Assembly

Moderator｜Joseph Chen (Hong Kong)

Joseph Chen is a Hong Kong-based curator, researcher, and artist currently serving as Director of Culture at Eaton HK. In this role, he leads cultural programming and impact-driven partnerships, collaborating with institutions such as Art Basel Hong Kong, M+, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong Ballet, and City Contemporary Dance Company.

Previously, Chen curated and managed exhibitions and public programs at leading Hong Kong art institutions, Para Site and Videotage. Throughout his curatorial career, he has partnered with hundreds of artists to produce exhibitions, stage performances, and commission new works, with recent collaborators including Joshua Serafin, Xavier Le Roy, Natasha Tontey, Shu Lea Cheang, and Melati Suryodarmo.

Alongside his institutional work, Chen maintains an independent artistic practice. As co-founder of Virtue Village and a founding member of Video Cypher, he actively explores self-organized models and collaborative art-making.

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Artist｜Ari Angkasa (Indonesia / Naarm)

Ari Angkasa is an Indonesian artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Angkasa's practice links transsexual sovereignty with a peculiar interest in fish and aviation engineering. Her work has recently exhibited with the Institution of Modern Art, Bangkok Kunsthalle, Queer East Film Festival, Dance Base Yokohama, and Rare Sea. She is the performance curator at Miscellania, an artist resident with Pseudo Studio, and is developing her first full length dance-theatre work You can't swim at the airport with APHIDS.

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Artist｜Chen Tianzhou (China)

Chen Tianzhou is a Chinese contemporary artist known for his interdisciplinary work spanning performance, installation, video, and visual art. His immersive performances blur the lines between exhibition and theater, engaging all senses. Drawing on subcultures, club scenes, religious rituals, and ecological themes, his work constructs surreal, symbolic worlds that reflect on life, death, and post-human existence.

His major works include the 12-hour performance TRANCE (shown at Kampnagel Hamburg, Komische Oper Berlin, Dark Mofo Tasmania, Sonic Acts Amsterdam, Sonar Festival Barcelona), and theater works such as Ksana, An Atypical Brain Damage, and Ishvara. Notable solo exhibitions include Ocean Cage (Song Art Museum, Beijing, 2024), Illuminated Spirits (Tank Shanghai, 2023), and The Shepherd (Kyoto Experiment, 2021).

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Artist｜Serena Magiliw (The Philippines)

Serena Magiliw is a transfeminist practice-based counter narrator from Manila, Philippines. Engaged with drama, performance, and cultural work; she challenges dominant narratives through lived experience and embodied knowledge of excluded identities—inviting deeper understanding of resistance against cistems of power.

They founded Trans Midya, an independent creative platform for Filipino trans and non-binary artists focused on equipping the trans being of personhood. Magiliw is one of the board of directors of Langgam Performance Troupe; a member of The Society of Trans Women of the Philippines; and one of the Membership and Alliance Coordinator of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines.

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Artist｜Su Pinwen (Taiwan)

Su Pinwen (he/they) is a feminist artist. Born in Taiwan in 1985, he is currently based in the south of Taiwan. Su’s work challenges the heteronormative revolving around notions of gender, feminisms, and nudity. Since 2013, he has researched and practiced tactile culture, taking dance into social and political realms beyond its forms while his recent work explores body politics with feminist approaches across disciplines. Currently serving as the artistic director of KUABO DANCE THEATRE, a resident at Chiayi Performing Arts Center, and the curator of COME OUT FEST, Su holds an MFA in Choreography from Taipei National University of the Arts and a Bachelor's in Philosophy from Nanhua University.

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