Beatrice Glow’s research-intensive artwork is concerned with themes of diaspora, indigeneity and the intersecting historical realities of botany and empire. Notable exhibitions and screenings of her work have been held at Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan; Park Avenue Armory, New York; Honolulu Biennial 2017; Duke House Exhibition Series, Institute of Fine Art, NYU, New York; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Chile; and Galeri Nasional, Indonesia. Beatrice completed a BFA in Studio Art at New York University and has received awards ranging from Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Emerging Artist Fellow, and was a Fulbright Scholar for Performance Art. During her residency at Yale-NUS College, Beatrice used multi-sensory approaches, ranging from experiential technology to olfactory art. Through collaborative artistic methods she worked with students, National University of Singapore Museum and community members to research the circulation of people, objects and cultures, focusing on multivalent relationships between Chinese decorative arts, migration flows in Southeast Asia and global cultural productions.

https://beatriceglow.org

Andrew S. Yang works across the visual arts, the sciences, and history to explore emerging ecologies of the Anthropocene. Yang’s work has been exhibited from Oklahoma to Yokohama, including the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2016), the Spencer Museum of Art (2019), and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (2020). His writing and research can be found in Art Journal, Leonardo, Biological Theory, and Antennae. Curatorial work includes Earthly Observatory at Sullivan Galleries: School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as Making Kin—Worlds Becoming at the Center for Humans & Nature. He is a Professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago was a research associate at the Field Museum of Natural History and is a curatorial fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature.

https://www.andrewyang.net/
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Christa Donner is an artist, writer, and organiser who investigates the human and animal body as well as its metaphors. Donner employs a range of artistic media in her creative research, including drawing, audio performance, large-scale installations and small-press publications to create multi-layered projects that are both intimate and community-centered. Her artistic research focuses on the human and non-human body as a site for conflict and adaptation, from the internal activities of the microbiome to the creative potentials of care work and community. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

https://www.christadonner.com/
https://www.culturalreproducers.org/