Wang Boyuan is an artist based in London and China who explores absurdity and fantasy through printmaking, moving images, drawing, etc. Wang Boyuan’s works employ imagination and humor to reflect and rethink identity, sexuality, social constraints, and underlying ideologies. His current work is a series of drawings that serve as self-portraits exploring my possibilities, desires, and emotions.
Renowned for their versatility and innovative use of mixed media, Chen Yang specializes in digital media art, moving images, as well as painting and sculpture installations. Their creative practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach, through which they investigate and articulate the nuanced dialogues between human societies and their habitats.
Xinyu Zhang, also known as DayDay, is a contemporary artist originally from Wuhan, Hubei, China, and currently based in New York. Drawing inspiration from daily observations, existential reflections, and a relentless curiosity to explore diverse materials, Xinyu's art is distinguished by minimalist lines and symbols, continually seeking a delicate balance between design principles and fine art.
Delphine Cuelenaere is driven by curiosity in both subject and method. The technique of woodcarving gives her the opportunity to be surprised by the material. Open-minded departures from the unknown and a radical openness to not knowing what will come are the essence of her artistic process. Slowly and unpredictably, scenes emerge in which voyeur and protagonist, spectator and artist, intertwine.
Jiangshengyu Nova Pan is a moving image and installation artist, currently based in Baltimore (USA). work focuses on human mobility. Working from the perspective of the individual, Pan’s work explores the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks faced by a mobile population through sculptures and videos, appropriating everyday life scenes based on her semi-fictional writings.
With a background in tattooing, Ben Große-Johannböcke, born in Melle, Germany, in 2002, explores the relationship between musical compositions and visual arts. A large part of his work consists of graphite drawings on canvas, isolated mark-making with neither form nor colour. These patterns/structures aim to visually recreate certain parts of the musical composition they respond to.
Sunny Liu is a filmmaker, pianist/composer, and animator. Her work utilizes intimate storytelling to give a voice to the underrepresented. Her latest project, Pianoman, touches upon significant social issues in a non-trauma-based, sensitive cinema verite style. It illustrates the emotional journey the subjects experience, ranging from deep pain to poignant tenderness.
Alisa Scetinina is a performer and musician, born in Latvia and currently based in Berlin, Germany. For Alisa, performance is the way one carries oneself and connects to the inner voice, whether it is through music, dance, film, or any other source of expression. She explores the fluidity and smoothness of our psyche and body, not scared to break the walls that we and our society have built for us.
Multidisciplinary visual artist Lela Amparo uses machine learning (GAN) to create visual imagery that showcases an otherworldly atmosphere. She also is an ambient music producer who merges her music and art to make a multi-sensory experience for the end viewer. Amparo specialises and takes great pleasure in transporting the viewer and listener to a different dimension.
Lana Eileen is an artist, photographer, and musician who creates original sculptures, creatures, and puppets by hand, as well as photographic and mixed media work. Her work combines elements of fantasy and magic realism, inspired by her research into world mythology and folklore. Originally from Australia, Lana has lived in many different places. Most recently, she is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Patricia Rabbiosi is a composer, sound architect and visual artist from Argentina. She explores sound architecture and objects as source material in her music. Her visual work is self-taught, exploring different techniques from real images, which are then digitally processed. Her other works include performances and interventions with social themes.
The2vvo is an artist duo from Kazakhstan currently living between Berlin and Los Angeles, made up of Eldar Tagi (sound art) and Lena Pozdnyakova (sculpture, architecture, visual arts). The duo explores the complicated dynamics between cultures and spaces, objects and processes through sound, sculpting, visual art, and performance.
Zita Vilutyte is a Lithuanian artist based in Siauliai/Kaunas in Lithuania. Zita Vilutyte started work at the Holistic Movement Theater "S." She has expanded from movement performances and music production to interdisciplinary educational projects. Since 2006 she became a member of the ambient music association, Ambient Music Garden (UK), released 17 music albums, music for documentaries, and plays.
Absent Chronicles was born out of a need to express, construct, tear down and process. It is the music created by structuring chaos juxtaposed by visuals generated by processing musical parameters while trying to implement the almost inevitable technological changes happening around us, instead of fighting against them: walking the intersection of art and technology, exploring the stories yet to be told.
