InterPlay

Meet the Artists

• Anita She

  

  Anita She is an emerging contemporary artist living in Australia and China. She had four-year academic training in theatre art during her undergraduate period and then completed the Master program in Curating and Cultural Leadership at UNSW in 2020. Currently, Anita is an HDR student at RMIT University.

  In the recent research, Anita focuses on interdisciplinary research in performance art, sociology and anthropology (autoethnography) to discuss her own’s cultural identity as a member of a minority group in Southwest China and expound on the significant traditions. Through her practice methods such as walking, cooking and planting a variety of buckwheat, she digs into emotional connections among individual stories and collective memories, which are embedded into the natural landscape and ancient philosophy.

  IG: @shemeihuizi
  Facebook: She Meihuizi

• Bixiao (Frankie) Zhang

  

  Bixiao Zhang is a digital artist and Ph.D. candidate at RMIT University, her practice-led research, a fluid entity that she termed “The ElectroPoetics”, explores a cross-pollination of eco-poetic, post-humanist readings of Emily Dickinson and aspects of Buddhism,  for guiding performative engagements with the emergent subjectivities of the digital environment. Bixiao mainly engaged in public art projects and residencies in the Asia Pacific, such as Hong Kong Cattle Depot Art Village (2017), JMMK #12  media festival Indonesia (2020), and Hua Niao Island International Art Festival, China (2021). These projects are interested in the influence of the digital environment’s emergent subjectivities on a specific physical site. Bixiao won the 2021 Dean’s Award for her Master of Fine Art project at RMIT University and held a Bachelor of Media Arts at Flinders University. Her latest project in 2022 includes group exhibitions at Blindside Mobile (Melbourne), an upcoming project at Testing Grounds(Melbourne), and a research residency at Posthumanist Art Network (Sanfransico).

  Website: www.the-electropoetics.com
  IG: @the_electropoetics

• Rosina Yuan

  

  Rosina is a New Zealand artist of Chinese descent who works across drawing, painting, digital mediums, and installation to explore modes of interactivity in both public and private spaces. Rosina moved to Melbourne, Australia in 2017 and completed the Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours at RMIT University. She is continuing her artistic practice as a PhD candidate at RMIT University, her research investigates different modes of spatial relationships through artistic practices of public projections and augmented reality, and virtual reality by working with local and natural environments.

  Website: rosinayuan.com
  IG: @rosina_y

   

• Sherry Liu

  

  Sherry Liu is a current PhD candidate in the School of Art, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Sherry’s artistic practice investigates how affective engagement operates for rebuilding connections among nature, people and the community, and how creative practice illuminates the value of multi-cultural communities. Her works focus on affect, socially engagement, community reshaping, exploring the relational aesthetics and connective aesthetics to challenge the public to reconsider our community and environment.

  Recently, Sherry collaborated with the art director of the Huaniao Island International Public Art Festival and initiated the socially engaged art project on the Island. She is exploring how multicultural communities live together and adjust to the new community environment. She pursues affective dynamics among people, community and the environment in her social practice, which is impelled by her affection for the natural environment, and a desire of perceiving life and build connections with others. Her texts have appeared in the Public Art Journal (China) and Journal of Artistic Research.

  IG: @sherry_yeliu
  Facebook: Sherry Liu

• Su Ye - Guest Speaker for Public workshop – The Nomadic Collective: Meeting in a New Time and Space

  

  Su Ye, born in 1988, is from Inner Mongolia. She studied Architectural Design at The University of Seoul in Korea. In 2021, Su Ye was invited by Lim Young Cheol, the Architect of Huaniao Island/Artistic Director of the Huaniao Island International Public Art Festival 2021, to come to Huaniao Island to take family portraits of the elderly, with Lim as the initiator and Su Ye as the facilitator. Today, the Inner Mongolian girl has fully adapted to life on the island, carrying her camera every day to capture precious moments of family reunions for the island’s elderly. Compared to the usual tourist photos, her photos of the island are more focused on the atmosphere of the fishing village, the island climate, and the aboriginal culture.

• Wilson Yeung, Curator, Curatorial Collective

  

  Wilson Yeung Chun Wai is an artist-curator, researcher and creative producer. He is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University. Wilson is a collaborator of Independent Curators International and an alumnus of Shanghai Curator Lab at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University. Wilson’s special interest lies in collective curatorial practices and Asian contemporary art in an Australian context. His practice-based research ‘Curating In-Between’ focuses on exploring the role of curators and curatorial practices in order to develop collective curatorial strategies and frameworks. This research articulates curatorial practice that interrogates the role of a curator in facilitating cross-cultural collaborations as a ‘cultural collaborator’.

• Katherine Lee, Producer, Environmental Film Festival Australia

  

  Katherine Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Naarm/Melbourne-based arts administrator, creative producer, and fundraiser. She is passionate about facilitating the connection between art and society by creating cross-artform programs. She has organised projects such as community art festivals, school programs, theatre performances, tours, and exhibitions. Katherine is also an active creative business entrepreneur and enthusiastic about advocating financial sustainability for arts organisations. Katherine co-founded and chaired the Arts Managers Society at the University of Melbourne and was the Future Founder Scholar at StartSpace, State Library Victoria. She completed her Master’s study at the University of Melbourne and was listed on Dean’s list with the Melbourne Graduate Scholarship. Katherine currently works in development roles in the Gasworks Arts Park, Flinders Quartet, and the Mentone Public Library. She is also the Community Engagement Coordinator at the Environmental Film Festival Australia, and the Melbourne Coordinator at the Japanese Film Festival in Australia.

• Curatorial Collective, Co-Presenter

  

  Curatorial Collective (CC) is an artist-led, not-for-profit organisation founded by a team of passionate RMIT postgraduate artists and curators as part of a student initiative. Led by innovative multicultural art practitioners, CC aims to help emerging artists develop and contribute their potential to the community, and enhance cultural diversity and inclusion. CC seeks to achieve these goals through multidisciplinary projects and collaborations for emerging and CALD artists.

  Website: https://www.curatorialcollective.org/
  IG: @curatorialcollective.cc
  FB: Facebook group

   

   

• Environmental Film Festival Australia, Co-Presenter

  

  Environmental Film Festival Australia (EFFA) is a 100% volunteer-run organisation that showcases ground-breaking cinema, whilst exploring the relationship between humans and their environments. EFFA aims to challenge the way people think about the natural world and inspires people to discuss, explore and act on important environmental issues.

  EFFA hosts an annual film festival in October, along with year-round programming including online screenings and an environmental arts live stream. EFFA also presents an array of films including features, shorts, documentaries and experimental films. EFFA showcases impactful talks and provides audiences with alternate avenues for exploration of environmental cinema.

  Website: https://www.effa.org.au/
  IG: @envirofilmfest

   

• Artists Co-op, Supporter

  

  Artists Co-op is a not-for-profit arts organisation founded and run by artists in Hong Kong. Dedicated to supporting artists in their creative endeavours, they also strive to promote sustainable art and development through art programs, education and research. Artist Co-op provides valuable art programs that aim to improve the living quality of the community, empower the underprivileged, and promote cross-generation and cross-sectoral collaboration.

  Website: https://www.artistscoophk.org/
  ID: artistcoop

• Mekong Cultural Hub, Supporter