Leung Chi Wo and Sara Wong have been collaborating since 1992. Having graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the artists co-founded the independent art space Para Site in Hong Kong in 1996. From 1999 to 2000, Leung and Wong participated in a residency in New York, where they premiered City Cookie, their first widely exhibited project, as part of a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council. Their Museum of the Lost series was presented in the Aichi Triennale, Nagoya and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Niigata, as well as institutions including SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah and National Museum, Singapore. In 2021, they were artists-in-residence at Delfina Foundation in London. The duo maintained their individual practice throughout the years, including their participation in Hong Kong’s first pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale, residency at MoMA PS1 in New York, and more.
Dr. He Xiaopei is an indie film director and executive director of Pink Space (粉色空间). Spending her teenage years as a shepherd in the mountains, He joined the Chinese Mountaineering Team after University and reached the Namcha Barwa summit in the Himalayas. She later entered the State Council as an economist and conducted economic reforms research for 14 years. From the 1990s, He devoted herself to the feminist and lesbian movement in China and took part in the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Upon completing her Ph.D. in sexuality and cultural studies in the UK, she returned to China to set up Pink Space, a Beijing-based NGO dedicated to promoting sexual rights and gender equality through representation of marginalised desires and lives in moving images.
Rachel Be-Yun Wang is a curator and artist whose practice spans exhibition making, writing and studio production. Her interests include new media art, environmental humanities and archival dissemination. Recent projects include Beijing Art and Technology Biennale: Synthetic Ecology, 798CUBE, Beijing (2022); Ever Archive, Serralves Foundation, Porto (2022); and Material Tales, CAFA Museum, Beijing (2021). Rachel has guest lectured at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, produced publications for the Hans Ulrich Obrist Archive.
Rachel Be-Yun Wang was the 2023 Asymmetry Curatorial Research Fellow at Chisenhale Gallery.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Jamie Chi (she/they) is a Filipino Chinese filmmaker.After graduating with an MA in Cultural Studies from the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France, Chi studied experimental filmmaking at the University of the Philippines Diliman and joined the Ricky Lee Scriptwriting Workshop at the Cinemalaya Institute. Her documentary Safe Distance: Chapter 1won the Short Film Audience Award at the 33rd Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, while her current filmScorpion Grassis shortlisted for the 17th Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival local competition.Chi is also the co-founder and programme development lead of Queer China UK.
Qiuyan Chen (she/her) aka Qiubai is a Chinese LGBTQ+ activist and socially engaged artist. In 2015-17, she pursued three lawsuits against the Chinese Ministry of Education over homophobic textbooks and continued to advocate for LGBTQ+ inclusive education through various creative means. After moving to the UK, she founded Queer China UK, a community organisation that provides a safe space for Chinese LGBTQ+ diaspora and allies. In recent years, Chen has created many activities with her community network, including Queer Chinese Art Festival, queering Chinatown zine making workshops, Decolonising queer tour in Chinese at the British Museum, and ‘Drag up!’ project.