Her work engages with the feminist history of Iran from 1909 to the present.

She was a member of the curatorial team of the School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial 2015.

She is Professor of Theory and Criticism at College of Performing and Visual Art, and Director of the Modern Art Museum: Gebre Kristos Deta Center at Addis Ababa University.

Judith Greer is Director of International Programmes for Sharjah Art Foundation.

Thaier Helal is an artist and faculty member in the College of Fine Art and Design at the University of Sharjah.

Eungie Joo is curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2017–present) and was curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2015).

Melanie Keen is Director of Iniva, an organisation that creates exhibitions, publications, education and research projects.

Her recent talks include Art + Activism + the Archive, at the Stanford L Warren Library.

Riyas Komu is an artist whose work takes energy from social movements and political actions.

Rick Lowe is an artist who has exhibited and worked with communities in the US and internationally.

He is currently director of Waza, Centre d’art de Lubumbashi, previously known as Picha Art Centre.

Media artist, composer and educator Joe Namy’s practice often addresses identity, memory and power structures embedded in sound and music.

Prateek Raja and his wife and partner Priyanka Raja are co-founders of Experimenter and the annual Curators’ Hub first initiated in 2011.

Farid Rakun currently serves as a researcher and education coordinator for the artists’ initiative ruangrupa.