Aung San Thar
San Thar Aung was born in 1980 in Burma. He is a journalist, filmmaker and media activist. Aung started his career in a local print media in 2005 after graduation. … Continue reading
Anomaa Rajakaruna
Anomaa Rajakaruna is a sociologist with an interest in communication. She has travelled extensively in South Asia documenting the lives of community groups and, in particular the lives of women … Continue reading
Aw Pi Kyeh (APK)
Aw Pi Kyeh is a well-known cartoonist and environment conservationist. With 30 years of cartooning, his choice of pen name was as such because it means ‘loudspeaker’ in Burmese. In … Continue reading
Brett Bailey
Brett Bailey is a playwright, designer, director, festival curator and the artistic director of THIRD WORLD BUNFIGHT. His acclaimed iconoclastic dramas, which interrogate the dynamics of the post-colonial world, include … Continue reading
Desire Machine Collective
Collaborating since 2004 as Desire Machine Collective, Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya employ film, video, photography, and multimedia installation in their works. Assuming their name and theoretical disposition from Anti-Oedipus: … Continue reading
Ju
Born 1958, she is a medical doctor, a profession she no longer practises. Her first novel ‘A Hmat T’ya’ (Remembrance) published in 1987 was an instant best-seller. Generally, the theme … Continue reading
Julie Tolentino
Julie Tolentino is an interdisciplinary artist who creates durational movement-based installations opening dialogues through her raced and gendered body as a site of intervention. Solo and group projects commissioned and presented … Continue reading
Kaffe Matthews
Kaffe Matthews was born in Essex, England and lives and works in London. Since 1990 she has been making and performing new electro-acoustic music worldwide with a variety of things … Continue reading
Keiko Sei
Keiko Sei is writer, curator and teacher on media art and media activism.Her most recent curatorial project is “Re-Designing the East”, which is touring through Stuttgart, Gdansk, Budapest and Seoul. … Continue reading
Ko Tar
Dr. Thant Lwin Maung, known as Ko Tar, is a well-known writer and translator, an educational pioneer, orthopedic surgeon and activist for environmental issues. Together with a well-known Buddhist monk, … Continue reading
Lin Htet
Lives and works in Paris/Myanmar. Nyan Lin Htet started making performance art works in early 2000s and later he joined the contemporary theatre group Annees Folles for intensive theatre training … Continue reading
Lorène Tamain
Theatre of the disturbed is an independent performance ensemble based in Yangon, Myanmar. It was founded in 2005 by Burmese theatre/performance artist Nyan Lin Htet and French musician/ humanitarian worker Lorène Tamain … Continue reading
Maija Hirvanen
Maija Hirvanen is a choreographer and performance maker based in Helsinki, Finland. In addition to her solo and group performances she has made collaborations and projects with other artists. Maija’s … Continue reading
May Phue Thet
A young female artist, an assistant dressmaker. May Phu Thet appear in the Mandalay art scene with her experimentation on old derisively puppet in new embroidery sparkling dress. She was … Continue reading
Min Thein Sung
Min Thein Sung was born in Myanmar on 4th August 1978. While he was a student at Art School, he specialised in painting and sculpture. The first exhibition of his … Continue reading
Moe Naing
Moe Naing is the director and founder of Gitameit Music Center in Yangon, Myanmar. He studied music in Payap University (Thailand) and came back to start the music center in … Continue reading
Nge Lay
Nge Lay was born in 1979 in Pyin Oo Lwin and graduated with Bachelor degrees in economics (Yangon East University) as well as in fine art (National University of Art and Culture). Her recent … Continue reading
Okkar
Twenty-four year old Maung Okkar’s film career began at the age of 14 when he starred in Dat-khe, a feature film directed by his father – the celebrated Burmese filmmaker U … Continue reading
Ong Keng Sen
Ong Keng Sen, artistic director of TheatreWorks (Singapore), is a well-known performance director and has actively contributed to the evolution of an Asian identity; as well as the subsequent transglobalisation … Continue reading
Rachael Swain
Rachael Swain is a founder and Co-artistic Director of Stalker Theatre, based in Sydney. She has pioneered challenging new approaches to Australian Physical Theatre, drawing on experimental dance and multi … Continue reading
Sanathanan Thamotharampillai
Sanathanan Thamotharampillai completed a BFA and MFA in painting from the College of Art in Delhi. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held in 1998, 2001 and 2006 in Colombo … Continue reading
Sithu Zeya
Sithu Zeya is an artist, activist, journalist and photographer who graduated from the National University of Art and Culture with a Bachelors in Painting. He was previously jailed for taking pictures of … Continue reading
Tadasu Takamine
Tadasu Takamine is one of the most controversial, thought provoking, irreverent media, video and installation artist working in Japan right now. He is a frequent collaborator with other performance artists, … Continue reading
Tellervo Kalleinen
Tellervo Kalleinen is an artist and filmmaker based in Helsinki. She has a MFA degree from the Time and Space programme in The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Working with … Continue reading
Thaiddhi
Born in Myanmar (Burma) in 1983, Thaiddhi is a freelance cinematographer working in the field of documentary and short narrative film. Since 2006, Thaiddhi has completed the one year Academy … Continue reading
Thu Thu Shein
Thu Thu Shein a freelance filmmaker, was born in 1983 in Yangon, Myanmar. She is a graduate of the National University of Arts and Culture’s Cinema and Drama course. She … Continue reading
Tun Win Aung & Wah Nu
Myanmar artist couple Tun Win Aung and Wah Nu create work in a range of media, including painting, installation, performance and video. Tun Win Aung’s multimedia installations and performances are … Continue reading
Venuri Perera
Venuri Perera is a choreographer, performer and dance teacher primarily trained in Kandyan Dance from the Chitrasena Vajira Kalayathanaya. She was a member of the Chitrasena Vajira Dance Company from … Continue reading
Vertical Submarine
Vertical Submarine is an art collective from Singapore that consists of Joshua Yang, Justin Loke and Fiona Koh (in order of seniority). According to them, they write, draw and paint … Continue reading
Vuth Lyno
Working primarily with photography and sound, Vuth Lyno, born in Phnom Penh in 1982, is interested in ideas around social transformation and national progress in Cambodia. He obtained a Bachelor’s … Continue reading
Wai Mar Nyunt
The Burmese director Wai Mar Nyunt originally graduated in art from the University of Yangon. She taught Art History for a number of years and she still displays her own … Continue reading
Wen Hui
Wen Hui is a choreographer and dancer. She studied choreography at the Beijing Dance Academy and graduated in 1989. In 1994 she founded Living Dance Studio in Beijing with Wu … Continue reading
Wu Wenguang
Wu was born in south-western China’s Yunnan province in 1956. After graduating from high school in 1974, Wu was send to the countryside, where he worked as farmer for four … Continue reading
Zarganar
Maung Thura (“Zargana”) is a poet, opposition activist, and leading comedian in Burma. He began a career in political activism through comedy while completing his undergraduate degree. As a performer, … Continue reading
Flying Circus Project 2013 