Glenn Diaz’s books include The Quiet Ones (2017) and Yñiga (2022), recipients of the Philippine National Book Award, and When the World Ended I Was Thinking about the Forest (2022), published by Paper Trail Projects. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Rosa Mercedes, Liminal, The Johannesburg Review of Books, and others. Born and raised in Manila, he holds a PhD from the University of Adelaide and currently teaches with the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
Lesley-Anne Cao’s practice explores the interplay of materiality, language, and artmaking. She works with self-produced and found objects, images, and text — often involving collaborators in different fields, alongside mutable materials, machines, and environmental elements — to explore the possibility of alternative narratives departing from the familiar.
She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in 2014. She has held solo exhibitions at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, MO_Space Gallery, The Drawing Room Gallery, and Underground Gallery. She has presented work in group exhibitions and screenings in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, and the UK. She has been granted artist residencies in Keelung, Taiwan; Örö, Finland; HART Haus, Hong Kong; and Gasworks, London.
Alongside her artistic practice, she worked as a researcher for Asia Art Archive. Her writing has been published by Para Site, Hong Kong; West Space, Melbourne; Traffic Books, Quezon City/Lucban; and Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art, Manila.(Photo by Kiko Nuñez)
