about the artist
Yidan Zeng 曽一丹 is a Chinese-American artist stitching together textiles and participatory performance towards an embodied practice of attention and care. Her works are continually woven webs with no center, seeking only to make tangible the invisible threads in our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the natural world. She currently works with food waste dyes, meditative rituals, found natural materials, and discarded objects, practicing the transformative magic of turning detritus into portals for connection. Yidan is a member of the MengCheng 梦城团 Collective , a cohort of queer Chinese-American artists raising dialogue about community building in Memphis.
Website: www.yidanzeng.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yidan_zeng/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/mengcheng.tn/
, Thandi Cai explores the futurities of Asian diasporic identity through critical dialogue, textiles, performance, film, graphic design, and print media. At the core of their creative and socially engaged practice is a desire to steer the world into a future that breaks free from the oppressive colonial systems of gender binaries, nation-states and capital. The goal of their work is to arouse imagination, pleasure, and improvisation to ideate new paths forward. Cai is immersed in researching and riffing off of histories where they find themselves and other Asian Americans absent (despite their irrefutable presence) to fabulate speculative fiction in which they are centered. They are currently collaborating with the Chinese Historical Society of Memphis & the Midsouth in the creation of Bluff City Chinese, a documentary about the expansive voices of the Chinese diaspora in Memphis. Thandi is a member of the MengCheng 梦城团 Collective , a cohort of queer Chinese-American artists raising dialogue about community building in Memphis.
Website: www.thandicai.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cai_in_the_sky/ https://www.instagram.com/mengcheng.tn/
