Shanghai-based artist Lu Yang works across video, installation, animation, performance, motion capture and games. Lu graduated with an MA in New Media Art from the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. Lu’s work explores existential issues about the nature of life through references to Chinese medicine, neuroscience, popular culture and religion. Lu has presented solo exhibitions at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (2021), Spiral, Tokyo (2018), M Woods Museum, Beijing (2017), and others. Lu was selected for the Chinese Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, and won the BMW Art Journey initiative in 2019.

liiii, aka Li Xin is a musician, guitarist and sound artist based in Shanghai. He has played in rock and electronic bands, including Triple Smash, Mushroom, Naughty Volunteer and SROT, and has toured extensively in China and internationally. In 2012, he founded the Pluto Music Studio, which produced the Shanghai independent music compilation Indie Top 1. The studio has also produced soundtracks and art projects for Budapest China Art Week, Hamburg Sino-German Art Week, Shanghai French Culture Week, Shanghai International Arts Festival, Shanghai Fashion Week, and others. In 2017, he started an independent music and art project under the pseudonym, liiii.

Hong Kong independent choreographer and dancer Kenny Leung Kim-fung studied Chinese Dance at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts before receiving a Master’s degree in Contemporary Dance Performance from the Taipei National University of the Arts. He has worked and toured with a number of Hong Kong and international choreographers, and collaborated with artists in different fields. Fusing the vocabulary of Chinese and Western dance through his rich training and experience, Leung has developed a unique style with a strength in improvisation and diverse physical performance. His work focuses on physical movement and cross-media experiment, exploring the relationship between performing and viewing as well as the infinite possibilities of performance itself. Leung’s recent cross-disciplinary works include The Battle (2020) and Body Codes II: Performscape (2021).

Born and raised in Sydney, Taiga Kita-Leong is a freelance multidisciplinary movement artist who began his training at the age of four at various dance schools, collaborating with different choreographers including Cass Mortimer Eipper, Gabrielle Nankivell, Rafael Bonachela and Sue Healey. Upon graduating in 2021, Kita-Leong had the opportunity to perform in the renowned work Decadance by Ohad Naharin with Sydney Dance Company at Sydney Festival 2022. He worked with Miranda Wheen when touring New South Wales, performing The Rivoli with Dance Makers Collective. He has also worked on television and film sets as a movement director, artist and body double. Kita-Leong appears on several music videos, including Touch by Golden Features, Swan Song by Mo’ju, Holdin’ On by Korky Buchek and Honest by Joji Malani.

Photo: Ashley McLellan

Harrison Hall’s work situates contemporary performance and dance in experiential art environments. Recently, he was awarded a SOLITUDE 1 residency from Chunky Move and the Tanja Liedtke Foundation. During the residency, he and motion graphics artist Luca Dante spawned Maelstrom, a multi-channel digital choreography installation that premiered at MARS Gallery, Melbourne and Metro Arts, Brisbane in late 2021. Through Chunky Move, Hall and Dr. Sam Mcgilp presented BONANZA!, a media artwork blending together dance, film, digital animation and artist dialogue that included conversations with Taiwanese audiovisual art collective NAXS corp. and Chinese digital artist Lu Yang. He was selected as a participating artist at the Taipei Performing Art Centre’s ADAM project in 2020 and continues to collaborate with this network through his contribution to the programme of BLEED 2022. He has worked with international artists and companies including Yumi Umuimare, Theatre Group GUMBO (Japan), The Australian Ballet and La Fura dels Baus (Spain).