Vipavinee Artpradid is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, UK.

Petra Johnson is an independent multidisciplinary artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in Social Sculpture and has devised cross-cultural art projects, bridging communities in China and Germany. She runs annual workshops at the China Academy of Art and occasional workshops at the Urban Ecology Lab at Tongji University, China. Between 2018 and 2020, she directed the curatorial program for Lijiang Studio in Jixiang Village, Yulong Naxi Autonomous Region, China.