Millie Chen and Evelyn Von Michalofski have collaborated on numerous art projects since 1990, while concurrently pursuing their individual practices. Their collaborative work, always interwoven with their solo works, has engaged the elements of public intervention and performance and presently explores time-based media in juxtaposition with tactile materials. Their projects have occurred in various sites, including a retail store, an ethnological museum, and several tourist meccas. Millie Chen has exhibited widely and lectured in Canada, the US, the Netherlands, Japan and Mexico. She has been an active member of a number of artist collectives and artist-run organizations and her practice encompasses public art commissions, curating, and publishing. An integral part of her work are collaborative projects. Millie teaches in the Department of Art at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her work explores the effects of inserting bodily need into exhibition contexts. In her past installations and performances she drew associations between the sensual and symbolic qualities of the cultural body by using common yet potent materials such as bread, human hair, rice, spices and medicinal herbs. Currently, Millie is juxtaposing sonic environments with scent and architecture. Within her visual art practice the act of looking is gently interrogated. Evelyn Von Michalofski’s work is in private and corporate collections and in public collections such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Council Artbank, and Oakville Galleries. Since 1985 her work has been included in exhibitions throughout Canada as well as the United States, the Dominican Republic, the Netherlands, and Spain. She lives and works in Toronto as an artist and designer. Evelyn is involved in curating for the contemporary gallery at the Museum for Textiles. The content of her work focuses on the transmutation of materials in an alchemical sense. By looking to the roots of alchemy within the food, drug and cosmetic industries, she endeavors to extract evidence of its essence and spirit in the production of the consumer goods that we ritually consume. The focus of her work is as much on the process as it is on the product.