Pamela Leung is a Sydney-based artist from Hong Kong, with a Master of Fine Art from the National Art School, 2016. Following this, Leung received the Emerging Artist Prize in the 65th Blake Prize 2018 and has exhibited globally in Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden, Paris and London.

With her installations, videos, sounds, sculptures and paintings, Pamela explores the routines of everyday life, relationships, connections, displacement and the diaspora. She shares her personal migratory experience with the audience, allowing them to reflect on ideas of identity and displacement. The colour red takes on a significant symbolic status in her work, representing the differing perspectives of Western and Eastern cultures; it is also the colour that runs through all people, no matter the colour of their skin and is used as a unifying force.

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Yumi Umiumare is an established Butoh dancer, choreographer, and creator of Butoh Cabaret works. After touring with the seminal Japanese Butoh company DaiRakudakan, Umiumare moved from Japan to Melbourne in 1993.

She has been creating her distinctive style of works for 30 years and her creations are renowned for provoking visceral emotions and engaging with cultural identities with a sense of humour. Umiumare's works have been seen in numerous festivals in dance, theatre and film productions throughout Australia, Japan, Europe, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and South America and have received several Australian Green Room awards. Her major production credits include DasSHOKU Butoh cabaret series (1999-), EnTrance (2009-2012), PopUp Tearoom series (2015-) and her recent solo work Buried TeaBowl-OKUNI (2022-).

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