Yijun Yang’s work moves between domesticity and visual fiction, creating constructed scenes that examine the fragility of memory and cultural identity. Yang utilizes everyday objects manipulated at unexpected scales to present images of tangible stillness that hold deep feeling beyond mere narrative or explanation. In this conversation, she invites us to her profound collaborative philosophy on how empty spaces continue to carry emotional resonance long after a character has

As an Art Lead working across multiplatform game development and an independent artist, Malakhov pairs his rigorous classical art education with a deep reflection on how emerging digital spaces reshape our perception of presence and memory. In this text-based interview, he opens up about his belief that visual art operates as a nonverbal "bionic code" capable of conveying raw human emotion where words fail.

The same inert sandwich sat uneaten on a paper plate on the dining room table. How many hours had it been there? None of us ever actually dine in dining room, so it’s almost unnerving to see food in that space.

Modernity begins, in a real sense, when human beings become aware that they are watching themselves. Mirrors, confession, diaries, introspection, and religious judgment all existed long before the present. The contemporary problem, however, is no longer simply whether people reflect on themselves.

Đurđija’s multidisciplinary practice transforms field recordings and overheard voices into profound cultural inquiries. From wartime Yugoslavia’s radio static to New York subway arias, this conversation explores how the act of listening maps the hidden hierarchies of our world.

Yasmine Laraqui’s multidisciplinary work transforms the image into a live sociological experiment, exploring the fluid mechanics of human belonging under platform capitalism.

Jiaqi Liu’s work begins with a deceptively simple proposition: construct a condition precisely enough that something larger than the artist can begin to unfold. Across technology, imaging, performance, writing, and public-facing works, she is less interested in medium as identity than in the subtle point where structure becomes experience.

French artist and designer Benoit Béal, working as By_33, uses optical illusion, black-and-white contrast, and minimalist text to question how perception shapes prejudice. In I AM YOU, TOO, the eye becomes a site of evidence, uncertainty, and ethical recognition.

Gordon Fung works across performance, media installation, experimental video, sound, participatory theater, writing, and curatorial practice. His work moves between playful and esoteric registers, but the underlying concern is consistent: how art might help people ask better questions, become more attentive to interdependence, and remain human amid historical repetition, technological acceleration, and social fragmentation.

When a society loses its ability to hold ambiguity, mixture, threshold, and the unclassifiable, it often returns to the logic of purification.

This week’s signals across performance, visual culture, and the humanities: new exhibitions, festival lineups, major announcements, and debates shaping the field. Briefs, minimal noise, maximum context.

If MBTI is the modern tool to decode personality, then Peking Opera Facial Makeup is the ancient“personality label”created by the Chinese hundreds of years ago, using color and pattern.Every character becomes a visible map of the soul. Every encounter is a recognition across time and culture.In every era and every land, humans do the same thing: giving visible form to the invisible inside.

Chen-Yi Wu works across image and text, moving between documentary filmmaking, photography, illustration, writing, teaching, programming, and collaboration as interconnected forms of inquiry.

In this episode of Inside Out, ELSEHERE sits down with Li Ning for a long, unhurried conversation on the body, performance, memory, migration, loss, and the strange ways art returns us to ourselves. Moving between rural childhood, breakdance culture in 1980s China, sculpture training, grief, contemporary dance, nudity, censorship, and the body’s own knowledge, Li Ning reflects on how movement first gave him back his body, then gave him a place to belong.

Enrico Dedin works at the intersection of digital culture, image-making, and critical reflection on the present. In his practice, the smartphone, the archive, found footage, symbolic collage, and AI are not simply subjects or tools. They are symptoms, infrastructures, and mirrors through which contemporary life reveals its rituals, dependencies, and cognitive transformations. What follows is an edited text-based conversation drawn from his written responses, focusing on techn