Abdul Halik Azeez
b. 1985, Nawalapitiya, Sri Lanka
Lives and works in Colombo
Abdul Halik Azeez’s work reflects on technologies of power as mediated through contemporary culture, narratives of progress, lived experiences and media.
Nadir Bouhmouch & Soumeya Ait Ahmed
Bouhmouch was born in 1990, Casablanca; Ait Ahmed was born in 1992, Casablanca.
Both live and work in Marrakech.
Nadir Bouhmouch and Soumeya Ait Ahmed’s collaboration is based on their sense of urgency towards rapidly eroding ancestral, artistic, social and ecological practices and knowledge.
Nadim Choufi
b. 1994, Abu Dhabi
Lives and works in Beirut
Nadim Choufi’s work focuses on the material histories and futures of innovation, their social and political driving forces, and the visual and literary practices that surround them.
Preempt Group – Mbali Dhlamini & Phumulani Ntuli
Ntuli was born in 1986, Johannesburg; Dhlamini was born in 1990, South Africa.
Both live and work in Johannesburg.
Facilitated by Phumulani Ntuli and Mbali Dhlamini, Preempt Group came together as a collective in 2018 to explore the possibilities of analogue, hybrid and transmedia. The collective examines the intersection between colonial archives and open-source technologies through performance, film and workshops.
Inas Halabi
b. 1988, Palestine
Lives and works between Palestine and the Netherlands.
Inas Halabi works primarily with film to explore how social and political conditions of the past are inextricably linked to the present and the impact that overlooked or suppressed histories have on contemporary life.
Asmaa Jama & Gouled Ahmed
Born in 1998 in Aalborg, Denmark, Jama lives and works in Bristol.
Ahmed was born in 1992 in Djibouti and lives and works in Addis Ababa.
Since 2021, Asmaa Jama, an artist and poet, and Gouled Ahmed, a costume designer and stylist, have been evolving a collaborative practice that encompasses photography, costume design, styling, poetry and painting.
Zahra Malkani
b. 1986, Karachi
Lives and works in Karachi
Zahra Malkani’s research-based practice spans multiple media, including sound, video and the web. She explores the politics of development, infrastructure and militarism in Pakistan through the lens of dissident ecological knowledges and traditions of environmental resistance.
Paribartana Mohanty
b. 1982, Odisha, India
Lives and works in New Delhi
Paribartana Mohanty examines how technologies of algorithmic networks, digitalisation, data mining, access and surveillance are shaping public perception about ‘natural’ calamity, and how new government policies are changing the rural landscapes in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.
Aarti Sunder
b. 1987, India
Lives and works in India
Encompassing drawing, video, performance and writing, Aarti Sunder’s research and practice lie at the crossroads of digital humanities and contemporary art.
Mila Turajlić
b. 1979, Belgrade
Lives and works between Belgrade and Paris
Mila Turajlić is a filmmaker and visual artist whose documentary works draw on a combination of oral histories, documentary archives, fiction films and found footage to fabricate a new reflexive language that confronts memory and ruins with the disappearing narratives of history.