Manray Hsu is an independent curator and critic. His intellectual work focuses on cultural conditions of globalization, the relationship between aesthetics and politics, and geopolitical situations of contemporary art and the arts of the Anthropocene. His recent curatorial projects include: How Big Is the World? (2002, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria); the Liverpool Biennial (2006, U.K. Liverpool); Naked Life (2006, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art); Taipei Biennial (2008, co-curated with Vasif Kortun, Taipei Fine Arts Museum); Autostrada Biennale: The Future of Borders" (2017, Prizren, Kosovo); "The South: an Art of Asking and Listening" (2017, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts); “Herbal Urbanism: An artistic project on cosmopolitics” (2018, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei); “When Kacalisian culture meets the vertical city: Greater Sandimen Contemporary Art” (2019, Taiwan Aboriginal Culture Park, Pingtung); “Kacalisian: Crossing the Tuniu Ditch” (2019, Pingtung Chaozhou Linhousilin Forest Park); "Crossing the Tuniu Ditch - Reactivating Tribal Deities, the Name Rectification of Makatao" (2020, Assembly of Communities: MIX, MOCA Taipei); “Futurist Wave: Contemporary Art from Greater Sandimen" (2020, Pingtung Museum of Art); “Herbal Urbanism Hsinchu: Margins of the City as Method” (2021, Hsinchu City Art Gallery, Hsinchu 241 Art Gallery);” Distances between Us and the Future: An Exhibition of Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art” (2021, the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Park); "Between Earth and Sky: Indigenous Contemporary Art from Taiwan" (2021, The Tenth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art). Hsu served as a jury member for the 49th “Venice Biennale” and a jury member of the “Unesco Prize” and the 7th “Istanbul Biennial.”
I-Wen CHANG is an Assistant Professor at Taipei National University of the Arts. She received her PhD in Culture and Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her areas of specialization include Taiwanese theatrical dance, digital performance, interdisciplinary and intercultural performance. She serves as a board member of “Taiwan Dance Research Society.” I-Wen is the author of the books Beyond Dancing: Dance in Contemporary Art (Taipei: BOOKMAN BOOKS, 2022), and the co-author of the book Networked Bodies: The Culture and Ecosystem of contemporary Performance (Taipei: Taipei Performing Arts Center, 2022) and Pina Bausch: Dancing for the World (Taipei: National Performing Arts Center, 2007). She is a performance critic for the Artist Magazine (Taipei) and Performing Arts Review Magazine (Taipei) since 2007. Her articles are published in Journal for the History of the Body, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Arts Review, Taiwan Dance Research Journal, Culturebot, and Curatography. She is the curator of the “Digital Corporeality” exhibition at C-LAB (2021-22). She co-curated the exhibition "Hot Body, Cool Tech: Performative and Choreographed Bodies in New Media" " with Dr. Francesca ALBREZZI at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts (2017) and is the curator of "Tradition In Near Future: Ritual Corporeality in Contemporary Taiwanese Arts” at Taiwan Academy, Los Angeles (2018).