Yingmei Duan was born in China in 1969. She now lives and works in Germany as an artist in performance, installation and video. Yingmei's work is influenced by daily life: Memories, fears, longings and dreams. In 2003 Ying Mei performed for one month in the solo exhibition "26 days in OK"; in 2005 she had a solo exhibition called "Playing with 14 rooms". During 2006 her performances were exhibited as works in the group exhibition "Excellent" and in 2007 she spent time researching media performance and painting for her most recent solo show called "Performance Painting".

Wen Lee's performances and installations often expose and question the ideologies and value systems of individuals as well as social structures. His work attempts to combine Southeast Asian contexts with international currents in contemporary art. Lee emphasizes versatility in strategizing and establishing visual language, meaning and message through live performance work. He is also interested in developing new possibilities of performativity and interactivity in art. His early practice was associated with the Artists Village, an alternative art group in Singapore and later forged a more individuated artistic career. Lee has been represented at the Busan Biennale (2004), the 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane (1999), the Sexta Bienal de La Habana, (1997), the Kwang Ju Biennial (1995), the 4th Asian Art Show, Fukuoka (1994) Sea Art Festival, Busan Biennale (S.Korea, 2004), National Review of Live Art (Scotland, 2004 & 2005). Born in Singapore, Lee now lives and works extensively on a global circuit and based between Singapore and Tokyo. Lee's enthusiasm as an artist goes beyond his solo work and continues to be active and involved with the new generation in spawning possibilities of collaborations, networks and dialogical discourses. In 2003 Lee initiated, "The Future of Imagination", an international performance art event encompassing forum, documentation and presentation of performance art in Singapore. Since 1999 Lee has also worked with Black Market International an utopian performance art "group" comprising artists from various countries and cultural backgrounds. Lee was awarded the "Cultural Medallion", Singapore's cultural award for artistic excellence in 2005.

Sophia Yadong Hao is a UK based artist who works with Interactive Installations and Live Art. She graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2005 and obtained her MA in Visual Culture with distinction.
As well as being an artist she is also a poet, writer, public speaker and project manager. She was one of the invited artists of Vital 06: International Live Art Festival, one of the collaborative performers of The Gathering, commissioned by PANDA-monium in association with Manchester International Festival 2007, tour manager of China Live - a major UK tour of Chinese Live Art and films in 2005 and the Artist Liaison Officer of Ornamental Happiness, produced by London Artists Projects and commissioned by Liverpool Biennial 2006. She also gives artist talks and workshops at Tate Liverpool, Chinese Arts Centre and Cornerhouse Manchester. Most recently, she has been commissioned by Babylon Gallery UK to produce an installation for the gallery's major international exhibition. In August 2007, Hao received deciBel Curatorial Fellowship bursary and has started working with Tyne & Wear Museums (TWM), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Middlesbrough Institute for Modern Art (mima).

Marcus Young was born in Hong Kong, he is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist living in Minneapolis. Recent works include PacificAvenue, a lifelong slow-walking and smiling project performed in Beijing,Minneapolis, New York, Manchester, and at the Liverpool Biennial; Break, a fortune cookie project for Chinese restaurants; Untitled Painting, a moving art object for the museum; And, a work of Zen-theater that explores the performer-audience relationship; and Wishes for the Sky, a public art event for Earth Day based on kite-flying. Marcus is a recipient of awards from the Bush Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, Drama League, and Franklin Furnace. He is currently Artist-in-Residence for the city of St. Paul. His most recent work From Here to There and Beyond is a three-kilometer line from the gallery wall to the Mississippi River.

LEUNG Po-shan, Anthony graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1996, majoring in Fine Arts she pursued an M. Phil degree at the same department in 2000. She returned from the UK after studying at the University of Leeds on the HK Arts Development Council Scholarship in 2001/02. Playing with images, texts and body in theater, performance and installation, she has been involved in many major exhibitions local and overseas. She also teaches, writes, researches and has established her own 'one-wo/man band' company 70+art/words.

Rosa Mei is a theatre director, choreographer, filmmaker and multi-media artist. An American- born Chinese currently based in Antwerp, Mei mixes virtuostic performance with the poetics of place, race and ethnicity to create a new type of urban anthropology.
Since 1990, she has created over 30 works for the stage which have been presented at major venues throughout the world. Her work reflects her diverse multi-cultural background and interest in literary symbolism.
Her intricate pieces are somehow both frenetic and serene, bizarre tapestries of mathematically layered movement and surrealist symbolism.

Becky Ip is a performance and installation artist whose work is often attentive to unearthing and inciting enchantment and locating affinity with mundane objects, actions, and everyday spaces. Recurring themes include pathos, love, and hair. Originally from Toronto, Ip received her BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She has exhibited at Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong), performed with the Hong Kong on the Move Performance Art Project, and was featured in Asiatopia 8 International Festival of Performance Art (Chiang Mai, Thailand), and Eight Areas Performance Art Exchange Exhibition at K Gallery (Chengdu, China). Ip also recently participated in the Walking and Art Residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta. She is currently based in Hong Kong.
Becky is also a conference speaker at Vital 07.

