Yip Kai Chun an artist-curator from Hong Kong who works on peripheral and neglected communities and localities, notably in relation to diaspora and island. He approaches them with a research-oriented and socially-engaged approach informed by ethnography, resulting in mixed-media installations with moving images, sound and found objects.

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A primary quest of his work is the inheritance and transformation of culture and language in the context of migration — migrants in Hong Kong, Hong Kongers & Chinese people as overseas migrants, and Hong Kong as an essentially migrant city. The major example of this is his continuous exploration of the disconnection, mutation and possibilities of the Hakka identity and language, which stemmed from (the question about) myself as a Hakka. The research has brought him to Hakka communities in Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia.