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)

Maamoun, Maha

Maamoun, Maha

Artist

Maha Maamoun is an artist who works primarily with the mediums of text, photography and video.

Macotela, Antonio Vega

Macotela, Antonio Vega

Artist

Antonio Vega Macotela works in a multidisciplinary, site-specific and research-based art practice.

Mater, Ahmed

Mater, Ahmed

Artist

Informed by his education and work as a medical doctor as well as the social, religious and historical contexts of Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Mater’s practice explores the narratives of Islamic culture in an era of globalisation, consumerism and flux.

Menlibayeva, Almagul

Menlibayeva, Almagul

Artist

Almagul Menlibayeva is a contemporary artist and photographer who works simultaneously in painting, graphic art, performances, installations and videos.

Mizrachi, Sally

Mizrachi, Sally

Speaker

Sally Mizrachi is Executive Director and General Coordinator of lugar a dudas, a contemporary art center in Cali, Colombia that focuses on the intersections and borders between visual arts, cultural practices and the search for inclusive and expansive dialogue.

Mohaiemen, Naeem

Mohaiemen, Naeem

Artist, Writer

Naeem Mohaiemen combines essays, films, drawings and installations to research socialist utopias, incomplete decolonisations, language wars and shifting borders.

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.