Song Hailing, born in Guang'an, Sichuan, currently a PhD student in Fine Arts at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He was granted his Master’s degree in Art Theory from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2024. His research areas include Western modern and contemporary art theory, art criticism, he also looks into contemporary sculpture and installation, visual culture studies. 

He contributed to the compilation of the Annual Review of Chinese Contemporary Sculpture. He is the executive curator for exhibitions such as ‘Generative Light & Convergent Fields—Invitational Exhibition of Young Artists from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute’ and ‘Chongqing Artists Archive series exhibition: Rhetoric—Cao Jingping Solo Exhibition’ . He joined the curatorial team of Chengdu Biennale 2025, and was selected for the “Young Curator Program” of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Museum.

Yidan Karel Li is a PhD researcher in Media Studies at SOAS, University of London, working under a European Research Council (ERC)–funded project on Global China in Europe, with fieldwork based in Paris. Her research examines how Chinese fashion capital, media practices, and cultural actors participate in forms of aesthetic governance and urban visibility, reshaping urban imaginaries and cultural infrastructures in contemporary Paris. Trained in environmental design at CU Boulder and architecture and curatorial studies at Columbia University GSAPP, she works at the intersection of architecture, media, urban anthropology, and visual culture. She has previously conducted field research in West Africa, East Africa, and East Asia, exploring questions of infrastructure, aesthetics, and global circulation. 

Yidan works across academic writing, criticism, curatorial projects and research-based artistic practice, and is actively investigating how images, platforms, and spatial narratives function as tools of cultural power in transnational urban contexts.