Speakers

Fatima Al Qasimi (Researcher, Writer)
Khadim Ali (Artist)
Caline Aoun (Artist)
Aisha Bilkhair (Writer, Researcher)
Hannah Black (Artist)
Mohamed Bourouissa (Artist)
Yarimar Bonilla (Writer, Researcher)
Imani Jacqueline Brown (Artist, Researcher)
Zoe Butt (Curator ,Writer)
Anis Chouchene (Artist, Writer)
Jace Clayton (Artist)
Douglas Coupland (Artist, Writer)
Diego del Valle Rios (Cultural Organiser, Writer)
Koray Duman (Architect, Researcher)
Torkwase Dyson (Artist)
Adrienne Edwards (Curator, Researcher, Writer)
Tarek El-Ariss (Researcher, Writer)
Yasmine El Rashidi (Writer)
Léuli Eshrāghi (Artist)
Reem Fadda (Curator)
Hannah Feldman (Researcher, Writer)
Ebba Fransén Waldhör (Artist)
Peter Friedl (Artist)
Meschac Gaba (Artist)
Nikolaus Gansterer (Artist)
HACKLANDER / HATAM (Artists)
Ho Tzu Nyen (Artist, Writer)
Eisa Jocson (Artist)
Alexandre Kazerouni (Researcher, Writer)
Omar Kholeif (Writer, Curator, Editor, Broadcaster)
Koyo Kouoh (Curator, Writer)
Lee Weng Choy (Writer)
Isabel Lewis (Artist)
Ulrik Lopez (Artist)
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (Artist)
Michael Marder (Researcher, Writer)
Carlos Martiel (Artist)
Suchitra Mattai (Artist)
Mohau Modisakeng (Artist)
Aram Moshayedi (Writer, Curator)
Neo Muyanga (Artist)
New Orleans Airlift (Artists)
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn (Artist, Filmmaker)
Otobong Nkanga (Artist)
Sarah Perks (Artist, Filmmaker, Curator)
Phillipe Rahm (Architect, Writer)
Shubigi Rao (Artist, Writer)
Lisa Reihana (Artist)
Todd Reisz (Architect, Writer)
Tracey Rose (Artist)
Felwine Sarr (Artist, Writer)
Kidlat Tahimik (Artist)
Claire Tancons (Curator)
Sofia Victorino (Artist, Writer)
Fabian Villegas (Artist, Writer)
Akram Zaatari (Artist)


Fatima Al Qasimi’s research focuses on Ibn Al Arabi, a thirteenth-century Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet and philosopher whose works have been influential beyond the Muslim world.

Ali, Khadim

Ali, Khadim

Artist

Rich in historical references as well as traditional and modern motifs from both Eastern and Western art, Khadim Ali’s drawings and paintings tell stories about the loss of his own cultural heritage in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.

Aoun, Caline

Aoun, Caline

Artist

Caline Aoun works within the frames of urbanism, architecture, print and digital advertising space to produce pieces that playfully increase, invert and suspend environmental noise in a series of measured experiments.

Black, Hannah

Black, Hannah

Artist

Hannah Black is an artist and writer working across installation, video, performance and text.

Artist and poet Anis Chouchene is Tunisian by nationality, African by identity and human by belonging.

Clayton, Jace

Clayton, Jace

Artist

Artist, writer and DJ Jace Clayton uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate how memory, sound and public space interact.

Coupland, Douglas

Coupland, Douglas

Artist, Writer


Douglas Coupland is a writer and artist best known for his observations on modern-day North American culture.

Dyson, Torkwase

Dyson, Torkwase

Artist

Working in multiple mediums, Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter whose forms address the continuity of ecology, geography, infrastructure and architecture.

Eshrāghi, Léuli

Eshrāghi, Léuli

Artist

Léuli Eshrāghi’s performances, installations, writing and curatorial projects centre on embodied knowledges, ceremonial-political practices, language renewal and Indigenous futures throughout the Great Ocean.

Ebba Fransén Waldhör is an artist and designer who works in spatial installation and materials research.

Friedl, Peter

Friedl, Peter

Artist

Based on critical intimacy, permanent displacement and contextual transfers, Peter Friedl’s practice emphasises the friction between aesthetic and political awareness.

Gaba, Meschac

Gaba, Meschac

Artist

Meschac Gaba’s expansive practice examines architectural structures, systems of trade and perceptions of African identity and art.

Gansterer, Nikolaus

Gansterer, Nikolaus

Artist

An artist and performer, Nikolaus Gansterer links drawing, thinking and action through a practice of performative visualisation and cartographic representations.

HACKLANDER / HATAM

HACKLANDER / HATAM

Artists

Interested in the depth of radical material heteronomy and the self as highly constructible and therefore de-constructible, HACKLANDER / HATAM create powerful and moving works based on sound.

Imani Jacqueline Brown is an artist, activist and researcher whose work exposes the layers of oppression, resistance and refusal that make up the aggregate of society's foundation stones.

Jocson, Eisa

Jocson, Eisa

Artist

A contemporary choreographer, dancer and visual artist, Eisa Jocson investigates the labour and representation of the dancing body in the service industry.

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