the 2D medium into a 3D space. Using her curiosity and eagerness to learn, she keeps discovering new sides of herself that reflect in her work.
Hailing Liu is a mixed-media artist, animator, and motion graphic designer working and living in Chicago. They employ diverse media in their art practice: 2D and 3D animation, video composition, writing, sculpture, printing, Augmented Reality, physical and virtual installation. Focusing on digital culture, images, and media representations in contemporary life, Liu researches images produced as visual communication in capital systems.
Alisa Scetinina is a performer and musician, born in Latvia and currently based in Berlin, Germany. For Alisa, performance is the way one carries oneself and connects to the inner voice, whether it is through music, dance, film, or any other source of expression. She explores the fluidity and smoothness of our psyche and body, not scared to break the walls that we and our society have built for us.
Alina Orlov's work is characterized by her focus on the inner world of the individual and the unconscious mind. She explored themes of identity, memory, and perception through her use of non-linear narratives, symbolism, and surreal imagery. In her work, she explores themes of love, and loss, seeking to capture the complexities and contradictions of human experience.
Nadia Armouti is an artist and researcher based in London, UK, and Seoul, Korea. She creates experiences that bring visibility to both self-imposed limitations and alternative pathways to personal fulfillment. By forcing her audience to make choices and then reflect on them, she invites a level of awareness to everyday decision-making and crafts her practice with an intent to thoughtfully impact each individual with personalized and lasting effects.
Tianlan Deng is a New York-based Artist and Interior Architect. Tianlan Deng's work involves interdisciplinary practices, including site-specific installation, projected media, sculptural, architectural design, and traditional Asian painting. Deng’s installation is a commentary on the de-individualization found in educational systems present in China.
Serena Marija is a multidisciplinary artist and experimental filmmaker based in Buckinghamshire, England. Her surreal films and works of art draw purely from real-life experiences, her inner memory museum, imagination, and dreams. Apart from being immersed in a dreamy process of creation, Serena is in the final year of her MA Creative Business degree at the National Film & Television School.
Dasha Lyubimova is a Choreographer, Filmmaker, and Art Director, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The main feature of her project is the «dance language». Although there are no words, Dasha creates projects that will be clear without any words to everybody. This genre of art is called videodance or screendance, and it mixes choreography and storytelling. Dasha also touches on social themes trying to make people know, feel and live the problems.
Marichka Lukianchuk is an artist and a filmmaker from Ukraine, born in 1997. Marichka believes that ideas are not something you come up with, but the intentions searched for and uncovered within and outside oneself. These intentions come from the image on her mind, and she sees her mission in uncovering the stories hidden behind them.
Yuqian Sun is a Chinese AI artist based in London. Inspired by conversations between virtual characters in video games, she produces works that steer with curiosity. She creates art projects based on AI chatbots, focusing on narrative and intimacy in human-AI interaction. Her work varied from 3D renderings and games to generative arts. She's currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science Research and an AI developer expert.
Elvin Ou is a New York based multidisciplinary artist and a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute. He finds his inspiration in the intersection of digital media and the physical environment. With a background in interior design and interactive design, he believes that storytelling is the key to unlocking the nuance between digital and physical.
