List of Participants

Tarek Abou El Fetouh (curator)
John Akomfrah (artist and filmmaker)
Rheim Alkadhi (artist)
Noora Al Mualla (Curator of Modern Arab Art, Sharjah Art Foundation)
Monira Al Qadiri (artist)
Hoor Al Qasimi (Director, Sharjah Art Foundation)
Saira Ansari (Researcher, Sharjah Art Foundation)
Rasheed Araeen (artist)
Marwa Arsanios (artist)
Mohammad Ali Atassi (Director, Bidayyat)
Sarnath Banerjee (artist, writer and graphic novelist)
Daniel Blanga Gubbay (Researcher and Curator, Aleppo.eu)
Yaminay Chaudhri (artist and Co-founder, Tentative Collective)
Ali Cherri (artist)
Manuel de Rivero (Co-founder, Supersudaca)
Manthia Diawara (University Professor and Director, Institute of African American Affairs, New York University)
Mona El Mousfy (Founder and Managing Director, SpaceContinuum)
Shilpa Gupta (artist)
Ayesha Hameed (artist and Lecturer, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College)
Dale Harding (artist)
Salah Hassan (Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University)
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim (artist)
Saba Innab (artist and architect)
Eungie Joo (Curator of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Butheina Kazim (Co-founder, Cinema Akil)
Maha Maamoun (artist)
Ahmed Mater (artist)
Almagul Menlibayeva (artist)
Sally Mizrachi (Co-founder, lugar a dudas)
Naeem Mohaiemen (artist)
Paribartana Mohanty (artist)
Aram Moshayedi (Curator, Hammer Museum)
Hania Mroué (Founder and Director, Metropolis Art Cinema)
Neo Muyanga (composer and musician)
Zeynep Öz (curator)
Claudia Pagès (artist)
Sharmini Pereira (Founder and Director, Raking Leaves)
Filipa Ramos (Co-curator, Vdrome)
Uzma Rizvi (Associate Professor, Anthropology and Urban Studies, Pratt Institute)
Abir Saksouk (Architect, Public Works)
Larissa Sansour (artist)
Mario Santanilla (artist)
Zineb Sedira (artist)
Wael Shawky (artist)
Reem Shilleh (Co-founder, Subversive Film)
Martine Syms (artist)
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Co-founder, Atelier Bow-Wow)
Alper Turan (Co-founder, DAS Art Project)
Deepak Unnikrishnan (writer)
Antonio Vega Macotela (artist)
Hajra Waheed (artist)
Ala Younis (artist and curator)

Mohanty, Paribartana

Mohanty, Paribartana

Speaker

Paribartana Mohanty’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses video, performance-lecture, storytelling and writing.

Aram Moshayedi is a writer and curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Mroué, Hania

Mroué, Hania

Speaker

Hania Mroué is a film programmer and distributor.

Muyanga, Neo

Muyanga, Neo

Artist

Neo Muyanga is a composer, musician and librettist who tours widely, both as a solo performer and in various bands.

Okeke-Agulu, Chika

Okeke-Agulu, Chika

Art Historian, Curator

Chika Okeke-Agulu is an artist, critic and art historian who specialises in Indigenous, modern and contemporary African and African Diaspora art history and theory.

Öz, Zeynep

Öz, Zeynep

Curator

Curator and writer, Zeynep Öz was the co-founder and director of the Spot Production Fund, Istanbul (2011–2017)

Pagès, Claudia

Pagès, Claudia

Artist

Claudia Pagès’ practice addresses the effects of language, organisation and popular culture on social relationships and community structures.

Pereira, Sharmini

Pereira, Sharmini

Curator

Sharmini Pereira is an independent international curator.

Ramos, Filipa

Ramos, Filipa

Writer, Curator

Filipa Ramos is a writer, editor and curator whose research focuses on the relations between film and visual art.

Rizvi, Uzma

Rizvi, Uzma

Speaker

Uzma Rizvi is an anthropological archaeologist and cultural archaeologist who specializes in the third millennium BCE, creative placemaking and critical heritage studies.

Saksouk, Abir

Saksouk, Abir

Speaker

Abir Saksouk is an architect and urbanist who has conducted research on the history of informal suburbs, the social production of shared spaces in the city and housing rights in Beirut.

Sansour, Larissa

Sansour, Larissa

Artist

Working mainly in film, Larissa Sansour also produces installations, photos and sculptures.

Sedira, Zineb

Sedira, Zineb

Artist and Founder, aria

In video, photography, sculpture and installation, Zineb Sedira explores notions of gender, language, national identity and modernity.

Syms, Martine

Syms, Martine

Artist, speaker

Martine Syms uses video and performance to examine representations of blackness and its relationship to American situation comedy, black vernacular, feminist movements and radical traditions.

Tsukamoto, Yoshiharu

Tsukamoto, Yoshiharu

Speaker

Architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is the co-founder (with Momoyo Kaijima) of Atelier Bow-Wow (est. 1992), a Tokyo-based firm working in fields ranging from architectural design to urban research and the creation of public spaces based on the theory of behaviorology.

Turan, Alper

Turan, Alper

Speaker

Alper Turan is co-founder and curator of Das Art Project, a curatorial collective that aims to work outside ‘white cube’ gallery spaces.

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