Ye Funa (she/her) is an artist and researcher based between London and Beijing. Funa’s politically charged practice employs pastiche, satire and digital participation to critique systems of authority and cultural uniformity. Recent works include the internet-based projects Exhibitionist: Curated Nail and Smart Master, alongside exhibitions at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney; Nottingham Contemporary; Museum für Fotografie, Berlin; and esea contemporary, Manchester. A committed self-publisher, Funa co-founded MondayOFF and edits artist books such as Shamate Zine and Fire Golden Flowers. She teaches at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, and the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.
Ye Funa was the 2024 Asymmetry Librarian-in-Residence.
Chaney Diao, a multimedia artist and DJ, is known for her eclectic and boundary-defying electronic music sets. Drawing inspiration from her art practice, she explores the concepts of vibe and genre, creating immersive auditory experiences. Her performances, including notable sets at IKLECTIK London, challenge the conventional pace of (art) production, pushing listeners to engage with sound in new ways.
Yasmine Anlan Huang (b. 1996, Guangzhou) is an artist and writer based in London and Dubai, often working between New York and Hong Kong. She explores how desires and angst within coming-of-age narratives subvert patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist expectations. Her polyphonic narratives evolve from video poetry into sculpture, performance, and public programmes, moving between autobiography and autofiction to unfold as modern fables of cultural and ideological tension.
Huang's solo and two-person shows include Nicoletti (London), Magician Space (Beijing), Goethe-Institut Hong Kong (Hong Kong) among others. Her work has been included in Whitney Biennial 2024 (New York), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), Wschód (Warsaw), Ota Fine Arts (Shanghai) and more. She has participated in multiple residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her debut book of poems and essays, Love of the Colonizer, was published by Accent Sisters in 2022.
Bart Seng Wen Long is a Singaporean artist-filmmaker currently based in London. Working with films, photography and performance, his practice draws on the uncanny clarity found in processes of fetishisation, confabulation and meditation. In the same tangent, Bart’s approach to art-making stems from mistranslations across contexts, genres and cultures. Through these playful experimentations of reality and form, Seng is interested in exploring the political economy of desire and how that is embodied in contemporary societies.
Seng is a Kone Foundation grant awardee, and was previously a finalist for the Dazed x CIRCA award and a Tour de Moon film grant winner. Seng co-curated Kawaii Agency along with Juliusz Grabianski; and for the last two years, he has been a guest programmer for Queer East, curating for their Expanded section. His work has been covered by SHOWstudio, the Wrong Biennale, Female, Financial Times, Service95, It’s Nice That, and Dazed.
Ruini Shi is an animation director based in London. She explores virtual intimacy and creates narratives that interrogate the compatibility between humanity and emerging technologies. She holds a BA in Interaction and Moving Images from the London College of Communication and an MA in Animation from the Royal College of Art.
Shi’s animated films have been awarded prizes including the Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 2019. Her recent work, 'FuneralPlay' received an Honorable Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2023, and was nominated for Best Website/ Mobile Sites at The Webby Awards and Best 3D/Interactive work at the Lumen Prize. Shi’s work has been showcased globally, including at HKW Berlin, M+ Hong Kong and the Ars Electronica Center Linz.