Whiskey Chow (Royal College of Art, London) is an artist, activist and Chinese drag king. Chow’s practice engages with political issues and related topics: from queer(ing) masculinity, problematizing the nation-state across geographic boundaries, interrogating stereotypical projections of Chinese/Asian identity, to enabling empowerment by queer-reading ancient Chinese myth. 

Minji Chun is a DPhil Candidate in History of Art at the University of Oxford, specialising in socially engaged art in contemporary Korea. She has worked as an art critic, curator, and translator based in Seoul and Oxford. Her research and writing include publications for Burlington Contemporary, FIELD, and ArtAsiaPacific.

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Haeju Kim is Senior Curator and Head of Residencies at the Singapore Art Museum. She has experience curating numerous contemporary art exhibitions and performance programs, with an emphasis on the body, time and memory. Her work also engages with topics such as ecological perspectives, locality and planetary connections.​​

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Maximilian Langefeld is a DPhil Candidate in History of Art at the University of Oxford, specialising in queer art and visual activism in the Sinophone sphere. He holds degrees in Contemporary Art & Art Theory (SOAS) and East Asian Studies (Heidelberg University). His writing has appeared in Arts and The China Quarterly, among others.​​​​​​​​​​

Jihyeong Lee is a lecturer in Korean art at Freie Universität Berlin. Her current research focuses on the performative dimensions of linguistic elements in Joseon Buddhist gwaebul paintings. She has been part of the curatorial teams at the Barakat Institute in Seoul and the Samurai Art Museum in Berlin.​

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Patricia Lenz is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Zurich. Her thesis examines Asia-Pacific War memories in contemporary Japanese art since the 1980s, focusing on artists from the first postwar generation. Her research explores artists such as Ôura Nobuyuki, Aida Makoto, Dokuyama Bontarô and Fujii Hikaru.

Di Liu is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. With research interests in connoisseurship, art criticism and socially engaged art, her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Spike and Artforum.

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Xinyue Liu is a DPhil candidate in fine art at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. She is a practice-led Clarendon researcher studying ecological grief. Her research spans the disciplines of visual anthropology, contemporary film and visual art studies, and interspecies ethics.​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Aya Momose approaches ideas around gaze and desire, sexuality and gender, body and performance. Underlying her work is an acute awareness of the societal norms and invisible structures of oppression that lurk behind tension and turmoil when people or beings touch, desire, or fail to understand each other.​​

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Founded in 2018, Multiple Spirits (Mai Endo & Mika Maruyama) is a collective and bilingual queer-feminist art zine press based in Tokyo and Vienna. While publishing zines, they explore how feminist discourses have circulated and influenced contemporary art, popular culture and activism.

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Natsuko Odate is a founding member and board director of the nonprofit association Art Commons Tokyo, and curator and coordinator at Theater Commons Tokyo. Odate has been exploring new forms of collaboration to solve issues like discrimination, harassment and inequality in the arts. She is an advisor for the National Art Research Center, Japan.​​​​​​​​​​​​

Eunseon Park holds an MFA in Art, MA and Ph.D. in urban planning. In 2009, she founded Listen to the City, an art collective focused on challenging conventional boundaries and fosters critical dialogues about the urban and social fabric of contemporary cities. She currently serves as a researcher at CISAR, UNIST.

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Kanako Tajima is a PhD candidate in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, specialising in transnational feminist art practices by women artists from Japan in the 1970s to 1980s. She obtained her MA in Japanese Studies from Sophia University and has held internships at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and Yayoi Kusama Museum. ​

Ming Tiampo is Full Professor of Art History, co-director of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis, and cross-appointed to the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture. She is a specialist of transnational modernisms, with a particular interest in worlding, global microhistories, circulation, and comparative diasporas. 

Jason Waite is a curator, writer, and cultural worker. He is part of the collective Don't Follow the Wind, holds a PhD from University of Oxford, and MA in Art & Politics from Goldsmiths. Waite is the Postdoctoral Fellow of the Arts at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki.​

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Meiqin Wang is a professor at California State University Northridge, specialising in contemporary Chinese art. She has written on topics such as artist villages, creative cultural industries, art and urbanization. Currently, her research focuses on socially engaged art and its related categories such as public art, artivism and ecological art.

Yuzhuo Wang is a PhD candidate at the Communication University of China and a visiting PhD at the University of Leeds, with research interests in film and television studies, emotion and affect, and feminist media studies. Her PhD thesis examines female negative emotions in contemporary British and American TV series.