Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. Using lectures, essays, and films, his research examines systems of governance in a global age. He has presented projects at the Bangkok Art Biennale, Asian Art Biennial, Gwangju Biennale, Jakarta Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Kunsthalle Wien, Singapore Art Museum, Van Abbemuseum, and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. In 2019, he was awarded the International Film Critics’ (FIPRESCI) Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. In 2018, he was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.
Di Liu is a researcher and writer based between Hong Kong and Cambridge, UK. She is a project member of the lumbung artist collective BOLOHO and a co-founder of the lumbung publisher Reading Room, which were both presented at documenta fifteen. Her research interests include collective practices, discourses on Asia in artistic production, and the metamorphosis of transregional material culture. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.