Masturah Sha’ari is the co-founder of Maya Gallery, an art gallery with a focus on Singapore and Southeast Asian art. An accomplished designer with 25 years of experience, she has designed numerous publications. As a visual artist, her paintings have been exhibited in Singapore and Malaysia. Masturah holds a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Economics and Malay Studies, from the National University of Read more....

Mak Han Feng is currently a researcher at the Centre for Chinese Language and Culture at Nanyang Technological University. His research interests are in photography, environmental art, history of photography, contemporary pop culture and music. He is also a practising photographer, with his most recent show held at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in 2019. Read more....

Ashwariya Khemka is from Mumbai and has always been interested in learning how society functions and what the role of art is in the context of modern society and its problems. This led her to study art history and examine how artists as activists can incite change. Her MA thesis focuses on violence in contemporary India. Read more....

Nyan Lin Htet is a performance practitioner from Myanmar. He is the founder and artistic director of Theatre of the Disturbed, a pioneering experimental performance ensemble based in Yangon. Lin Htet’s ongoing research focuses on the issues of aesthetic performance and the performative aspect of political activism through the lens of identity in transitional Myanmar. Lin Htet holds a BA in Architecture Read more....

Manu Sharma is an experimental audio and video artist from India with an academic interest in Indian artistry that interacts with the nation’s complex and multifaceted sociopolitical landscape.