Singing in Unison: Between Waves

Jia-Jen Lin (b. Taichung, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American artist based in Brooklyn and Berlin. Lin’s practice explores human experiences and how they inhabit our bodies despite different space and time. With an interdisciplinary approach, her installations often span several media, including sculpture, photography, video, sound, text, and performance. By employing her body and mind as an experiential interface, Lins looks into the subjects of cultural identities, struggles, correlated relationships between our physicality and psychology, and the resemblance between art making and manufacturing in social content.

Tita Salina (b. Palembang, Indonesia) and Irwan Ahmett (b. West Java, Indonesia) are an artist duo whose tactical, interventionist approach is developed in response to living in a megacity of 15 million people, and amid large-scale contemporary political power struggles. They frequently deal with social issues in public space, translating them into spontaneously unfolding events.

Maya Jeffereis (b. Los Angeles; Based in New York) is an artist working in video, performance, and installation. Her work seeks to expand upon overlooked histories and archival gaps through counter and personal narratives, offering both critical perspectives and speculative possibilities.

Born in Cambodia in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge, Vandy Rattana grew up in Phnom Penh and began his photography practice in 2005. His first works straddled the line between photojournalism and artistic practice. His recent works mark a shift in philosophy surrounding the relationship between historiography and image making. Since Bomb Ponds (2009), Rattana has been scanning the idyllic Cambodian countryside with his viewfinders and revealing its traumatic past. His short films MONOLOGUE (2015), Funeral (2018), and …far away, over there, the ocean (2019) form the MONOLOGUE trilogy. Rattana contributed to the creation of art spaces in Cambodia from 2007 to 2012, and now lives in Taiwan. His photography and video works are exhibited and shown worldwide.

Alice, Nien-Pu Ko is a curator and writer on contemporary art, film, video, sound, and interdisciplinary projects. Her projects focused on how art creates a space of mediation re-evaluating different histories and contouring modes of perception through alternative aesthetic forms. At Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, she was the co-curator of the retrospectives Tony Oursler: Black Box (2021), Pan Austro-Nesian Arts Festival (2021), and the curator of Tomb of the Soul, Temple, Machine and the Self (2018) which was nominated for the 17th Taishin Arts Award, Taiwan. She was also involved in the curatorial team touring SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, organized by Mori Art Museum in collaboration with Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in 2019.