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Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin (b. 1989, Guangzhou) is an artist based in Guangzhou and New York. In 2015, she earned an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University following a BA in Studio Art and Communication from Denison University in 2012. Her work has been exhibited at Taikang Space, Beijing (2018), Para Site, Hong Kong (2017), OCAT Shenzhen (2017), You Won't Be Young Forever curated by Biljana Ciric, Shanghai (2016), Queens Museum, New York (2016), Barnard College, New York (2016), Spring/Break Art Show, New York (2016), 221A, Vancouver (2015), Fisher Landau Center, Queens (2015), Jewish Museum, New York (2014). Her solo exhibitions included Lv Hua Dai at Salt Projects, Beijing (2018) and Things to Come at Weekend, Seoul (2017). Her upcoming project includes a collaboration with Heidi Lau at Triple Canopy and Times Museum residency in Cuba in collaboration with Hera Chan. She was a part of the Para Site residency hosted by Spring Workshop in 2017. She is a winner of the Lotos Foundation Prize in 2015 nominated by Sarah Sze. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Ruthless Lantern, a gossip art magazine.

Hera Chan is a curator and writer living in Kowloon. She currently curates public programmes at Tai Kwun Contemporary. Committed to sustaining networks of solidarity and building media infrastructures, she acted as director/curator of Videotage in Hong Kong from 2017 to 2018. She is co-founder of Atelier Céladon in Montreal, speaking with diasporic peoples to socially engineer a future that is already possible. Otherwise, she has worked as a researcher and community journalist. In the summer of 2017, she began her international search for Miss Ruthless. Hera was a finalist in Miss Chinese Montreal 2017.

Alexis Chan, known as Soda Plains, is a musician, composer and producer born in Hong Kong and raised in the West Midlands, UK. He has released for Amnesia Scanner’s label Black Ocean and London-based Liminal Sounds, with the majority of his works being self-released. His 2018 mixtapeReconcile follows suit, with the solo artist’s release following Ian Isiah’s Shugga Sextape Vol. 1 which features productions by Soda Plains. Chan has been commissioned to compose for DAZED, Kendall Jenner, Nike, Acronym, Nhu Duong, and Native Instruments among others. He has performed sets for the likes of Rick Owens, Nhu Duong AW17, Melt Festival, PAF Festival, PAN / Codes, Boiler Room, and Rinse. Collaborators include Organ Tapes, Ian Isiah, and Negroma. In 2017, Soda Plains and Negroma developed a multimedia project titled In Tongues—performed at CTM Festival Berlin with an original score by Soda Plains.