Liang Luscombe’s artistic practice encompasses puppetry and moving image that engage in a process of generative questioning of how images and film affect audiences. She received her MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA and is PhD candidate in Fine Art at Monash University. She has been included in screenings at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Artists Space, NYC; The Capitol, Melbourne; Table, Chicago; The Sunview Luncheonette NYC; ACMI, Melbourne; Composite, Melbourne; and the 51st Athens International Film + Video Festival. She has undertaken residencies at Rimbun Dahan, Kuala Lumpur, 2025; Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, Fremantle, 2025; Lemony S Puppetry Development Lab, Melbourne, 2024; EXPAND Adelaide Film Festival Lab, Adelaide, 2023; Bemis Center of Contemporary Arts, 2022; Chicago Artist Coalition’s HATCH residency program, Chicago, 2019; SOMA Summer, Mexico City, 2018; Australia Council Studio, British School at Rome, 2013; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Studio Residency, Perth, 2011.
Isobel D’Cruz Barnes is a Malaysian-Australian musician and ethnomusicologist based between Narrm/Melbourne AU and the Lenapehoking/Philadelphia US. She writes on race, post-colonial theory and subculture and performs/composes as Hantu. Her research has been published in Context Journal of Music Research and presented in-person with the International Society for the Study of Popular Music (Australia and New Zealand), Writing & Concepts, Bus Projects and unProjects. In music performance, she has been awarded Best Live Bassist by the National Live Music Awards (2018) and has been nominated for the Australian Music Prize (2019), the Music Victoria Awards (2019, 2024) and the Australian Independent Records Association Awards (2019). She is currently undertaking her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.
Haneen Mahmood Martin is a Kuala Lumpur born, Malay-Saudi multi-arts programmer, producer, writer, and artist based between Narrm/Melbourne, Garramilla/Darwin, and Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide. She works with a focus on best-practice engagement and ethical governance as it pertains to underrepresented migrant and PoC communities and building sustained relationships. She is determined in her analysis of how and why structures are developed, and how they can become sustainable for generations to come.
Haneen has worked across the country and across art forms as a producer for the likes of Performing Lines, RISING, Biennale of Sydney, MPavilion, Regional Arts Australia, Darwin Fringe, and Next Wave, as a programmer as the inaugural Artistic Associate at Brown’s Mart, Manager of the National Young Writers Festival, and General Manager for Skinnyfish Music. She co-wrote the Engage! Report and Toolkit published by Contemporary Asian Australian Performance and Arts on Tour and holds an MFA (Cultural Leadership) from NIDA.
In her own time, Haneen manages a director for Malay and Malaysian creatives in Australia and hosts the Sayang-Sayang Supper Club - an opportunity to test Malaysian recipes and notions of hospitality right from her home in Melbourne.