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.
Zijie was born in Yulin, Guangxi Province and currently lives and works in Wuhan. He is an alternative comics maker, writer and activist who focuses on illustration and manga culture as an artistic tool within anti-gentrification movements, revolving especially around marginalised characters involved with issues of urbanisation and spatial justice. From 2010-2014, he co-organised Womenjia Youth Autonomy Lab, an open house and social experiment located near the historic East Lake on the urban fringes of Wuhan.
Feixuan Xu is a London-based anthropologist and writer. Feixuan’s research addresses art, multispecies ethnography and ecocriticism. She obtained a PhD in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong (2022), where her thesis analysed the Daoist notion of ziran in Liang Shaoji’s collaborations with silkworms, farmers and biologists. Feixuan examines labour, sensory knowledge and situated ethics in multispecies art, has edited educational materials for the Shanghai Museum and publishes in journals on multispecies studies. She previously received a Fulbright Research Scholar Award (2019-20) at New York University and holds an MA in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Durham University.
Feixuan Xu was the 2022 Asymmetry Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese and Sinophone Contemporary Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art.