Yaoyao rides the hyphen as an artist-teacher-creative entrepreneur and collaborative cultural producer. She holds a MA in Fine Art from the University of the Arts London (2020) and a BAS in New Media from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong (2016). She is currently based in Southern China.
She participated in artist-in-residence projects between jobs and degrees at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague and Tbilisi Free University, Georgia. She was also associated with producing the 68th Berlin International Film Festival-winning feature film An Elephant Sitting Still. In 2021, she collaborated with theatre director, NYU visiting scholar WANG Chong, to produce the documentary of the late director/writer HU Bo.
As part of her practice of ‘art at large’, Yaoyao now teaches at Shunde Polytechnic, Guangdong, CHINA, which allows her to continually bring together diverse expertise with comprehensive experience in supporting and delivering practice-based art educational projects for higher vocational college students. Her current aim is to push and blur the boundaries between art, the broader creative industry and vocational education. By networking with creative industry professionals, scholars, social media influencers and independent culture practitioners, Yaoyao created events, artworks, exhibitions, curricula, digital publications and other projects that variously consider bringing interdependence job opportunities from big business to micro-local groups at the intersection of social media operation, live stream business, research and copywriting, visual arts and design to support vocational college students in critical creative cultural production.
余姚瑶 (b.1994) 以艺术创作-教育-创意创业与生产为工作锚点活跃在中国南方，拥有伦敦艺术大学艺术硕士学位 (2020) 和香港城市大学创意媒体学院新媒体文理学士学位 (2016) 。 在工作和学位之间，她曾先后在捷克共和国布拉格美术学院（伊拉斯谟+交换项目）及格鲁吉亚第比利斯自由大学（由英国文化部资助）开展艺术家驻地项目。她是2015年中国摄影家协会策展“亚洲20位新锐摄影师”之一，也是2018年第68届柏林国际电影节获奖影片《大象席地而坐》的导演组及制片团队成员。
作为"泛艺术"实践的一部分，姚瑶现任教于中国广东顺德职业技术学院传播与策划专业。通过与文化艺术领域机构、学者、企业、社交媒体影响者和独立从业者建立联系，姚瑶在社交媒体运营、直播与零工经济、视觉艺术设计的交叉点上创建了课程、活动、展览、个人作品等。她与学生们共同打造创意文化厂牌【广灵厂】（见网页菜单-厂牌），意在模糊艺术、文化传播、数字经济和职业教育之间的界限。为高职学生提供数字经济产业及文化艺术领域的实践机会，从而探索出一种可持续的创意文化生产方式。
2021年，她与中国新浪潮戏剧导演、纽约大学访问学者王翀合作，为已故导演/编剧/作家胡波（笔名胡迁）的纪录片《他席地而坐》担任策划，本片现在挪威后期制作中。2022年，她着手电影《春风发廊》（王长庆导演）的早期配乐工作。同时，与新媒体交互艺术家梁顺杰合作孵化顺德首个数字经济与艺术科技工作室ARTECHO，旨在为品牌和机构创造科技、艺术、设计的跨界沉浸式体验与数字营销服务。如有任何合作与交流意向，请点击网页菜单-简历与联络查看详情。