Angela Brown is a writer and art historian. They are a PhD candidate in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University and a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Rashida Bumbray is a curator and choreographer. She has collaborated with Simone Leigh on many projects including organizing Loophole of Retreat: Venice, a transnational gathering focused on Black women’s intellectual and creative labor as part of Leigh’s exhibition Sovereignty at the American Pavilion for the 59th Venice Biennale. She also organized Leigh’s critically acclaimed solo exhibition at The Kitchen, “You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been,” 2012, and Funk, God Jazz and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn with Creative Time & Weeksville Heritage Center in 2014.

Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas and is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that enlist science as an aesthetic component to developing complex ideas. He created and implemented Revival Field (1990), a pioneer in the field of "green remediation," the use of plants to remove toxic, heavy metals from the soil. From 1995-1998 he formed the collective the GALA Committee that produced In the Name of the Place a public art project conducted on American prime-time television. Chin is one of the artists featured in the first year of the ongoing PBS Series Art of the 21^st Century. In 2017 his film, 9-11/9-11, won the Pedro Sienna Award for Animation in Chile. His ongoing Fundred Project addresses childhood lead-poisoning through art- making. In 2018 he presented Unmoored and Wake in Times Square, New York City, creating a visual portal into a future of rising waters, and his 40-year-survey exhibition at the Queens Museum, NYC, was named the best art exhibition of 2018 by Hyperallergic. He is the recipient of many awards, grants, and honorary degrees, including the MacArthur Fellowship, 2019, and election to the The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2021.

Megan Cope is a Quandamooka artist from Moreton Bay/North Stradbroke Island. Her site-specific sculptural installations, video work, paintings and public art investigate issues relating to colonial histories, environment and mapping practices.

Megan Cope has held solo exhibitions at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney; UNSW Galleries, School of Design and Art, Sydney; The Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne; The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.

Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu (Berlin & Istanbul) is an artist working mostly in the field of performance art. Darıcıoğlu mainly makes long-durational live performances but also videos, installations and public interventions. In her* performances, she* investigates the physical/emotional limits, boundaries and potentials of the body. Taking this corporal approach as a core, Darıcıoğlu is interested in chronopolitics and necropolitics from a perspective focusing and centralising on marginalised bodies' vulnerability and strength. She* works on Queer appropriation methodologies of the past and the present from a non-Western perspective and develops corporal strategies to address minority groups' histories excluded from hegemonic history.

Innocent Ekejiuba is a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University (2013), Salzburg Summer Academy (2018), RAW Academie (2019), ICI Curatorial Intensive (2019), Lagos Biennial Curatorial Intensive (2019), MACAAL Bootcamp (2020), and Pratt Institute (2023). He is currently a Cultural Researcher, and also a Research Professor at the Creative Enterprise Leadership International Graduate Program at Pratt Institute.

Chitra Ganesh is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose work encompasses drawing, painting, comics, installation, video art, and animation. Through studies in literature, semiotics, social theory, science fiction, and historical and mythic texts, Ganesh attempts to reconcile representations of femininity, sexuality, and power absent from the artistic and literary canons. She often draws on Hindu and Buddhist iconography and South Asian forms such as Kalighat and Madhubani, and is currently negotiating her relationship to these images with the rise of right wing fundamentalism in India. Ganesh’s queer feminist cosmology, particularly within her exploration of comics and mythmaking, offer emancipatory narratives drawn from the same collectively held visual culture (mass mediated, vernacular, graphic) she dissects above.

