[Southeast, Edgewise] Truong Cong Tung: Another place across the river
Another Place across the River, 9’35”, 2016
The Lost Landscape #1, 5’00”, 2020
Dance of the Insect, 15’20”, 2020
Truong Cong Tung (b. 1986) has exhibited extensively both in Vietnam and internationally, as a solo artist and as part of the Art Labor Collective. Selected solo exhibitions include: Day Wanes . . . Night Waxes, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburger (2025); Trail Dust, Canal Projects, New York (2024); The Disoriented Garden . . . A Breath of Dream, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City (2023); Sa Sa Art Project, Phnom Penh (2024); Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok (2024), and MUSEION, Bolzano (2024), supported by the Han Nefkens Foundation, where he won the Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2023.
His work has also been featured in The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia (2024); Cloud Chamber, Para Site, Hong Kong (2024); The Spirits of Maritime Crossing, organized by the Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation as a Collateral Event of the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). Other notable exhibitions include Is it morning for you yet? at the 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA (2022); State of Absence . . . Words out there. A collaborative installation by plants, insects, earth, water, ash, air… and Truong Cong Tung, at Manzi Art Space, Hanoi (2021); The Sap Still Runs at Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City (2019); Between Fragmentation and Wholeness at Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City (2018); A Beast, a God, and a Line at Para Site, Hong Kong (2018), and at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2018); Dhaka Art Summit (2018); Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs at Para Site, Hong Kong (2017) and at Kadist, San Francisco (2016); Across the Forest for Project Skylines with Flying People 3 at Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi (2016); and Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future at the Taipei Biennial, Taiwan (2016).
[Southeast, Edgewise] Bo Wang and Pan Lu: Many Undulating Things
Many Undulating Things, 2h 5’, 2019
Bo Wang (b. 1982) is an artist, filmmaker and researcher based in Amsterdam. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, Garage Museum, International Film Festival Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, LUX, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, and Sharjah Film Platform, among others. He is a recipient of major international awards, including New:Vision at CPH:DOX, Golden Dove at DOKLeipzig, O.F.F. Prize at Sesc_Videobrasil, Best Doc Short at Sharjah Film Platform, etc. He currently teaches at LUCAS, Leiden University, and is finishing his PhD in cultural studies at ASCA, University of Amsterdam.
Pan Lu is Associate Professor at the Department of Chinese History and Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests cover a wide range of topics in Cultural Studies, with a focus on visual culture, city, media and memory. As a filmmaker, she directed Many Undulating Things (2019), Miasma, Plants and Export Paintings (2017), and Traces of an Invisible City: Three Notes on Hong Kong (2016) with Bo Wang, Anachronic Chronicles: Voyages Inside/Out Asia (2021) with Yu Araki, and her independent work Island Fever (2026). She was one of the curators of Kuandu Biennale, Taipei, 2018.
[Southeast, Edgewise] Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần: The Curator Ghost
Elysium without Shores, 10’, 2024
The Curator Ghost, 17’50”, 2024
Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran (b. 1987) is an art laborer based in Saigon. She creates art both collectively and individually and also curates and writes. Her artworks combine politics and sci-fi aesthetics through the use of animation, 3D design, historical archives, and architecture. Arlette is fascinated by the idea of a futuristic Third World utopia where political ideals are reimagined, and humans and non-human beings coexist and merge. She presents a non-linear and absurd interpretation of modern histories that challenges the dominant post-Cold War narratives about the Third World.
Together with visual artists Truong Cong Tung & Phan Thao Nguyen, she co-founded the Art Labor collective, which operates at the intersection of visual arts, social, and life sciences in various public contexts and locales, working on long-term, multiple output projects.
[Southeast, Edgewise] Su Hui-Yu: Re-shooting
Super Taboo, 18’, 2015
The Walker, 18’, 2017
The Glamorous Boys of Tang, 17’, 2018
SU Hui-Yu (b. 1976) explores the connection between mass media, pop culture, memories of martial law and the post-colonial history of Taiwan and East Asia. His “Re-shooting” series centers around Taiwanese and East Asian history, memory, re-imagination and transgression. His recent projects engage collective memories and ideologies while exploring the mechanism of oppression and liberation tied to Taiwan cultural values. He obtained an MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2003, and has remained active in the contemporary art scene and the film society ever since.
Su’s works have been exhibited at renowned exhibitions, festivals, and art institutes, including MOCA Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Casino Luxembourg, Bangkok Arts and Culture Center, Kunsthalle Winterthur (Switzerland), San Jose Museum of Art (California, USA), Curitiba International Biennial of Contemporary Art (Brazil), 1646 Art Space (Den Haag, The Netherlands), and Power Station of Art (Shanghai, China), the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival, the Videonale (Germany), PERFORMA (New York, USA), RISING (Melbourne).
