Announcing CAO Collective 离离草 as Curatorial Residents for An Endless Meeting
Vox Populi is excited to announce that Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草 has been selected as the curatorial residents for An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together, a multi-part project taking place this fall from October 2 – November 15.
Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草 creates art to empower relational community healing, making space for nuanced narratives rooted in China, the Sinophone diaspora, and other experiences from the margins. Their interdisciplinary praxis interweaves collective poetry, performance, food art, clay, photography, sound, video, children’s games, meditation, herbal medicine, and installation to explore systems of discipline, censorship, capitalist extraction, memory, ritual, intimacy, and queer/feminist kinship. CAO has received support from organizations including The Luminary, BRIC, Culture Push, Creative West, Asian American Arts Alliance, Queens Art Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Raleigh Arts, and New Breath Foundation. CAO’s work has been featured by Hyperallergic, The Amp, Indyweek, and Sine Theta Magazine.
CAO Collective is co-directed by hú-tu (huiyin zhou & Laura 嘟嘟), an artist duo with backgrounds in social practice and anthropology.
Laura Dudu is an art worker, community weaver, and social practitioner working across lens-based media, ancestor-guided somatic performance, and memory-charged writing. Their practice is rooted in embodied experience — attending to grief, intimacy, liminality, and healing as sites of collective knowledge. Laura has received awards, residencies, and fellowships from Project for Empty Space, En Foco Inc, Pedantic Arts, NowPlace, VitalArts, Kearny Street Workshop, Arts for LA, and others. Their moving image and animation work has screened at the Chicago International Film Festival, Social World Film Festival, North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival, Roxbury Film Festival, and beyond. Laura has co-led art and organizing initiatives across China, Japan, and North America — building womb-like structures for communal ritual, diasporic memory, and collective healing.
Born and raised in China’s industrial hub of Dongguan, huiyin徽音 is a bilingual writer, photographer, community organizer, and cultural worker currently based in Durham, NC. A diasporic bird and ordinary alien, they write, curate, sing, dance, and enjoy making jokes and DJ:ing with friends. huiyin is a resident and advisory board member of Queen Street Magic Boat and a curator at NorthStar Church of the Arts. A Lambda Literary Emerge Editorial Fellow, Abode Press Nonfiction Fellow, and The Seventh Wave Writing Fellow, they have been published by Burnaway, Massachusetts Review, positions: asia critique, Sine Theta, and Scholar & Feminist Online, among others. huiyin has received residencies and grants from South Arts, Durham Art Guild, School of the Alternative, Pedantic Arts, Snapdragon Fund, and more. huiyin’s photobook nostalgia is the ghost of care is forthcoming in June 2026 (Homie House Press / kawan pan).
As part of the residency, CAO Collective will develop an exhibition and public programming in dialogue with the broader themes of An Endless Meeting, which explores collective process as subject, form, and method. Their work will join a larger constellation of exhibitions, workshops, performances, conversations, and publishing projects examining collaboration, interdependence, and the politics of working together.
An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together is a multi-pronged project taking place this fall at Vox Populi that activates collective process as subject, form, and method. Spanning exhibitions, a curatorial residency, public programs, and a print publication, the project explores the politics of collectivity, inviting broad publics to reflect on their own experiences of collaboration. An Endless Meeting will be presented as part of Collective Futures, a citywide initiative bringing together artist-run and community-based organizations to examine collective cultural production.
An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
About The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is a multidisciplinary grantmaker and hub for knowledge-sharing, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and dedicated to fostering a vibrant cultural community in Greater Philadelphia. The Center invests in ambitious, imaginative, and catalytic work that showcases the region’s cultural vitality, enhances public life, and supports exchanges of ideas among cultural practitioners and leaders.
