People
Faculty Supervisor
Keping Wu
Keping Wu is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University. Her research explores borders, boundaries and bridges in all kinds of cultural and social intersections.
Curator
Zhuo’er Chen, DKU Class of 2028
An amateur curator. A proficient dreamer. Zhuo’er is a Political Science student researching the intersection of disability studies and political theory.
She explores how social and political structures shape the experiences and agency of disabled communities while considering broader issues of power and inclusion. Through her curatorial practice, she enjoys creating spaces that invite reflection and dialogue. She is unapologetically a devoted lover of smiles.
Curatorial Team
Jui-Hsuan Tsao, DKU Class of 2029
Jui-Hsuan Tsao (Emily) is from Taipei, Taiwan, and has been passionate about curation since high school where she participated in various projects that sparked her interest in artistic expression. She is excited to have the opportunity to curate at DKU a place that prioritizes the humanities and values care for others!
Yining Xiang (Keira), DKU Class of 2029
Yining Xiang is a freshman from Duke Kunshan University. From childhood, she had developed great interests in arts. She possesses a keen eye for detail and has hoped since childhood to contribute to society through artistic expression. Regarding disability issues, she believes it is a complex matter. While many “disability-friendly” facilities exist today, do they truly meet the real needs? She emphasizes the importance of understanding the inner world of people with disabilities more deeply and listening to more of their voices.
Yufei Teng, DKU Class of 2029
She has a deep concern for health and disability. A severe injury during her high school years brought her an intimate understanding of the daily barriers and limitations faced by people with disabilities. Passionate about art, music and photography, she uses these mediums to capture and share the world as she sees it, offering a unique, heartfelt perspective of life through her lens.
Runqi Li, DKU Class of 2028.
Commissioned Artists
Andi Wan
DKU Class of 2028
Computation and Design (Digital Media)
Andi Wan is an interdisciplinary artist and Human-Computer Interaction researcher working at the intersection of digital media, technology, and social inquiry. Through research-driven and practice-based work, she examines how aesthetic norms and the politics of the gaze shape whose bodies are seen, valued, or excluded, and how new forms of embodied expression can open possibilities for interdependent coexistence.
Tianying Hu
DKU Class of 2025
Media and Arts (Creative Practice)
Tianying Hu is a documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on everyday emotional experience and the ways individuals sustain personal desire within social roles. Through intimate observation of private spaces and subtle gestures, her practice explores time, the body, and affect in lived experience.
External Artist
Judith Fang
Born in Shanghai, lives and works between Jingdezhen and Shanghai.
Judith Fang works from an anthropological perspective to examine how rapid change reshapes place, memory, and perception. Her practice explores how observations of the natural world are translated into language, measurement, and cultural symbol systems, treating scientific facts as material for poetic and emotional resonance.