In 2017, International Film Festival Rotterdam dedicated a retrospective to SU’s video works, while his video work Super Taboo had its world premiere in the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films. From the summer of 2023, Su’s new project The Space Warriors series has been tour exhibited at Hyundai ArtLab in Seoul for the finalist of the 5th VH Art Award, ARS Electronica in Linz, Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz in Germany, and Casino Luxembourg. The same year in May, Su’s biggest museum solo The Trio Hall was exhibited in MOCA Taipei, curated by Eugenio Viola. In 2025, The Trio Hall participated in the Forum section of the 75th Berlinale as a feature film (World Premiere).
[Southeast, Edgewise] Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina: The Pact of the Blast
Pakta Ledak / The Pact of the Blast, 1h 8’, 2025
Irwan Ahmett (b. 1975) and Tita Salina (b. 1973) are a self-taught artist duo based in Jakarta. Their initial work is to place the imagination through performative intervention amid the chaotic public space of megapolitan Jakarta, which faces the dilemma of uncontrolled urbanization and pollution. Along with the development of networks both in art and activists circles so as to encourage their artistic practice progressing towards a deeper and thicker circumtances.
They are currently working on a long-term project related to geopolitical turmoil in the Ring of Fire - Pacific Rim, the most prone region to natural disasters as well as traumatic consequences of the persistent ideological violence. They utilize their high mobility as the main vehicle participating in residency programs, research, field study and exhibitions especially in specific areas,which are paradoxical such as heavenly yet deadly beautiful places on earth. Irwan and Tita aim to find answers to planetary anxieties about human existence through an evolutionary perspective and to produce knowledge through arts related to injustice, humanity and the urgent condition of our planet.
Their public art installation and performances intervene with communities to narrate civic, political, and ecological power struggles. Since 2014, Salina and Ahmett have been working on projects around the Pacific Rim Ring of Fire – regions prone to natural disasters with persistent colonial violence, political repression, urban development issues, and profiteering of ecological resources. The artist duo conduct research, field study, and residencies to investigate injustice related to micro- and macro-environments.
Ahmett and Salina have exhibited their works in international institutions and biennales such as Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand (2020), the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2021), NTU Centre of Contemporary Art Singapore (2019), Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland (2017), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2016), Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2015), Biennale Jogja, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2015) and the Singapore Biennale (2013).
[Southeast, Edgewise] Au Sow Yee: Post-heroic Perwira
The Extreme Journey of Perwira and the Calm Sea: In 3 Acts
Prelude: Song of Departure, 4’45”, 2019
Tiger Cave, 3’36”, 2020
Electric, Cosmos and the Seance, 12’27”, 2022
To Harimau: See You on the Other Side, 1’20”, 2022
Pirates, the Trembling Ship and their 1001 Nights I: Rock and Row, 5’37”, 2022
Born and grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Au Sow Yee (b. 1978) now lives and work in Taipei. She is a recipient of Honorable Mentions in 2021 Taipei Art Award, and a finalist in the 2018 Asia Pacific Breweries Signature Art Prize. Her works focuses mainly in questioning, exploring as well as expanding the relation between images, image making, history, politics and power, through video installation and other mediums.
Sow Yee’s works were exhibited in 2023 Sharjah Biennale, 2022 Busan Biennale, Singapore Art Museum, MMCA (Seoul), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), HKW (Berlin), Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, BACC (Bangkok) and various other exhibitions and screenings. Sow Yee co-founded Kuala Lumpur’s Rumah Attap Library and Collective in 2017.
[Southeast, Edgewise] Priyageetha Dia: Spectre System
LAMENT H.E.A.T, 14’15”, 2023
Spectre System, 15’, 2024
Priyageetha Dia (b. 1992) works with time-based media and installation. Her practice braid themes of Southeast Asian labour histories, speculation of the tropics, and ancestral memory meeting machine logics. Through archival and field research, she explores nonlinearity and practices of refusal against dominant narratives.
Recent exhibitions include 4th Bangkok Art Biennale (2024); Manifesta 15, Barcelona (2024); 60th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2024); Arts House, Melbourne (2024); Diriyah Biennale, Saudi (2024); Frieze Seoul (2023); Singapore Art Museum (2023); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala (2022); La Trobe Art Institute, Australia (2022); National Gallery Singapore (2020); and Art Science Museum, Singapore (2019). She was an artist-in-residence at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore in 2022 and the SEA AiR—Studio Residencies at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands in 2023.
