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.
the LIGHT LOGISTICS project by Display Distribute: Among several recent inquiries into the illicit movements of goods and people, the LIGHT LOGISTICS project organised by Display Distribute operates as a burgeoning distribution platform and travelogue in service of the channels between readers and semi-autonomous publishers. Described as a 'not-in-time' enterprise, LIGHT LOGISTICS appropriates the surplus carrying power of a network of travellers within the architectures of global logistics, simultaneously creating other forms of encounter and knowledge exchange parallel to the print-based production of critical practices of art and theory in East and Southeast Asia.