(b.1980 Lima, Peru) lives and works between Mexico City and Lima. She studied Fine art at Universidad Católica del Perú and completed an MA at Byam Shaw School of Art, London. Her solo exhibitions include: Protomorphisms, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2022); Redes de Conversión, Galería 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima (2021); 34th Bienal de Sao Paulo Faz escuro mas eu canto (2020); Spectres of Reference, OCMA (Orange County Museum of Arts), California (2019); Botanical readings: Erythroxylum coca, Proyecto AMIL, Lima (2019); Lines of Divergence, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2018); Native States at MALBA, Buenos Aires (2017); Botanical Insurgencies: Phaseolus Lunatus at SAPS (Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros), Mexico city (2017); Smoke Architecture at 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima (2015); Toma de tierra at Casado Santapau, Madrid (2015); Los Suelos, MATE (Museo Mario Testino), Lima (2014); Paisaje Antrópico, Max Wigram Gallery, London (2012); a solo project at Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art (2012); El Porvenir, Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2011). Her recent group exhibitions include: Puntos y Almendras por Círculos en Ojos, Galería Nordenhake, Mexico City (2022); Rethinking Nature, Madre Museum, Naples (2021); Imaginarios Comúnes, Vol. I, Museo de Arte Lima -MALI, Lima (2021); 34th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Faz escuro mas eu canto, Sao Paulo (2021); Normal Exceptions: Contemporary Art in Mexico, Jumex Museum, Mexico City (2021); La Diosa Verde, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara (2021); Tense Conditions, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (2021); Infinite Games, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin (2021).

Jorge González Santos - Escuela de Oficios. His practice-platform researches and guides processes to re-engage with our history, using materials and techniques that extend from natural processes, with the interest to create spaces for transmission knowledge and commitment to the land within our daily lives.

Homa and Saba are pseudonyms to preserve the writers’ identities.

B. Toprak Karakaya works as a filmmaker, photographer and editor. His first short documentary film ‘Academic Drug’ was screened and competed in several local film festivals. Along with his film works, Karakaya also edited photographs published in various media outlets such as TIME Magazine and The New York Times. Karakaya received his bachelor of arts in Philosophy from Boğaziçi University. He is currently studying for a master's degree in Directing in Film and Drama program at Kadir Has University in Istanbul.

Gülsün Karamustafa (Ankara, 1946)

Graduated from the Istanbul State Fine Arts Academy in 1969.

Lives and works in Istanbul.

She participated in the International Istanbul Biennials (1987, 1992, 1995, 2022); Kwangju (2000); Havana and Cetinje (2003); Seville Biennial (2004); Guangzhou Triennial, Cairo Biennial (2008); Singapore Biennial (2011), Kiev Biennale (2012), Thessaloniki Biennale (2013); Sao Paulo and Gwangju Biennial (2014).

Alex Klein is the Head Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Contemporary Austin where she works alongside the curatorial team to shape the exhibition program at the Jones Center and steward the sculpture park at Laguna Gloria. She is currently working on projects with artists including Lubaina Himid, Guadalupe Maravilla, and Manik Raj Nakra. Her survey exhibition of Carl Cheng’s genre-defying practice opens in Austin in Fall 2024.

KOLİ Art Space, located in Kadıköy / Istanbul, is a non-profit, independent project, production, and exhibition space founded by Yasemin Kalaycı and Elçin Acun. Moves around the axis of artistic experience and collaboration, KOLI exists with the support of the dialogue between feminist and queer artists. Nurtured by the power of inclusiveness and variety, it is an art field born from the need for change by focusing on the fluidity of identity and gender.

Esvin Alarcón Lam (Guatemala, 1988) works in different media including sculpture, installation, photography, painting, sound, video, drawing and performance. Many of his projects involve critical thinking in relation with history and political notions related to people's and material displacements, sometimes inspired by his familiar histories as part of the Chinese Diaspora in Central America.

Over the last twenty years Simone Leigh has created a multi-faceted body of work incorporatingsculpture, video, and installation, all informed by her ongoing exploration of Black female-identified subjectivity. Leigh describes her work asauto-ethnographic, and her salt-glazedceramic and bronze sculptures often employ forms traditionally associated with African art. Herperformance-influenced installations create spaces where historical precedent and self-determination commingle. “I am charting a history of change and adaptation,” the artist has written, “through objects and gesture and the unstoppable forward movement of Black women.”

