Next year, Para Site, one of Asia’s oldest independent art spaces, will be celebrating its 30th anniversary, an age that is near-mythic for a non-profit in these financially constrained times. Yet Junni Chen, currently Interim Executive Director at the institution, approaches its future with a strong sense of its DNA being rooted in change.

Running from 10 to 30 October 2025, the second edition of XAOS – International Festival of Experimental Music and Visual Art is currently in full swing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with an apt curatorial theme, no less. Transformation, the word of the millennium.