Dr I-Lien Ho is a performance artist and researcher, graduated from MA in performance studies at NYU, MPhil at the University of Cambridge, PhD in performance practice with the university full scholarship at the University of Exeter. She is the assistant professor in theatre arts at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. She is interested in how performance can do philosophy, specifically the concept of Kongwu (emptiness, nothingness, 空無) from Daoism and Buddhism. Her practice focuses on disability performance, awareness-based social art, and improvisation.