SITA KURATOMI BHAUMIK
An award-winning photographer, writer and artist, Sita was raised in the Los Angeles area before moving to San Francisco to co-kick-start Free Media Group, dedicated to Bay Area arts and culture. Born with a severe case of island fever, she has lived and worked on three continents and one archipelago. Her work has rocked both LA and the Bay Area. Sita is currently an editor at Hyphen Magazine and her writing is also featured in the 2005 Apature festival. She holds a BA, Cum Laude, in Studio Art from Scripps College.

“My work explores the duality intrinsic in the literal flatness of representation and its complexity. The themes of fragmentation, multiplicity, hybridity and pop culture in all its fizzyness pervade my work. Captured by a camera, embodied in an object, or connoted through a process, meaning is the substance of my art practice. I am fascinated by mechanical reproductions of skin such as pantyhose and makeup because they involve discussions of beauty and race in simple, mundane items. It is through a conscious art practice that I explore the space between and create the spaces that are absent. Because the possibilities in representation not only foreshadows but also creates possibilities for existence.”

ELOKIN
Elokin is a dirty femme. You can find her in the garden in high heels, or up to her queerest miniskirt in mud- building houses and turning compost. Food, dirt, and seeds inspire Elokin’s artwork and activism, combining to create living structures and edible installations. What comes out is everything from bike jewelry and home-grown veggie paints to ceramic lizard chicken teapots and public art planting seeds for decolonization. .. overgrow the government! beet the system, squash the state!

JEZ KUONO`ONO LEE
Jez Kuono`ono Lee moved to the Bay Area in 1999 from Hawai`i Nei and became deeply involved in the local arts scene, specifically working within the Asian Pacific Islander and Queer communities. Lee served as the Executive Director of Asian American Dance Performances until 2007, founding the nation’s first and longest running annual Queer API dance festival, Translations.

In 2007, Lee left AADP and stepped down from the Board of Directors of the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center after a four-year term to begin a new career in web design and consultation for artists through dancingspider.org. Continued involvement in the arts community has awarded Lee a position on the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee, and as a pivotal Board Member of CounterPULSE. Lee’s work in TWINCEST with partner Shawn Tamaribuchi has been widely recognized; the duo’s most recent appearances include the Movement Research Journal and Hyphen Magazine.

Through a myriad of projects, Lee cultivates queer/gender and multi-cultural artistic growth, as well as represents sex-positivity. Each summer Lee joins the Steering Committee for the annual Transmarch (SF’s Transgender March during Pride Weekend) and Lee is a prominent cast member of Pink & White Productions, an award-winning queer erotic film company. This is Lee’s third year with the 24 Hour Show.

MIA NAKANO
A photographer whose work and interests are most frequently involves alternative printing techniques, Mia Nakano likes to play with inks, paper, and chemistry. After a stint as a Mother Jones marketing intern, Nakano co-founded Hyphen Magazine’s creative department. She has contributed to Curve Magazine, the Kathmandu Post, and Kathmandu City Post publications. Her work has been contributed to organizations such as San Francisco Women Against Rape, Sisterz of the Underground, The Spin Project, Asian American Dance Performances, Kearny Street Workshop, Immedium publishing, and the Women’s Initiative Fund. Her documentary photojournalism work won her an honorable mention with Fotovisions Summer Snapshot competition.

She is currently the Co-Director of RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco’s largest community photography space, a printer, a web designer, a photographer, a computer consultant, a color management specialist, and sometimes a she does art shows.
CHRISTINE PAN
Born and raised in Southern California, Christine Pan is a Los Angeles based self-taught photographer. She received her BA from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999 as a Women’s Studies major. While working for various minority based non-profits after graduating, Christine started to develop her hobby of photography into an avenue of expression for herself and her community. As a queer woman of color, Christine is dedicated to developing her voice and style in order to increase visibility for diverse women and a diverse community.

HAN PHAM
Han Pham is a storyteller. Her stories have been featured on the radio, in the McGraw-Hill anthology “Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry,” and in publications such as Hyphen Magazine, Ostrich Ink, Nguoi Viet News and Nha Magazine. Active in the Asian American art community as a performer, artist and producer, Han has her performance roots with the Vietnamese theater ensemble, Club O’Noodles, for whom she has written, choreographed and performed on stage and film.

Han is a founding curator of Fling!, a multi-disciplinary art show uniting artists, writers and performers to explore the art of relationships and is an advising curator for several San Francisco arts organizations, including Kearny Street Workshop’s Space 180, APAture (a multi-disciplinary arts festival presenting the work of emerging Asian Pacific American artists in the San Francisco Bay Area) and the Mission Community Council. A member of the San Francisco Bay Area art collectives The 24HourShow and the Vietnamese Artists Collective, Han is a contributor and editor of “AS IS: A Collection of Visual and Literary Art by Emerging Vietnamese Americans”.

ELIZABETH SY
When days are marked by obligations, you face reality with humor and fantasies. In the day, Elizabeth Sy faces reality armed with pots, pans and spices, her bike, and the vibrant world of her non-profit program, Banteay Srei. At other times, Elizabeth wanders in her fantasies, installing cheeky store fronts that inspire dialogue about appropriation and ignorant consumerism, walking along river fronts cooled by the breeze of running rivers on hot and humid nights, and spending the night sewing tea cozies for care packages sent randomly to friends. The 24hourshow is the only art show in which she chooses to participate.

SHAWN TAMARIBUCHI
“As far as I can tell, Shawn is a full fledged homosexual extreme performance artist with a taste for pain. Which makes her almost as cool as Roxanne Modafferi in my books, although about 50 times more intimidating.” - Fightlinker.com