Live Art Bookshop x Queer and Feminist Zine Spirits Across Borders

Oyester (Funa Ye)

Born in Kunming, Yunnan, Oyester (she/her) is an artist and researcher who lives and works in London and Beijing. Her practice critically engages with the realities of daily life and the perceived nexus between authority and various societal domains, such as differing power structures and marginalised groups. Her politically charged art uses pastiche to critique and satirise cultural uniformity.

Lanyun Huang (Finch) 

Finch (she/they) is a queer artist and researcher working across live art and curation. Taking multiple personas, she creates conceptually driven, often durational performances in everyday or disruptive settings (as Lanyun), and theatrical works rooted in queer nightlife, collective energy, and folk culture (as Finch). She completed her MA at Central Saint Martins and is currently based in London.

00 Zhang 

00 Zhang (she/it) is a Chinese-born, London-based artist who is gaining a reputation with her innovative explorations of a sensibility she terms ‘a double-sided exile’ – entwined feelings of dislocation and connection. Thematically, her practice investigates the potential of a new form of collective imagination to transcend the borders of national identity, gender and religion. Her multifaceted practice spans sculpture, installation, CGI animation and interactive digital game environments.

SickGirl 

A photographer based in mainland China, SickGirl (she/they) was selected from 4,746 contestants for the 2015 Xitek Emerging Photographer Award at 18. They continue creating provocative, poetic images, often exploring sexuality and the brutality of youth life in the political context. They photograph everything without rushing to finish projects, collecting images naturally.

Xuanni

Xuanni (AKA Space, she/her) is a London-based composer and producer, featured at the Barbican Centre, Hoxton Hall, and on BBC Radio 3. She scored the film Unbound Zine. Her live performance blends industrial and hardcore dance, noise, and Nintendo consoles via no-input mixer techniques to create distorted, rhythmic sound worlds of “structured chaos.”