He Chengyao lives and works in Beijing and Chongqing. She graduated from the Sichuan Art Academy in 1989. Her oil paintings have been exhibited in a solo show at the Qinhao Gallery, Beijing. More recent work, including installations, photographs, and performance art, has appeared in the following group shows: Reality and Possibility, Museum of the Central Art Academy, Beijing; Contemporary Art Group Show, Museum of the Central Art Academy, Beijing; Dialogue-Puzzle: Chinese Contemporary Art, Padua Youth Museum, Italy; The Limits of Bodies, Shangrila Culture and Art Center, Beijing; Psuedo, Museum of the Central Art Academy, Beijing; The 7th NIPAF Asia Performance Art Series and Performance Art Summer Seminar, Shinsyu (Nagano), Japan; Pingyao International Photography Exhibit, Shanxi; and Pusan Biennale 2002, Korea.

Jason Lim was born in Singapore in 1966. He holds a Bachelor of Art (Hons) Degree from Central St Martins College of Art & Design, U.K. and a Master of Fine Art from Royal Melbourne Institute Technology University, Australia. His practices include ceramics, installation art, video and performance art.
As a performance artist, he has been invited to present performance art in many international performance festivals in Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Germany, England, Poland, Vietnam and Greenland.

Brendan Fan is a UK based artist, whose practice consists of discreet gestures, actions and interventions. His work is grounded in performance art, yet the actions are not intended for live audiences. Instead, viewers must reconstruct the actions through a variety of documentation including photographs, written documentation, cheques, legal documents, spreadsheets, proposals, e-mails, letters and other correspondence.
The performances are designed to explore how, through the use of suggestion, the expectations of the audience affect their interaction with the artist.
The work utilises absurdity, humour, futility and failure to investigate the nature of the art object and the contexts in which it exists.

Hao Lang graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Art Institution.
Since 2006 he has been exploring performance art and in the last year has taken part in a series of performance art activities.
A theme that runs through many of Hao Lang's works is that of childhood. Hao Lang sees this as an important thread to his work and uses personal memories of his own childhood for inspiration. Hao Lang shares memories and emotions with the audience through his performances.

Jenevieve Chang is a movement based practitioner whose work encompasses a spectrum of definitions across dance, theatre and Live Art. The body and its metaphorical potential in movement, forms the platform from which she generates ideas for performance.
She has worked collaboratively for companies in the UK including Chopped Logic, Yellow Earth Theatre, Fran Barbe Dance and Lady Greys as well as Legs on the Wall, Sidetrack Performance Group and State of Play in Australia. Jenevieve has toured across Europe and Canada playing as a solo artist at venues such as Sophiensaele in Berlin, Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana and Tangente in Montreal as well as being showcased at the Sydney Opera House.
Jenevieve is currently performing with Chopped Logic Theatre and is Movement Director and burlesque consultant with Extant on their research and development into the relationship between sexual expression and visual impairment.

Lushan Liu applies her artistic practice to investigate the phenomenon of global migration under social transformation, and challenges performative activities as a way to confront the idea of cultural otherness.
Her projects uniquely depict the geographic non-place and the contradicted emotions of Chinese immigrants in Western developed countries via our culturally mechanized sensory organs. As a socially active artist, she continues to explore diasporic activities for immigrants worldwide and calls for new ways of communication in our fragmented national time-space.

Zhou Bin (China) originally from Xi-An, specialized in oil painting, until he moved to live and work in Chengdu in 1997. He began experimenting and working in live performance art or action art since 1994. His creation process frequently involves using the limits of the body's physiological function to express a conceptual or artificial hypothesis. Strong and significant impressions are aroused by the conditions enacted. Zhou Bin believed that performance or action art is an artistic and critical language in its own and has the freedom of exploratory and risks qualities, which, simultaneously, are related to the rapid changes in China's contemporary society. He is in collaboration with Liu Cheng Yin to initiate "Pu" Live Art Space, a space dedicated to live art practice in Chengdu, Szechuan since 2007.
Zhou Bin is also a conference speaker at Vital 07.

Born in 1963 Yang Zhi Chao raises social issues through his body-based performances which have included actions such as branding his ID number on his body, planting grass in his back, and surgically implanting objects in his leg and stomach. His work, including Chinese Red, is concerned with the body and how, in an age of science and technology, our bodies no longer belong to ourselves but to society and the state.

Poshui, China. (Extract taken from VITAL Chongqing.) Dressed somewhere between a tramp and an alien in dusty ripped clothing, Poshui moved the audience around the performance spaces using exaggerated gestures and a whistling noise created by a reed. He even managed to communicate comments on each performance in this manner. Using Poshui was masterful and much more effective than having a MC. He kept continuity throughout the event and engaged the audience during set changes or technical problems.