Shenghan Gao

高胜寒 Shenghan Gao (b. Chengdu, China) forages from many disciplines such as dance, history, film, and cooks with mediums such as 16mm film, cyanotypes, animation, social experiments, performance, participatory workshops, walking tours. She is interested in unlearning all the systems of belief that settler colonialism and capitalism have instilled in us, starting from the most mundane units of our lives: the names we call ourselves, the food we cook, the steps we dance in, and the "weeds" we walk by everyday. Every encounter is a portal to reimagine how we can root differently together. 

She has been nurturing an educational nonprofit "UnLearning求知计划" in China for five years, and has been awarded the Flaherty Film Seminar fellowship, Asian American Arts Alliance's "What Can We Do" grant, and Culture Push's Fellowship for Utopian Practice.

She holds a BA in History and Arts from Minerva University and is now pursuing a MA in Media Studies, Documentary Certificate at the New School. She is also an alum from UWC Atlantic College.