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Produced in response to Peer’s exhibition, we are a group of people composed of who we are, MA Curating and Collections students developed a sound-based experimental research project comprising audio essays taken from interviews with various political organisers who are actively campaigning for a more just society. This event was made possible through a partnership between Peer and MA Curating and Collections at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
Focussing on housing, unemployment, childcare and equal rights in the context of Hackney, the audio essay amplified the quiet frequencies within the archive and invited participants to imagine the future of activism.
BIOGRAPHIES
Alex Bal grew up in Slough, just outside of London. He is a mixed race, cisgendered male. He studied a BA in Fashion Marketing at the University of Southampton, graduating in 2022. In his BA, Alex explored critical issues regarding race and ethnicity within the fashion industry. In his MA, he critiques this in a curatorial context; he questions representation on an institutional level and investigates themes of discrimination, tokenism and ghettoization.
Haoyue Chen, female, born in Ningbo, China, currently researching on new models of curatorial practice needed under the hybrid public space context, as a result of digitalisation and global public health crisis.
Aishwarya Korwar grew up in Hyderabad, India. After spending most of her life feeling a deep unwavering passion for challenging societal norms, she decided to pursue an MA in Curation and Collection. As a person of colour, her research interest is fuelled by advocating for underrepresented voices particularly in relation to issues of gender, identity, and power dynamics. She aims to curate exhibitions that celebrate the achievements of women artists, artists of colour, LGBTQ+ artists, and artists from other historically marginalised groups.
Sophia Lam grew up in Hong Kong and has worked locally in journalism and with art non-profits. With an education in translation and languages, she is interested in cultural nuances that manifest in language, visual art and more. She identifies as a cis-gender female. Her current research interest is imagining the archive as an organic flux and its potential to produce a site of resistance to hegemonic historic narratives and majoritarian cultures.
Eva Rondo was born and raised in Moscow, Russia. Back in Moscow, Eva’s curatorial practice was focused on working with emerging artists and new media. Currently, the main theme of research for Eva is contemporary political activism and state violence.
Sijie Song was born and raised in China and her MA thesis is about socially engaged art/community-based art, which liberates the viewer from the traditional position of the passive viewer and focuses on the participation of the viewer and the positive ongoing impact of the art itself on the community.
Birong Wang, from Beijing, China. She researched on the preservation and restoration of traditional Chinese heritage in China, and now focuses on artistic interventions in Palestine, considering how Palestinian artists use, usurp or subvert power infrastructures to criticise and intervene in Israel's colonial power.
Jiachen Zhu was born in China, and lived and studied in Canada for seven years. Based on her art history and psychology academic background, her current research is about improving accessibility related to art and health projects within curatorial practice.
Peiwei Zhu was born in China, she studied International Relations as an undergraduate, and her current research is about activism and feminism, including how female artists work as activists to promote feminism development in Britain.
