te editions is a curatorial, editorial and publishing collective operating between New York and Beijing. Investigating historical and contemporary social landscapes through a microscopic lens, the collective explores how cultures encounter, collapse and transform within global flows. te editions launched the bilingual annual te magazine in 2021, commissions cross-disciplinary contributions and collaborates with artists, scholars and communities to produce publications. Recent collaborations include archival workshops at Columbia University, public readings at Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum and bilingual salons on publication as social architecture.
te editions was the 2025 Asymmetry Librarians-in-Residence.
Elaine ML Tam is an itinerant writer, editor and curator from Hong Kong currently based in London. She collaborates with contemporary artists and thinkers to create new forms and forums for critical engagement. Her research interests include psychoanalysis, performance writing and feminist new materialisms. She is Head of Editorial at White Cube gallery, and Senior Editor at FIELDNOTES, an artist-run publishing project that supports non-conforming creative practices.
Moe Satt is a Burmese visual and performance artist who uses his own body as a symbolic field for exploring self, identity, embodiment, and political resistance. He is part of a renowned generation of experimental contemporary Burmese artists who overcame government censorship and oppression to engage with conceptual artwork, the body, and identity. His works deal with hand gestures and movement. Moe addresses provocative social and political issues in military-ruled Myanmar. He founded the Beyond Pressure International Performance Art Festival in Yangon, Myanmar. He has participated in live arts festivals throughout Asia, Europe & US. His work has been featured in several group exhibitions, The Spirits of Maritime Crossing_Collateral event of the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia: (2024), Documenta-15 (2022), Biennale Jogja XV (2019), ‘Political Acts: Pioneers of Performance Art in Southeast Asia’ in Melbourne (2017); CAFAM Biennale, Beijing (2013); and Busan Biennale (2012). His works have been collected by the Tate Modern, Singapore Art Museum, Kadist Foundation, and TBA21. He was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award for Emerging Asian Artists in 2015. He just finished an Artist in Residency at Rijksakademie (2022-2024).
Ye Wuji is an artist and a dutar apprentice based in London and southern China. He is interested in displacement, liminality, remainders, and “mobile society”. His research and practice are activated through bodily experience and may be metabolised into a sensuous and debatable form of social commentary. Since 2015, a major part of his practice has focused on the Tianshan Mountain region and its connections across Eurasia. On a Sunday in 2019, Wuji became a member of the Central Asia Plov Society and firmly believes that plov is the most delicious food in the world.
Can Yang is a visual artist, graphic designer, and educator who works across media to explore how graphic design can act as a cultural and historical tool, using form and typography not only to communicate, but to question established norms within visual communication. Her work often engages with the intersections of experimental publishing and critical discourse, opening up new perspectives on authorship, narrative, and design ethics.
Her pedagogical approach is developed through Neobridge, a model that centres collaborative activities, open-ended dialogue, and critical making. She teaches at the Royal College of Art and the University of the Arts London, and previously taught at Kingston School of Art.