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

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

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

Gudskul: Contemporary Art Collective and Ecosystem Studies (Gudskul, for short) is a public learning space established by three Jakarta-based art collectives: Grafis Huru Hara, ruangrupa and Serrum.

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.

Anawana Haloba drafts poetry in the form of sketches, which she then abstracts into performance-based works incorporating moving images, objects and sound.

Art historian, critic and curator Salah M. Hassan is Director of The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Africana Studies and the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University.

Roslisham Ismail (aka Ise) is a multidisciplinary artist whose works include installations, video art and participatory projects.

Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker whose work examines sociopolitical issues through installation, photography and film.

Ann Veronica Janssens’s experimental work emphasises in-situ installations and the use of very simple or intangible materials, such as light, sound or artificial fog.

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

Barbara Kasten experiments with ways to integrate photography with other disciplines such as painting or sculpture.

Omar Kholeif, PhD, CF FRSA, is an author and artist; a curator and cultural historian, and a broadcaster who has curated more than 100 exhibitions of visual art, architecture and digital culture.

Informed by her background in photography and architecture, Bani Khoshnoudi explores ideas of exile and modernity, displacement, dislocation and memory.