[Southeast, Edgewise] Riar Rizaldi: Pyroclasts are Eloquent Storytellers
Tellurian Drama, 26’25”, 2020
Pyroclasts are Eloquent Storytellers, 21’32”, 2022
Riar Rizaldi (b. 1990) is an artist and filmmaker based in Yogyakarta. His practice focuses on relationships between science, technology, labour and nature, engaging with genre cinema and theoretically informed fiction. His work has been shown at numerous international film festivals, including the Berlinale, Locarno, IFFR and FIDMarseille. Solo exhibitions include Riar Rizaldi: Mirage, Gasworks, London (2024); Riar Rizaldi: Ghosts, Monsters and Cinematic Elsewheres, ICA, London (2024); Riar Rizaldi: Fossilis, Z33, Hasselt (2024). Group exhibitions include Doc Fortnight 2024, MoMA, New York (2024); the 81st Whitney Biennial, New York (2024); the 13th Taipei Biennial (2023).
[Southeast, Edgewise] Thao Nguyen Phan: Mekong Dreaming
Mekong Mechanical, 18’32”, 2012
Becoming Alluvium, 16’40”, 2019
Thao Nguyen Phan (b. 1987) lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Trained as a painter, Phan is a multimedia artist whose practice encompasses video, painting and installation. Drawing from literature, philosophy and daily life, Phan observes ambiguous issues in social conventions and history.
Phan exhibits internationally, with solo and group exhibitions including Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France, 2025), Pirelli HangarBiccoca (Milan, Italy, 2023); Venice Art Biennial (Venice, Italy, 2022); Tate St Ives, (Cornwall, UK, 2022); Chisenhale gallery (London, 2020); WIELS (Brussels, 2020); Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai, 2019); Lyon Biennale (Lyon, 2019); Sharjah Biennial (Sharjah Art Foundation, 2019); Dhaka Art Summit (2018); Para Site (Hong Kong, 2018); Factory Contemporary Art Centre (Ho Chi Minh City, 2017); Nha San Collective (Hanoi, 2017); and Bétonsalon (Paris, 2016), among others.
She was shortlisted for the 2019 Hugo Boss Asia Art Award and she was granted the Han Nefkens Foundation-LOOP Barcelona Video Art Production Award 2018, in collaboration with Fundaciò Joan Miró. In addition to her work as a multimedia artist, she is co-founder of the collective Art Labor, which explores cross disciplinary practices and develops art projects that benefit the local community. Thao Nguyen Phan is expanding her “theatrical fields”, including what she calls performance gesture and moving images. Phan is a 2016-2017 Rolex Protégée, mentored by internationally acclaimed, New York-based, performance and video artist, Joan Jonas.
Phan’s work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, United States; Tate, United Kingdom; Centre Pompidou, France; National Gallery Singapore, Singapore; Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris and San Francisco; The Nguyen Art Foundation, Vietnam; The Outpost Arts Organization, Vietnam; and others.
[Southeast, Edgewise] Zhang Xu Zhan: Animal Story
Si So Mi, 6’01”, 2017
AT5, 7’07”, 2020
Compound Eyes of the Tropical, 17’05”, 2022
Termite Feeding Show, 15’00”, 2024
ZHANG Xu Zhan (b. 1988, Taipei) is an artist and film director who was born into a family of paper crafters who own the century-old Hsin-Hsin Paper Offering Store in Sinjhuang, Taipei. Zhang specializes in crafting expressive paper-mache as sculpture and animates them in his stop-motion films. Spanning from luxury mansions and oversized paper dolls to intricate depictions of mythological animals and flowers, his works revolve around absurd and bizarre images, and also encapsulate his wry observations on strange social phenomena and the cul-de-sac his family business faces. Extending beyond paper art, Zhang is also skilled in utilizing various mediums, including animation, video art, experimental film, stop-motion paper doll techniques, and multichannel video installations.
Zhang won the Best Animated Short Film at the Taiwan Golden Horse Film Award in 2022 and became the first Taiwanese winner of the Deutsche Bank Artists of the Year Award 2021. His solo exhibitions were held at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei, 2022), Taipei Digital Art Center (Taipei, 2015), Taiwan National Museum (Taipei, 2012) among others. His works were also shown in group exhibitions at Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) and Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) (Queensland, 2024 and 2012), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Fukuoka, 2022 and 2011), Palais Populaire (Berlin, 2021), National Museum of Indonesia (Jakarta, 2021), Asia Culture Center (Gwangju, 2020), Yokohama Museum (Yokohama, 2020), Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (Taipei, 2020, 2016, 2015, 2014), Institute d’art contemporain (Lyon, 2019), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei, 2019 and 2016), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai, 2010), Power Station of Art (Shanghai, 2018), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, 2018), Taiwan National Museum (Taipei, 2020 and 2018) among others. He also participated in numerous film festivals, including Taichung International Animation Film Festival (Taichung, 2018), Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival (Taipei, 2018), World Festival of Animated Film ANIMAFEST ZAGREB (Zagreb 2018), Taipei Film Festival (Taipei, 2018), Asolo Art Film Festival (Asolo, 2015), among others.