After spending many years as a professional bassist, A/P Greg Petersen left the musical performance venues of the world and entered the universities of the world to focus on his academic interests in the human relationship with arts. Today, he is a scholar weaving together his disparate background and interests. Because of his interdisciplinarity, he has taught a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary humanities courses. Some of the world’s most respected publishers publish his book chapters and journals articles in the areas of musical instrument history, aesthetics, and economic, religious and political influences on the arts and society. His conference papers explore questions of emptiness in creativity and how the arts influence personal and national identity. His two monograph-length research studies focus on the images, artefacts and traditions surrounding violin and viola family bridge locations and another on the dawn and demise of musical instruments.As a bassist A/P Petersen performed on several records and film scores, including motion pictures for Walt Disney Pictures and Warner Bros. He has also played bass live with several international artists, Broadway musicals, ice shows, circuses, opera and ballet companies.

Edith Podesta is a theatre maker, choreographer and writer based in Singapore. She studied Acting and Movement Studies at the National Institute of Dramatic Art’s (NIDA), and holds a Master of Arts Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts. In 2017 she was awarded Best Original Script and Production of the Year at the Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards for her production BITCH: The Origin of the Female Species, and recently won Production of the Year at the 2019 Life! Theatre Awards for Leda and The Rage, an Esplanade Commission and Production. Edith is currently Associate Artistic Director of Young & W!LD a division of W!LD RICE.

Dr. Yanyun Chen is an artist. She runs a charcoal-based drawing , animation and installation practice, and her works respond to writing — fictional and philosophical — as well as aesthetic traditions and techniques. She researches cultural wounds, and tells auto-fictional stories of dowry traditions, hereditary scars, and dressing up in nudity. She was presented with the People’s Choice Award at the President’s Young Talents 2018 exhibition at Singapore Art Museum and was the winner of the 2019 ArtOutreach IMPART Visual Artist Award. She is a full-time lecturer at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, the founder of illustration and animation studio Piplatchka, and the managing partner of publishing house Delere Press LLP. She lives and works in Singapore.