Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草 creates art to empower relational community healing.They make space for nuanced narratives rooted in China, the Sinophone diaspora, and other experiences from the margins.As cultural organizers, they explore social justice-oriented theorizing and narrativizing through communal and processual art practices. Their interdisciplinary praxis interweaves collective poetry, performance, food art, clay, photography, sound, video, children’s games, meditation, herbal medicine, and installation. Their works investigate systems of discipline, control, censorship, and capitalist extraction and reimagine memory/memorials, rituals, intimacy, and queer/feminist kinship to (re)build sustainable community infrastructures. They explore the idea of languaging as a moving and fluid site, a contact zone for improvisation.CAO Collective was a 2023-24 resident at BRICLab: Contemporary Art cohort and was a collaborator with Laura Dudu in Pedantic Arts Residency (2024, Pittsburgh, PA) and Feminist Incubator Residency at Project for Empty Space (2022-23, Newark, NJ). Their community-engaged art organizing has been supported by the SEEK Raleigh, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Queens Art Fund, New Breath Foundation, Asian American Arts Alliance, ChineseFeminism, and beyond.IG @caocollective