Simone Leigh was born in Chicago in 1967 and first began exhibiting her work in the early-2000s. She has had one-person museum exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Tate Gallery, London; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Hammer Museum in LosAngeles among others. In 2014 she presented “The Free People’s Medical Clinic” in theBedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, a project commissioned by CreativeTime. Her work was included in the 2012 and 2019 Biennial exhibitions at the Whitney Museumof American Art, New York. Leigh is the first artist to be commissioned for the High LinePlinth; her monumental sculpture Brick House was unveiled in April 2019. Leigh represented theUnited States at the 59thInternational Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2022); herexhibition, “Simone Leigh: Sovereignty,” is currently on view in the United States Pavilion.Leigh’s work is also included in the central exhibition, “The Milk of Dreams,” for which she wasawarded the Golden Lion for Best Participant.

The work of Ana María Millán addresses the politics of the animation and technic in relation to digital cultures and subcultures, magic and propaganda. She has developed techniques based on role playing and reenactment as methodology to make a series of plays that end in the form narrative films and video games. It speaks from amateur cultures, pop political culture, sound territories, nature and technology, incorporating the possibilities and mistakes of the rehearsals, and narrative forms considered dysfunctional. Her work has been shown in And we learn to keep the soil wet CARA, NY, 2023; 13th Gwangju Biennale. Minds Rising Spirits Tuning 2021; Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, Romania 2019; Kunstinstituut Melly (solo), Rotterdam; El ruido de las cosas al caer , FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur, Marseille 2017; Immortality for all, Savvy Contemporary , Berlin 2016; Frío en Colombia, Luis Caballero prize (solo), Archivo General de la Nación, Bogotá 2015; Ir para Volver, 12 Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca 2014; ¿Tierra de Nadie?, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz 2011; AUTO-KINO! presented by Phil Collins, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin 2009; Historias Colaterales, Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala 2008; I Still Believe in Miracles – part I, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 2005.

Dika Ofoma is a Nigerian writer, culture journalist, and filmmaker. His other short films include The Way Things Happen and A Japa Tale. Dika is passionate about telling nuanced, human stories about Nigerian life and culture

Ishmael Randall Weeks graduated from Bard College in 2000 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. His work has been exhibited in various galleries and museums both in Peru and internationally, including Middlesbrough Institute of Modern of Art, England, United Kingdom; MoMA P.S.1, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima, Peru; Spanish Culture Center of Buenos Aires (CCBBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; The Drawing Center, New York, United States; Museum of Art of Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru; Macro Museum | Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy; National Museum, Lima, Peru; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, United States; Museum of the Bank of the Republic, Bogotá, Colombia; The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Bologna, Italy; The Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom; Museum of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico; the Bronx Museum, New York, United States; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States. His work has also been included in the Havana Biennial, the IX and the XIV Bienials de Cuenca, the 6th edition of (S) Files Biennial in El Museo del Barrio, New York and 2010 Greater New York and MomaP.S.1, amongst others.

He has received numerous residences grants and awards from various institutions, including the Rockefeller Foundation, the MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York; NYFA, New York; Art Matters, New York; Kiosko, Santa Cruz, Bolivia; La Curtiduria art center in Oaxaca, Mexico and Ministerio de Cultura del Perú, Lima, Peru.

Kenya (Robinson) is a community-taught artist from Gainesville, Florida. A socialite, philanthropist, producer, and international southerner, (Robinson) investigates gender, consumerism, and ability through unexpected performative actions and sculptural gestures. (Robinson) is incredibly committed to their craft, from BLIXEL: The (Re)Stock Image Project, a photographic repository featuring people of unambiguously African descent, to the #WHITEMANINMYPOCKET, in which the artist carried a small, corporate-clad, plastic figure as a talismanic reminder that “whiteness is an idea not restricted to phenotype, gender, orientation, or nationality.” Similarly, (Robinson)’s work seeks to help their audience reevaluate their place in the hierarchy of gender, race, and exploitation. In 2018, (Robinson) won the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, presented by The Orlando Museum of Art and underwritten by Gail and Michael Winn. Her sculptural work has been exhibited at Pioneer Works, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Flaten Museum at St. Olaf College, and the 60 Wall Street Gallery of Deutsche Bank. Her sculpture, Commemorative Headdress of Her Journey Beyond Heaven, was acquired by the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture for its permanent collection in 2014. A contributor to the Huffington Post, Modern Painters, and the Opinion section of The New York Times, (Robinson) won an Emerging Artist Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation in 2015, and a Creative Capital Award for Emerging Fields in 2016. They will also be featured in the forthcoming catalogue for the exhibition, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Mayra Santos-Febres (Carolina, PuertoRico 1966). She has been a visiting scholar at Rutgers (1992), Cornell (1994) and Harvard Univiersity (2004) as well as Complutense University in Spain (2013), Autonomous University of México, at Yucatán campus (2008) and Leipzing University in Holland (2005). She co-created the Creative Writing Program for the University of Puerto Rico, and founded and directed The Word/ Festival de la Palabra (2010-2009) . Mayra Santos –Febres in currently the Principal Investigator for the development of University of Puerto Rico’s Afro Diasporic and Race Studies Program, awarded with a Mellon Foundation grant for academic diversification.

