Bodies, Buildings, Cracks, Romance, and Chives

Umi Otto is a designer based in Naarm (Melbourne) with an interest in multimedia and the bridge between visual art and design. Recently graduated from RMIT with a bachelor in communication design, she gravitates towards publication, image-making and the integration of analog techniques within digital spaces.

Chun Yin Rainbow Chan 陳雋然 is a Hong Kong-Australian interdisciplinary artist and pop musician. Her practice explores (mis)translation, diaspora, love and grief. In 2022, she was recognised in the 40 Under 40: Most Influential Asian-Australians Award, and she won Artist of the Year in the FBi SMAC Awards. Chan has exhibited at Firstdraft, Sydney; Liquid Architecture, Melbourne; 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney; Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney; and I-Project Space, Beijing. She was a finalist in the 2022 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (Artspace, Create NSW, NAS). Her documentary for Radio National, Songs From a Walled Village, was a finalist in the 2021 ABU Awards. Her latest record Stanley was released on Eastern Margins (UK, 2021).

Jennifer Cunningham is a design researcher and writer with a background in material culture. Based between Lisbon and London she is currently working on design research to advance the green transition in the UK.

Lǐ Xīng Yǔ - Echo Li Lǐ Xīng Yǔ (Echo Li) 李星雨 (1997) is an artist based in Narrm (Melbourne) born in Suzhou, whose practice spans multiple disciplines: painting, performance, writing, photograph, video, printmaking etc. Her work often involves translation and remediation as methods. She is obsessed with love. The endless chasing of her overwhelming emotions is political and linked to love and cultural loss.  To be “Un” has been the key to her practices, which often embodies resistance and antagonism against the establishment and the dominant ideology in China. Similarly, the West is also plagued with political issues that often echo white privilege and colonialism. As a transnational Chinese artist, She lies in a mid-ground between two societies. Thus her practices often came from this sense of in-between-ness by being “Un”.  There are nostalgias, stories, humour coming from these places she lived; She carries them with her and sees them as the politics of identity as seen in exhibitions at Kings ARI, Das Boot Fair (with Yundi Wang) and Blak Dot, Melbourne.

Panda Wong is a Malaysian-Chinese poet who lives on unceded Wurundjeri land. She is an Associate Editor at The Suburban Review, a Performance Review board member and a 2020 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk fellow. The first poem she ever wrote was a eulogy. Her first chapbook angel wings dumpster fire was published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2022. Her first EP, salmon cannon me into the abyss, a collaboration with multiple friends was released in July 2022.