Kristin Reeves and Yue Liang
Kristin Reeves is an artist working across performance, immersive installation, and experimental film. She invented editing and material processes to reflect contemporary understanding of trauma in her live show Bodies for Strength and Power. Her work has been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Centro Cultural de España CDMX, CROSSROADS, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Steppenwolf Theater. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Grand Valley State University. Yue Liang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Grand Valley State University. Her research focuses on environmental history, the history of science and technology, and modern China. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the 1954 Yangtze River flood, which offers the first comprehensive examination of this pivotal disaster. Her work has appeared in The British Journal for the History of Science, Twentieth-Century China, and the AMPS Proceedings Journal Series.