Tiffany Sia is an artist, filmmaker, and writer born in Hong Kong. Sia’s films have been screened at the New York City International Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art Doc Fortnight, The Flaherty Film Seminar, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, and Prismatic Ground, among others. She is the author of 咸濕 Salty Wet, a chapbook published by Inpatient Press in 2019, and the artist book sequel, Too Salty Too Wet 更咸更濕, published through Speculative Place Press in 2020. Her writing has been published in Film Quarterly, October, and elsewhere. Sia’s artworks have been exhibited at Artists Space (New York), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf), and elsewhere. She received the George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award in 2021. In addition to her artistic practice, Sia is the founder of the experimental project space Speculative Place and a film producer, serving as the executive producer for Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL (2018), and executive producer of Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil’s forthcoming documentary AANIKOOBIJIGAN [ANCESTOR / GREAT-GRANDPARENT / GREAT-GRANDCHILD].

Choi Sin-yi (Emilie) is a Hong Kong based researcher, writer and curator. She is pursuing PhD degree in School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong currently; and she has obtained a MPhil degree in Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, researching on the socio-political history of Hong Kong experimental practices of moving image art in the late 1960s. Emilie’s research interests include Asian and Hong Kong documentary, independent and alternative cinema, moving image studies and archive, image politics, media archaeology and digital culture.

Emilie started her career as a cultural journalist, her writing is now published extensively on media across Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. A firm believer in the creation of publics and knowledge-mapping via public discourse and engagement, she has participated in a wide range of roles, including as board member of Videotage, a leading Hong Kong-based institution promoting video and new media art; member of the Floating Projects Collective, an independent experimental site of collaborative-individuated art practices; editor of Cinezen, a pan-Chinese film criticism online platform. She has also curated various kinds of art and film programmes which celebrates research-based curation and offers a cross-border and insightful approaches, such as Performative Doc, Hong Kong Retrospective Documentary Film Festival: From 80s to 1997 and Docuthon.

Himali works across text, performance and moving image. She utilizes metaphors from the natural environment to construct speculative cosmologies that reveal non-linear entanglements between human and non-human life. Her poetic methodology explores the myriad technologies of knowing, from scientific to intuitional, indigenous and alchemical processes. Outer space is often used as a place from which to navigate alien distances and earthly intimacy, rewiring ideas of nativism, nationality, nihilism and cultural flight.

Alper Turan is a curator and researcher based in Istanbul and Berlin. His current research and curatorial practice focus on queer strategies, methodologies, and languages, which include but are not limited to abstraction, collective speculation, appropriation, and anonymity. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HFBK) and works as an assistant curator at Protocinema.

Chan Tze-woon is a Hong Kong-based filmmaker. His debut feature-length documentary Yellowing (2016) examined the Umbrella Movement, a large-scale civil occupation in 2014. It won the Shinsuke Ogawa Prize at the 2017 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Awards. His recent work Blue Island (2022), blends documentary and fiction, won the Best Documentary at Hot Docs Canadian international documentary film festival.

Kübra Uzun is an Istanbul-based singer, songwriter, performance artist and DJ. Kübra Uzun, aka Q-BRA, is an LGBTQIA+ rights activist, working in Turkey and also on an international basis on various platforms.