Chan Wai Lok, a Hong Kong choreographer and performer completed his studies in P.A.R.T.S. (Belgium) upon receiving scholarships from the [DNA] network supported by Creative Europe under the European Commission and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund.

He previously studied in SEAD (Austria) after graduating from the Architecture Studies in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His recent works include Reverie (2022), Click (2021) and An Auction without Bass (2021) unfolding perspectives in performativity and choreography. Other works include In the Cloud (2022), provoking the audience’s imagination into body movement and performance; and {POV [TWINK / COUPLE (ASIAN) / EXPERIMENTAL]} (2021) and its video version POV, demonstrating the texture and connection between live and video performance.

Democratic interpretation and emancipation in audience has been one of the major genres he has been exploring in his previous solo Everyone knows what it means to think (2019) and his collaboration with Mariana Miranda, /bI'twi:n/ (2019).

He collaborated with various artists including Cristian Duarte, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Meytal Blanaru, KT Yau Cherry Leung and Joseph Lee. In 2020, he, together with his fellows, established an independent art space, ngau4 gat1 dei6, which is an art project exploring how to operate and sustain such art space in local art scene, and sharing spatial resources with fellow artists.

Personal Website:
wailokcwl.com

Albert Garcia (b. 1994) is a multi-disciplinary artist and was born and raised in Macao with Filipino descent and currently based in Taipei, Taiwan. A performance artist that employs the body and multimedia as a medium to explore and express their identity.He uses mobility as both a personal narrative and a critical tool, transforming it into capital that shapes his exploration of displacement, hybridity, labor, and citizenship. His layered, multimedia performances, incorporating video and documents, provoke deep reflection on how the body is being pushed and pulled by the environment. He majored in Media studies (BA, 2012) in Macao and based in Taiwan, studying dance performance (MFA, 2017) in Taipei.

His representative work Joy, Untitled 2.0 and The Survival Guide: between a dog, wolf and tardigrade thematically focuses on how the inescapable past tragically affects our lives today. These pieces are stories about labor migration and performing citizenship. Garcia’s long- term focus on survival strategies and related issues in contemporary society. Garcia will explore the complexity of identity construction and its performativity in contemporary society under the theme of "Survival Guide," sharing his experiences of the difficulties, expectations, and coping strategies faced by various identities in different contexts.